RIVERSIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Regular Meeting Minutes
January, 18th 2005
CHAMBER BOARD Jerry Cervak, President
PRESENT Eric Sundstrom, 1st
Vice President
Rick Rovella, 2nd
Vice President
Alex Gellegos, 3rd
Vice President
Kim Gialdini, Secretary
Olga Sylvester, Treasurer
Kay Snyder, Director
Chris Canavera, Director
Brian Brennan, Director
Roberta Head, Immediate
Past President
Board of Directors:
Kay Snyder, Chris Canavera, Brain Brennan,
CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 6:00 p.m. by Jerry Cervak
ROLL CALL Introductions made.
NEW BUSINESS Voting in of officers: Voted in 2 officers,
3rd Vice President, Alex
Gellegos & Director, Kay
Snyder. Approved.
Review of bi-law: Reviewed
Article IV-Meetings pg. 5. Section 4.
“Meeting Limitations”.
(A) Quorum – Three Officers plus ten (10) Members who are not
officers will constitute
a quorum at any Regular or Special meeting of the Membership.
Changed from ten (10)
to five (5). Approved.
Review of bi-law: Reviewed
Article IV-Meetings pg. 5 Section 3 “ Special Meetings” A special
meeting will be called
by the President upon written request of ten (10) Regular Members or of
a majority of the Board
of Directors.
Changed from ten (10)
to five (5). Approved.
TREASURER’S Cash on hand $9,369.05
REPORT
Olga Sylvester
SPRING EVENT Olga Sylvester explained that the Economic Development
Committee is putting together this
event and will
be asking the Chamber and the businesses to participate. It will be an “Art
Fair”,
similar to the one that
was presented to us by Donald Spatny, last year called “Chalkfest”. The
event will be held in
front of the train station, between Bloomingbank and Guarthie Park. The
event will be sometime
in early Spring/Summer.
STEAK FRY Eric Sundstrom discussed changing the location of the
steak fry to where the water tower
is to get more exposure.
This can not be done this year due to the tower renovation. Motion
was approved to have Steak
Fry on 6/22 by Jerry Cervak.
Steak
Fry Date: 6/22, Location: Forest Preserve.
GOLF & Motion was approved
to have the Golf/Man of Year on
MAN OF THE YEAR August
31st.
CRUISE NIGHTS Rick
Rovella discussed cost of car show & cruise nights.
& CAR SHOW Cost
of car show is $1,650 and $375 for each cruise night. Discussion about charging
$20.00 a
car, then $5.00 goes to Chamber. Rick will go back and negotiate the price.
Motion was
approved
to have cruise nights/car show on the below dates.
Cruise
Night Dates: 6/9, 7/14, 8/11
Car
Show Date: 9/11
JULY 4TH WEEKEND Event will be held on 7/3, concert
in the park will be Sunday night Monday will be the parade.
Chamber
will sell beer & wine again. Discussion was made about dispensing the
beer ourselves.
And
possibly an earlier start time. Motion was approved to have July 4th
& 7/3 event.
July
4th, 7/3 Event. Approved.
OKTOBERFEST Motion was approved to have Oktoberfest 10/8.
.
TRIM A TREE
Cost of trees - $570.00
Kim Gialdini & Cost of Tree Signs-
$367.16
Chris Canavera Cost of Lights/cords/holders/ bins -
$705.91
Laborer for Tree Removal -
$200.00
Total $1,843.07
Total Trees Sold 29 $2,555.00
Profit
$711.93
It
was motioned and approved to have the Trim A Tree Event in November. Thank
you to
everyone
whom helped out with this event.
HOLIDAY STROLL Discussion on moving the Holiday Stroll back
to Friday took
place.
Motion was made to move the Holiday Stroll back to
Friday
12/2. Further discussion took place. Vote results: 9 in
favor,
3 opposed. Motion was approved to move the Holiday Stroll
back
to Friday night 12/2. Holiday Stroll date: 12/2.
A
motion was made by Kay Snyder to change the name of the event to “Christmas
Walk”.
Discussion
took place. Vote results: 3 in favor, 9 opposed. Motion was made to keep
the name
of
the event “ Holiday Stroll” Motion was approved to keep the name “Holiday
Stroll”.
OTHER BUSINESS Banners for the events: Brian Brennan stated
that he will take an inventory of what banners
we
have for these events. He also stated that he will be responsible for putting
these events on
the
Channel 6 news.
Parking Issue: Kay Snyder
read a letter she had written about the parking issues in town. A
copy
of letter was given to Jerry Cervak. Discussion took place about whom to give
the letter to
and
other safety issues around the crosswalk area in town. It was agree that
the letter will be re-
written
and reviewed again before submitting it.
Policeman of the Year: Brian
Brennan stated that the Chamber will submit this award.
The
date of this event is 5/14
ADJOURNMENT No further questions. Meeting was adjourned at 7:35 p.m.