July 14, 2025 Minutes

7:00 PM
Graps

Call To Order:

President Nathan S

Roll Call:

Nathan S, Nathan T, Kelsey, Heather, Mike, Derek (digital), Wes 7 – 8, Katie 7:40 – 9

Approval of previous minutes:

MAY AND JUNE, Motion to approve: Mike, Second Kelsey, unanimous passage

Executive Director Report:

Playwriting festival

10/17 and 10/18 have been reserved. Now called The Center of the Nation Playwriting Festival. Working on completing all details. We will not charge tickets for attendance of the festival. We are not currently sure if we will be charged theater rental since we are not charging attendance, still waiting to hear. There will be workshops leading up to the showcase led by Bella. We have a thousand dollar grant to cover this. Bella’s internship ends in September, will discuss extending her contract through October. We will have a bake sale for the showcase and will accept donations. Writers will write the short plays for this at the workshops. People will have to submit samples of writing and be chosen.

July 4th

parade was well attended by our people and many came to the reunion bbq as well. Total spent for banners, candy, float decor, and drinks for the BBQ was $317.10. 15 year display is totally done and will stay up the rest of the year.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Spent $11,657.04 total
Made: 906 Tickets, $9535
Rec: $1975
Bake Sale: $1380
Arts people: $ 986
Donation: $100
Licensing: $3700
Grant: $4000

Without grant, technically lost $600

Currently at 288 out of 1500 in donations for the 1500 for 15 drive

Officer Reports:

President
- Nothing to report
Vice President
- Did annual report to state and up to date on audits.
Secretary
- Nothing to report
Treasurer
- Current balance $27126.54. Received last piece of arts council grant. Will need to order checks soon.
Creative Committee
- Setting up meeting soon to plan next meeting. Is He Dead? Auditions next week. Allie may be directing winter radio show. If not, maybe Chad Logan. May be trading out some committee members. Will assess if everyone still has time and energy to invest.
Public Relations
- Wrapping up Charlie and transitioning to Is He Dead?. Continuing to have spam bot issue with newsletter email service. Still working on resolving this. Posters for auditions going out next couple days.
Volunteer Committee
- Wants to put together a monthly hang out to bond and brainstorm with stakeholders and volunteers. Will use social media to advertise. The goal is to help keep connected between shows and help people feel like they have a voice. First meeting will be Aug 23rd at 1PM.
Fundraising Committee
- Absent
Strategic Committee
- Summary report going out to members this week, final meeting scheduled for next month.
Member voices
- Member Geno Pesicka present to discuss potential new BFACT facet. We have been trying to coordinate starting an improv group which Geno is willing to lead. We would need to hold classes and have a good pool of people to pull from for events. Would have to coordinate with the creative committee to plan dates for next year. Hopeful to start first class sometime this year. Also willing to help coordinate/lead workshops for 10-16 year olds and further acting/directing classes.

Old Business:

Bank signers
- Motion to remove Robert Soderstrom, Toi Lyn Flick, and Becky Tinsley from the list of approved bank signers by Mike, Seconded by Nathan T, unanimous passage
- Motion to add Nathan Schreier, Nathan Thompson, and Heather Pittman as approved bank signers by Mike, Seconded by Kelsey, unanimous passage
Bylaws : All members are directed to read bylaws in full and make notes to discuss revisions at next meeting.