RIVERSIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Regular Meeting Minutes
April, 18th 2005
CHAMBER BOARD
Jerry
Cervak, President
PRESENTRick
Rovella, 2nd Vice President
Kim Gialdini,
Secretary
Eric Sundstrom,
1st Vice President
Olga Sylvester,
Treasurer
Chris Canavera,
Director
CALL TO ORDERMeeting
was called to order at 6:07 p.m. by Jerry Cervak
ROLL CALLSign
in sheet passed around.
SECRETARY3-15-05
regular meeting minutes approved.
TREASURER’SCash
on hand is $14,806.37. As of today we have a total of 45
REPORTchamber
members. Olga stated she will get a list of all the Riverside
businesses.
Our list does not have all the businesses. Motion to
approve Treasurer’s
report –Motion approved.
OLD BUSINESSJuly
4th Weekend Chairperson- Stephanie Boutsikakis is the
chairperson.
She will be asking for volunteers later on. Eric
Sundstrom stated
that tables for this event are located at the township
hall.
Event Banners:
Brian Brennan contacted Channel 10 about our
events. Brain
is working on getting prices for our event banners. He
will discuss
at our May meeting.
Claukfest: Aug.
27th & 28th. The EDC has hired a consultant
group to come
in and run this event. The EDC asked the chamber if
they would be
interested in helping to underwrite the cost of the
Claukfest. The
fee is $7,000.00. The EDC would put in $3,500. The
Chamber could
put in the other $3,500. Event insurance would also be
taken out for
this event in case of rain. The chamber and EDC would
be sponsoring
this event so our name would be recognized. It was
Zotioned to
submit from the chamber funds the $3,500.00 to the EDC
for this event,
provided the chamber gets back the $3,500. Motion
Approved.
NEW BUSINESSTransit
Oriented Development Committee for downtown
Riverside: (project
initiation meeting) Art Canavera gave a brief
overview of
the meeting. Meeting was lead by “URS & Bauer Latoza
Studio. They
will be performing the following services: collecting data
and analyzing
the Riverside downtown area, market assessment, vision
workshop, preliminary
concept plan, preferred concept plan, circulation
& parking
plan, urban design plan, financing & implementation, final
plan document.
There will be a June 9th meeting. Art suggested that
we should invite
URS & Bauer Latoza to our May chamber meeting so
they can hear
our ideas. Planning will take place all through the
summer. Final
meeting will be in Aug. The final plan will be in Sept. It
was suggested
that we send out a mailing to our businesses notifying
them to bring
ideas to our May chamber meeting. Kim Gialdini will
work on mailing.
It was suggested that we contact The Landmark “
Bob” to interview
Art Canavera on this topic and then have them
publish it in
the Landmark. Kim will contact Bob to interview Art. Olga
suggested we
advertise this in the newspaper.
Riverside
Public Library: Sunday, April 24th from 2-5 p.m. the
library invites
you to attend a rededication of the Library’s
cornerstone.
ADJOURNMENTJerry
Cervak adjourned the meeting at 7:20 p.m.