South Burnaby Garden Club
Executive Meeting
June 9, 2020 Minutes
Virtual Steering Committee meeting
Called to order at 7:10 by Betty. Carolee, Elizabeth, Syl, Lucette, Betty logged in.
Minutes: Minutes from our email meeting for April 2020 were circulated. No corrections, motion by Lucette seconded by Syl to accept minutes. There was no meeting in May.
Treasury: Elizabeth
Emailed and attached to the minutes in the ‘red’ book.
Newsletter: Vince via Lucette
Send in content by June 24th, Please send in completed stories, so that they can be ‘plunked’ in. Write up on meeting, Betty to do
Bonsor Liaison/ Membership: Syl
Phoned and left a message regarding status of our rental at Bonsor. Syl wonders if phone not being monitored. Currently there are 43 members, compared to 44 members last year. We have recently added 3 new members. Total membership fees received is $750
Fall Fair: Dan and Lucette
Do we say it is cancelled? Some alternatives are to do the potato contest in the Arnold’s driveway. No trophies. Consider doing weekly showbench in September separated into fruit and vegetable collections, flowers and decorative, next canning, craft and photos, no juniors. We will wait for stage 3 to be announced before making a final decision.
Website: Frank via Betty
People enjoying virtual garden tour and pictures continue to trickle in.
Secretary: Betty
Society paperwork done for 2020.
Sunshine: Rose
No reports of anyone needing sunshine from the club this month.
Old business
No old business identified.
New Business
Christmas Party: Greg by email
Greg will hold off on contacting the caterer until we have confirmed we have access to Bonsor
BC Council Meeting:
Probably virtual in September
Showbench
July showbench schedule completed and sent to Vince and Frank. Action item: Betty to ask Jennifer to log into our next meeting and speak to ideas on ideas for how things are going in the garden and the virtual bench.
Adjourned at 7:46