OAHS Board Highlights ~Annual Meeting
March 2023
Joel Olsen, president
Annual Meeting [March 19, 2023]
- Presentation by the Mt. Horeb Historical Society about how they were able to get a new museum designed and built.
- Amendments to the Bylaws were presented and approved.
- Financial report and operating budget approved [$19,461].
- Volunteer hours [since July 2022] were logged at 1948 hours. Loyal volunteers enable us to keep operating costs down; we have no salaried personnel. If we value our volunteers at $10 per hour, they have contributed about $19,500 in value. At $25 per hour, they contribute about $50,000 in value. Go volunteers!
- We have about 300 individual/family members in the Historical Society and 30 businesses.
- Our Website as been remodeled, thanks to a team of students from Madison College, at no cost to us. The value of this project is about $7500. Heather Young has been trained, and appointed, to maintain the site.
- Kara Ripley was newly elected to the Board of Directions, while Deanna Fischer and JoAnn Swenson were re-elected to three-year terms.
- Phil Peterson has requested the Board to consider hosting the Red Brick School Reunion in future years.
Special Board Officer Organizational Meeting [March 19, 2023]
- Officers of the OAHS for the coming year were elected: Joel Olsen, President; JoAnn Swenson, Vice-President; Mary Norwell, Secretary and Luke Heiar, Treasurer.
- Board meetings for 2023 were re-scheduled for the second Monday of the month, at 4:30 p.m., at the Museum.