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August 2014 General Membership Meeting

SRG General Membership Meeting Minutes August 06, 2014 Meeting started at 7:06 PMBoard Members In Attendance: Jeremy Mehrle, Macy Mehrle, Nancy Kelly, Sean Cochran, Jill Weissgerber, Mike Ziemann, Michael Pastore, Beth Bennett, Luann Denten, Alecia Stellhorn **Guests: **Bob Puricelli, Director of Development, Gene Slays Boys Club

  1. Secretary’s Minutes

  2. Approved

  3. Board and General Membership Meeting Minutes are available in paper form as well as on soulard.org

  4. $53.46 to print 75 copies of agenda and reports, printing costs are approximately $100 a month, over $1,000 a year

  5. Show of hands for support to continuing printing copies of meeting minutes

  6. discussion over benefits of printing the minutes

  7. community values paper copies of minutes

  8. Place on back table, not every table

  9. Treasurer’s Report

  10. Approval postponed until next meeting when Treasurer is present

  11. Police Report

  12. Officer Brian Minn spoke

  13. copper thefts up

  14. take extra measures to secure rehab buildings

  15. spare tires stolen from jeeps

  16. suggestion to put a lock on your spare tire

  17. There has been an increasing number of dogs off leashes at Pontiac Park

  18. officers have been patrolling and speaking to offenders

  19. Caught a daytime burglar

  20. victim invited burglar in through craigslist and he returned later to steal possessions

  21. be careful with craigslist, meet people at public places, don’t invite strangers into your home

  22. Sub Station possibly moving to Soulard Market

  23. working with the city to try to move, get support, needs to be cleaned out

  24. Stats

  25. crime down 13%

  26. up in burglaries

  27. down in car thefts

  28. Announcements

  29. New Businesses Opened and Opening

  30. Mission Taco Opened at 9th & Lafayette on August 5

  31. Good Luck Bar & Grill on Victor & 9th

  32. New Pizzeria on 12th & Allen

  33. Wine and cheese store on 10th St., formerly Feraro’s

  34. Mad Art Gallery is now having Thursday evening trivia nights- details on blaster

  35. sign up for blaster at Soulard.org

  36. Concert Series in the Park-Linda Kurdi

  37. Saturday, August 9th, Roland Johnson is performing 6 PM-9PM

  38. Volunteers at concession stand are Soulard School

  39. all tips and proceeds go toward the school

  40. Bandstand is available to reserve for concert, free to first reserved

  41. Halfway to Mardi Gras Pub Crawl -23rd of August

  42. Details as of now: AB sponsoring, MGI produced pub crawl, 2 trolleys, free to participate, door prizes, attendance prizes

  43. Old Business

  44. Pontiac Park Art Screen Project- Richard Eaton

  45. Approval from city came in today, August 6th

  46. John Durnell and Linda Kurdi have been working with the artist, Mark Bunch of Wild Welding, he has installations at Frazier’s, Table (formerly the Stable) restaurants in Benton Park

  47. Many different concepts were thought of, art of Chief Pontiac was the best design, in honor of Pontiac Park

  48. 2 silhouettes of trees on doors, steel rods 6 feet tall welded to post across the top and the bottom, designs will be laser cut out of sheets of steel and welded onto the surface of the fence

  49. concrete broke ground today

  50. Plan to rededicate the park after art installation complete with local tribes

  51. cost of project is around $12,000

  52. New Business

  53. Boy’s Club Playground

  54. Bob Puricelli, Director of Development, Gene Slays Boys Club spoke

  55. publicly thanked and recognized SRG, Vicky Morris, Jeannie Kirby, Julie Dinkleman for work done on playground at Boy’s Club with Kaboom (playground providers/builders)

  56. On June 28, 2014 almost 300 volunteers showed up to build playground in 8 hours

  57. MGF Grant Request

  58. SRG and SBA collaborated to write a grant request for $25,000 to install safety cameras throughout the neighborhood

  59. Committee reports

  60. Beautification-Richard Eaton

  61. Weed Warriors need help on August 9th, from 9 AM-12 PM at Pontiac Park

  62. Cookout at 1842 S. 9th for all new beautification members on August 15

  63. Garden Tour Updates

  64. Many thanks to volunteers, tour participants

  65. Art Auction will be held on October 3rd to sell art produced during the garden tour

  66. Code & Zoning-Jay Gibbs

  67. 10th & Allen building has been purchased for renovation after several requests by the owners for demolishing

  68. Communications-Jeremy Mehrle

  69. For announcements, email blaster@soulard.org

  70. Renaissance deadline is Thursday, September 18th, send articles to editor@soulard.org

  71. Thanks to Jeremy for redesign of website and blaster

  72. Fundraising-Rick Dungey

  73. We have lost the Taste of St. Louis fundraiser, as it has moved to Chesterfield

  74. Oktoberfest is the 2nd weekend in October

  75. Membership-Sean Cochran

  76. Social at SRG Station immediately following meeting

  77. Residential Promotion-Luann Denten

  78. 4 designs being looked at for entry marker projects

  79. designs will be presented to SBA, SRG, and membership once decided upon

  80. Safety-Bill Clendenin

  81. Circulating signature pages as statements to judges about impacts of crimes in the neighborhood

  82. Many thanks to participants and organizers at National Night Out

  83. Next Safety Committee Meeting is Monday, Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. at Soulard Station

  84. Soulard Station-Sean Cochran

  85. no report

  86. MGI-Gary Toribio

  87. Executive Summary delivered to General Membership Meeting

Meeting adjourned at 7:56 PM