2007 Holiday Tour of Homes

Siouxland Area Red Cross

June 5, 2007

 

 

June/July Tasks:

The meeting began at 5:30 p.m. Tammy, Executive Director, led the meeting and introduced the new public relations/event coordinator, Beth Trejo. Tammy informed the group that Beth will be taking over the tour next year but for this year it will be a combined effort.

Introductions were conducted. We are now 5 months out from the tour.

-Finalize Home Selection

The home selection is slightly behind this year but should be finalized by the end of this week. Two homes in the Dunes are secured and 3 are in the works. There will be a total of 5 homes again this year.

-Recruit People for Committee Work

The previous Co-Chairs for this event will no longer be volunteering in that capacity so new co-chairs will need to be selected. The responsibilities of the Chair or Co-Chair are to oversee other committees and committee chairs and work closely with staff to make sure event details are on schedule. Must be someone who is able to work in a leadership role.

- Sponsors Recruitment

It is now time for the Sponsor Rcruitment Committee to start meeting as well as the Raffle and Silent Auction Committee. We will again be having both a silent and live auction as well as a raffle prize drawing. Volunteers are needed to assist with donations and asking businesses for contributions. A chair will need to be in place for both of these committees, currently we are still looking for Silent Auction and Raffle Auction chairs.  Our goal this year is to make $25,000 on sponsorships. We have done $15,000 in previous years.

-Start getting raffle auction items

Any raffle items can be dropped off at the Red Cross. Theme packages are always popular and usually be auctioned for more then the items separately.

 

1.                  Committee Recruitment

a.       Set up time for Raffle Committee to start meeting weekly  Raffle Committee will be meeting on June 14th at 3:30, at the Red Cross. Anyone interested to be involved with this committee is encouraged to attend.

 

 

2.                  Gathering Area Site

a.       Dinner Tour at Tyson- Tyson has agreed to let us use the Tyson Fresh Meat Headquarters to serve as the  gathering place for the Tour. Because this will be at Tyson, we have decided to try a dinner tour for one of the nights. Tyson will be providing the meal at the facility. Group decided that Friday would probably be the best night.

b.      It was also suggested to make the dinner open to the public without having to go on the tour. This would open the event up to a different group of people and hopefully increase fund-raising for the live auction. Since Tyson is close to the Dunes and many are comfortable with that facility we hope to have many of the Dunes residents attend the dinner. Decided that $40-$50 would be a good price for the dinner tickets. And possibly $60 for the Dinner Tour (dinner including tour of homes)

 

Home & Decorator Selection

We are excited to have Beverly’s, Petal Pusher, A Step in Thyme, and Close to Home interested in decorating again this year. Petal Pusher & Petal Pusher Too will be decorating the Rod and Deb Carter home.  A group will be meeting with the Carters on June 15 at 2:00 to view the home.

 

 

3.                  Tour Extras

Not planning on doing resale items. Will remove this item from agenda for coming meetings. Need to check and make sure other community charity events will not conflict with tour.  After the meeting we found out  Ronald McDonald House will again be hosting a dinner on the Friday night of the Tour.

 

 

4.                  Next Meeting

Since the first Tues in July is the 3rd, group decided to move the meeting to the 2nd Tuesday, July 10th at 5:30 at the Red Cross.

Meeting was adjourned at 6:30.