Attending - Bob, Maria, Franklin, Paula, George, Nancy, Raff

NEW BUSINESS

Crystal Ball

Vendors

10 tables available

-Maggies Herb Basket - 1 table, paid

-Kirstan Houseknecht - 2/3 tables, check not arrived

Action item: Nancy to track down Kirsten's check

Other possible vendors from Paula's list

-Jen Eastep

-Kitty

-Goddess Circle

-John Romano

-Elayna McReynolds

Table sales guidelines

-Table fees must be in by March 1 or table will go to another vendor.  1st come, 1st served.

-Paula & Nancy to coordinate tracking #of tables sold

-Return checks once we have filled all spots

Action items: Put links to vendor websites on DVPN site, Paula & Nancy to give out deadline to prospective vendors

Opening Ritual

Action Item: Paula to contact Patricia about possiblity.  See Jan. meeting minutes for guidelines

Speakers

-Action items: Paula to send schedule to all speakers, board to purchase water & clocks for lecture rooms

Food

-Raff has ordered food, estimate will be delivered shortly

Action item: Raff to find out deadline for changes in amount ordered, and look into special order for diabetic (carolyn)

-Karen has offered to pickup snacks &sodas for sale during the day at BJ's, to be reimbursed after

Advanced Sales

-1 so far

-Keep membership list at door to track who gets Member discount

-Not printing tickets, just receipt books again

Action item: Bob & Paula to give receipt books to Fran and Myst. Tymes

Program Booklet

-Ads will be sold

-Action item: Paula to send Raff speaker bios, Raff to settle on cost of ads

Press Release

-Ivo sent release out to his email lists

-Bob sent it out to Mid-Atlantic e-lists

-Link put on WitchVox

Action item:  Nancy & others to find list of local papers to send it to

Decorations

-Ivo has offered to supply flowers

Action item: Franklin to put call out on list for volunteers/donations

Patricia

-Paula has purchased plane ticket and has been reimbursed

Action item: Franklin to book hotel room, looking into Adams Mark

Door prizes

Action items:

-Raff to pick up crystal ball from Bey's Rock Shop

-Need to contact Myst. Tymes for donation

-Paula to email Ivo and ask for book & CD donation

-Ask Ball vendors to donate item

Informational tables/Pagan Pride table

-idea was put out to let them have a small raffle

-Was voted against by Paula, Raff, Maria and Franklin

Finance

$963.00 - Deposit

$100.00 - Deposit

$35.00   - Deposit

$620.00 - Expense, newsletter cost

$378.67 -Balance as of Jan. 31 according to statement

Balance as of  Feb. 14th - Bob checked account

$400.00 +

$100.00 cash in cashbox

$282.50 - Expense, ticket for Patricia

3 new membership fees to be deposited

10 vendor table fees to be collected & deposited - $500

Action item: Bob & Maria to look into getting online statements setup for more accurate tracking of finances

Program Booklet

-To pay for itself, new ad sales rep to handle that

-Ads to be in program only, not on website - thus the cheaper rates

Action item: Raff to decide ad costs and pass that on to Jessica, Paula to email Raff speaker bios

Pagan Pride

-Was noted PP is a seperate corp., but DVPN is sponsoring the local event

-Funds from Ball, donations, sales, etc.  to go ONLY  into general DVPN fund, then earmarked for various projects

-Gives us chance to see how much we can afford to put towards pagan pride -before- the money is earmarked

- Ideas for a fundraiser for PP later in the year were put out

Action item: Bob to submit budget for PP

Newsletter

-Jim Dickenson to join writing staff with column on Coven Building

-Sabrina Underwood providing all art for next issue in exchange for a writeup.   www.SabrinaArt.com

-Sabrina will take out ads in future issues

-Aphrodites Dove will be taking out ads

-We have an Ad Sales Rep! Jessica McGuoirk will take over job, to start last week of February.

-Jessica will take over current advertisers and get commisions for that

Action items: Bob to set This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to point to Raff & Jessica

Membership

-42 total

-2 joint

-1 college

-New memberships: 1 joint, 1 individual

Pagan Pride

-Paula is meeting w/ Franny from Gay Pride

-Gay Pride to give DVPN a block to promote ourselves during Gay Pride

-Motion to go forward with that on table

Action item: Paula to give report on meeting

University of DE Lecture

- Jason Miller to speak on Traditional vs Modern Wicca

- Students of the Earth to sponser event & provide space - Adam is point person

-DVPN to promote event, only costs are for printing flyers

MS Walk

-Karen Schlecter volunteered to captain team again

-To be held in Ridley Park on Sunday, April 21, 2002

Winter Solstice Concert

-Franklin has offered to coordinate again

-He has a backup singing contact if Anna group does not pan out

-Looking into getting rights for books & presentations

Meeting Minutes

-Paula will continue to take notes, Raff to type them

OLD BUSINESS

Blood drive

-16 signed up

-12 showed up

-George now has good contact at Red Cross

-Next drive, April

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