Minutes

April 18, 2006

?The meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM and a moment of silence was observed.

Maxine apologized for any confusion regarding the rescheduling of the Executive Committee meeting that had originally been scheduled for April 13th. She felt that it was the proper thing to do in light of the original meeting conflicting with the holy holiday.

Approval of the minutes from the last meeting: No motion/discussion about previous minutes occurred.

Financial Report: None, Mark Keintz was absent

Operations Division (Chris Kemezis):

Annual Dinner

Chris began his report by discussing the Annual dinner in May. He had met with Dina and is encouraging everyone to RSVP, attend, and vote. Many people have said they are coming but have not sent in their money.

He said that there is ample information about the dinner on the CHCA website
and members can use payPal to buy tickets to the dinner.

Also, He is working on the agenda for the dinner as well. He continued saying that members do not have to come to the dinner to come to the meeting.

The Election

Next Chris discussed the election procedures. There were many procedural questions about the election. There have been many ballot questions as well. There are 3 election judges and questions about the election should be asked of Chris and he will relay them to the judges, No one should have direct contact with the judges.

The Awards

Next, Chris talked about the Awards: The process is going on as it should and the Local will make an appropriate announcement of the winners.

Fundraisers

Maxine talked about the wine tasting event coming up on May 5th at Chestnut Hill College. The event has a cost to the CHCA of $30 per person and a ticket price of $75 per person. The event has the potential to raise a lot of money. The college has been very helpful and generous with their facilities. The College really wants it to be known that it is part of this community.

The Water Tower

Jeremy Heep discussed new developments with the Water Tower facility. He said that Starbucks and the Benjamin Franklin Center have been very supportive of efforts to clean-up the Water Tower landscape. A clean-up day has been organized for April, 29, 2006. Teenagers, Inc., The Boy Scouts, CHA, etc…have committed to helping on that day.

Jeremy discussed how he and others have been working with the WT’s advisory council to try and raise additional money for repairs. He and some from the WT advisory council met with an aide from Sen. Santorum’s office to discuss the vitality of the resource. The WT is looking for a lot of help and had a fundraising goal of $1MM.

Maxine mentioned that Donna Reed Miller’s office has earmarked $400,000 for a new roof.

Publisher’s Committee

Maxine proposed that the Publisher’s Committee which currently has only two people on it have 3 additional members added to it, Recognizing that the election is upon us, Maxine proposes that this committee be seated for just a few months. The new board can decide what to do next term. Maxine nominated Joe Pie, Tom Hemphill, and Carol Cope to be on this temporary committee.

Maxine discussed Lea Stanley and how she might feel more comfortable with a functioning Publisher’s Committee however temporary.

Maxine asked for a motion and John Shea made a motion to that we vote to support Maxine’s proposal to add 3 additional people to the Publisher’s Committee for 2/3 months. Sanjiv seconded the motion. The proposal passed unanimously.

Social Division: Tia Burke gave an update about the upcoming season in Pastorius Park

Musical Line-Up

Tia said that she and the committee were in the final phase of securing the musical line-up for the season. It looks like it will be a terrific season. One new addition to the line-up will be Shakespeare In The Park (July 22nd). She also mentioned that Sunoco Welcome America concert will be on June 28th.

Fundraising

There are fundraising concerns this year. The committee is working with a local family that has a business on the avenue and they will be lending their (Penzy Spice shop) space for (May 4th to May 15th) in order for donated items to be sold and the proceeds will go to support Pastorius Park.

The Blood Drive: None scheduled at the moment

Physical Division

Aesthetics Committee: Richard Moulumiam, John O’connell are doing a lot of clean-up.

DRC: No update….the DRC meeting was going on at the same time as the Exec. Meeting.

Commerce Bank Update: There were questions about how we stand with the Commerce Bank issue: Sanjiv reported that: They put up a wooden wall around the site and will be painting it a dark green.

John O’Connell showed a picture of what the Commerce Bank could look like and much discussion followed. Richard Snowden was recognized and he gave a statement suggesting that the CHCA could do a much better job of dealing with these types of zoning issues. We should fight to get what CH deserves in the way of appropriate aesthetics. There was much discussion on that subject.

President’s report: The Baptist Church has applied for a Pew grant to replace the bell tower. They asked the CHCA to write a letter which Maxine did happily.

Meeting Adjourned

Submitted by John Shea in Jane Piotrowski’s absence

Attendees:

Maxine Maddox Dornemann
Sanjiv Jain
Tia Burke
John Shea
Chris Kemezis
Jeremy Heep
Stuart Graham
Brien Tilley

Absent:

Dina Hitchcock
Jane Piotrowski
Tom Kessler
Mark Keintz

Guests:

Richard Snowden
Ann Spaeth
Ed Feldman
Richard Maloumian
John O’Connell

Respectfully submitted,

John L. Shea