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Butchers Hill Neighborhood Association
General Meeting Notes
January 2, 2008
General Business:
- Welcome by Richard Hackett, President
- Recycling Bins – Sandy Sales
- Bins are still available at 111 Kane. (Later announced that the location had been out of the bins.) Small bins are still $5.00 and large bins have increased from $6.00 to $12.00.
- There are flyers available for neighbors to put in their windows to remind everyone about the new policies starting on January 11th, and then January 25th.
- Be sure to put your address many times on the bins.
- You do not have to use the designated bins. You can use anything except plastic bags, including cardboard boxes.
- If you have any questions, call 311. They have all the answers.
- Election of new officers:
- Chairperson of Nominating Committee, Sandy Sales, read the proposed slate of 2008 officers:
- President: Barry Glassman
- 1st Vice President: Remington Nevin
- 2nd Vice President: Liz Elliott
- Corresponding Secretary: Ann Puckett
- Recording Secretary: Beth Braun
- Treasurer: John Murphy
- Parliamentarian: Greg Matanowski
- Member-at-Large: Richard Hackett
- Member-at-Large: David Wong
- Member-at-Large: Toni Holter
- Motion to accept the slate as presented.
Seconded
Other recommendations from the floor?
- Vote:
For – all
Against – no one
Passed as presented
- Introduction of new neighbors
- Passing of the “torch” from Richard to Barry
- Barry’s introductory speech
- Thank you to Sandy Sales for stepping up and heading the nominating committee; and of building a good slate of officers.
- Thank you to Richard Hackett for his hard work and leadership over the past two years
- Goals:
- Baltimore’s Friendliest Neighborhood – need new people to be a part
- Working on standard issues
- Add new social issues and events
- If anyone has any ideas they should give them to any board member – also let them know what’s important and what will make it a better neighborhood.
- We have a very active citizenry, with several active committees.
- Carolyn Boitnott – Crime
- Connie Brines – Streetscape
- Virgil Bartram – Land Use
- Steve Young / Patty Clark – newsletter
- Education –
- Membership – Kathy Hackett
- Questions:
- What’s the latest on CHAP?
Virgil: Our letter was acknowledged by CHAP. We are moving ahead with the process. The next step is to poll the neighborhood – this spring, probably. There will be a mass mailing. It took Fell’s Point and Fell’s Prospect two years to complete the process once the neighborhoods had agreed.
- Barry: If anyone needs background information on this topic it is covered in the archived newsletters, which can be found on the website. (http://butchershill.org)
Guest Speaker – State Senator George W. Della, Jr. –
Senator Della had not arrived by 7:30, so the meeting was adjourned. He finally did arrive at 7:40 and spent about an hour with 15 of us discussing various issues. He was very apologetic but was unavoidably delayed in traffic on his way up from Annapolis.
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