General Meeting Minutes

Tuesday April 22,2014

Past President – Ajay Oppelaar

• 7:05 p.m. Call to order.

• Acceptance of agenda.

• Motion to accept minutes of March’s meeting:

  • Moved by Mary Gale

  • Seconded

  • Carried

• Thank you to set up crew & kitchen crews. We required extra chairs for this meeting.

• Volunteers required for work party April 26^th 10 – noon to tidy up the Millennium Garden here at the hall.

• AGM elections: existing members willing to stand. No objections.

• It was decided at the Executive Meeting that Membership runs September 1^st – August 31^st. Fiscal year runs July 1^st – June 30^th. Those who have not paid their membership dues by October 31^st will stop receiving the newsletter.

• Saanich garden tour is set for Wednesday June 25^th. Pat Stevens has the signup sheet with her tonight.

• Dot Garbet’s garden is on tour Thursday April 24^th 4 – 7pm.

• Our garden club is purchasing a membership at The Gardens at HCP for $50. This allows us 1 free tour as a group.

Treasurer’s Report – Gale McIntrye

• $2,298.44 balance

Membership – Arlene Dench

• 3 new members tonight.

Facebook – Pauline

• Cowichan Flower and Garden Show will be featured, please share forward with friends.

Library – Janice Rose

• Suggestions for new books to purchase are always welcome.

• A new book about clematis has been purchased from Lee Valley.

• Books borrowed at May meeting are to be returned at September meeting.

Plant Sales – Heather Jenkins

• Brochure/flyer for Community Flower & Garden Show is ready for anyone who would like to take and post.

Members Forum

• Heather Gibbins thanks all those who showed up the other Sunday to help spring clean her garden.

• Al Mikalishen tells us Bill Herring has 3 lawn bowling greens and is looking for new members.

• Elaine Scott reminds us to pot up our extra plants for the Community Flower & Garden Show in June. It is our club’s way to raise money to give back to charities. The Mill Bay Plantaholics –Barb, Sharon, Ali & Elaine – are having a plant sale Saturday April 26^th starting at 9am. Proceeds go to Malawi Girls and to Somenos House. The Cairnsmore plant sale raised $2700 last weekend.

• Pip Woodcock has been writing the garden column for the Mill Bay Newsletter for 3 years and would like someone to take over.

• Monika Morgan says there is still time to make a donation to the silent auction for the Community Flower & Garden Show.

Coffee Break

Raffle

Speaker – Shawnigan Gardens at Island Daylily Farm

Meeting adjourned @9:05pm