May 21, 2007
Board Meeting
8TH FLOOR
CALL TO ORDER by President Ellis at 6:00 PM with a roll call by the 1st Vice President to ascertain a quorum.  (Attachment A)       
The meeting minutes of the April 26, 2007 Board meeting were reviewed and accepted as presented. (Attachment B).
Treasurer, Ron Centamore provided a current treasurer’s report providing the number of current members paid to date.  The report was reviewed and accepted as presented (Attachment C)  Treasurer Centamore was asked to provide a forecasted budget for the upcoming year with suggestions from the Board on values for specific events.  

NEW BUSINESS:

1. Agenda for July General Meeting was discussed and the consensus of the Board was to request the City Manager and/or his staff provide support for discussion of the upcoming Budget. 
2. Agenda for June General Meeting has been confirmed with Cate McCaffrey, Code Enforcement Director attending to present on the current changes in enforcement and plans for the future.
3. Discuss continued on the draft letter from Progresso Village.  As agreed at the General Meeting, the draft letter was provide to all member associations with the request that they provide input as to other areas that may have had problems with redevelopment, getting through the process or other situations.  Results will be discussed at the June meeting to determine if this is a city wide problem.
4. By a vote of the membership at the May General Meeting, a request to the City to participate in a Neighborhood Services Night was submitted to the City Manager for consideration.  He has subsequently supplied a written e-mail response indicating that they would gladly support the event.   There were several dates selected to be submitted to the City for consideration.
5. The Membership approved sending 5 representatives to the Neighborhood Conference in Sarasota, Florida.  An e-mail will be sent to all members to ascertain who would like to be sponsored.

OLD BUSINESS

1. Adherence to Schedules – Board duties was discussed at length with a specific thrust on maintaining the schedule for posting of minutes from the board and general meetings. 
2. Chairman of Committees, Richard Mancuso, provided an update on  the Ad Hoc Code Committee.  It was unanimously agreed that meetings with the Mayor and Commissioners should proceed as quickly as possible in the hopes of effecting changes very soon.  Each District Representative was tasked with scheduling the meeting and providing a District member to attend the individual meetings.
3. Betty Hays was tasked with providing the Board Members an update list of association members and alternates as soon as possible.  In addition each District Rep was to continue to try to contact all of the eligible associations in their respective Districts to join. 
ADJOURNED  7:35 PM
       
*Indicates voting items
Board Meeting 6:00 pm, 8th Floor Conference Room, Monday, June 25, 2007
General Meeting – 7-9 pm,  8th Floor Conference Room, Tuesday, June 12, 2007

NOTE:  Two of more Commissioners may be present at this meeting.