Hugo Improvement Partnership
Minutes
March 13, 2008
1.
Meeting called to order at 7:08 PM
2.
Member Present:
Brenda Dutro
Carl Dutro
Ben Orrell
Linda Orrell
Jack Garner
Ben Wentworth
Jenny Nall
Patsie Smith
3.
Minutes approved from February meeting.
4.
Old Business:
a.
Bronze Statue $25,000 CD has been purchased. Still waiting on the $10,000
grant from Kerr Foundation.
b.
Walking Path- will find out some additional information about the possibility
of getting some roto-mill for the path.
c.
Poster Contest Done: Thanks you to everyone who submitted posters. We did not select a first through forth place because each of the four winners received
the same number of votes.
The poster contest sponsored by the Hugo Improvement Partnership is over and
we have four winners. We had 25 total entries and each one was unique, creative
and just plain fun. We selected four winners by secret ballot from each of our
eight judges. The results were close because each entry was worthy. The winners are described as follows:
Pastor Ben Wentworth’s entry was two cows grazing near a windmill with
a beautiful sunset behind them. The caption reads HUGO, Life is better served Family-Style. Dee Ann Blevins’
entry is a large colorful paintbrush with paint on the tip (painting the word HUGO) and the caption reads Highlight of the
Prairie. The third winner was Bob Kraxberger.
His entry is HUGO in large letters and below that is “Out Where The Best Begins”. The forth and final winner was also an entry by Pastor Ben Wentworth.
It is a simple but elegant word “HUGO” with a stalk of wheat rising out of the H.
Each winner will receive a $50.00 check from the Hugo Improvement Partnership
and most of all a very big thanks to each winner and every one of the 25 people who took their time to create a design and
submit it to us. Thanks very, very much.
d.
Terry Blevins is about done with the history portion of the CD about Hugo.
e.
Form 990 EZ was submitted.
f.
Still looking for a treasurer.
g.
Spring town clean-up. Waiting on date from the commissioners. Brenda and
Jenny putting together a letter form for individuals to submit to HIP if they need some help during the clean-up. We will
then review the letters and select the individuals that we will help during the clean-up day.
h.
CCC sign still at Lacey’s for Repair.
i.
Nothing new on the July 4th event.
j.
Brenda is going to work on getting donation to purchase the penny machine
for Main
Street.
k.
Town wide Yard Sale is going to be June 14th, during the car
show. Patsie is working the yard sale.
5.
New Business:
a.
Ben handed out a form for each HIP member to keep track of the amount of
time they are contributing to HIP. This is needed for our book keeping. The forms are going to be collected at the HIP Meetings.
Please use the form to track your time working on HIP projects.
b.
Bike Race is a go for this year. Working on the details.
c.
Ranch Rodeo- Helen Pierson has agreed to help us out again this year. Thanks,
Helen.
d.
Scholarship applications are due to HIP on the 15th of March.
e.
HIP will take possession of the train that Brenda Toft has. Will fix it
up and use it at various events. Looking for a place to store the train. Want to use this train at the Limon Railroad Day
on June 7th.
f.
Margie and Rich Messer are working on a Yard and Garden Tour sponsored
by HIP for this summer.
g.
Discussed possibilities of adding some silhouettes to the walking path.
Looking into the possibilities.
h.
Looking into having a promotional booth promoting HIP at the Ranch Rodeo.
