CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by President Angela Smith at 9:30 a.m. at the Elks Lodge in Prescott Valley. Angela welcomed all members and guests.
SLATE OF OFFICERS: Dana Swain, Nominating Committee (along with Angela Smith and Cathy Day) presented the slate of officers for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. The slate is President – CoCo Alaniz, Vice President – Deb Johnson, Secretary – Dana Swain & Stephanie Fullerton, and Treasurer – Claire Bell. Dana asked for nominations from the floor. Hearing none, a motion was made by Georgia Lindsey and supported by Jamie Davis to accept the slate of officers as presented. Motion carried. The general membership will vote to
approve the slate of officers at the June 10, 2024 membership meeting.
BUDGET: Angela announced that a budget for 2024-2025 has been created and will be sent out to the membership prior to the June 10th meeting. The membership will need to approve the budget at the June 10th meeting.
MEMBERSHIP: Dawnell Muecke (membership trainee) welcomed and introduced today’s guests.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Jamie Davis thanked guild members for the donations to Handmade Hugs. She indicated that members are needed to quilt donated quilt tops. She thanked Olivia Turnham for her three years of service as co-chair of Handmade Hugs. Kristine White will take over the projects for babies.
NEWCOMERS: Deb Johnson asked newcomers to meet with her at break time.
PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS: Kathleen Bond shared items that were left at the April workshop. Our June speaker is CoCo Alaniz. She will be teaching a workshop on making aprons on Tuesday, June 11 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Trinity Presbyterian Church. July is the guild birthday party and UFO silent auction.
SPEAKER: Martha Ferriera introduced our guest speaker, Patsy Kittredge. Patsy presented a trunk show of her quilts.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
• QUILT SHOW – Pat Noel, Quilt Show chair, will be holding a meeting in June for those interested in working on the show which will be held June 13 & 14, 2025 at Prescott High School. Everyone is encouraged to get involved.
• OPPORTUNITY QUILT – Liz Hart is looking for volunteers to sell tickets for TBQ’s Opportunity Quilt at the Mountain Top Quilt Show on May 31 and June 1, 2024.
• JULY UFO SILENT AUCTION: Liz Hart is collecting items for the July UFO Silent Auction.
• BREAK TIME: Angela shared activities that can be done during break time – purchase birthday drawing tickets and opportunity quilt tickets; visit the Company Store, sign up for workshops, turn in block of the month blocks, and stop by the Community Service table.
A brief break was taken.
PRESIDENT’S CHALLENGE PRESENTATION: Members presented to President Angela their quilts made for the Red, White & Blue Challenge. These quilts will be donated to Honor Flight and Quilts of Valor.
SHOW & TELL was held.
BLOCK OF THE MONTH: Mary Vaughan presented the next block of the month which is due at the June 10th guild meeting. The pattern will be on the TBQ website.
BIRTHDAY DRAWING: The birthday drawing was held.
NEXT MEETING: The next guild meeting will be June 10th, 2024.
ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned by President Angela at 11:33 a.m.
Respectfully submitted by Carol Wright, Recording Secretary