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. . t 4 . . ~ paper for the brochure and Commissioner Morton's company will donate the printing. Don Saye commented on the use of the term "shortfall" in the letter inviting the public to attend this evening's meeting. He said he read this letter to the board of the Optimists Club and was asked to attend this meeting to see how their group could participate in the fundraising effort. He suggested the fund raising committee have a booth at the Climate Best Fest and also at the 4th of July Festival. Ginny Hughes volunteered to help participate in the booths. It was discussed that donation checks should be made payable to the IIRed Morton Community Center Fund" and have the notation of IIdonation" written on the face of the check. Superintendent Hartman said the City Attorney has stated that donations to the City can be a tax deduction. Paula Uccelli suggested sending a letter to the many users of the Center including people who have taken classes there. Councilwoman LaBerge said the mailing could be used as a fund raiser and a "friend raiser" to let people know about the project. Ira Ruskin felt people need to understand all the benefits the Center will have to the community, City, region and County. He felt newsworthy items needed to be created to establish an on-going media relationship. Mr. Ruskin volunteered to help with this committee. Don Saye volunteered to help with the pasta dinner sponsored by Commissioner Truscelli. . Councilwoman Howard suggested tapping into the youth at the middle schools and high schools because we need their help and buy-in on the project. Ginny Hughes volunteered to help contact the high schools. Councilwoman Buchan said she spoke with Heidi VanZant of the San Mateo Times about the project and suggested offering tours of the facility to all newspapers. Commissioner Slusser felt that we should not overlook videos being used in selling the project. Ira Ruskin felt that youth involvement with the fund raising could be turned into a good pub lie relations tool. Don Saye suggested having booths at the Climate Best Fest and the 4th of July Festival manned with youth sports teams such as soccer and softb all. Mr. Ruskin suggested a ground breaking ceremony or some such event to help kick off the fundraising. Supervisor Hannon suggested perhaps a "roof raising" ceremony. Other groups suggested to contact would be the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, DeMo lay, Eastern Star, Rainbow Girls, Masons, Rebeccahs, Campfire. Councilwoman Howard volunteered to help co-chair the Community Gifts committee with Commissioner Truscelli. Chairperson Swope felt there should be a general meeting of all the committee chairpersons which was tentatively set up for March 1. Sign-up sheets were sent around the audience for the various committees.