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August 3, 2020 FNA Board Meeting

October 21, 2020

Start time: 7:04pm

NPO – Sergio is moving along and will be covered by Officer Campbell until they are able to fill the position this coming week.

Question:

  • How much are the street lights?
  • There is no concrete answer on how much they are but they are alleged to be 1200ish

GNAR request for funds:

  • The next amount of money coming in will be at the beginning of the year for membership.
  • We do not have anything on the horizon to make up the funds if we give them monies
  • Talking about re-airing the Home Tour to benefit GNAR and take some donations to give them and make up funds
  • Want to get a sponsor first to get some funds for the neighborhood first

Budget:

  • A recommendation has been made and the new board can make changes 
  • Change Newsletter printing to $1000 from $7500 in order to keep things as a digital platform due to COVID
  • Yard of the Month
    • we need to figure out how we can do a swap with the businesses that provide gift cards to the winners of the YOM
  • Office supplies: Leave as is
  • Website and IT: Leave as it is since we are going to keep things online
  • Bank Charges: Lower to $50
  • Insurance: Leave as is due to the amount paid last year
    • Covers volunteers and the community garden
  • Non-profit filings: leave as is 
  • Office Supplies: Reduce to $150
  • PO Box: up to $180
  • Tax Preparation: Leave it as is
  • Thank You Gifts: Down to $350
  • Educational Outreach Initiatives: Can be taken out completely
  • Contributing Structural Plaques: up to $5000 and is actually a zero sum line item
  • Historic FW Membership: Leave as is
  • Office / General Expenses (Historic Preservation): Lower to $200
  • National Trust: Leave it as is
  • Home Tour:
    • Leave most as is in anticipation of having a full tour next year
    • Home renderings: cut completely
    • T-Shirts: Down to $500
    • WineDown: Down to $1000
  • Infrastructure:
    • Flags: raise to $2500 and majority will be reimbursed by donations
    • Public Space Maintenance: Down to $2000
    • Neighborhood Animal Rescue: Down to $1000
    • Storage: up to $3150 due to increase in cost
    • Holiday social: Keep at $1500
  • Promotions:
    • NUSA: Down to $250
  • National Night Out: Down to $200

Next meeting will be for voting and we need to get as many people out to vote. It will be online.

End: 8:09pm