BRADFORD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER COMMITTEE MEETING
September 9, 2009
PRESENT: Kate Dobrowski, Director, Ellen Brownson, Debbie Flinkstrom, Karen Hambleton, Fred Hubley, Ona Ruchti, Margaret Raymond, Dawn Rich
Cheryl Behr, our Town Administrator, attended our meeting. She has been working on the sidewalk grant and needed some information from us about our walking and biking programs. Information needed will be researched and will be sent to Cheryl by Friday. Deadline for sidewalk grant is Tuesday, September 15th. Cheryl also explained the review process for the upcoming budget. A bike safety program by Will Hurley, Outspoken, will be held on September 19th from 1 – 3 pm. Safe Schools committee meeting will be held September 17th at Town Hall at 3:30 pm.
Dawn Rich, Vice Chair, opened the meeting at 5 pm. Minutes of the August 12th meeting were approved.
DIRECTOR’S REPORT: Kate, our director, gave the board members a copy of her monthly BACC and Parks and Recreation report . Each monthly report is sent to the website, Bradford NH.org. for publication . Kate encouraged the board to support the Farmers Market on Thursday from 3-6 pm.
BUILDING MAINTENANCE: A call was made to Barry Wheeler about our Good Neighbor project but we are still waiting for a return call.
SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE: Ona gave the following report on Senior Citizens’ activities: Kumihimo and quilt making programs are on going. Doris Dunn hopes to get more people interested in continuing the ceramics program. The movie “Australia” was great with 12 people attending. Lots of laugh with coffee ,doughnuts and cookies to enjoy. 36 people attended the cruise on Lake Winnipesaukee. Dinner was at Hart’s Turkey Farm. A delayed ( due shortage of waitresses) but a delicious dinner was served. 1st Thursday of the month is the foot care clinic. LSRVNA is providing this service and appointments have to be made through the agency. 1st Friday brunch had 17 people attending. Entertainment was provided by Alan Rogers playing his guitar with songs that he wrote. A casino trip to either Mohegan Sun or Foxwoods is being planned for October but they will need 35 persons to attend.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Ellen spoke about the dates for the following programs: September 17th, Mountain View Senior Center Open House, Dr. Cecelia Vicuna-Keady as the speaker. Diana Ginter, RN, will offer the extended hours blood pressure clinic that day. September 17th, “Getting Started” program on Alzheimer’s at the Wilmot Community Center, 3-8 pm including dinner, free to the public. October 3rd, Grantham Health Fair, all are welcome. October 15th, Alzheimer’s program follow up lunch and learn about legal and finance issues related to Alzheimer’s, free, to be held at LSRVNA office in New London. LSRVNA is working closely with our Public Health Network to coordinate vaccination clinics for H1N1 and will keep everyone posted on the scheduling of those. We are preparing to hold our regular seasonal flu clinics in addition to the H1N1 clinics. The CDC website is a good source of information for anyone looking for more specifics.
KAP: Karen informed the board they have 17 students enrolled, Thursday – 14, Monday -7, Afternoon – 2-4 with a part time pre-school. KAP will be selling Yankee candles, due date October 7th available before Thanksgiving. Rugs were cleaned by Bruce. Next project is to clean the windows.
PARKS AND RECREATION: Fun Day is planned for Saturday, September 19th from 10 am – 4 pm. They need volunteers to assist that day. Bradford Women’s Club will have a pancake breakfast in the morning of Fun Day. Archery program is set for Tuesdays September 22nd through October 13th from 4 – 5 pm at Brown Shattuck Memorial Field. Halloween activities will be held on the 31st of October.
VICE-CHAIR’S REPORT: Fred Hubley left our meeting to participate in the Open House scheduled at the Bradford School. Fred asked Dawn to announce his resignation as a member of the BACC committee. We thank Fred for his wonderful support over many years to our board as past Treasurer of BACC committee, past representative of KAP and treasurer of the Friends of the BACC. He has dedicated many hours to our Center . We appreciate all Fred has accomplished for the Center and wish him good luck in his future plans.
OLD BUSINESS: Contract with yoga classes is doing fine. Annual meeting of the Friends of BACC to be held Wednesday, September 16th at 4:30 pm.
NEW BUSINESS: none
The meeting was adjourned at 6:15 pm. Next meeting October 14th at 4:30 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Dawn Rich, Kate Dobrowski (minutes unapproved)
BRADFORD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER and PARKS AND RECREATION
DIRECTOR’S REPORTS
September 9, 2009
BACC as Emergency Shelter
Discussion of proposal from Debra Blaisdell
Pass around her idea
Speed Bumps
Phil Stockwell has provided some information on the cost of speed bumps and installation. Some of the drivers that frequent the BACC are moving to fast in the parking lot and have been spoken to but the speeding seems to continue.
BNSYS
Concerns on donation to the BACC last year for meeting space.
Yoga- Fran Vanais
Fran brought in an August payment as scheduled. Her balance is $250.00 and she remains current.
Nature’s Circle Summer Day Camp
The accounting for the day camp is still open as there are still outstanding payments from parents.
Parks and Recreation
FUNDAY
Funday is scheduled for Saturday September 19th from 10 – 4.
The fundraising letter for Funday has gone out. We have received back $100.00 from businesses and a free ad from Smart Woman Advertiser.
Entertainment will be Mr. Phil, Reptiles on the Move, Archery Program , a possible dunk tank etc.
Women’s Club will have their pancake breakfast in the morning of Funday
Women’s Club has agreed to split the advertising costs again for the Kearsarge Shopper
April Messer of the KAP is heading up the effort.
Need volunteers
Issues with Brown Shattuck Park
Tina Defossess sent an email with existing concerns at Brown Shattuck . This may effect Funday