In attendance:
Mike, Reed, Marty, Phil T., Jaime, Ralph, Chris, Dave, Phil, GloriaAnn, Ann, Tammie
Guest: Jason Breuer, Patsy Olson
50/50: Jaime
Jack will not be available for a few weeks. Mike will provide the program next week, he will provide information on the Zippel Bay Project. Vicki Blake will be hosting another wine tasting the end of April or early May at Rosalies - are interested in attending as a social and possible membership drive opportunity for Rotary?
Mike handed out the Rotary Roses tickets. We will deliver to businesses, but individual orders can be picked up at the Rex Hotel at Floral Expressions.
Habitat for Humanity group biking from Green Bay to Winnipeg will be stopping here. About 60 to feed. The food will be at Timber Mill Park. Thursday, July 12.
TAKF planning starts tonight. Meeting tonight at VFW at 7:00 pm. TAKF will be on June 20 at Sportsmans Lodge.
VFW ice fishing derby this weekend.
New state record burbot caught on Lake of the Woods.
The Digital Changes at the Baudette Grand Theater - Jason Breuer
The film industry is moving to digital. Our reel to reel film projector will be obsolete. We can not modify it for digital projection. This change will happen in about a year. We are already feeling the pinch of new films coming out as they have already started to make more limited copies of film. It is more efficient for the film industry to distribute movies in this way.
How we finance this, projector, hard drive, network and sound system upgrades. We are looking at $75,000.
Letters have gone out to local businesses, information the newspaper. Looking to continue the purchase a seat program at $1,000 per seat. Looking for 75 people or organizations to target for this program. Some of the money saved by the theater industry will be packaged into programs to help theaters with this change, but our theater may not qualify for these programs.
Originally the theater was a community project to give local kids in the community a healthy activity.
If we can get this upgrade, we would only be able to run older films and access to even these old films would be limited.
The third option would be to close the theater in Baudette.
The owner in Wadena said it was a cost of about $100,000 to upgrade one of their screens.
Phil T. had a suggestion of a region 2 arts grant and to check into if they would be interested in this project.
Jason mentioned that the board has discussed if there would be a benefit to partner with theaters in the region and purchase the projection systems in bulk.
We also need to focus on getting attendance up at the theater. According to the recent census data our area had a 10% population rate drop.
Should we provide transportation from Warroad? Should we provide more early show times for the seniors in the community.
Another idea mentioned was how a restaurant gives out a free ticket to the movie.
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