MCLA
Board of Directors
Stanford Inn
May 16, 2007

I. The meeting was called to order at 12:35 pm by president, Jo Bradley. Board members present were Jeff Stanford, Richard Strom, Pam Amante, Jan Rodriguez, Jitu Ishwar, Kevin Gallagher, Mike Bradbrook, and Steven Musser. Our administrator, Scott Schneider. Guests: Josie Perla and Carl Ribaudo from Strategic Marketing Group

II. Steven made a motion to approve the minutes of the last board meeting.
Jeff seconded the motion. It was unanimously approved.

III. Financial Committee Report: Scott, Richard, Mike, D make up the Financial committee. They met and added more subcategories to the chart of accounts to fine tune the disbursements. They asked the board whether we wanted to change our fiscal year end to correspond to the fiscal year end of the BID. This would require a change in our by-laws.

Richard made a motion to change our fiscal year end to July 1 thru June 30. Jan seconded the motion. It was unanimously approved.

IV. MCPA Contract: Scott has been in discussion with Tony Shaw regarding the MCPA Contract with the County. Scott was tasked with putting dollar amounts on a plan of action for MCPA Budget. This would insure measurable, performance standards and consequences if not delivered.

Jeff made a motion to form a sub committee to determine what we want in the MCPA contract with the County and how we can make it happen. The sub committee will have authorization to act on behalf of the board to create contract requirements. Mike seconded the motion. It was unanimously approved. The Sub Committee will be made up of Jeff, Kevin, Richard, and Jitu

V. Annual Meeting: A discussion arose as to what we wanted to do for our annual meeting. The BID has passed its first year and we want to recognize this.

Richard made a motion to set up a sub-committee to handle the annual meeting, granting a budget up to $5,000.00. Jeff seconded the motion and it was unanimously approved.

Scott, Jan and Pam will serve on this sub-committee.

Meeting was adjourned.