Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
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Date: March 25, 2008

Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Location: Café on the Park

 

Type of meeting: General membership meeting

Meeting called by:

 

Minutes from previous meeting (2/19/07):

Dave moved to accept; Ralph 2^nd

 

Treasurer’s report (at end of minutes):

§         See report

§         $1696 received in donations from the letter that was sent out late last year/early this year

§         Dave moved to accept; Romayne 2^nd

 

Arts Administrator’s Report:

§         By-Laws: need to find another attorney to review them since Claire hasn’t responded to any of the phone calls

§         Suggested attorneys: Chuck Brown, Denny Mason, Mark Faulkner

§         Colina will talk to Mark Faulkner and let True and Mark know what he says

 

Library Concerts:

§         Nothing new to report

 

Gallery at Gamble Mill:

§         New show going up on 4/19 with reception on 4/22

§         Postcard is being worked on

 

Summer Concerts:

• JoAnn: the committee met
• 7 people voted for concerts to be held in the Park and 2 people for the Courthouse
• If concerts are held in the Park we need to find a way to move people closer to the Gazebo since everyone tends to sit in the back
• They will have a list of bands in the next week or so
• Only one artist was unhappy with the compensation

 

Talleyrand Park:

• True: committee will meet on 4/10 to do the walk through
• Check trees, see what needs to be planted
• True passed on the idea about the irises.  Irises are good for preventing erosion because of their root structure.
• The grant for planting was submitted.  We’ll probably know the outcome in May.

 

Victorian Christmas:

§         Nothing to report

 

Miscellaneous:

§         Local government grants

o       Gay: deadline is 4/19

o       Grant is up on the website now

§         Elections committee

o       Nothing to report

§         BHCA logo

o       Jim and Dave both passed around logos for us to review

o       Dave: would like to see something that can be done in black and white as well as color

§         Poetry readings

o       Colina: nothing to report.  This fall or next summer might be a better time to work on this project.

§         Increasing membership

o       Mark: we don’t have many email addresses or phone numbers from the people that mail in donations, etc.  We might have to split up the list and look up numbers

o       Mark will bring the list to the next meeting and we can discuss splitting it up.

 

New Business

§         Gay invited two guests—Cynthia Mazzant and Jim Colbert

o       Cynthia is the Artistic & Education Director of Tempest Studios

o       Jim is an Art Director, copywriter, singer/songwriter, and DJs the Folk Show for WPSU

 

Next meeting: Tuesday, April 29^th at Bellefonte Cool Beans at 7 pm

 

Gay moved to adjourn; Romayne 2^nd.

 

BHCA Financial Report

March 25, 2008

 

	7/1/04- 6/30/05	7/1/05- 6/30/06	7/1/06- 6/30/07	7/1/07- 3/25/2008	2007-2008 FY Budget
INCOME
Interest	317	287	1,860	928	500
Dues	0	0	0	40	0
Other administration	3,148	4,789	3,420	2,410	3,000
Film Forum	1,000	0	0	0	0
General fundraising	2,725	2,945	2,156	1,696	2,400
Gallery at Gamble Mill	1,750	1,840	1,889	0	2,000
LGG Administration	0	0	0	0	0
Gannon Jazz	3,756	0	0	0	0
Summer Sounds	2,951	2,354	3,302	2,772	2,400
Victorian Christmas	4,025	4,325	4,350	5,125	3,670
Other projects	_289_	_1,500_	_24_	_0_	___50
TOTAL	19,961	18,040	17,001	12,971	14,020
EXPENSES
Administration	5,398	7,172	5,120	5,521	7,000
Film Forum	0	0	0	0	0
General fundraising	185	1,551	152	168	255
Gallery at Gamble Mill	2,144	1,776	1,965	967	2,100
LGG Administration	1,496	607	478	32	1,000
Library Concerts	250	188	338	218	0
Gannon Jazz	2,109	0	0	0	0
Summer Sounds	1,133	2,933	2,746	1,628	2,600
Victorian Christmas	2,436	2,587	2,580	3,151	2,320
Other projects	_262_	_1,609_	_0_	_0_	__120
TOTAL	15,413	18,424	13,379	11,684	15,395