Riverview Improvement Association
Stockholder Meeting

November 18, 2012

Present: Nancy Striuli, Steve Williams, Bill Sears, Sam Ragmon, David Woissard, Linda Hagstrom, Kevin and Linda Eisemann, Frank Feri, Tony Capano, Patricia Amirault, George W.  Schuster Jr.,  Stephanie Van Patten,  Raymon’d  OBrian, Martha Powers, Desiree Schuler, Catherine and Dana Monks, Brenda Smith,  Pauline and Marc Genest

  • Read minutes from Nov. 20, 2011.  Minutes were approved. 
  • Nancy thanked everyone for attending.  Association meetings have been well attended. The community police officer has been attending meetings as well.  An update of the sewer project was provided. Right now it is not a dead issue, but the Native Americans have to agree to any plans.  Unfortunately the association did not spend $17,000 of the grant money the grant money fast enough and as a result has lost the remaining funding.  The new street signs have been funded with the grant money and are ordered.  Hopefully they will be installed soon.    . While it is a great disappointment,  the association will be able to .  Nancy would like to see more involvement in the neighborhood cleanup.
  • 800 dollars in checking account.  Trisha moved $500 from the investment account to the checking account to cover the trash barrel costs for which the city will reimburse the association.  Trisha is not receiving any updates on the $X.XX CD.  Nancy will forward information on the investment to Trisha and Ron. the investment account has grown by 5 percent.    The only expense for this year’s party was for $ 171 for the table and chair rental.  Ron and Trisha will send out reminder emails to collect association dues. 
  • News/Correspondence:  Trisha reported a thank you note for the donation to hospice care in Betsy Chin’s name.  $ 50 dollars were donated. Trisha filed the yearly incorporation papers.  Since quite a few people passed this past year in the neighborhood, Nancy proposed a memorial acknowledgement in the next newsletter. 
  • Election of officers:  Nancy has enjoyed being the president for the past two years, but is looking forward to someone else taking over.

    Stephanie was nominated and accepted for president.  Pauline was nominated for   

    vice-president.  Kevin, Bill, and Sandy were nominated and accepted the position as

    board members.  Trisha agreed to continue to be the treasurer, Desiree will remain 

    recording secretary, and Frank will continue as correspondence secretary.

  • The annual Spaghetti  dinner  will take place Jan. 12.
  • Adult Party:  George will ask his mother if she would like to host.  He will provide an update. It is tentatively schedule for March 23.
  • Easter egg hunt is scheduled for March 24.  Stephanie will organize the event.  The Connimicut association is interested in joining our organization for the easter egg hunt.
  • Yard Sale:  May 18. Nancy will make all the arrangements to advertise in the newspaper.
  • Lippitt Park Cleanup:  Proposal to have a contractor to weed the flowerbeds rather than having a neighborhood cleanup.  Ron will continue to cut the grass, but would like some help in the early spring  and right before the block party to help control the weeds.  Ron will ask for a quote from Yardworks.  Catherine suggested to move the dead sea roses and replace them with seagrass.  We should also get a price for maintaining access to the beach from the other streets since the city has not maintained the access points during the past year. 
  • June 30 the July 4th parade will take place.  June 29 everyone is asked to pitch in at 8 am to clean up the park for the parade and party.  Save the Bay will hold its clean-up TBD. 
  • Block party Sept. 8.
  • Halloween Parade and Hay Ride at 4 pm.  Frank will make arrangements for Oct. 27, 2013.  We will hold the food drive again so that it coincides with the Halloween activities.
  • Caroling:  This year’s caroling has been moved to Dec. 22 at 6 pm.  Meet at Pauline’s house (51 Cady) and proceed to David and Linda’s.  Next year’s caroling is scheduled for Dec. 21 at  6 pm.  Linda and David will host again.
  • Association Meetings:

      Location: 15 River View

     Feb. 4

     May 6

     August 19

     Nov. 4

  • Frank is arranging a meeting with the mayor and city departments for the association for the spring time.
  •  Nancy and Martha proposed a fund for helping neighborhood members to cut down trees that are nearly dead or dead.  Another proposal is to have the associaiton identify all the trees and to forward the addresses to National Grid.
  • New Stockholder:  Trent Ferrara and Ken Frish, Lori Daiello and Rae-Scott Skinner  were nominated.