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August 3rd, Started 6:02 pm – ending 6:50 pm.

Members present: JoeToppins, Doug Whitehall, Mike Hazlett, Suzanne Bertke, Matt Bryant, Steve Betts

Secretary’s Report: Report was recorded on the website. Mike needs rights to edit the post.

Treasurer’s report: Most of the revenue and expenses are shown related. Under disbursements, we were charged $3.72 for $80 in 2 donations. Also lots of name tags for new people! yay! Updated guest books. Paid quarterly dues to St. Paul and for new shirts.

Report accepted.

Marketing: No update

Membership: We have 9 new members in the last 3 months. Need to add the members to BHS and the roster. We will have a Guest Night on the 19th of October. Add an add to say “Come to guest night” during the show. Special thanks to Matt for all his hard work!

Matt to report on how the new people heard about the chorus so we can take advantage.

Dinner and Show: Next meeting is Wednesday, August 5, 2026, at 7 pm at Doug’s house (4252 Wagner Hill Dr, Sugarcreek Township, OH 45440, USA). Tickets and donations are working with both the new and old websites. We will need to print more small flyers. Kris is starting to purchase the non-perishables. Getting more adverts. Still have space!

We now have tax-exempt accounts at Staples, Amazon, GFS, and Costco.

We need to investigate the price of cupcakes or whether we can get a donation of 200 cupcakes from Ele ($1.50 ea).

2026 Goals: We have met the membership goal. We have at least 1 performance a month. The one we have not worked very much is getting sponsors. We need to appoint an organized and motivated point person.

Xenia Corn Roast: Don was thankful that we showed up, but we didn’t do that much. Don also mentioned that it was a joint fundraiser. We agreed to decline any money, but we should exchange ads for the Xenia show. Suzanne to talk with the Xenia folks about getting some advertising. Don said that this may be the last year Xenia can host it. The total number of attendees was (about) 50 people.

It looks like the Xenia chapter may fold shortly. We should consider whether we can take on the mantle of running the corn roast. We need to bring it up to the members.

Nominating Committee: Jackie Dour is heading it up and John Lemming will help. They need to start gathering nominees and announcing them.

Misc: We are going to pay Dave Boos’ dues at BHS again this year.

Coaches:

Yes, Dave has some plans for coaching.

Next meeting on September 7th. If that’s Labor Day, we will push the meeting 1 week.

7 p.m.

Present: Mike Hazlett (President); Doug Whitehead (Treasurer; Greg Sammons (Secretary); Steve Betts, Joe , Suzanne Bertke

Secretary’s Report: June minutes accepted as amended. Published on new website and clipped a

Treasurer’s Report: There was some ad income to report this month and a dividend of .36. On the disbursement: a partial payment to a member for dues enrollment, paid the D and O insurance. The report as accepted as filed!

Mike requested reports from Membership (Matt); marketing (Patrik) and music (Jackie) and did not receive and responses. Ir was suggested that we contact these people through text or in person.

Dinner/Show Report: Jackie has had printed the fliers, posters and tickets. Greg will make fliers/posters available tonight and Doug will ask Cathy if she can manage ticket sales. Steve will set up on-line ticket sales for the show unless Jon already has this set up. Steve will consult with John.

Discussion on ads sold to date: Steve said we still have 9 blanks for the placemat. We need to push sale of advertising.

Goals: We have exceeded our goal for adding new members; we need to find a person who will track and organize all our sponsorship donations so that we know who has given.

Float: Steve mentioned that he thought the float sides were new this year, yet it says Dayton Metro Barbershop Chorus, with singdayton.org. When we’re ready, we can redo the sign with the new website.

Do we need to have a midyear appointment for an at-large member to replace . We also need a nominating committee for the year to come, which should be appointed in September.

Some members are asking us to add some barbershop tags to Monday rehearsal and to choose some more recent barbershop style music. The directors asked for musical preferences and we aren’t sure if these preferences were received. A general discussion ensued about song choices some of which seem misogenistic , inappropriate and/or were written when the culture was different.

Any other new business? New

Next meeting, Aug. 3 Steve will take notes because Greg will be absent. \

Respectfully submitted,

Greg Sammons

Board Secretary, DMBC