RIVERSIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Regular Meeting Minutes
February 21st, 2006
CHAMBER BOARD
David
Moravecek, President
PRESENTRick
Rovella, 1st Vice President
Chris Canavera,
2nd Vice President
Brian Brennan,
3rd Vice President
Kevin Frontone,
Secretary
Eric Sundstrom,
Treasurer
Alex Gellegos,
Director
Jerry Cervak,
Immediate Past President
CALL TO ORDERMeeting
was called to order at 6:10 p.m. by David Moravecek.
Thank you to
the Blue Parrot for hosting the February Chamber meeting.
ROLL CALLSign
in sheet passed around.
SECRETARYFebruary
minutes and all future minutes and notices will be posted
on our web page:
www.riversidechamberofcommerce.com.
As of today’s date we have
received 24
active memberships and 6 associate memberships for 2006.
TREASURER’SCash
on hand: $17,517.73. A payment of $3,414.04 was
REPORTgiven
by the Village of Riverside to the Chamber for Oktoberfest
and the Car
Show.
OLD BUSINESSCar
Show and Cruise Nights:
Rick Rovella
will chair these events once again this year. There will be 3 Cruise Nights:
June 8th,
July 13th, and August 10th. The season will be topped
off by the Car Show on
September 24th.
Rick will be looking for volunteers to fill such tasks as greeting, parking,
and cleaning
up afterwards. Please see Rick if you are interested.
Steak Fry:
Eric Sundstrom
will once again chair the steak fry. The event is tentatively set for June
21st.
The location will be at the Forrest Reserve again this year. Next year the
event will
move to downtown
Riverside.
Person of
the Year Event:
This golf
outing and banquet will take place on August 30th. This event
is co-sponsored by
the Chamber
and the Riverside Township Lions Club. Brian Brennan will once again chair
the golf outing.
The winner of the award will be determined at a later date. Scuff Gross
provided information
on how the winner will be nominated by the Lions Club and a 3
person committee
volunteered to represent the Chamber in selecting a nominee. More
details will
be announced at a future date.
Trim A Tree:
A request
has already been made for a banner for this event. The date for the Trim
A Tree
event will be
November 25th. In case of rain, the event will be the next day.
Deadline for
applications
and fees is November 1st. See Chris Canavera for details.
Holiday
Stroll:
Brian Brennan
will again chair the Holiday Stroll which is set for Friday, December 1st.
He
announced at
the meeting that expenses for the 2005 event were paid in full. Planning
for
the 2006 stroll
is underway and details will be announced at later meetings.
NEW BUSINESSNext
Chamber Meeting: TBA
Mike Hullihan,
the Director of Public Works for the Village of Riverside spoke at the
meeting. He
provided information on an upcoming roads referendum coming before the
voters and a
number of gifting opportunities. A number of garbage cans are needed
toward the East
side of town and the extensive task of landscaping around Centennial Park
at the water
tower.
The Chamber
members made a motion to allocate $2500 toward the landscaping around
Centennial Park.
The motion was approved.
A second mailing
of applications is being sent out to former members and prospective
businesses.
If you have not yet turned in your application and dues please send them in
as
soon as possible.
ADJOURNMENTDavid
Moravecek adjourned the meeting at 7:25 p.m.