October 2016 – Board Meeting Minutes

FNA Board Minutes

October 3, 2016; 7:00 pm

Attending:  Geri Cotton, Public Safety; Carrie Carter, Membership; Kim Worley, Administration; Roxanna Latifi, Preservation; David Thrapp, Infrastructure; Melanie Dotzour, Finance; Pat Bradley, President

Ex Officio Board:  Mickey Bradley

Directors’ Reports

 Communication –Betty Spitzberg

  • In light of hacking issues, Stacy Leucker is evaluating $8.34/month system (HostGator) to back-up on website data/pictures/etc. Would cost $107/yr including domain registration.  (Currently paying about $3.50/mo.)
  • Pat/team agreed to move the incremental difference for this upgrade out of the annual budget’s postage line item.
  • Abbreviated monthly newsletter (8 pages) is currently expected to cost $215 for 250 copies.
    • Betty will ask Ryan Place who their printer is
    • Pat indicated that we need to mail newsletters to those living outside of the neighborhood.

Membership: Carrie Carter

  • We have approximately 130 member households

Promotions – Alex Thieroff

  • Robert Wedding and his Social Team have needed to spend only 50% of their annual budget.

 ALL OTHER BOARD REPORTS WERE DEFERRED IN ORDER TO DO A LINE ITEM REVIEW OF THE PROPOSED  2017 BUDGET.

Other:           

  • Roxanna asked if we could build and review a board agenda in advance.
  • Conversation regarding NUSA attendance resulted in tabling until our next board meeting

 General Membership Meeting: October 25, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

 Adjourned 9:10 pm

Minutes submitted by K. Worley 10/15/16  (HEY, HEY … We’re on our way, CUBBIES!!!)