Downtown Divas - Ladies Nite Meeting Minutes

DCG/ Ladies Nite Committee Meeting
Meeting Minutes

Monday December 7th 2009 @ 8:30 am
Happy Memories

Attending: Lt. Mike Stone, Elizabeth Dixon, Gail Carter, Karen Eckford, Mei Bremmer, Carroll Jellenik, Amy Schofield, and Jamie Bennett Bane

The next meeting will be held on December 14, 2009 @ Happy Memories

Agenda

I. Welcome
II. Concept of Idea
III. Execution of ideas
IV. Advertising and Marketing
V. Security
VI. Next meeting schedule
VII. Meeting Adjourned


Jamie started the meeting at 8:30 by thanking the group for taking the time out to come. She made a brief statement about the purpose of the meeting and then the conversation began.

Concept:
We decided to let our event be the kick off to “women’s heart health month” which is the month of February.

We want this event to be fun, educational, and relaxing. This will be something special for the women of Camden because it will be all about them.


Execution of ideas:

Karen Eckford came up with the name Downtown Divas celebrates women heart health

Our first business to spotlight will be Happy Memories. Each event that we do, we will spotlight a business owned by a woman.

The adventure will begin at Happy Memories where there will be a video shown on heart health. Each person watching the video will receive a “passport.” They will then go around to participating businesses and answer the question, in that location. After their passports have been stamped and all the answers are correct, their passports will be entered into our drawing.

The event will take place on January 29, 2010 from 5-7pm. We would like the women to wear something red. Hearts will be available for a donation.
Also we will serve wine and cheese at the locations that will be participating.


Advertising and Marketing:

Karen will talk to Midlands Printing about donating the flyers and passports.

Gail will talk to American Heart Association for pamphlets and she will check on the printing for the press releases.

Jamie will talk to Betsy about running it in the paper, Edward about putting it on the local station, and Brittany about the radio.

Mei will talk to the Health Resource Center to gather information about heart health and she will be out recruiting to the businesses about donations for the prizes.

Amy will also talk to businesses about donations and will going out with Jamie soliciting for participation.

Carroll will contact the businesses along with Mei asking for donations

Elizabeth will be in contact with a cardiologist to get the video and questionnaire.

Jamie will talk to Traders to see if they would be willing to donate the wine and ask Walmart or Piggly Wiggly to see if they would donate the cheese.

Security:

Lt. Stone suggested that we have designated parking for security reasons. Any overflow parking would go into the bank’s lot and farmers market. He said that he would have extra officers working the area during the hours of 5-7. He will reserve the parking lot behind 1011 around 4:00.

We will have specifics as we get closer to the event.


Meeting Schedule:

We will meet on Monday December 14th at 8:30 at Happy Memories

Meeting was adjourned at 9:00