GGNA Board Meeting Minutes
GGNA MEETING MINUTES 2/19/08
1) Call to Order - A regular meeting of the Greater Goethe Neighborhood Association was held on February 19, 2008 at Goethe Elementary School. Johnny Elias (President), Pedro Borrero, John Burns (Secretary), Bryan Hill (Treasurer), Sally Hamann, Neil Trifunovski and Doug vanderHoof were present. A quorum being present, the meeting was called to order at 6:15P. The minutes of the previous meeting were approved as read (5-2). Voting to approve the minutes were PB, JB, JE, BH and NT with SH and DV voting no.
2) Zoning and Planning Committee – Alderman Flores was in attendance. He said that as of right now there is no one on the ZAPC. He handed out copies of proposed GGNA Zoning and Planning Committee bylaws to all that were present and welcomed any recommendations. Recommendations are to be sent to the Aldermanic Office by Friday, February 22nd.
Alderman Flores suggested that the ZAPC implement an application process to select new board members. John Burns volunteered to draft the ZAPC application and submit to Alderman Flores by Friday, February 22nd. Alderman Flores will then get a revised draft of the bylaws and an approved application out to the BOD by Monday, February 25th, by which the BOD has until Monday, March 3rd to approve for distribution. Alderman Flores will assist in conducting interviews for new board members at the March 11th ZAPC meeting. A motion was set to authorize this process and was unanimously approved.
3) Treasurer’s Report - Bryan Hill (Treasurer) reviewed the Treasurer’s Report for the month ending in 1/31/08. It showed a balance of $2,065.66. Written copies of the Treasurer’s Reports were distributed and the Treasurer’s Report was unanimously approved by the BOD. A copy of that report is attached to these Minutes.
Bryan also said that acknowledgements for 2007 donations made to the GGNA will be sent out this week.
Sally Hamann brought up a request from the Haas Park advisory committee. They are throwing a fundraiser at Fireside Bowl and would like GGNA’s assistance. She did not have all the details of GGNA’s accounting obligations in agreeing to help Haas Park. Sally motioned to approve the principle of the request and will wait to hear from Haas Park to work out the details. It was seconded and approved (6-1). BH was the one no vote.
4) Follow-up on BOD Business from the January 8th Meeting:
a) Discussion on Listserve Update – Sally Hamann updated the BOD on the following issues:
i) Updating the Leadership List – Sally will update the Leadership list to include John Burns and Neil Trifunovski. John and Neil will e-mail their information to Sally so that she may add them.
ii) Updating the ZAPC List to include BOD members – Alderman Flores suggested that BOD members be kept apprised of ZAPC’s recommendations to the aldermanic office, so once the members are selected, the listserve will be updated to include the BOD members.
iii) Single vs. multiple listserves – Doug vanderHoof motioned to keep one listserve for general communication. It was seconded by Sally Hamann but after discussion was unanimously denied.
iv) Updating the website – John asked Sally to e-mail him the contact information for John Wetterstein, the website’s moderator.
b) Membership, Communication and Fund Raising Committee – John Burns presented an outline of his objectives for the Membership Committee, one of which would be maintaining the website. He asked that everyone e-mail comments to him with any suggestions.
5) The meeting was adjourned at 8:03PM.
