The meeting was called to order at 7:05
p.m. by President Rosalie Dupont, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. A
moment of silence followed for those active men and women, veterans and all
who have died in service for our country. There were 25 in attendance.
Secretary Barbara Giroux read the Minutes
of the May meeting. Paul Bluemer made a motion to accept as read, seconded
by Nelson (Ray) Dionne.
Treasurer Janet Sanuita passed around the
Hampton Ponds Budget – May 2007 report. Total assets: $13,160.10, with
income in May of $250.00 for Membership Dues, $1,025.00 for Hall Rentals and
$446.13 for the Pancake Breakfast. The total monies taken in from the
Pancake Breakfast was $693.67, and expenses totaled $247.54, for a net of
$446.13. The total expenses for the month was $867.22. Also noted was that
Emma Maloney purchased candy bars at 50 cents a piece, and selling for $1.00
a piece, and boxes of the bars are available for people to sell. Janet
reported that she took care of the donation of $50.00 in Memory of Jim
Haley’s wife, and included Camp Jahn’s contribution with ours. Barbara
Giroux made a motion to accept the Treasurer’s report, seconded by Paul
Bluemer.
Nancy Pasquini said that boat raffle
tickets have been printed, and she will soon have these available for sale,
and would like each of us to take 10 to sell. 1000 tickets were printed, at
$20.00 per ticket. These monies will go into our Clean Lakes fund for our
Weed Eradication Program. Nancy mentioned that last year’s winner, Leo
Demelbauer donated $2,000 back to the Clean Lakes which we very much
appreciated! Pete Sanuita picked out the Boat for the Boat Raffle, it’s the
same boat as last year – 14 ft., 9.9 horsepower, Alumacraft with two life
vests. The drawing will be after the Fishing Derby.
We welcomed new members, Pat Haber, Richard
and Alex Schoolcraft and Al Venskus, and thanked them for joining us.
Nancy Pasquini and Joe Frankowski did not
accept the invitation of being Parade Marshalls. It was UNANIMOUSLY voted
that Doris Rivard be our Parade Marshall – and she accepted – WELL DESERVED
and we look forward to her leading our Parade on the 4th of
July! We will have a meeting on 7/2 to go over last minute details for July
4th parade. Kim Goulette will publish the Booklet for our
parade, along with the help of Rosalie Dupont. Jim Haley is our Parade
Coordinator and has already begun his work, as Pete Sanuita spoke to him
during the week. Jean Dionne has taken care of the trophies, Doris Rivard
will handle the doughnuts, and Joe Giroux will handle the drinks.
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Our Hampton Ponds Website
address is:
www.hamptonpondsassociation.org Don Leger has done a GREAT job
with designing this site and asks that anyone with information be forwarded
to him so he can upload on the site.
Nancy Pasquini passed along literature for
the Symposium for Clean Lakes on June 16th – The Annual Macolap –
9:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. in Wayland, MA at The Middle School. Kim and Art
Goulette will attend and Kim asks if anyone else has an interest in going to
let her know and she will register all that would like to attend.
The Memorial Day Tag Sale was held, and
Emma and family took charge of this Tag Sale doing all the hard work, and no
HPA members were available to help. We unanimously voted that all profit
from this Tag Sale go to The Playground and not be split between the HPA.
Another Tag Sale will be held on Labor Day. At the next meeting, perhaps
Emma will be in attendance, we will discuss IF any HPA members are available
to help with the next Tag Sale, and how the proceeds will be handled.
Tom Pirnie asked how we
advertise for our events and said that it needs to be clarified as that time
where these proceeds are being allocated to, and how it’s advertised is
KEY! A discussion followed that we’ve been trying to follow this procedure,
and this discussion was tabled until the next meeting.
Membership Drive – Tabled
until next meeting, per Kim Goulette.
Don Leger reported on the
Weed Eradication Program. On 6/6/2007 they are going out for an inspection,
and will issue a report after the summer. According to Don, we probably
won’t treat this year. At the end of the year, another observation will be
made and everyone will be updated. It was mentioned that there are a lot of
dead fish around and Don said this was a normal situation, mostly all
pumpkin seeds, and everything is under control.
Leo Demelbauer asked how many
waterfront owners are members of our Hampton Ponds organization, and Kim
Goulette said not a lot now, but that we have been diligently working to get
all waterfront owners as members.
Paul Bluemer does not want to
be a signer on the bank account anymore, and it was unanimously voted that
Barbara Giroux be the replacement signer on our accounts.
A lengthy discussion followed
regarding our insurance policies. It will be an extra $300.00 for a rider
for our liability policy for our Parade. It was unanimously agreed that we
MUST have this rider for our Parade. Our liability insurance policy expires
in November of 2007. Nancy Pasquini made a motion that when this liability
policy expires in November, that we try to obtain a policy that includes all
of our events
Continued . . . .
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instead of obtaining riders, seconded by Doris Rivard.
Paul Bluemer made a motion that when our policy expires for the Directors &
Officers policy on 4/1/2008 that we get 3 quotes, seconded by Nancy
Pasquini. Insurance riders for future events –
tabled.
Janet Sanuita asked if June 23rd
was available for the Girl Scouts to do a car wash, and Leslie Pirnie
advised the Hall is rented for that day. Janet will speak with the Girl
Scouts and get another date. It was suggested a Sunday afternoon may be a
good time.
Nancy Pasquini and Don Leger advised that
the Scuba Club have offered to donate their time and scan the bottom of our
waters and pull up dead weeds, etc. They are going to start at the Free
Beach area, we will have to dispose of the waste.
The proposal from the Word of Grace church
was presented to the HPA membership. Joe Giroux said he felt we should
assess our own needs before going forward to committing to lease our
property. Building a pavilion in the future is one of the considerations.
Tom Pirnie gave us ideas of who we may contact for a project like this, the
Westover Job Core, they have master crafts people available. Some of the
Veterans have volunteered their time as well per Leslie Pirnie and are
willing to come up and speak with us with their ideas. This pavilion would
be for rentals as well. After discussion….a Vote was taken whether to
proceed with Leasing the Word of Grace space for additional parking, 10 FOR,
15 AGAINST…..President Rosalie Dupont will send a letter to the church
letting them know we will not go forward with their request.
Paul Bluemer made a motion that after
12/31/2007, the Clean Lakes become self-sufficient. It was also stated that
we will not require any monies to be paid back to the HPA by Clean Lakes
that have been spent to date and all monies coming into our account after
12/31/2007 will be spent for the maintenance of the building, scholarships
for students, and expenses generated, etc., and excludes Clean Lakes. This
was seconded by Joe Frankowski. A question was asked about letters that
came in to Janet asking for donations, but at this time, we will not make
any donations, we need to build up our funds.
Rosalie stated that after the meeting
whoever could stay to review and choose Scholarship Recipients would be
greatly appreciated. At our July 2nd meeting, Doris Rivard will
announce the results of our Vote and let everyone know to whom we’ve
selected to award scholarships. 4 will be chosen from the HPA, and 1 from
Veterans’.
Angela Belisle made a motion to adjourn
@9:15 p.m., seconded by Joe Giroux.
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Secretary
-- SEE ATTACHED PAGE FOR FOLLOW-UP ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION AT NEXT MEETING!
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ITEMS TO
BE DISCUSSED AT THE NEXT MEETING – 7/2/2007
1)
Discuss final details for 4th of July Parade……WHO were
awarded our scholarships? WHO will be the MC for ceremonies??? Tom Pirnie
has done this in the past…..Is the Mayor of Westfield coming (Barb left
message for Mayor Rick as he’s only in office until the end of June!)
Others that speak???
2)
Symposium for Clean Lakes – Report from Kim and Art Goulette and
others that attended.
3)
Discuss how we advertise for future events…..make SURE it’s stated
where funds are allocated.
4)
Membership Drive.
5)
Update on 6/6/2007 inspection re: Clean Lakes.
6)
Riders on policy for future events….fishing derby – do we need one,
etc.???
7)
Girl Scout Car Wash.
8)
Labor Day Tag Sale…..any HPA members able to participate with Emma?
How will proceeds be allocated?
9)
Barb’s question for next meeting….How are HPA dues allocated? If we
are
trying to get all
owners of waterfront properties as members of our HPA –
as discussed at our June
meeting, then I BELIEVE we must disclose to them that as of 12/31/2007 none
of our HPA funds will be allocated for Clean Lakes.
