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Treasurer’s Report for Annual Meeting – September 11, 2010

September 23, 2010 By mary.christensen Leave a Comment

Membership Equity dollars raised as of 9 am, Saturday, September 11 – $97,949.45

Inventory Value for Fundraising – $6,537.17

Wells Fargo Checking Account Balance – $1,394.94

Wells Fargo Savings – $87,364.89

Sales from Fundraising in 2009 and 2010 totaled – $25,001.55

  • Goods Sold – $12,846.55
  • Desert Auction and donations – $7909
  • Breakfast Series – $4,246

Additional updates will be added to this report within the next week.

Filed Under: Business, Events Tagged With: meetings, minutes

Minutes – Annual Meeting – September 11, 2010

September 23, 2010 By mary.christensen Leave a Comment

The first order of business was to establish a quorum. Mary Christensen, Board Secretary, reported that there were a total of 490 members on the rolls, per the Bylaws, to meet a quorum of 5%, 25 members were required to be present.  Having determined that a quorum was present, the meeting was called to order by Board Chairman, Robert Leach, at 5:07 p.m. at the Pioneer Park Civic Center Exhibit Hall.

Richard Seifert moved that the agenda be approved and Hans Geier seconded it. The agenda was approved as written.

Mary Christensen, Board Secretary, read the minutes from the last annual meeting. The minutes were approved as read.

Robert Leach thanked the outgoing board members, Mike Emers, Cora Kelley and Morgan Macchione for their service and introduced the new board candidates, Colin Craven, Hans Geier, Sandra Trumbower, Catherine Whitney, and Miriam Woody. He thanked all who had volunteered over the past year and discussed the importance of the Co-op Market as a community organization and deferred to the committee reports for specific information on the year’s progress.

Mary Christensen, Board Secretary, gave the treasurer’s report since Morgan Macchione, Board Treasurer, could not attend the meeting.

It was reported that $97,949.45 in membership equity dollars have been raised as of 9 am on September 11, 2010. The Co-op Market holds an inventory for fundraising currently valued at $6537.17. There is $1,394.94 in checking and $87,364.89 in savings.

A total of $25,001.55 was raised from fundraising since 2009. Goods sold accounted for $12,846.55, the dessert auction and donations raised $7909 and breakfast fundraisers brought in a total of $4,246.

A treasurer’s report with more detail will be published on the blog by October 1, 2010.

Mary Christensen, Chair of the Outreach Committee, then gave the Outreach Committee report. She reported that  the outreach committee raised nearly $90,000 in membership equity funds over the past year. A fundraising campaign was held through the winter including a series of Breakfast Fundraisers, outreach booths at the fair and many other venues and a marketing campaign to increase membership. Last year’s dessert auction brought in over $7000. She reported that the Co-op Market now has over 490 fully paid members and nearly 700 members on payment plans.

Finally, she reported that the next Dessert auction will be held on November 20, 2010 at Pike’s Waterfront Lodge. Pat Fitzgerald and Robin Dale Ford will be the featured entertainment.

Mary also announced our Each One Bring One Campaign and asked the membership to each bring one more member. A “reward” $7 gift certificate can be used at any “Co-op Market Mini Store”.  See full outreach report below.

Richard Seifert gave the Finance committee report. He reported that the finance committee is currently in a lease negotiation with Bachner and Companies for a portion of the old Foodland building. He reported that our member loan campaign is ready to launch and that we are pursuing a USDA revolving credit loan/grant that could be offered through a local utility cooperative, such as GVEA. (See Full Report)

Sharon Alden gave a report on the Health and Wellness committee. She reported that the committee sponsored a film series and is now sponsoring a lecture series.

Robert Leach introduced the new board candidates, Colin Craven, Hans Geier (presently a board member with a one year term), Sandra Trumbower, Catherine Whitney, and Miriam Woody. Five people ran for four seats. Each candidate spoke for 3 minutes about why they wish to be a board member. Miriam Woody could not be present. Shaun Lott read from Miriam’s biography.

Robert Leach called for a motion for the candidates to be approved. Richard Seifert moved the candidates be approved. Hans seconded the motion. The candidates were approved.

Ballots were passed around and the election was held. The ballots were later counted by Board Chairman, Robert Leach, in the presence of Board Secretary, Mary Christensen. Our new board members are Colin Craven, Hans Geier, Sandra Trumbower and Catherine Whitney.

Richard Seifert moved that the meeting be adjourned. Hans Geier seconded the motion. The adjournment was delayed to give out the door prizes.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:15 pm. Members were invited to stay for a community pot luck dinner.

The next meeting is scheduled for October 1, 2011 at the Pioneer Park Civic Center Exhibit Hall.

Filed Under: Business, Events Tagged With: meetings, minutes

Outreach Committee Report by Mary Christensen – September 11, 2010

September 23, 2010 By mary.christensen Leave a Comment

Last June we started a series of meetings of the Communications/Outreach committee. At the time we had only $6,000 in the bank and now thanks to this effort, today, we have over $90,000 in membership equity dollars.

Those meetings launched an outreach effort that included two large events, last year’s first annual Harvest Fair and the 2nd annual Dessert Auction. The challenge put forth the to the Outreach committee was to raise membership equity dollars and to raise the funds necessary to pay for the outreach promotion expenses and our monthly office expense.

In September of 2009 we qualified to receive volunteer service through the Americorp VISTA program, an office was set up and Evan Daigneault began a year of service to Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market which we also call, Co-op Market. Evan led outreach efforts with our Partners in Business program. Now over 50 businesses have joined us in these efforts and many businesses have memberships in Co-op Market.

The biggest challenge has been raising the money to fund our outreach efforts. In October we started a Breakfast to raise funds the old fashioned way. Good food. Good conversation. Sometimes good music and good folks. Four breakfasts were held over the winter and over $4000 was raised.

In November we raised another $7000 at the second annual dessert auction. You may have also seen us at outreach booths at the Winter Show, a Women’s affair, the midnight Sun Festival, Golden Days and the fair. We also had a presence at numerous other events around town. Those events paid for themselves and gave yet another opportunity to build our membership base.

We would not be at this point were it not for the help of an army of “enthusiastic volunteers”. Some people have given us the generous “in-kind” donation of their valuable time and skills that have saved us thousands of dollars.

A few deserve mention here for going above and beyond the call of duty to help with this amazing effort. Sue Sprinkle, of 5th Ave. Design, has given us an enormous gift of an amazing logo, print advertisements, a brochure and a beautiful member letter. I extend my immense gratitude for this magnificent undertaking.

In January, two new members joined our ranks ready to share their considerable talent. Johanna Carson is responsible for the beautiful breakfast flyers you will see posted at our Member Loan table and for the advertisements for today’s event.

Paul Delys created a new look for our website and continues to assist us in improving and streamlining the site. My thanks to both of them for their considerable efforts on this project.

Helen and Mike McClean and Tom and Barbara Bradley have been our breakfast team. At each breakfast they arrived promptly at 8 am and within an hour a delicious breakfast of freshly ground whole wheat pancakes, potatoes and reindeer sausage appeared. To Helen, Mike, Tom and Barb thanks for all you have done to help us come this far.

There are other people to thank for the many tasks and they include Richard Seifert and Hans Geier for their unfailing efforts with the finance committee, Evan Daigneault for his work on the Sprout Fund and Member Loan campaign materials, Shaun Lott for her continued enthusiastic efforts, not the least of was to put together the wonderful event we have enjoyed today. Cora Kelley and Morgan Macchione for their work on the second annual dessert auction and Morgan for giving us the idea of the breakfast series. Sharon Alden for leading the charge with the Health and Wellness Committee and Leila Ryterski for always being ready to jump in and do stuff. Gary Toth for once again being the “sound” man and Jose Luis Martinez for hosting this afternoon Andrew Crow of University of Alaska Anchorage deserves special thanks for finding available funds for the upcoming trip to Fairbanks of a professional grocery store planner.

Finally, I especially want to thank our chairman, Robert Leach, for his compassionate leadership, his thoughtfulness and steadfast efforts on this journey. Robert has contributed countless hours to special projects such as the two beautiful fair booths. Mostly, he has been a tireless advocate for consensus building and problem solving and has helped us to get along well with his unfailing positive attitude. Thank you Rob.

There are numerous other volunteers who help out. I can’t list them here but you will find their names posted at the door. If I left anyone out please feel free to place your name there.

Here is how you can help! Attend our fundraisers. The next one is the 3nd annual Dessert Auction that will be held on November 20, 2010 at Pike’s Waterfront Lodge. Pat Fitzgerald and Robin Dale Ford will be the featured entertainment.

You can also join our efforts today by helping out with our, Each One Bring One Campaign. And we will reward you. When you bring one more person who becomes a member of Co-op Market You can activate the $7 gift certificate we passed out today. It is good anywhere you see our Co-op Market Mini Store. If all of us bring one more member we will have a community grocery store in no time.

Thank you for your time today.

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: committees, fundraisers, people, volunteering

Finance Committee Report by Richard Seifert

September 23, 2010 By mary.christensen Leave a Comment

At present we have $97,949 in membership funds (as of 9/11/2010)

Our committee has been relentlessly pursuing financial well-being for the Co-op Market. We have written lease proposals and submitted them, and contacted many sources of possible financing and loans. We are close to a lease offer, at least one we are comfortable with . We have met regularly with the Bachner group since May of this year to attempt getting a lease agreement.
We have also investigated several other financial options, including USDA loans ( REDLAG: the Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program), direct loans through USDA, and a revolving loan option which Brian Newton at GVEA has promised to help with, and which could provide up to $300,000 at low interest.

We have also contacted private “angels” who want to use their money for worthy community investments, along with the Rasmuson Foundation, AIDEA, and local banks. We continue to face a major barrier in financing the Co-op Market. It is the fact that we have no collateral. And of course we have no building which could serve as collateral.
To cope with this , we have engaged legal help to allow us confidence in approaching our members for what are commonly called “member loans”. These are simply loans which our members offer us to solve our problem of collateral.

We have a major effort planned and should be able to launch it within a month which would help us greatly in getting a sound financial footing for the Co-op Market. you, our members, are being asked to help us by loaning us money to provide equity collateral so we can borrow what we will need to open, and perhaps fund fund a major portion of our co-op with these member loans.
( At this point a member asked how much we need, The answer is ~$300,000. More would of course be wonderful.)

Our loan solicitation is nearly ready for you, and we’ll give you much more information soon. Also, Board members have committed to giving member loans to the Co-op Market. I have personally committed $5000 to a board member portion of the financial nest egg we want to use to build the co-op. This can and likely will be one of the most important community actions we can take for our future. Won’t you join me in a community effort to build a food source and market we can be proud of?

submitted 9/20/2010 Rich Seifert

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: committees, financing, minutes

Board Member Candidates – 2010

September 7, 2010 By mary.christensen Leave a Comment

This year’s board member candidates for four board seats are:

Colin Craven – Colin currently works as the director of the product testing lab for the Cold Climate Housing Research Center.

Hans Geier – Hans has been an economist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has been involved in cooperative education since 1996.

Sandra Lee Trumbower – Sandra currently lives in Anderson, Alaska, and teaches special education there and in Cantwell.

Catherine (Cat) Whitney – Cat started farming off of Chena Hot Springs Road this year with the non profit organization she has founded known as Turning Light Farm.

Miriam Woody – Miriam works to home school her children, raises animals on a small farm and volunteers in the community.

For more information about all of the board candidates please go to www.FairbanksCoop.org and click on the tab that says 2010 letter. You can read the full biographies in our member letter.

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Health and Wellness Committee Report

June 27, 2010 By mary.christensen Leave a Comment

Minutes from Health and Wellness Education Committee
June 14th, 2010
The Health & Wellness committee met and decided on sponsoring a lecture series.
The topics we came up with were:
  1. Holistic Health: What is it?
  2. Cook on Sunday, Eat All Week-Healthy is Cheaper – This would be a potluck.
  3. Farm Lecture from a local farmer/rancher
  4. Local Grains we can grow in Alaska
  5. Alaska Food Policy Council-what is it and what roll wil it serve and what roll can WE serve.
  6. What is Organic?
The other idea was to sponsor a book discussion group through the Library.
At our next meeting we will be parsing out tasks to make this lecture series happen.  We will need people to take on both large and small tasks.
We also need recommendations for the first 6 months of books for our discussion group.  The theme of course being Health and Wellness with somewhat of a focus on food.  You can send your book ideas to the Co-op Market web site or make a comment on the facebook page.
Our next meeting will be July 12th at 6 PM.  Our “normal” meeting place will be at the downtown volunteer center unless otherwise noted.

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Address Change

April 13, 2010 By mary.christensen Leave a Comment

We just got a post office box down town.

The address is:

Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market

PO Box 72637

Fairbanks, AK  99707-2637

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: operations

Committee Meetings – Get Busy and Shake Off the Cabin Fever Blues

January 26, 2010 By mary.christensen Leave a Comment

Roll your sleeves up and join us.

Note: Our monthly board meeting is now being held the first Monday of every month

Wednesday, January. 27 2009
Finance Committee Meeting
5 pm

Monday, February 1
Board Meeting
5 pm

Tuesday, February 2
Product Selection Committee Meeting with focus on creating a survey
5 pm

Wednesday, February 3
Outreach Committee
5 pm

All Committee meetings are held at the Volunteer Center
on 526 4th Ave.
Call 457-1023

Saturday, January 30
Membership Table
at Pioneer Park
starting at 10:30 am

Sunday, February 14
Pancake Breakfast
11am – 2 pm
Ken Kunkel Community Center

Goldstream

Admission: $10 Children 12 and under $7 – Children 5 and under – FREE!

Filed Under: Business, Events Tagged With: committees, fundraisers, meetings

Upcoming January events

January 7, 2010 By coopmarket Leave a Comment

Health and Wellness Committee Meeting
When: Thu, January 14, 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Where: FCCM Volunteer Center

Membership Table at Gulliver’s Books
When: Sat, January 16, 12pm – 3pm
Where: Gulliver’s Books

Filed Under: Business, Member education Tagged With: health, meetings, volunteering

Health & Wellness Education Committee meeting

December 9, 2009 By coopmarket Leave a Comment

Come and help us plan our activities for next year. Bring your ideas and enthusiasm. If you are too busy to come, post a comment or send an e-mail.

Wednesday, December 16
5:30 pm, FCCM Volunteer Center

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: committees, health, meetings, planning

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