Evening. It's uh 5:17 time for the August meeting of the New Home Sister Cities Commission. Ellie, would you take the role, please?
Would he um do you want me to ask for who's here? Well, they can all speak and just make notes. Yes, I am making notes. Okay. Ron Wendinger, Ellie Sweeney, Tony Bernick, Dick Seabbo, John Borwick, Larry Mack,
Brian Filson. Thank you everybody for your attendance as well as Miss Mayor. Okay, let's look at passage of the minutes from the last meeting. What are your wishes?
A motion to approve. Do we have a second? I'll make that motion a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries.
Okay. Uh the when the packet was distributed, we also had the financials. The uh discretionary account had over 8,000 in it and our annual account was a little over a,000. Any
questions that we need to take up with our accountant upstairs hearing? None. A motion to accept those figures. I'll make that motion. I'll second it.
Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Okay, let's talk about the cultural exchange program. That's currently our most active endeavor presently.
Martha has a couple weeks left in Germany and we'll see her back here and our inbound from Germany arrives on the second
and we have hosting set up. The host business will be shelves for Samuel. We have the vehicle set up for rental purposes with Jensen.
Jane is going to do the uh chasing up to the airport. Ellie is back up should something go ary. Mhm. And I think that pretty well covers it for the moment.
Are we going to talk about the letter from his mother? Uh, yes. That's coming down. Okay. I didn't know that was on further down. Sorry. Well, concerns. That's where I'll put it. Got it. I see it. Okay.
Uh we did receive a letter from Samuel's mother regarding uh a concern that the antics from Washington DC would make it difficult for her son to enter
America safely without being hassled at the airport. And we again proposed that problem potential problem circumstance to Sister Cities International.
And as of today, we have heard nothing back. I frankly don't feel he will have a problem, but we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed. hiding. Well, our past council member, Tom Schmidtz, had his 16-year-old
cousin come in from two tubing, Germany, and had no issues whatsoever. And that was just within the last 3 weeks. That's very encouraging. Yes. And also, we my husband said maybe we could we get a letter from one of our
representatives that said we would help out if any situation came up. Well, this is what I propose. Uh should we maybe contact our representative Brad Finstead and uh tell him what the concerns are
and maybe get some input from him, some help, whatever. And I think uh we should make it clear that as long as there he has nothing in his background that uh would hold him against hold
anything against him, I don't think he has anything to worry about. Well, I certainly feel that way from having gone over his resume and the like. So, but I think if if we don't hear anything from Sister Cities International, I
think we should uh contact uh Representative Finstat just to cover all our bases. Other thoughts? Want to piggy back on Ron's idea? So, what you're suggesting is that we
contact Finstead and get a a letter of support that we could probably email to Germany that he can have in his hand when he forward to them. Maybe if it comes from a US representative and if they have
that email, I think that would uh ease their mind a bit. Well, it's it's worth a try. These are uh strange times. So, who would contact our representative?
I will endeavor to scribble out some thoughts tonight and get them to Lisa tomorrow and then tomorrow I'm gone for the rest of the week. So we'll give her that as a s suggestion and go
with that. Okay. Okay. Uh let's see on to old business. We had the first of our broadstand uh dates. Uh we were fortunate
recipients of $54 in tips, but we have not got our uh fund receipt from uh cashwise yet. So we'll uh
see how that comes out. And a reminder that we have a brought stand again on August 25th and it's almost completely filled, but it's not quite. So, uh,
please go back to the email chain and double check that we've got enough bodies to sell product to the co to the public. Moving along from there,
uh the welcome uh reception that we're going to have for Samuel is Monday the 8th of September at 6:00 at the Kaggel Club. Uh Lisa will get
invitations out to uh the people at Shells as well as the friends of the sister cities and the press so that they can uh all participate. And that takes us to
our meeting needs to occur here that same day. So, we need a motion to move the meeting from Labor Day to the 8th here at 5:15 and then after we
adjourn, we'll scoot out to the reception at Kagel Club. Could I have a motion? I will make that motion. Second. It's motioned and seconded that we move our September meeting to to Monday the 8th of September. All in favor? I
I opposed. Motion carries. And I believe Jane was contacting the Kegel Club from last month's meeting from I think actually Caroline I think
Caroline was and she called me and asked did I say I do that and I told her yes you did say that. Uh we have a very or have gone through a very brief agenda. Is there anything else for the good of
the commission? If not, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. I'll second move and seconded to adjurnn.