BRCST General Meeting
February 10, 2026
Attendees: Ken and Kathy Terrell, Casey Samsill, Jim Caffroy, Dick Knaeble, Mike Bourne, Nicole Edmondsen, Pam Higgins, Cal Higgins, Lori Whitesell, Dan Pirtle, Deb Pirtle, Danny Allen, Sandy Lawrence, Doug Wolfe
1. Call to Order – Dan
2. Pledge of Allegiance – All
3. Prayer – Dan
4. Approval of the previous meeting minutes (Deb), Deb asked if any changes were necessary of the December meeting minutes. None were noted.
Cal moved approval of minutes. Lori seconds. Vote All in favor.
5. Financial Report – Lori
January had typical expenses. We purchased book keeping software for $80 for a year. Anyone who needs a receipt for donations for 2025, please ask Lori for one.
Annual suggested donation is $100/household. You can write a check, or cash or zelle.
Current account balance at the end of January was $6,395.61.
6. Old Business
a. Charter Update and Request for Approval (Dan)
Charter document that states how our organization operates. Dan has made some changes to the charter. A vote is required at the general meeting to approve the changes.
- There is a clause about when officers are elected. It was changed from the first month of the new year to voting the last month of year of the previous year.
- Clause about who could be active members. Took out non owners. We are really here to serve the owners.
- Fix numbering issues, i.e. standardize 501 (c)3
- The document will be available on the website when it is completed.
- Document will be available shortly on the website.
Dan moves that we accept changes as just discussed. Cal seconds. Vote all in favor
b. Memo of Understanding (MOU) of Services Dan
The board is working on a memorandum of understanding, MOU that defines what we do and what we don’t do. The team leads are helping define our description of services. And identifying a budget to accomplish our services.
c. Insurance Research Dan-
We are working with broker the water district used to check into insurance to cover ourselves for the services we are providing.
Dick has also given a couple of references for getting quotes. Please reach out to Dan if you have any insurance connections to find D & O, General and E & O.
d. Fundraiser Plans (Casey)
Casey has volunteered to head up fundraising.
Last year we had the pancake breakfast with the speaker event together. Chief has requested the pancake breakfast be separated from the speaker event. So, the first event will be the Annual speaker event.
First event May 16th will replace annual we did last year in 8&9 @ Blue Ridge Fire Station
Tammy Ontiveros will speak on home insurance, to address the current issues with home owners Insurance.
Each speaker will cover what will impact Blue Ridge
County Sherriff or his representative, Health and Human Services, Forest Dept (Brandon will not be in town) he will have a representative, Game and Fish, Water District, BRCST
The event will be 10-2 will include lunch
Expect about 100-120 people to attend. Donations will be accepted to cover costs.
Pam suggested the degradation of this community, Amazon and USPS no longer servicing. The mail is a huge issue. Pam suggested to ask an Arizona representative to speak at this event.
Pam will send an email to Senator Wendy Rogers and Representatives David Cook and David Marshall through their websites to try to get them to come to our May 16th event.
County supervisor is coming. Someone can try to get an AZ representative.
It was suggested to talk with speakers and determine a theme for the event. It would help on the marketing.
The community manager at Starlight is doing a very similar thing June 13th
Casey will talk with Beth in the office to talk with those planning in Starlight.
Other things being recommended are
Fundraising dinner and raffle auction June 13 at BRCC church. Proposing to have donations to raffle or silent auction. Big item to be a lot clean. Not cut down a multitude of trees. That would incur the effort of the members.
e. RFP for Website (Daron) no update given
f. Future Board Meetings and General Meeting schedule (Dan)
Meeting conflict in May due to schedule of CERT. Those will need to be reschedule.
7. New Business –
a. CERT in May 12-14 lunches and dinners both nights. Will need help to put this on. Jon will need lodging for three people. Jim will be out of town. He will get it all started.
Need minimum of 15 people to attend. We had 27 last time. It is free. Sign up a week before it begins.
- Pam suggested the team at least as a minimum the secretary/president needs a computer and necessary software to be purchased for just BRCST information on it. Mixing personal and non-profit can lead to problems.
- The One Drive shared drive is Ken Terrells’. The organization should have their own One Drive/cloud storage as an independent non-profit. Lori has already connected with tech soup. And could pursue 365 office for non profit.
- Dan will look into getting independent cloud storage for BRCST.
8. Meeting Adjournment
Pam motioned we close the meeting. Dan Second. Vote all in favor.