Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce

Committee Minutes Form

 

This form is to be utilized by all Chamber Committee’s to record the official minutes of each meeting.  Upon completion it should be submitted to the chamber office by the last day of each month for duplication and inclusion in the Board of Directors packet sent to each Director prior to the board meeting.

 

The regular/special meeting of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Tourism Committee was held on Wednesday, May 29th at 9:00 am/pm at Howard Johnson’s on Route 28.

 

Present: Marc Kingsley (chair), Susan O’Handley, Marcy Birch, Peter Bissell, Bob Ghegan, Lonetta Swartout, Skip Endress, Ken Meifert

 

The minutes from the previous committee meeting held on Tuesday, May 5th were approved/disapproved.

 

The following was presented, discussed and action items for the Board of Directors and/or Committee

noted:

1.      Bob Ghegan discussed the idea of having a 2-3 day trip itinerary on the chamber’s website.

a.       This may already exist on the County tourism’s website.  Bob was to check on this.

2.      Also discussed having a link from the chamber’s website to the trip planning feature on the I Love

      NY website.

3.      Ken Meifert brought up the idea of having a survey card at local lodging and merchant establishments.

a.       How and when did people hear/learn about Cooperstown, the attractions, special events, etc?

b.      How would the visitors like to receive information about Cooperstown and the surrounding

areas?

4.      The group talked about the importance of tourism for our county and how to educate the county

      residents.

a.       Press releases – a sub-committee of the Otsego County Tourism Committee had previously

gathered key information and developed a working document.

b.      Susan to call Rob Robinson to get permission to use the document.

c.       Susan, Marcy, Bob, Peter, and Ken to look at the data, highlight some key points, and write

some press release to go out over the next 3 weeks.

5.      The idea of having a Kiosk at Dreams Park was discussed.

a.       Would need to have discussions with Dreams Park personal.

b.      Susan to contact key people at Dreams Park and set up a tour of their facility for the tourism

committee.

6.      The group talked about how to make Cooperstown more welcoming to our visitors.

a.       Talked about having a generic “Welcome to Cooperstown” banner for Main Street.

b.      Marc to call Carol Waller for feedback.

c.       Susan to check on pricing and lead time for a banner.

 

Old Business:

  1. Look at what resource materials we currently have.
  2. Talk with Deb’s office and the Otsego County Chamber to see how we can work together and what

      they need from us.

  1. Marcy talked about having Cornell do a seminar on window displays.  We need to follow up on this.
  2. Discuss how to gather and disseminate window display information.

 

Next meeting date, time, and location: Wednesday, June 17th, 9:00 am at the Howard Johnson’s, Route 28.

 

Minutes recorded by: Marc Kingsley