March 5, 2024 Board Meeting:

 

Board Attendees: Terry Cullinane, Mary Bloszies, Eddie Tejeda, Sujata Srivastava, Rajen Shah, Garrett Gallagher, Francesca Longtin

 

Outgoing Board Meeting Attendees: Katy Morsony, Valerie Ackerman, Mary Vail, Casey Geaney

 

Other attendees: Tim Roberts, Justin Plummer III,

 

Agenda & Notes:

  1. Welcomed new members and neighbors

  2. Glenview Neighbors organization overview

    1. Invite the Councilperson, CRO, OPD (jladd@oaklandca.gov), and Neighborhood services to join

    2. Used to get budget from neighborhood services approx $1300, pays for the zoom and other board approved items

  3. Communication channels:

    1. Emails

    2. Website

    3. Eddie will be new board lead and take over from Casey

    4. All items will be in the Google drive - Katy will add new members

  4. Glenview Neighbors Dues:

    1. Paypal tool to collect dues

    2. Had been deprioritized on what programming and how our board would spend our money to support the neighborhood

    3. Goal for new board to think about how to best use the dues

    4. Glenview map: https://www.glenviewneighbors.org/community

  5. Historical board practices:

    1. Typically 1x month board meeting, first Wed of the month at 7:30pm

    2. Shifted to zoom during COVID, tried many public meetings around Park Blvd meetings - need to figure out best location moving forward

    3. Blackberry Bistro worked quite well for the last meeting

    4. Payments required to book space at schools and Presbyterian church for meetings, Katy can walk people through how that space booking works 

    5. We are a 501c3 that requires bylaws, goal for the new board members to update and refine bylaws

  1. Officer Elections:

    1. Chair person: Outgoing Katy Morsony, Incoming Chair: Terry Cullinane 

    2. Vice Chair: moderates meetings, comes up with agendas, TBD

    3. Secretary: Mary Bloszies, will hold for now

    4. Treasurer: Benjamin Scott will hold it for now

  1. Future Actions:

    1. Bylaws

    2. Next meetings and locations

    3. Update website with new member info

  2. Traffic Safety:

    1. Katy working closely with Josh Rowan at DOT about Park Blvd safety concerns

    2. Sujata and Tim are willing to help Katy with traffic safety

  3. Treasurer's Report:

    1. Approx $6k in our bank account

    2. Do not have city budget money anymore (approx $1300)

    3. Potential ideas: signs 'welcome to Glenview' and beautification efforts, local artists or students help with banners, grants for median strip planting 

    4. Ice cream social: approx $1500 for costs (if no sponsorships)

    5. 2 functioning A-frames

Next Meeting: targeting April 9th, will be determined offline