HOLS board meeting

Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Time: 7 p.m.

Location: American Legion #973 Tattler Post

7:08 meeting called to order

Who’s at the table?

• Ransom

• Stone

• Allen

• Paige

• Adam

• Katy

• Ashley

• Julia
  

Old business

1. Approve previous meeting minutes:

   1. January 2019 meeting

   2. March 2019 meeting

Motion: Adam

Second: Allen

APPROVED

New business


1. TIFs 101 postmortem (thank you to Stone + Julia!!!)

Really happy with it

As long as we’re presenting info that’s helpful to the neighborhood, we don’t mind if other people show up

Matt Martin postmortem:

Good vibe, great questions answered

Wants to leverage neighbor associations as stakeholders in the ward.

1. Survey to current opt-ins RE: HOLS in 2019

   1. Review current results

   2. Brainstorm based on findings

Should we offer a “financial aid” membership?

Add demographic questions

Paige to follow up with Julia RE: survey questions

Remove questions about why/why not dues

Write survey “report” and press for more responses

+ Julia/Adam Planning & advocacy to hold meeting facilitating further discussion of the survey result “There are problems in the neighborhood I’d like to see solved”

1. Donor management/accounting software update (Paige & Allen)

DonorBox + Quickbooks (waiting for license approval, $50)

Financial:

• Add “local business sponsor” for $150

• Open-ended donation button add

• Financial assistance notes

• Suggested donations for events on Eventbrite

1. June meeting: “Beautification” — where are we?

1. Committee shenanigans

   1. Beautification

      1. Previous meeting + upcoming event @ Grafton

June meeting: Gene @ Gene’s (Gene Schulter 773-218-7200)

OR in the park

Evening of 6/26

1. Planning & Development

   1. SSA 21 master plan update

   2. Bill Platt: new member & area developer

Add survey respondents who showed interest to planning & advocacy Mailchimp list

Katy to connect with Adam/Julia to talk about “advocacy”

Invite Maggie O’Keefe to invite her membership to Andre meet & greet

1. Outreach/fundraising

   1. Missio Dei conversation

   2. Square Roots volunteer grant

   3. Let’s get informal events off the ground!

   4. Meeting/partnering with other neighbor associations

      1. Paige and Katy to reach out

   5. Outreach meeting in end of May/mid-June

2. Events

   1. Partnership with Borelli’s Pizza

      1. Potential holiday party venue??

      2. Need to get everything in writing with them in the future

   2. Gideon Welles partnership?

1. Miscellaneous discussion + airing of grievances

Paige logs a request for everyone to copy info@heartoflincolnsquare.org on their correspondence

8:56 move to adjourn: Ashley

Second: Julia