LVJBS November 2025
Meeting (Virtual) Minutes
Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Meeting Start: 7:08 PM
Location: Virtual
Attendees: Jessica G., Jess P., Paige T., Angela C., Haley S., Greg S., Samantha S.
Item1: President’s Report (Jessica G.):
“Happy November!”
A. Ad-Partnerships updates:
*BBLV: Nothing new.
*(Angela) Ad-Partnering with other venues—no response from Mandalay bay, Angela to follow up via phone. Left phone message for Beej Ryan, Virgin Hotel’s Entertainment Director. No response, yet. Angela to follow up.
B. Quarterly event with the SandDollar LV: The Q4 event will be on Saturday, Dec. 6th with MOKSHA. Event will be indoors. We will have 50/50 ‘donation raffle’ and table with license plates. Volunteer list to go out soon.
C. LVJBS HOLIDAZE PARTY is confirmed for Saturday, December 13th @ Garage Mahall. More info with Production Report.
D. Thanks to JFree and those who came out to our Sunday, October 19th Memorial Tree event. To ensure we don’t ‘leave anyone out’ of the nice Memory Shrine for future years, the 2026 Mayor will keep a folder with photos that can easily be added to (as needed) and brought to the annual events.
E. 2026 Officer Election Nominations were had, and the Nominees accepted or denied their nomination(s) prior to tonight’s meeting. Those who ‘accepted’ their nomination(s) will be added to a GoogleForm ‘election’ Voting page where ‘paid 2025 Members’ can place their votes ‘electronically’ OR choose to place their votes in-person at the December meeting. (Jessica G. to create the GoogleForm by 11/14, sending it to the ‘paid 2025 Members’ and creating the paper-ballot/bring pencils for the 12/2 meeting.)
Accepted Nominations for 2026 LVJBS Officers:
PRESIDENT: Jessica Grant
VICE PRESIDENT: Jaime Heishman
TREASURER: (none)
SECRETARY: Angela Carlson
MAYOR: Haley Schuster, Larry Watton
Item 2: Vice President’s Report(Jessica P.):
- No updates.
Item 3: TREASURER’S REPORT (Paige):
● 2025 DUES/Member updates
Dues are still $10/month (having to be paid for the month on or before the ‘first Tuesday’ of each month) to participate in any timed-lotteries, etc. (Next year’s Membership special, if paid by March 1st, is $100/year (or $150/same address couple), or $80-$95/year for single membership if attended the 2025 meeting(s). (Officers $25/year)
● Raffle items had: Leather purse, Rasta backpack, Wooden Plaque: ‘One Show at a Time’ (We will most likely use the ‘leather purse’ and the ‘backpack’ as our Holidaze party ‘raffle’ since they would make great Holiday gifts for someone to enjoy!)
● Annual TECOPA Sponsorship DONATION – has been paid, $1000
● LVJBS SNAP assistance update: goal is to help 10 households for 3 months. We have already received a $300 gift card for a recipient and was given a $200 donation from a community member who was happy to see our community’s support and wanted to offer additional funding help.
● Rise Event – we generated $960 in donations for the donated passes.
● Q3 Smith’s Donation – 10 households helped us to raise $23.67.
● If any current (or past Officers) have any ‘LVJBS Business Cards’ (without their name on it), please return them to Paige for future recycling to the 2026 Officer.
● The invoice for the PEF Scholarships was sent our way. ($2000 plus the $60 processing fee will be due mid-January.)
Item 4: SECRETARY’S REPORT (Angela):
- Jessica G. sent the agenda.
- Angela adding events to shared Google Spreadsheet.
Item 5: MAYOR’S REPORT (Haley S.):
COLOR: burgundy
*Nothing to report
PRODUCTION REPORT(Greg):
● 4Q mentions: Moksha is booked for Q4 event at SandDollar LV. Event will be inside.
● Greg spoke with Dan Stein of Shambala. They are booked for the Holidaze event at Garage Mahall on Saturday, Dec. 13th. Band is traveling from Phoenix, Arizona.
○ Time: Doors 4:20 PM, Showtime 6:00 PM
○ Cost: $500 for band, $250 lodging. Cash payment preferred.
○ BYOB beverages and a Food item to share
○ Flyer will be created by Shambala & shared our way (Jessica G. to post more ‘save the date’ posts until the flyer gets our way.)
○ Paige to rent ADA-friendly Porta-Potty
○ Jessica G. to post more ‘save the date’ posts until the flyer goes out.
Past inquiries:
● RAININ’ MOONSHINE contacted us after the Shakedown Vegas shows. They are interested in a future Garage Mahall show (Contact person: Michael Schneider)
● The Soul Juice Band wants to have an LVJBS gig soon. They mentioned wanting to play Garage Mahall. (Contact person: David Tatlock)
Tentative:
- · Shaky Feeling Feb/March of 2026. They are completed booked until then.
OPEN FLOOR (all):
*One suggestion that came our way with a Mayor Nominee who declined (David de Groot) was to have an ‘LVJBS Ambassador’ who helps with Membership recruitment. The Mayor position has a similar role.
*Website update: The Officers had a GoogleMeet to discuss ideas that Samantha Schwartz had regarding our new website-to-be. Update: Samantha presented a draft website using Wordpress. She participated in the meeting, asking questions to best understand our needs. She will continue to offer her support in building our site and help teach officers how to perform essential tasks.
*Adopt-A-Highway – January 2026 date TBD
*Dan Vesly (RexFoundation) sent a benefit event ‘Eyes of the World’ (February in L.A.) with Cubensis, Shaky Feelin’. & The Great Divide for us to share. A Facebook post went out today & asked Liani to help get the info onto WildApricot.
Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM
Next Meeting: Tuesday,December 2nd (in person/ Officers’ Elections)
Location: Rocky’s Bar & Grill @ 7 PM