Those in attendance: P. Paquette, R. Rada, R. Robinson, D. Trudeau, J. Winslow
Excused Absences: L. Burbidge, C. Thompson, M. Rebelowski,
C. Leininger
Action
Items:
1)
Debby to
investigate alternate accounting software and report back to the E-Board.
2) John to send dues reminder along with next meeting
reminder.
3) John to craft a draft response to the note on the
Foundation from the IRS.
4)
All board members
requested to provide feedback to Ron Robinson on proposed Bylaw changes; Ron
will clarify the terms of office for all.
5)
Ron Rada to
discuss proposed letter on Post Office access with Mark Rebelowski.
6)
John to draft a
press release for the 2/27 town hall meeting.
The meeting was called to order by Chair, Ron Rada at 5:33PM, this was a short lead-time date change for this meeting. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as written.
Treasurer’s report: Debby reported that she has purchased the Quicken software and has
spent some time working with it, but is concerned that it is more appropriate
for individual records rather than an organization. She was encouraged to look at other software
that may be more appropriate (such as Quicken Smart Start) and report
back. Our current balance (after paying
the annual room rental fee of $500) is 944.48.
No significant new mail had arrived since our
last meeting.
John was asked to send another
reminder of dues payment.
Related Organizations’ status/issues:
*Crime Prevention/Safety group: The group is eager to pursue transportation
issues on the review of the Manchester Plan.
*MCA: No
issues.
*Historical Society: No issues.
*
Sub-committee status/issues:
*Sewers sub-committee: Status the same as last report.
*Downtown Design: Carole reported that
the next meeting of the group will be 2/13.
They will be discussing ways to possibly streamline the group’s
organization and possibly wrapping other efforts into one sub-committee.
*
*Partnership with agencies: Debbie reminded us that this committee will need to interface with
all groups developing proposed changes to the Plan.
*Recreational Venues:
No issues.
*Village Commons: Still needs new leadership.
Old Business:
Follow-up items from previous meeting:
In a review of action items from the past meeting, the following was reported:
1)
Ron Robinson
asked for further input on proposed bylaw changes which should help with the
clarification of terms of office for 2007.
2)
Ron Rada will
discuss details of the letter requesting addition of a second exit from P.O.
parking lot with Mark Rebelowski.
New Business:
In discussion on the 2/27 “town hall meeting”
with Commissioner Angel and DCD representatives, John was tasked with preparing
a draft press release for the Sun and Independent. It was noted that it would be helpful if a
map of the official
The Citizen of the year award was
discussed. There have been two
nominations so far (Arlene has one from the web-site). Others will be solicited and the Ron Rada
will present the nominations for voting at the Feb. 27th regular
meeting.
Our 2007 goals for review at each
meeting will be:
1)
Updating
of the
2)
Planning
for a Community Center/Library
There being no further business, Chairman Rada adjourned the meeting at 6:15 PM.
Our next regular meeting will be Tuesday February
27th at 6:30-8:30PM in the County Commissioners Chambers and the next Executive
Board meeting will be Monday March 5th at 6:30PM in the Library.
Respectfully
submitted,
John
Winslow, Member-at-large; Manchester Community Council