Ford
Homes Historic District Board of Directors Meeting
Meeting Minutes
Monday,
May 6, 2002
Present: Scott
Smith, Dave Tillman, Evonne Kakos, Amy Jelso,
Mike Assenmacher, Teresa Klimkiewicz
Absent: Cindy
Bohn
Others Present: Barb Smith
Spring Planting Day / Park Street Park Clean-Up -
Saturday, May 18 @ 10:00a
District Spring Meeting - Thursday, May 30, 2002 @ 7:30p
Edison Street Sale - Saturday, June 1, 2002 @ 10:00a
Pergola Building in Park Street Park - Saturday / Sunday,
July 20-21, 2002
Four (4) positions on board up for election at Spring
Meeting on May 30th. Those
up for election are Evonne Kakos, Cindy Bohn, Mike Assenmacher, and Teresa
Klimkiewicz.
Suggestion made to get a neighbor child to cut the grass
at Park Street Park. Ad to be placed in
newsletter. District to offer $10 per
cutting.
Mike gave a brief Treasurer's Report - $4,100 in
bank. District made about $3,000 from
the Home Tour. Mike gave brief list of
recent items paid including insurance and website renewal fee.
All discussed using the District website for residents to
place want ads. Suggestion made that
residents should make a contribution to the FHHD, rather than charging them a
fee for placing the ad.
Mike further stated that he archived the 1998 Home Tour to
CD. Suggested giving each of the tour
participants a CD, and selling them to others for a nominal fee of $5.
Teresa advised that she requested that the FHHD website be
linked to the Community section of the City of Dearborn's website to gain
exposure for the district.
Scott requested agenda items for the upcoming Spring
Meeting. Dave said that Sylvia may want
to give a brief overview of her Master's Thesis about the FHHD. Sylvia was to call Scott and/or Barb with
the details.
Teresa addressed the issue of the District corner street
signs. The issue is still in progress
as the primary contact has not returned any messages. Another contact (the designer of the signs) was located and will
be phoned for more information about the process on the signs' manufacture.
Scott advised that the City of Dearborn offers a resource
for volunteers to help seniors or other Dearborn residents who are not able to
shovel snow, cut lawns, etc. Suggested
that this be brought up at the Spring Meeting - all agreed.
Teresa will contact Bob Brandmeier (FHHD Neighborhood
Liaison) and invite him to the Spring Meeting.
Teresa will also contact the Rushman's on Edison to see if
the District can use their front lawn to put up the Bake Sale / Merchandise
tent the day of the Edison Street Sale.
Scott advised that a sign-up sheet would be available at
the Spring Meeting for those who want to help out at District sale tent the day
of the Edison Street Sale. Bake sale
items to be dropped off by 9:00a. Scott
will phone the Cornea family about getting a District tent for that day. A suggestion was made that a third tent be
obtained and rented out to residents.
No decision / action made on this suggestion.
Mike advised that the Ebling family is moving from the
District and they dropped off archived FHHD information to Mike. The question was raised where the archived
information is currently being kept.
Scott advised that he would keep the information from the Eblings.
Scott asked for suggestions for new merchandise. Teresa advised that, during a recent
conversation, Sylvia had stated she was going to inventory our current
stock. Sylvia to report back to board.
Scott suggested purchasing a popcorn maker for the
District. Amy suggested using it for
District events as well as renting it out to FHHD residents (like the
tents). Amy to price popcorn makers and
report back. The board set a limit of
$300 for the purchase. If more than
that amount, board would meet again to discuss further.
Suggestion was made that babysitting be provided at
meetings. Scott advised that our
liability insurance would not cover such a service and the District could not
offer it.
Amy suggested that the District begin preparing for the
2004 anniversary celebration. Suggested
the possibility of using Duvall Elementary School for the location of the
celebration. Decision was made to table
the discussion until the Fall board meeting to begin these discussions in detail.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:50p by Scott Smith.