March 20, 2007

Agenda-Downtown Whitewater Inc. Organization Committee March 20, 2007 3:30 P.M. Discover Whitewater Building
  1. Approval of February 20th Minutes
  2. Discuss Process for New Board Member Selection
  3. Discuss Policy for Future Outside Funding Requests
  4. Review Committee 2007 Objectives
  5. Discuss Possible New Members for Committee
  6. Other Matters

Minutes of the Downtown Whitewater, Inc. Organization Committee Meeting-March 20, 2007 Discover WhitewaterBuilding 171 W. Main Street, Whitewater, WI53190 Members Present-Bill Bowen, Kristine Zaballos, Eric Sobczak and Kevin Brunner Others Present-Exec. Director Allison Lodge Brunner called the meeting to order at 3:30 p.m.

1. Review/Approval of February 20th Meeting Minutes Minutes of February 20th were approved.

2. Discuss Process for New Board Selection Zaballos reviewed the process for the selection of the new DWI board member. Allison will e-mail ballots to all DWI participants and contributors by April 10th. Bill and Kristine will tabulate all ballots with the new board member to be announced on or about April 11th.

3. Discussion of Outside Funding Request Policy There was a general discussion of how Downtown Whitewater should handle funding requests from outside groups. The following criteria were established for such funding requests:
  1. Any contributions that may be made by Downtown Whitewater Inc. would be limited to activities, projects or organizations that will contribute to the revitalization or improvement of the downtown district.
  2. Any funding requests must be made in writing to the Board of Directors with a specific dollar amount and a narrative that describes how the requested funding will further Downtown Whitewater Inc.’s mission and specific goals.
  3. The Board of Directors will review and act upon these requests within 30 days of their receipt.
The committee approved the above criteria. Kevin will draft a policy that will be presented to the Board of Directors for its consideration.

4. Attendance at State Main Street Awards Dinner Allison noted that the State Main Streets Awards dinner will beheld on Friday, April 27th in Rice Lake. Since Whitewater has five nominees for this year’s awards, it was noted that we should encourage our award nominees to attend this event. The committee agreed that DWI should pay for the Executive Director’s expenses to attend this event as well as for dinner and one night’s lodging for any Whitewater nominee who might be named a State Main Street award winner (note: since this meeting, DWI has been notified that two Whitewater projects will receive State awrds at the April 27th event).

5. Discuss Possible New Committee Members Discussion of possible new committee members took place. Kevin will contact Doona Lentz (Associated Bank), Chris Welch ( Jefferson County Union) and Kim Mc Darrison about possibly serving on this committee. 6.

Review of 2007 Committee Objectives The committee reviewed its objectives for the year. Two specific objectives: 1) fund-raising of $20,000 additional monies this year and 2) production of a welcome packet for incoming volunteers (Allison and Kristine) were requested to be placed on the April committee agenda for further discussion. Allison also agreed to update the committee objectives and assignments and will distribute prior to the April meeting.

Next Regularly Scheduled Meeting-April 17th at 3:30 P.M. at the Discover WhitewaterBuilding. Respectfully Submitted, Kevin M. Brunner, Chair



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