Charles Village Community Benefits District
Board
Meeting
Minutes
March
10, 2009
2434
St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Present:
Gary
Letteron Nancy
Smith
Rob
Books Dawna
Cobb
Derek
Demaree Alan Garske
Ron
Griffin Jason
Pyeron
Kirsch
Jones Robin Truiett-Theodorson
Jeff
Millard
Also Present: David Hill
Call to Order:
The
meeting was called to order with a quorum present at 7:12 p.m.
Agenda:
The agenda
was approved by unanimous consent.
Minutes:
Minutes of
the February, 2009 board meeting were approved as amended.
Presentation by Legal Counsel:
John
McCauley, the CVCBDMA’s counsel was present to provide legal advice concerning
the Court of Appeals recent decision in the suit brought by Joan Floyd against
the CVCBDMA and the City of Baltimore.
Jeff
Millard made a motion to go into closed session for the purpose of obtaining
legal advice. The motion was seconded by
Jason Pyeron and was unanimously approved.
Rob Books
made a motion to return to open session; Gary Letteron seconded the motion. It was unanimously approved at 7:55 p.m.
Executive
Director’s Report:
The CVCBDMA
newsletter has gone out and contains an announcement of the Spring Meeting on
the Financial Plan and a summary of the proposal regarding changes to the
safety program.
New
uniforms have been rented for all staff.
Employees will share in the cost at $5 per pay period.
Committee Reports:
Finance
Committee
Jeff
Millard reported that the City has caught up on forwarding tax revenues to the
CVCBD. He indicated that the
organization’s current finances are on target with the budget and also with our
goal of building a Reserve Fund; currently we have $50,000 in Reserve.
Executive
Committee
Ron Griffin
reported that committee members discussed the reauthorization process. Strategies for seeking reauthorization will
be recommended to the full board. He
also reported that the City is current with the tax revenues owed to the
CVCBDMA. There had been a lag in
receiving this revenue earlier this year, which was discussed at the public
hearing held by the City Council in response to the recent round of bills for
the special tax that were erroneously sent by the City.
Governance Committee
Jeff
Millard reported no meeting in February occurred because Ms. Trohan’s comments regarding
the by-laws had not been received. They
will be discussed at the next meeting on March 27.
Program
Committee
Rob Books-reported
that the first meeting of this newly combined committee met on March 9, 2009. The committee heard a presentation by the Jones
Falls Watershed regarding the storm drain project. This involves placing
anti-litter stickers on storm drains. The
stickers will be placed around the district on March 28. A re-launch for the Citizens on Patrol was suggested
and is expected to occur though no date has been set. The next meeting is April
13, 2009. Committee member, Kirsch Jones,
explained that former board member Emil Vocheck attended the meeting to propose
that the CVCBDMA undertake an experimental study of the effectiveness of the safety
patrols. Following that presentation and
much discussion, a motion to pursue this study was made and defeated by a vote
of 4-1.
Public Comment: Gary Letteron reported that there
is a meeting at GHCC on Wednesday March 11 re: tree planting in Charles Village
on April 4th.