Those in attendance: MC Edwards, C. Leininger, A. Rebelowski, R. Robinson, J. Winslow
Excused Absences: B. Ballard, R. Rada, D. Trudeau
Guests: B. Edwards
Action
Items:
1)
We need a report
from the MCA on status of a Clean-Up Day.
2)
All Board members
are requested to send Ron Robinson ideas for topics at our Strategic Planning
session on 3/26.
3)
John to contact
Eric Baker to discuss his speaking at our 3/28 meeting.
Minutes:
The meeting was called to order by Chair, Ron Robinson at 6:34PM. Minutes of the previous meeting were discussed and it was clarified that the Crime Prevention group will remain a sub-committee of the MCC until they have established their own bylaws and are prepared to run as a separate organization. The minutes were then approved as written.
TREASURER”S REPORT: Debby was ill and unable to attend. Her report from 2/28 indicates a treasury
balance of $925.03 before paying recent bills, including $500 for the annual
(calendar year) rental of the Library meeting room and a two year fee for
web-hosting of approximately $85.
No new mail had arrived since our last
meeting.
SEWERS SUB-COMMITTEE REPORT: No report available.
CRIME PREVENTION SUB-COMMITTEE REPORT: Bob Edwards reported that the group had
detective Mike Rodrique speaking at their Thursday morning meeting. The primary topic discussed was the recent
shooting incident on
ACTION GROUPS:
Partnership with
agencies: Nothing to report.
Recreational
Venues: John Winslow
reported that Carol Kowalski had been in contact with Nancy English and was
still seeking a chair for the Recreational Venues group. John also expressed the value in getting this
group to establish a liaison with Bill Zupanic on his efforts with the Mosquito
Fleet Trail.
Village Commons: Nothing to report.
Old Business: Ron Rada was not available to report on the progress with the
Manchester Community Foundation. We did
discuss the need for a Foundation Trustee representative from the MCC, in
addition to Ron Robinson. The group felt
that Bob Ballard would be the likely candidate, but Arlene Rebelowski
volunteered to fill the role if Bob was unavailable. Subsequent to the meeting, Bill Lounsbery
expressed a willingness to John Winslow to fill that role as well.
Bob Edwards briefly reviewed his
planned proposal to the membership on the subject of membership approval for
MCC expenses paid by the Treasurer. As
it currently stands, all expense payments from the treasury must be approved by
the full membership. Bob is proposing
that regular payments that do not exceed an approved ceiling should be paid by
the Treasurer and then reported to the membership at the following
meeting. Bob had proposed that the
monthly ceiling be $200, but after discussion, the group concurred that the ceiling
should be lowered to $100. This subject
will be included on the agenda of the 3/28 meeting. If the proposal is approved, a Bylaws change
will be appropriate.
It was believed that the MCA
discussed the suggested Clean-Up Day effort at their meeting on 3/1, but no
report was available.
New Business: Chairman Robinson discussed the planned
Strategic Planning session scheduled for Sunday March 26th at 1PM in
the Library. Ron suggested that the
discussions include a review of last year’s accomplishments and then focus on
where we want to go in this current year.
Ron also asked for ideas on other appropriate topics. We may want to revisit our vision from the
Manchester Plan as well. All Board
members were invited to send Ron any items for the agenda.
Next we reviewed the planned agenda for the
3/28 meeting. Eric Baker has expressed
interest in speaking at that meeting, although his topic was unclear. John was tasked with contacting Eric to
clarify his intent to speak to the MCC.
It was discussed that if Eric will not speak at the 3/28 meeting, we may
want to ask Bill Zupanic to update us on the Mosquito Fleet Trail efforts. We also reviewed whether we need to re-read
the MCC mission at every meeting; it was agreed that this had value, particularly
to newer members, so we will continue.
Finally, it was suggested that we have several “hard copies” of the
minutes available at each meeting for review by the membership.
There being no further business, Chairman Robinson adjourned the meeting at 7:40 PM.
Our next regular meeting will be Tuesday March 28th at
6:30-8:30PM in the Manchester Library and the next Executive Board meeting will
be Thursday April 6th at 6:30PM in the Library.
Respectfully
submitted,
John
Winslow, Secretary-Manchester Community Council