Blair Hills Association Meeting
September 15th, 2016 at 7:00pm

Co-President Kerri Payne called the meeting to order at 7:15pm

July minutes were read by Victoria Flame, correction to the minutes of Lenawee Walkers providing the bounce house for the picnic not (bouncer) security

Announcements

• The members in attendance welcomed new neighbor Stacy Hasegawa.
• Louise Harris has been ill, Dorothy on Stoneview will send a get well card
• Linda Thomas has also been ill, we will send her a get well card as well
• HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY to Mim Shapiro, she will be 93 on October 6th

Treasury Report c/o Ellen Grief

January 1st, 2015- August 31st 2015

Income

$20 dues collected

Expenses

$186.76 Directory Printing

$100 Gift to neighbors

$65.34 Refreshments

$603.31 BOA Picnic

Total Expenses $955.41

Ending Balance as of August 31st, 2015 -- $5,401.73

Picnic Report

• Thank you to the city for lending us the microphone and speakers
• No one from the City came to the Blair Hills Picnic, it was a very busy weekend
• Annie to ask for fee waiver from the City next year

New Business

• Cheri and Antoinette will work on welcome packets for new neighbors, block captains need to distribute welcome packets to new neighbors
• There is a brand new Cedars Sinai Urgent Care at 10100 Culver Blvd. Please visit their website for more details - http://cedars-sinai.edu/Patients/Programs-and-Services/Medical-Delivery-Network/Urgent-Care/
• Antoinette has been looking into a Parks and Recreation staffing request at Blair Hills Park, it was recommended to develop a sub-committee to decide next steps. The sub-committee would decide how to propose the request to the Culver City council and determine the needs of those parents interested. Needs discussed at the meeting included part-time staffing while school is out and what would be available for rent. The question of volunteers operating the recreation room was raised and should be discussed by the subcommittee. It was suggested to create a flyer to ask about subcommittee interest from parents for next summer.
• Co-President Annie will ask the City for a community bulletin board for the Blair Hills Park
• Antoinette inquired about summer movie nights in the park, the City explained that a private partner hosts the events and selects the parks, it would be a $500 rental expense to host per event. If there is interest in hosting at the Blair Hills Park we would need to secure a regular park permit and if there was no ticket fee then the City would possibly waive the fee if we asked.

Stoneview Update

• Karly is working on updates before presenting to the Blair Hills Association
• The bridge across La Cienega will be covered in trees
• Neighbors with close backyard proximity to the project had a walk through with markers showing exactly where construction will take place

Proposals

• Co-President Kerri proposed to switch general monthly meetings to every other month unless there’s something specific that needs to be discussed. It was proposed to meet in the odd months as there are already no meetings in August or December.
• Discussion took place 
• It was suggested there will be a need for a change in the bylaws
• Come the October meeting, with more members in attendance we will have a quorum to vote on this, 20 members need to be present to reach quorum
• Kerri proposed a neighborhood holiday party on Tuesday, December 18th, if there is interest we would submit a request for Santa’s sleigh to come. It would be a cookies, coffee and coco party.

The next meeting will be October 20th, tentatively the County will be in attendance to give a presentation on the Stoneview Nature Center.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:40pm

Minutes submitted by Victoria Flame

Meeting was adjourned by co-president Annie Wilson at 8:30PM.

Minutes submitted by Secretary, Victoria Flame

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