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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 11:30 am First Baptist Church, 19 West Main Street, Moorestown, NJ 08057

Board Attendance: Members present (6): Candace Coleman, Secretary (MoorArts); William Kaisla (Sir Speedy Printing and Marketing); Amy Leis (Janney Montgomery Scott); Charles McCullough (McCullough CPA MAI, LLC); Don Powell, President (Powell Energy & Solar, LLC); George Stallé (Keller Williams Realty). Also present: Mark Morgan, MBA Executive Director (Moorestown Theater Company); Randy Abidin (on behalf of the Moorestown Community House).

Meeting Start: MBA Board of Directors (BOD) President Don Powell opened the meeting at 11:35 a.m. Minutes:  Minutes from the March 2, 2016 BOD meeting were presented for approval. Amy Leis made a motion, seconded by George Stallé, to approve the minutes; the motion carried. Treasurer’s Report:  Treasurer Charles McCullough reported current account balances: o LLB Checking: $37,377.42 o LBB Money Market: $17,572.89 o Beneficial CD: $10,356.93. . CD was renewed with one-year term at a .500% rate and will come to term 3/4/17.  Mr. McCullough and the Board discussed ways to simplify tracking of members’ credit card charges.  The Board will move forward to apply for a credit card for the MBA; Mark Morgan agreed to open in it his name as the bank requires an individual on the account. Charles McCullough made a motion to place a $1,000 limit on the card, seconded by Amy Leis—the motion carried.  Amy Leis suggested requesting event chairs to submit anticipated cost increases for the following year. Committee Reports:  Executive Committee: Don Powell reported on the outcome of the MBA Board Executive Committee meeting held on March 29. o The MBA will withdraw its proposal to split the cost of the Parks and Rec concert program because it was not deemed in line with MBA goals, but looks forward to future partnerships with the Township. o Decided to not make a donation to the town for 2015, and review options to donate for 2016. o Decided the donation to fund a sponsorship for a student to Boys State was not in keeping with MBA goals. . George Stallé reminded the group that the Board had voted to fund this scholarship; and moved to rescind that vote and for the Board to approach Brandon Pugh (the school board member who made the request) to instead help the MBA foster involvement with students interested in pursuing a business career. o Decided to remove the $500 happy hour benefit from the Platinum MBA sponsorship level.  Marketing: Committee Chairs were not present; Don Powell reported that the Daffodil Day posters will be given to Jay Winkler at IdeaLab to create newspaper ads for the event. o Spotlight Award Program: Candace Coleman reported that the Award to Amy Webb had received a lot of positive response from the community. The BOD decided the next award should go to a business in the Lenola sector, and selected Moorestown Auto Body as the recipient. The following month the award will go to Passariello’s Restaurant.  Membership: Following a reminder eblast, Bill Kaisla reported 217 paid 2016 members to date and offered to reach out to several businesses to renew. The BOD agreed to move the cut-off date up next year in order to produce the directory earlier.  Merchants Council : Don Powell reported that Melissa McGrath is compiling a list of volunteer duties for the event day.  Scholarship: Amy Leis will contact Dan Posternock about status of this year’s awards and to assist in the process.  Social: Bill Kaisla reported that the April MBA Happy Hour will be held at Salon Marc Stephens on 4/14. The May happy hour will be on May 12 at Weichert Realty. Don Powell noted that Mary Beth Caracci is investigating options for MBA social activities, including Phillies tickets and the Spirit of Philadelphia. Old Business:  Randy Abidin made a presentation to request MBA support of the Moorestown Community House Restoration Campaign, and noted they would be appreciative of support at any level.  Don Powell reported that Good Impressions Printing won the bid to print the 2016 MBA directory. Good Impressions also printed the 2015 directory. He is also going to discuss having them print the member window clings.  A new MBA Blood Drive chair is needed, as Josh Lipson has resigned. New Business:  No new information from The Moorestown Community House regarding details about participating in the Relay for Life awareness event scheduled on May 12.  After some discussion, George Stallé made a motion that the MBA will enter into conversation with the League of Women Voters about sponsoring the upcoming candidate debate. The motion was seconded by Candace Coleman, and passed.  The next MBA General Membership meeting will be April 20 at the Community House; guest speaker will be Gary Finger from the Board of Public Utilities. Bill Kaisla will look into having the May membership meeting at Akira restaurant.  The next BOD meeting will be May 4, at the First Baptist Church.

Adjournment: Don Powell adjourned the meeting at 1:30 p.m.

Submitted by Candace Coleman, Secretary