The meeting was called to order by the president (Birmingham) at 7:40 p.m.

Birmingham reminded the group of the new officers that were selected at the last meeting: Cheryl Koc, treasurer and Bob Thierfelder, vice-president.

There was a motion that the by-laws of the organization be changed in two places. The changes will be announced in the newsletter and voted on at the next meeting. This motion was approved. The proposed changes are as follows:

In articles six and seven, the by-laws currently state that a five member executive board and six additional members make up the board of directors. This would be replaced so that the board of directors would consist of seven people: four elected officers and three board members. This was suggested because a smaller board is more appropriate for the size of our current group.

In Article Ten, entitled "Meetings", the sentence "The Association shall meet during the first week of every month" would be replaced with "Meetings will be held at the discretion of the board". This was suggested because we may not want to be bound to monthly meetings.

At the next meeting, the board will be elected. We discussed nominations for the board. The nominations were as follows: Jeff Birmingham (president), Bob Thierfelder (vice president), Cheryl Koc (treasurer), and Cathy Loomis (secretary). Loomis will call current board members not attending today's meeting to see if they want to continue their involvement on the board. V. Emmons and McDermott indicated a willingness to serve.

Reviewed GONA projects and solicited volunteers through a sign-up sheet.

Running the Greendale Green Market in the summer of 2005. We are looking for two volunteers to start this project by meeting with the past organizer to determine the tasks involved.

Newsletter: Russ will continue to write. Evans will work on advertising. Loomis will continue with distribution.

GONA picnic for summer of 2005: We need volunteers to organize the picnic.

Good Experiences List: We need volunteers to further refine this list, for example, determine if criteria need to be developed for names to be included on the list.

Welcoming committee: V. Emmons will start this committee to welcome new residents to the original section. Koc and Loomis will participate.

The group decided to hold off on organizing a Greendale original house tour because we are already working on a number of other projects.

It was mentioned that the school board will voting on December 20th on whether or not to tear down the Youth Memorial Building. Because this building has an interesting history in Greendale, the group decided to provide information about this important decision to Greendale original residents through a newsletter to be delivered around December 17th.

The group discussed the newsletter. The newsletter would benefit from a logo to set it apart from other mailings people receive. Loomis will look for the logo previous used. Deadlines for the newsletter were set: articles will be submitted to Russ two weeks before the meeting, and the newsletter will be submitted to Loomis one week before the meeting.

Discussed whether or not to have meetings and deliver newsletters on a monthly basis. Monthly meetings are productive, so we will attempt to have them monthly along with a newsletter preceding the meeting, but meetings can be skipped if necessary. A motion passed that the next meeting will be held on the first Wednesday in February.

Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM.

Submitted by:
Cathy Loomis, Secretary

Next meeting: Wednesday, February 2nd, 7:30 p.m.,
Greendale Library Community Room

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