Warner Business Association
Annual
Meeting Minutes
Tuesday,
January 15, 2001
Opening comments
by Jim Mitchell. Thanks to MCT Telecom for providing
refreshments.
There were enough
members present for a quorum to be held. A motion was made to approve the
minutes from the meeting on December 14th. And another motion was
made to approve the treasurers report which consisted of $2150.45 checking,
$491.73 savings, and $2383.68 in the 6 month CD.
Jim Mitchell
presented the slate of officers nominated by the nominating committee. A
motion was made to accept the slate as listed and stated. There were no
additional names nominated and the motion was passed and duly approved as
stated. Congratulations to all directors voted in for the new
year!
Jim recognized the
outgoing president Marc Violette for his service and accomplishments for
the last two years.
GOALS
FOR 2002 -
These were presented by our new
president, Jim Mitchell.
We will be undertaking the task
of composing a new brochure. It is a great marketing tool for us and the
town. The goal for completion and availability is July 4th.
Marc Violette will chair the
membership committee.
We will continue the Festival of
Trees event to be held annually. Proceeds to benefit theWarner
Beautification Fund. Congratulations to all WBA members that worked hard
to make this event such a success!!
We would like to hold two (2)
businesses after hours which will allow businesses to showcase for an
evening. Please contact Jim Mitchell at Bookends if you are
interested.
Jim was proud to announce the
availability of Yankee Cable Network to promote two businesses each week on
channel 10 in New London and channel 13 in Warner. Taping will be every
Thursday morning held at Bookends in the Gallery. If you would like to
promote your business and would like more information please contact Jim at
Bookends. This will be an exciting addition to carry Jim's theme
"SOMETHING WONDERFUL IS HAPPENING IN WARNER".
We look forward to promoting
Warner and its businesses for the upcoming year!
OUR
PRESENTATION-
This was made by
Dan Watts of Dimentech. He spoke briefly about why businesses should have
Web presence. He told what some of the Web terms meant. He also
stated that Domain name were maintained by one registry and updated Worldwide
twice a day (I thought this was an amazing fact!).
Dan has updated
our web site and we have a new easier address - WWW.WBA.WARNER.NH.US . Please check
it out - he has produced a valuable tool for all of us. Anyone can send
e-mail to the board of directors just by typing
wba-board@dimentech.com or to all
association members with
wba-members@dimentech.com. Dan
can update all the info - just e-mail him at
dwatts@dimentech.com. Thanks
for all your efforts!
Notes from the Webmaster:
The floor was
opened for Old and New business - there was nothing mentioned.
For miscellaneous
business Jere brought up HCR14 a measure to reestablish balanced powers between
the legislature and the courts. This is regarding school funding. If
you have any questions please contact your legislator - J.D. Colcord. The
vote is supposed to take place on Thursday!!
- It was mentioned to
follow up on the proposed guidelines from the site plan review committee - this
22 page proposed guidelines will affect our business
community.
The meeting was
officially adjourned at approximately 6:45 pm.
respectfully
submitted by yours truly,
Donna
Arsenault