February 2025 Meeting Minutes

Pickleball Iowa County Agenda 2-11-25, 8am Location: @Brickhouse Coffee

• ●  Review minutes(Jodi) from January Meeting

• ●  In Attendance:

• ●  Finance(Dawn & Deb)

  • ○  Bank Account Balance as of 2/10/25: $12,962.88,

    • With a Venmo transfer coming of $196.10

    • Several large donations promised/coming soon!

  • ○  Jodi talked to Becky Claypool and she agreed to audit our bookss

  
  

  NEW BUSINESS:

• ●  Presentation to Kiwanas Club: last week (Jodi, Mary, Dawn)

  • ○  Prepared to speak to any groups

  • ○  PEO wants us to speak—Deb will contact us with a date

• ●  Next Pickleball Tournament: (Jodi)–Mar. 21(Friday, 9am-Noon-ish)

○ Name: “Spring Dink” Pickleball Palooza

● SundownPickleballEvent:(Mary/Jodi)

○ Name:○ Date: April 25th, 5-?

• $5/pizza donation

• Specialty drink

• Specialty app

• Fill the Sundown

• 5-10 Live Auction items–Jeff Wille has committed to auctioning

● Working on items to auction ○ Paddles/balls

○ Pickle Palace/bus

○ Cookies

• ●  BrothersMarketRound-UpDates(Deb)

  • ○  Dates: 2 weeks in March

  • ○  Cindy Slaymaker/Deb Schuett

• ●  Website: Video & Pictures added –They look great! Please check it out!

• ●  FB Page has 333 members as of 2/10/25

● Guest:LauraSauser○ Preparing for upcoming grant deadlines

■ List of events:

• ●  1st tournament–December 2024

• ●  FB/website growing members

• ○  Updates? Next Steps?--email Laura with all of our events.

• ○  “Community Foundation Grant” (April 17th Deadline)--Michael will proof

■ Should know by early June if we are awarded.

• ○  Washington County Riverboat—Mar. 15 & October(need 50%)

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• ○  AARP– Can apply for 20%(January)

• ○  Land & Water Conservation Fund—(DNR)

• ○  Iowa State Extension

  ● Fundraising(Mary&Michaelupdate)○ NotesfromMindi(Jodi–formallyapologize)

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1. I am working on getting the article in the paper. Will meet with her this week if the weather is ok if not it will be rescheduled2. I want to schedule the Fireside event for Sunday June 8th. I

want at least 3 other people who will commit to being at this event and helping me with it. We will have 1 maybe 2 courts and will have a fee to play, the winery has free music and we will have our silent auction. We will need to have everyone help get donations for the auction.

2.IhaveemailedtheCaitlinClarkfoundationandUltra. 3.GrantideasIwanttobesurewehaveonthelisttoapplyfor

Wellmark, I tried to fill out a questionnaire online but it looks like you need your 501 number

The Holden foundationAARP(Laura suggested applying for this)

The Wells Fargo Foundation

Jodi will be working behind the scenes to try and expedite our 501c3 status!

○ Decision—Do We Want to Run the Concession Stand for Rec T-ball games?

■ If yes, we Need: (ASAP)

• ●  Organizer–possibly Deb Schuett

• ●  Confirm with Nichole Winegarden

● Other Steps:

• Month of June

• Mondays - Thursdays: 5:30-7:30(keeping it simple)

• ●  Candy, popcorn, water, gatorade, freeze pops and maybe pickleball cookies? We get to choose.

• ●  Order from Town & Country?

• ●  Set up a separate account at Hills to run this through for

  easier bookkeeping down the road.

○ Membership Committee needs to be formed–Let’s recruit for that ASAP! ■ Cindy R. will begin recruiting for a membership committee and

will report back to us at our next meeting.

Grants from Businesses

• Still waiting for the 501c3 to be officially recognized!!

• I will try to expedite this now.

• Please communicate with the team/Board if you are approaching/applying for specific grants

  ● Next Mtg: March 11 @ 6:30pm