- Roll Call
- Open in Prayer
- Accept November 2014 Meeting Minutes
- Possible visit by Chick Wallace, friend of Dave Miller interested in FYA and possible board membership.
- Signature items
- Voting items
- budget approval (see below)
- Mission Review: Our future? Let’s get together for a few hours of vision sharing and questions asking. Sometime in early January. Think about a date that works for you.
- Director’s Report
- Unfinished business
- Ideas for specific use of the Yochem Estate funds?
- Retire the debt on the Shelter loan from the Bates? ~75K
- Retire the debt on the FYA office building? ~89K?
- Other purchases on the block. There is 1 house for sale behind us (not directly) and or we could also explore the house directly behind us.
- Invest for a period of time, while praying and seeking direction.(???)
- Review bid options for property management of the newly acquired buildings and decide if we should we rent, use the property ourselves, or winterize the building(s) until a future date? Dave Miller will be researching this and offering some advice, if not in time for this meeting, then it will be tabled for the next.
- Zia Gillespie: @ 687-2530
- (Comes w/ a strong reference from a multiple rental owner), Preparing Property – $50 Set up fee for the bookkeeping, $125 1st month for services needed to get rental ready, Monthly Fees $135 Bookkeeping fees/Office fees, Lease up Fees $100 Per room Per 6 months.
- Northern Homes: Phyllis Enoch @ 456-8986
- Experienced realtors available 24 hours a day, in-house maintenance company, Motto: Manage your properties as if we owned them ourselves, 12% of gross rental fees, 50% of 1 full months rent for filling each vacancy unit, possible 3% compensation for services – vacancy during winter months
- Taxes on Buildings (If we are not using them for our purposes)
- White house: $906.62/year
- 2 story duplex $2975.88 /year
- open lot: $249.32 year
- Zia Gillespie: @ 687-2530
- Ideas for specific use of the Yochem Estate funds?
- Final Budget review and adoption
- Financial Report- Brad
- Brainstorm about employee retention for FYA: What are some viable ways that we can begin to develop some retention incentives for the current staff of FYA. Marylee will share some of her ideas but let’s take a few moments to move this process forward with a brainstorm session at the least.
- Pay raise based on duration of time
- COLA?
- Other benefits (higher rate of paid time- off, special days off,
- Other ideas?
- Committee Reports
- Public Information
- Autumn Newsletter distributed (mail out & churches)
- A new “the Door” flyer/poster created (community Bulletin Boards & schools)
- Poster was made for advertising on the Bus transit (not on buses yet)
- PSA’s (Currently 1 30 sec. spot running on TV for 2 weeks)
- FYA Name badge ordered for Tami
- Patrick and Marylee revised the website pages for content, links, etc.
- Sunshine committee
- Special thank you ideas for Gary Pedretti who has donated a huge amount of time and expert counsel for our IT related need. What can we do for him to express our thanks?
- Fundraising
- Meryem will share ideas about a concert/skit/poetry fundraiser idea.
- Public Information
- Thank you phone calls to donors
- Volunteers
- (907) 460-0249 Bob Sugden (Volunteer from day 1, prayer warrior, ground breaker, continues to volunteer weekly)
- (907) 474-3861 Claudia (cooks, cleans, supervises & Jeff Pierson (volunteers extraordinaire – jeff helps with maintenance –
- Financial Supporters
- Carol Powell (907) 479-4719 First time donor in Dec. & set up to donate monthly
- Danny and Jeanne Bramer continued monthly faithfulness ($200 a month) 859-492-7009
- Kay Hinkley 907-456-5778 (recent $100 donation)
- Leslie Huffman 907-490-3222 $50/month for last 6 months
- Brian Kosmal (907-978-4740) gives $900-1000 in gift cards a month
- Dennis Wise (360-201-0015) (continued faithfulness)
- Volunteers
See revised FYA staff flow chart below