December 2025 Board Meeting Minutes

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West Central Mountains Economic Development Council

December 2025 Board Meeting Minutes

December 9, 2025 3:00pm

McCall Public Library – Community Room, 218 Park St, McCall, ID 83638
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In-person: Dylan Martin, Julie Good, Belinda Provancher

Online: Sherry Maupin, Cynda Herrick, Ron Coate, Rachel Wessel, Delta James

Guests: Lindsey Harris (in-person), Trace McKellips (in-person), Melissa Hamilton (online)

 

Board Meeting

  • Call to Order at 3:06pm, Welcoming of Any Guests
  • Approval of December Agenda ACTION ITEM
    • Addition of Action Item – Additional Debit Card under Treasurer’s Report
    • Motion by Julie for Amended December Agenda with additional item, 2nd by Sherry. Motion passes.
  • Approval of November Minutes ACTION ITEM
    • Motion by Belinda, 2nd by Julie. Motion passes.
  • Treasurer’s report
    • Approval of November Treasurer’s Report ACTION ITEM
      • Motion by Sherry, 2nd by Cynda. Motion passes.
    • We are still waiting on about $3,800 to be paid in sponsorships for summit. There are some funds that are checks not yet cashed as well from the summit.
    • Additional Action Item added: Authorization for procurement of 2nd debit card. Motion by Cynda, 2nd by Julie. Motion passes.
    • 2026 budget in Strategic Planning section of meeting
  • Letter(s) of support:
    • Transportation LTR of Support for Mountain Community Transportation ACTION ITEM
      • Motion by Belinda, 2nd by Julie. Motion passes.
    • Additional Action Items:
      • Thank you Letters for Summit – please everyone take a few. Several board members offered to help. Thank you Dylan, Julie, and Trace for helping.
      • (Trace) Remaining Early Learning Funding Allocation for 2025 ACTION ITEM
        • $3,000 for Tuition Assistance- modified to $3K after outreach and polling of providers. Trace did reach out to all childcare centers to inquire about families currently struggling with childcare costs and 8 families were identified among three centers: Ignite Idaho in Cascade, Creative Cubs, and Little Sprouts. Julie mentioned being and fair equitable among the different providers.
        • $600 for Pediatric CPR Training – this will be paid to the CPR Trainer from Idaho STARS.
        • Added $1,500 for graphic design work – vendor TBD, but this would be to update Early Childhood collateral that has not been updated in a long time. Lindsey offered to help Trace and also research design options if needed.
          • Motion by Dylan. 2nd by Belinda. Motion passes. Sherry requested that the funds be clarified when given to these childcare centers that these are IDAEYC funds.
        • Executive Items
          • Bylaws Review ACTION ITEM
            • Motion by Julie. 2nd by Sherry. Motion passes.
            • Dylan and Lindsey will get it finalized and circulated for signature.
          • Strategic Planning ACTION ITEM
            • Sherry had a question about housing and where that can be identified. Creative District fiscal agent discussion to ask their steering committee to determine if we are the best fit to continue as the fiduciary or if they would like to pass that off to another primed organization. Important points made about future allocated and approved funding for future years, such as Perpetua’s approved annual contribution for workforce every year in April that will last for 10 years. Lindsey to update the Google calendar with those years/dates to be reminders for future executive directors. Cynda asked about a manual or some sort of master document that also could help guide any future directors. Lindsey will work on what would be the best way to set-up the next person with more information. Google Drive will continue to be the main way to transfer/pass on important information and documents.
          • 2026 Budget Discussion ACTION ITEM
            • Simple pledge form requested by Julie that can be sent to annual donors that will indicate how much they plan to commit, when they would like to be invoiced, etc. Impact Benefit Agreement with Perpetua, which means that $50k annually will be given in April of each year for 10 years for business and workforce development. Board will have to decide every year where those funds go and how they will be spent. Julie proposes that donations go up to $15k and she is combining all donations into one bucket. Julie suggests upping economic summit income to $30k. Board does need to determine the Perpetua funding for FY2026. Ron would really like help/be involved in anyway for fundraising and grants.
            • Note for Lindsey: at the bottom of each strategic plan every year, the EDC will denote the allocated funds for 2026, approved grant funds, & any grants the organization plans to attain in 2026. Regarding the resource management planning, Lindsey will follow-up on any other potential income that comes out of next week’s steering committee meeting for the preservation & stewardship resilience group.

 

Time did not permit additional updates on the following and/or was covered in other discussions:

 

  • Executive Director Update
  • Early Childhood Education (Trace)
  • Community Reports
    • Valley County
    • Cascade
    • Donnelly
    • McCall
    • New Meadows
    • Partners in Attendance
  • WCMEDC Updates:
    • Creative District Update (Delta)
    • Community Action Team (CAT) Updates:
      • Community Development (Lindsey)
      • Housing (Lindsey)
      • Infrastructure (Julie)
      • Workforce Development (Lindsey)
      • Broadband (Lindsey)
    • New Business: none
    • Public Comment: Donnelly update from Belinda regarding a new small business group that has started to form that Lindsey would like to get linked up with. Melissa Hamilton gave an update on the youth entrepreneurship table at Barbara Morgan at their children’s holiday bazaar. Agricultural Entrepreneurship classes begin online. Money Haptitudes financial wellness class.
    • Adjournment at 5pm.