Bates County

The December meeting was held December 6 at the Ballard Cafe with the meal being sponsored by Mallory Ag. Meeting was called to order at 8:10 p.m. by Austin. The Secretary’s Report was read and approved. The Treasurer’s Report was read and approved. Checking account stands at $16,958 with a few bills that have just come in yet to be paid.

The last cook at the Family Center brought in 400 dollars, leftover meat was sold to the Adrian Optimists, with the exception of the hamburgers that were kept for possible use at the after school program.

Next year’s Annual Meeting will be held October 14 at the Adrian Optimist building.

Austin and Brad submitted our application for the Excellence Awards for the state meeting in January.

We are still going to be helping with the Youth Advocacy Program, but a schedule has not been presented. We explained to them that we couldn’t do it every month.

Austin brought up the possibility of donating an item to the state auction that is held each year at the state annual meeting. It was discussed that next year we could either purchase the FFA item that is at our annual meeting and donate it, or select a local FFA chapter to make something for us to donate. For this year, the executive team is to pick out an item and make sure it gets donated.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 p.m.