Minutes - 03/11/2004 - Autumn Festival CommitteeAUTUMN FESTIVAL Committee
Minutes of March 11, 2004
MEETING CALL: 7:10 p.m.
2. ROLL CALL: PRESENT: Linda Gonnella, Rose Boersma, Harry Peters, RonnDa Peters, Joyce Antoniolli,
Nuha Dabbouseh, Nelly Naguib, John Craig, Connie Craig, Carolyn Link, Ralph Maxson, Nelson Patras and Mary
Meranda. ABSENT: Mariette Adrian, Asif Yusuf, Barbara Nasharr and Janis Lundquist.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Ralph Maxson motioned to approve January 8, 2004 minutes. Motion
seconded by Harry Peters. Minutes approved.
4. FIRST ITEM OF DISCUSSION: Linda Gonnella handed out copies of a letter from Linda Lojewski
stating that she has resigned from the Committee.
CHANGING DATE OF FESTIVAL: It was brought to the attention of the Committee that the Bath &
Tennis Club had a prospective client to rent the Clubhouse on the day of Autumn Fest. It was discussed and
decided that the festival would go on and that the Bath and Tennis Club would turn down the client.
PREVIEW PARTY: Nelly Naguib commented that the Preview Party had a better turnout years ago and
that maybe we could change the menu and promote better to get more of a turnout. Nelly also informed the
Committee that DeCarlo liquor store may donate the wine for the Preview Party. DeCarlo might also be
interested in doing a wine tasting at the Festival. Carolyn Link said she might have a supplier of Scotch that
maybe could be donated to the Preview Party for raffle prizes.
ATTRACTIONS: Harry Peters suggested that the Committee get competitive bids for all the attractions.
Nelly Naguib suggested that we not have the marionettes this year. She has heard from some people that the
marionettes are getting boring.
8. SUB-COMMITTEE: A sub - committee was formed comprised of Harry Peters, Carolyn Link, Nelly Naguib
and Nuha Dabbouseh. This subcommittee will meet at the B &T administration building on Friday, March
26`x' to discuss scaling back on the amount of attractions, rework the expenses to show where we could cut
back. They will try to have a report for the committee at the April meeting.
9. PARKING: At the March meeting raising the parking fee to $10.00 was discussed. It was the consensus of
this committee that raising the parking fee would not be a good idea.
10. DONATIONS: All the committee members need to make a concentrated effort in procuring donations.
11. NEXT MEETING: April 8, 2004
12. ADJOURNMENT: 8:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Mary Meranda