Kingfield Neighborhood Association

KFNA Board Meeting 1/14/09

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In attendance: Tom Parent, JobyLynn Sassily, Marie Wolf, Chris Sur, Chris DeParde, Diana Schleisman

 

Meeting called to order at 7: 10pm – No Quorum

 

Community Forum – No comment

 

Secretaries Report – Last meetings minutes not submitted. Will vote on acceptation in February. Chris Sur will keep March meetings minutes.

 

Treasurers Report – Reviewed balance sheet. No comments from board members. The city is behind in payments and as a result, KFNA needs to stay current on reimbursement requests. Wall Dogs: Sarah is trying to calculate in- kind donations, as one of the final financial piece of the project. The final financial piece is determining with LNA the allocation of staff time for each organization.  Sarah Linnes Robinson acknowledged she donated a great deal of her time on this project by her own choice; Tom Parent recognized and thanked her for her efforts. KFNA will share any profits or losses accrued from the project with the LNA. It appears that the project will break even with no losses to KFNA, except for staff time on the project.

 

Chris DeParde asked how our new book keeper arrangement was progressing. Linnes-Robinson said that both Lois and Neela had worked together in December for training purposes.  Tom Parent said that the transition was supposed to be seamless and KFNA was not to be paying for the book keepers training. Linnes-Robinson said the situation has worked and she has not needed to provide any training, and normally that would be her role; she will also make sure that Lois understands that her future bills as a contractor need to fall within the range of those of her bills as an employee did. 

 

Also: The direct mail campaign received $5,250 in contributions representing 170 households. The unemployment claim that Sam put in will be appealed and the hearing will be on February 3rd. KFNA offered Sarah Linnes Robinson any support she made need.

 

Committees and Task Force:

 

CPaS – Community initiated grants were discussed at the last meeting.

 

38th & Nicollet – KFNA is organizing a stakeholders meeting at Michael Lander’s building.  February 5th at 10:00am. Theissen Building tour will follow.

 

CIS – Mark Loesch Trial – Sarah Linnes Robinson will compose draft from her personal perspective as a friend and as an employee of KFNA.  She will offer KFNA an opportunity to add their name.

 

Art Show – On track for March 21st at Rau Barber.

 

Craft Resolution for NRP Project/ Neighborhood Community Engagement Commission:  KFNA needs to determine an individual to attend the meeting in which process will be established to appoint neighborhood reps to the commission.

– Designate individual(s) to attend.

– KFNA will get one vote

– No quorum to approve resolution but could be approved through e-mail vote.

– We will send all KFNA interested parties to this meeting – 3 person delegation

with one vote. Question is who will cast vote. Marie Wolf suggested sending 3         reports from individuals and vote. Top vote getter gets the vote, second is the alternate. The resolution needs to be out by January 30th.   

 

Website – Tom Parent says we have good traffic. When he Googled Kingfield, KFNA site came up number one. Board members need to comment on website usability to Sarah Linnes Robinson.

 

Block Organizing Groups – Sarah Gleason has started to identify block leaders but is finding that most are not organized. “Eyes on the Street” project will utilized KFNA website and also the website will be used to invite people to the next CPaS meeting. JobyLynn and Sarah G will meet before the February board meeting to develop a rough draft for a block welcome packet.

 

Experience Southwest “XSW” website – Linnes-Robison asked the board for guidance regarding the follow-through on the board’s vote last year to give the Nicollet East Harriet Business Association $750 for the website.  The vote was based upon the site including all Kingfield businesses; it has been updated with most businesses we have told them are not there, but Linnes-Robinson does not feel it should be KFNA’s job to tell them who is not present.  Additionally the usability of the site is not good—names have to be spelled precisely, businesses can’t be searched by categories, focus is too broad.  Board will look at site to determine if it is useful to KFNA and will follow up on this topic in the next meeting so KFNA Staff is not the one making the call on if and or when KFNA will provide funding on this project.  

 

KFNA History Project – Topic for March board meeting.

 

Adjourned at 9:00pm                                       

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