Edgemoor Neighborhood Association

Special Business Meeting

June 28, 2005

The Special Business Meeting of Edgemoor Neighborhood Association was called to order at 7:00pm on June 28, 2005 at 601 Fieldston Road. Niall Hackett, Kathy Kaiser, Sandie Koplowitz, Lois Miles, Lauri Grove, and Brad Rose were in attendance. Lauri Grove recorded the minutes. A majority was present.

The meeting began with a discussion of the ENA budget presented by Lois Miles. The disbursements, anticipated expenses, and reserves were reviewed for appropriation to the various committees. Niall requested a reserve be put aside for unanticipated needs. The budget was balanced. A report would be available to members at the July 7th meeting.

Motion by Sandie Koplowitz to approve the budget as amended.

Motion was seconded by Niall Hackett and passed unanimously.

The second agenda item for discussion was the schedule for general and business meetings. It was determined that the July meeting would be a General Meeting - followed by two months of business meetings - which would make the October meeting the next General Meeting. The election of new officers would take place be at the October meeting. From then on, the general meetings would occur every 3^rd month (quarterly) with business meetings in between as stated in the Bylaws.

In anticipation of the October election it was decided that a brief review of the various board responsibilities would be helpful to the membership. Brad Rose agreed to make that presentation at the next meeting. The July meeting would also be a good time to solicit volunteers for the Nominating Committee so it would be possible to have candidate’s names at least one month in advance of the election.

The lines of communication between the Board were briefly discussed and settled. The President and Secretary would review the minutes and the agenda respectively so that only approved copies would be forwarded to Sandie.

The next item discussed was the ENA policy for support to outside organizations or individuals. The Board agreed that we do need a written policy and we should not contribute money to any organization or individual. This policy would be more extensively discussed at the next business meeting.

The Neighborhood Membership Mailing was briefly brought up and it was agreed that a mail out would be nice, but it was not clear how or when to go about it. Sandie made up a “doorhanger” to advertise the picnic with a new member sign-up form on the back. It was decided that it would be best to wait to see how that worked out.

v Meet on Wednesday morning, July 6, at Sandie’s to help cut and hole-punch the doorhangers.

The last item on the agenda was the Neighborhood Picnic. Not much time, but preparations were discussed and it was agreed to provide hot dogs, chips, soda and paper supplies. The Walk and Talk group and any additional volunteers would distribute advertisements next week.

Next meeting is on July 7^th at Fairhaven Park Pavilion at 7:00pm.

Meeting adjourned about 10:00pm

Respectfully Submitted,

Lauri Grove