PO
Box 173
Manchester,
WA 98353-0173
“it’s a great place to live…”
Those in attendance: B. Ballard, , B. Lamb, C. Leininger, P. Paquette, R. Rada, D. Trudeau,
J. Winslow
Excused Absences: JB Bartel,
C. Kowalski
Action
Items:
1)
Phil is still working on developing a simplified one page version of
Robert’s Rules for use at our meetings.
2)
Bob Ballard to continue to follow activities of the developers for
invitation to participate in a future meeting.
3)
Carol Kowalski will prepare a 2006 budget for presentation at the
November 3 meeting.
4)
Carol Kowalski to schedule an audit meeting with Bob Lamb and Carole
Leininger prior to November 22.
5)
John Winslow to follow-up with Bill Shaw for making a motion to form an
Architectural Review Committee.
6)
Carol Kowalski to report on status of WA non-profit status.
7)
John Winslow to add discussion of pursuit of 501c3 status to our next
agenda
8)
John Winslow will poll the
membership for volunteers for Nominating Committee and officer candidates.
Minutes:
The meeting was called to order by Chair, Bob Ballard at 7:08PM. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as written.
Old
Business:
Follow-up
items from previous meeting:
In a review of action items from the past meeting, the following was reported:
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Arlene Rebelowski forwarded a digital copy of the letterhead to Carol Kowalski.
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Phil is still working on developing a simplified one page version of Robert’s
Rules for use at our meetings.
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Bob is following the activities of the Developers, and will invite to them to a
future meeting for updates, probably in January or February.
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The Revitalization Group has not considered organizing a local business’
section for the web-site.
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Carol to prepare a 2006 budget for presentation at the November 22 meeting.
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Bob Lamb and Carole Leininger volunteered to participate in an audit of our
books prior to the November 22 meeting. Carol
Kowalski to schedule the Audit venue.
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We have not heard from Bill Shaw and his plan to present a motion on forming an
Architectural Design Review committee. John
Winslow will continue to pursue Bill on this matter.
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The Port of Manchester (Jim Thompson) agreed to join the MCC as a co-sponsor of
the 10/8 Clean-Up Day to provide liability insurance coverage.
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Carol has paid the Postmaster the annual box fee payment.
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Carol has a follow-up meeting scheduled on 10/12 with Todd Smith on the
Non-Profit application with the State.
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John has followed-up with each of the five Action Groups on recent activities
and preparation for spring-time presentations by each group.
Debby Trudeau reported on her group’s meeting with Commissioner Angel
on 9/28 and Bob Ballard reported that Don Poulsen has assumed the chair of the
Village Character group. No other
information was provided. We
discussed how this may be a matter of concern for progress by the other groups.
Bob Ballard suggested that we may want to have the groups re-focus on
taking a section out of the Manchester Plan for review by their groups.
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Wanda Larsen had to cancel the Candidates’ Forum scheduled on 9/27 due to
apathy by many of the candidates.
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John had minutes of the meeting with Bill Palmer and David Hopkins read at the
9/27 meeting.
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Executive Board’s action to address input from membership at 8/23 meeting
resulted in all Executive Board meetings being held at a public place for easier
attendance by the general membership.
TREASURER”S
REPORT: John Winslow read
Carol’s report. The treasury is
currently $878.54. There are
currently 66 paid members.
No new mail had arrived since
our last meeting.
SEWERS
SUB-COMMITTEE REPORT: Ron is
working to schedule the public meeting.
CRIME
PREVENTION SUB-COMMITTEE REPORT:
No report.
Old
Business: John
Winslow reported on the Manchester Clean-up Day held on October 8th. Our
volunteers/donors were fantastic!! He
said the roadside litter pick-up on Colchester, Alaska, Beach, and Puget were
probably the biggest success of the day in the breadth of impact on our
community; 50 bags of trash were collected.
The County surprised us by providing staff and a truck to collect the
fluorescent tubes and batteries. This
hazardous waste collection accumulated 95 bulbs and 40 pounds of batteries
(mostly alkaline). An entire
passenger van full of used clothing was delivered to Helpline (took about 10
bags) and St. Vincent’s (took all of the remaining clothes).
We collected about 25 boxes of books for the Friends of the Library (some
sorting and weeding out was required). The
refreshments were well received and the donation can at the refreshment table
took in $35 which was donated to the MCA to help replenish their supplies used
during the day. The Compost/Weed
control booth did indeed answer the challenging question of how to eradicate
knotweed, but in general there was not a lot of traffic at their booth.
The 2Good2Toss/Clean Kitsap booth traffic was also slow and perhaps this
was not the best venue for both of these booths.
Four garage sales ended up in our handouts on Saturday.
The report was that most of the garage sales were relatively slow, and
perhaps if we got more involved to increase the scale of the sale, it might work
better. Bob Lamb is the guru of the
garage sales, so his input will be critical to any future plans. Financially, our net impact on our Treasury was $100-150;
Carol is still reconciling the expenses and income.
Our special thanks to Kitsap Solid Waste for their support and to the
Independent for supporting us with special editorial coverage and reduced cost
advertising. There was significant
interest by the Board in doing a similar future event.
Debby Trudeau reported that the Agency Partnering group met with
Commissioner Jan Angel on September 28th. Debbie will have a full report for the 10/25 meeting.
Generally Commissioner Angel was satisfied with the Manchester Plan and
said that the County’s primary focus is currently directed toward the Growth
Management planning in other more heavily populated areas.
The Candidate’s Forum which had been scheduled on October 6th
was cancelled due to lack of candidate availability and candidate apathy in some
instances. It was agreed that the
concept of a Candidate’s Forum is still a good idea and should be attempted in
the future.
Ron Rada gave a brief summary of action by the Historical Society.
They are planning another meeting in the near future and may try to make
this an afternoon meeting to accommodate the elderly.
They are searching for a consistent time to hold the meeting each month. The Historical Society will run as an independent
organization with no link to the MCC, other than help in advertising its
existence.
New
Business:
John Winslow displayed two
new books added to the collection at our library; “The Non-Profit Handbook”
by Grobman and “Neighbor Power” by Diers which he felt we could all benefit
from. John read a brief section on
the value of 501c3 status and from that there was interest in postponing the
pursuit and focusing on getting our non-profit status with the State.
This will be discussed at our next meeting.
Paul Gilligan has offered to
be part of the Nominating Committee for next year’s officers.
We discussed the value of having Bob Ballard as part of the Committee due
to his familiarity with many of the candidates. Next year Bob will be a member of the Executive Board as Past
President. We still need one more
member for the Nominating Comm. and John Winslow will poll the membership for
volunteers and will also seek additional candidate volunteers for office next
year.
Bob Ballard reported that Jan Angel will not be available to participate
as a speaker at our next meeting and may not be available until Jan-Feb.
Eric Baker is also unavailable for 10/25 but is attempting to schedule
for our November 22 meeting. As a
result, we will not have a guest speaker at the October 25 meeting, but will
focus on efforts of our Action Groups and their efforts on potential changes to
the Manchester Plan.
There being no further business, Chairman Ballard adjourned the meeting at 8:37 PM.
Our next regular meeting will be Tuesday October 25th 6:30-8:30PM in the Manchester Library and the next Executive Board meeting will be Thursday November 3rd at 7:00PM at the Library.
Respectfully
submitted,
John
Winslow, Secretary-Manchester Community Council