RISE ABOVE WELLNESS CENTER, INC =============================== April 4th, 2024 Board Meeting Minutes 161 1/2 N. Main St. Wellsville, NY 14895 Upstairs in the lobby room and via Zoom Start Time: 6:02pm. Attending: Sheila, Stephen, Christina (via Zoom), Jeremy Absent: Alexis Carol resigned from the board via an email to Jeremy at 2:16pm earlier that afternoon. The group discussed the possibility of recruiting new board members to expand back to 7. Current board members will consider possible candidates and discuss again at the next meeting. Minutes from the January 4th board meeting had been approved by those in attendance. Sheila motioned to approve, Stephen seconded. All in favor. Jeremy gave a brief Treasurer's report that the Rise Above account remains at $707.00. Registration for the 2024 Balloon Rally is via the Chamber of Commerce website this year. Jeremy will take care of the registration form and submitting the registration fee. We'll be reserving one sidewalk unit. Christina suggested live demos if possible, we can see if Kelly or Cindy might be interested in a yoga demonstration. Perhaps Alexis is interested in doing intuitive Tarot readings again. Stephen suggested promoting our library. Jeremy will work on getting the library scanned into the CLZ app so we can post a link to our library from the Rise Above website. We can also have a printout available at our booth. The group briefly reviewed current activities. Cindy's yoga class has been going well. Kelly has had mixed attendance, and although the participants are enjoying the class she has had to suspend her class for the month of April. The commute from her new home and gas costs and personal reasons have made it difficult to continue. She may be a good candidate to apply for Sheila's proposed stipend fund (discussed later). Mark's AA class has continued and Mark has reiterated the group's gratitude for the use of the space. Alexis is still running her Sister Circle class on Tuesday evenings, although she was not available to share how it has been going recently. The open discussion group has continued to meet on the first Saturday every month. At the upcoming April 6th meetup the group will discuss day/time/frequency for the spring and summer. Sheila reviewed her stipend fund proposal documents with the group. The purpose excerpt from the document: Purpose: "To retain affordable Creative Wellness services at a rate that benefits local residents, I am creating a provisional fund to support local practitioners, instructors, and creators in providing affordable, equitable access to activities and resources which support sustainable, independent individual and community wellness to the extent possible in the existing physical structure of the Rise Above building." All were in agreement to move forward with this project. Sheila donated an initial $950.00 via check #1051 from her studio for the fund. Jeremy will deposit this into the Rise Above account and provide Sheila with a receipt. The group discussed the various details of the fund proposal, advertising, and details that can be included in the practitioner's agreement (which should be made available from the Rise Above website - Jeremy will follow up on this). Sheila will work with the board members to revise the submission form and prepare a flyer type document that can be used to post online and distribute locally to promote the fund. The plan is to have these documents in a ready state by the end of April so we can start offering the application to existing practitioners and begin the advertising/promotion process. Sheila brought the Uniper TV flyer for us to review, it is a resource we could consider as a means for sharing our activities with those who may not be able to attend physically. More information is available on the unipercare.com website. The meeting was adjourned at 7:01pm. The next meeting is planned for July 11th at 6pm at 161 1/2 N. Main St. Christina has offered to send out a Zoom invite link. Submitted by Jeremy Dahlgren, stepping in as secretary for Alexis.