Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the Monthly Membership Meeting of the
Doylestown Business & Community Alliance
Held January 9th, 2012 8:00 a.m.

Borough Hall

 ATTENDEES:  Ken Hackman/Happy Snacks, Jim Wessier/Princeton Mortgage, Ellen Mager/Booktenders’ Secrete Garden, Paula Frame/David Frame Shop, Nerice Kendter/Busy Bee Toys, Matt Kaminsky/Del Val College, John Halderson/Resident, Ron Martin/RMG Insurance, Carl Haag/Bank of America, Lorna Woodson/Hargrave House B & B, Jeremy Ralston/Sitecats Web Development, John Stanojev/Capital Insurance & Investment Planning, Kimberly Beck/Impact Hair Design, Karen Slifat/3rd Federal Bank, Laura Lecce/Doylestown Observer, Jack Mikula/Doylestown Alive, Lynne Anne Donchez/L.A.D. & Co. Hair Salon, John Downes/Bucks County Bank, Rich Slabinski/QNB, Carter Van Dyke/Carter Van Dyke, Trish Genghini/CBF YMCA, Joan Doyle

PRESIDENT’S REPORT – Rich Slabinski

The snowflake decorations will come down on February 25th, 2012.  Volunteers will meet at Starbucks at 9:00 am. 

It was discussed that we get volunteers but they don’t always have what is needed to help with the volunteer job.  Margie Adamsky will call George’s Tool Rental to see if they would be interested in donating extra ladders to use for our events.

TREASURER’S REPORT – not reported.

COMMITTEE REPORTS
 
Arts Festival – Rich Slabinski

• The Arts Festival dates for this year will be on September 15th & 16th.
• The Arts Festival committee is still looking for someone to chair the event.  Rich Slabinski will step back in to this role and get the next person up and running with the event.
• Univest will not be the lead sponsor for the bike race.  There will be a bike race this year but at this time we do not know who will be the sponsor.

5K – Matt Kaminski

• The Doylestown 5K will be held on Saturday, May 26th.  The committee is currently working on sponsorships.

Merchant Committee – Nerice Kendter

• The Merchants group has its first meeting of the year scheduled for tomorrow.  At this meeting we will be laying out lots of events for the 2012 calendar and will be able to report next month.   

Membership – Joan Doyle

• Colette Hearn forwarded the member letter and application which needs to be reviewed and then tweaked before sending out.  Once this is complete we will need to get a group of volunteers together to help with the membership mailing.
• Jim Wessier is working on the DBCA bicentennial ad and Joan will work on the wording.
• Joan will work on getting articles back in to the borough bulletin.  In the next issue she will have an article regarding membership and include a copy of the membership form.

Borough Liaison – Joan Doyle

• No news to report from the borough, everything is quite right now.

New Business

Mercer Museum is celebrating the centennial this year.  There will be a number of celebrations throughout the year.  Go to www.mercermuseum.com for more information on these events.

The 200 year Bicentennial celebration of the county seat will be a weeklong celebration starting with the Memorial Day Parade and ending on June 2nd.  There will entertainment/events all week.  It will end with an old fashion community picnic on the grounds of the YMCA and CB West, with fireworks in the evening at Lenape Jr. High.

Lynn Anne Donchez from L.A.D. & Company is putting together the entertainment for the event.  We are looking for people to perform for free at Puck, in front of the Courthouse, Star Park, etc.  There will be a website that will list all of the activities.

Contact Betty Strecker at the Civil War Museum, she will be taking names of volunteers for the event.

Old Business – No update

Meeting adjourned at 8:45 am

 

 

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