February Agenda

102/16/2025 Proposed January/February Meeting Agenda
 
OPENING/FLAG SALUTE
ROLL CALL
MINUTES
DRAPING OF THE CHARTER
PROPOSALS FOR MEMBERSHIP
 
WELCOME CEREMONY
 
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
 
Hall Report –
 
Hall Projects (in priority order):
 
Couple of dining room benches getting wobbly
Remove old meter base and patch roof
Insulate crawl space under bathrooms (1/2 done)
Northeast side roof needs additional screws
Kitchen counters need refinished
Kitchen needs exhaust hood and fan
Repainting under eves of hall
Kitchen and dining hall floors need refinished
 
5 party rentals scheduled with a couple others expressing interest. Chaps and Zumba still have long term contracts.  
 
EDUCATION  -
 
U.S. House fails to reauthorize 20-year-old bipartisan bill to fund rural schools, communities
Schools in 30 of Oregon’s 36 counties — and schools in other Western states — will receive less federal funding in 2025 after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize a 24-year-old bill that typically pays up to $80 million a year for schools and roads in Oregon along with wildfire prevention and conservation work. Read more
 
LEGISLATIVE –  
 
 SB 747, put forward by a Senator Khanh Pham (D- SE Portland), would require every landowner in the state with more than 200 acres of irrigated agricultural land to register and annually report fertilizer use, with a goal of having the Oregon Department of Agriculture “identify persons who are overapplying fertilizer” and impose civil penalties for violations.  Farm groups are opposing.
 
SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE – JoAnn
 
COMMUNITY SERVICE – JoAnn
 
AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT
 
 
COMMUNICATIONS –  Betty
 
TREASURERS REPORT  -
 
Bills –  Dan
Light bulbs                   23.98
 
UNFINSHED BUSINESS: 
 
Review project estimates for dining hall floor and counters
 
Cookie Exchange Idea (for Easter or next Christmas)?
 
Grange apparel – Shirts will be available at State Convention.  Jackets not.
 
Taco themed dinner?
 
NEW BUSINESS:  
 
Mail box down – reinstall or not?
 
Lighting in storage area behind stage  - $50 budget
 
Insurance policy – new exclusion for violations of laws regarding personal information.
 
Meal at State Convention on June 24.  Need a few volunteers to help with prep and serving.
 
Resolutions
 
MEMBERS SICK OR IN DISTRESS: 
 
GOOD OF THE ORDER:   
 
In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.  Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
HEIRLOOM PROGRAM:  
 
Hope is the heavenly light that gilds our labors.  Were we deprived of that source of consolation, our life would indeed be dreary.
 
NEXT MEETING
 
CLOSING
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