November 19 Meeting 2007

November’s meeting will be held at the

Hotel Floyd Conference Room in the Village Green

on November 19th at 6:00 pm.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

October Partnership Meeting

Dear Partnership Members,

Our next meeting will be held October 22nd (notice the change in dates – 4th Monday, rather than 3rd – this is due to an unavoidable schedule conflict), at the Zion Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall- 7pm. This meeting will be advertised in the Floyd Press.

Agenda items will include an update on the grant application for the cemetery restoration and updates on the grant work.

Please let me know if you have questions or concerns.

Thanks!

Kamala

Agenda for July 16 Meeting

Partnership for Floyd Meeting
July 16, 2007 7:00pm
Agenda

I. Welcome
II. Minutes
III. Treasurer’s Report- present bills for payment for the ice cream social expenses
IV. Old Business:
a. Updates on CDBG
b. Updates on TEA- 21 – Gateway sign, Cemetery and Sidewalk Committees
c. Web site
d. Ice Cream social report and Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park planning
V. New Business
a. New members
b. Roanoke Community Foundation grant application
c. Networking – presentations to other community groups – Rotary Club?
d. Other business brought before the board

Membership

Yearly dues for members are now only $5 for single, $10 family and $25 business for January through December. Membership fees can be mailed to Partnership for Floyd, PO Box 53 Floyd, VA 24091. We are a registered 501c3 (non- profit) corporation.

Please contact Dede McGrath in Floyd at 745-5600 or email her at info@schroeder-law.com if you need more information about membership. For a membership form - click here.

The list of members below contains all those who are presently on the email list and does not reflect membership fees.

Bauers, Kamala
Cundiff, Jane & Ken
Hodges, Karen
Johnson, Nanette
Mandzak, Jo
Maslaney, Michael
McGrath, Dede
Moore, Sam
Wall, Jack
Bell Gallery, Bill & Joanne Bell
Country Store, Woody & Jackie Crenshaw
Dylan Locke Productions, Heather Krantz
Highland Hardwoods, Sam and Brenda Hancock
Blackburn, Robert & Becky
Day, John & Lori
Demory, Nancy
First, Ann & Fred
Grosshans, Karin & Kurt
Hodge, Becky
Ingoldsby, Kathleen
Legg, Libby
Lineberry, Betty
Martinez, Elaine
Miller, Anga
Nathan, Virginia
O'Connor, Lorice
Pendry, Barbara & Skip
Petrie, Linda & Larry
Pomponio, Becky & Joe
Schroeder, Harrison and Michelle
Wiley, Mary & David

If you would like to remain anonymous, please email Jane Cundiff at partnershipforfloyd.gmail.com to remove you from this list.

Partnership for Floyd Meeting of July 16

Our next meeting will be Monday, July 16. We will review the results of the Ice Cream Social and discuss suggestions made for the Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park. All Floyd County residents are invited to come to the meeting or even become a member - for only five dollars! We will meet at Zion Lutheran Church at 7pm.

Working meeting Tuesday May 29

There will be a working meeting Tuesday May 29 to plan the Lineberry Memorial Park June 23rd event to bring town members together for discussion and ideas. All are welcome to join us at 6:00 pm at the Floyd Town office at 138 Wilson Street in Floyd.

Meeting of May 21, 2007

Although a few good members of the Partnership were missing, the rest of us continued to plan future actions in Floyd.

The next monthly meeting will be at Zion Lutheran Church on Monday, June18 at 6:00 pm.

Minutes for May 21, 2007

Partnership – For – Floyd
Board Meeting (Working) Minutes
May 21, 2007

This meeting was a working meeting in lieu of a regular board meeting.

Members present: Kamala Bauers, Nanette Johnson, Jack Wall, Karen Hodges, Karin Grosshans, Jane Cundiff, Lorice O’Connor, Dede McGrath, and Janice Yearout.

Dede acted as secretary.

1. Some discussion took place about the construction that will be starting on the town façade and other projects. Nanette suggested we have a sign that reads something like “Partnership-for-Floyd at Work”.

2. Karen Hodges gave an update of the CDBG grants:
- Façade Program: The 2-way contracts are done and work is starting on those. The 3-way contracts are underway now.

- Parking Lot: Bid was run and had to be extended to June 28, 2007. Information was disseminated regarding a mandatory contractor pre-bid walk thru meeting on June 12, 2007. Attendance at this meeting is mandatory or bid will not be accepted. Need to have a nice working relationship with Town, and businesses in the project area, ie: Mama Lazardos, Village Green, hotel, etc.

- Loan Pool: Continues to be available. Application for pool help must be submitted through Advisory Board. If town continues to keep going for 5 years, the town then can keep the money.

3. Karen gave update of TEA-21 grants: TEA-21 Grant: Phase 1A has been awarded and funded. Phase 1B has been awarded and funded, and we are waiting for the contract. Phase 2 has been awarded, but not yet funded. Phase 3 has been awarded, but will be only partially funded. What was not funded in phase 3 will be used to make up the next phase request. Sam and Karen are project managers for TEA-21.

- Phase 1A: Water tower restoration not going to happen due to lead paint hazard. The $16,000 for that will roll over into the next phase. It may be able to be used to restore retaining wall at School House Fabrics as the wall could be qualify as a “gateway” sign.

- Park A&E may be able to come under TEA-21 by being included in “parkway” as size of “parkway” was not stipulated in TEA-21.

- Phase 2: Drainage issues are being looked into. A retention/detention pond may be a possible solution.

- Sidewalk Committee:

- Hotel Floyd: The hotel is getting a new road access. It will be located behind the Old Church Gallery. Lewis Alley will become a new park/green space for town.

- Wall Committee: Done with sitting walls.

- Warren G. Lineberry Memorial Park: Michael Hedgepath is the new architect for the project. He is doing the work for free. Concerns were expressed that he may be unaware of the partnership’s role in the park and planning. Money has been taken out for a shurette. Michael wants to have one with limited people, however we feel whole town needs to feel like it had some input into park design. Partnership needs to be involved.
Kamala wants to bring in various other organizations (ie: Rotory, etc.) to be on the advisory committee. Partnership could then develop a “wish list” from the shurette to give to the A&E and let them design the park from the list. Partnership will organized a shurette as an Ice Cream Social. Kamala will get permission from Town Council. Shurette should be held near proposed park site. Letters will be sent out containing list of what is proposed already and will ask for discussion of ideas and proposal of new. A planning committee for the shurette will meet on May 29, 2007, at 6:30 pm, place TBA. Proposed dates for event are Jun 24 or 23. It is important that announcement get into the Floyd Press by June 11 and run for 2 weeks.

4. Membership: Dede will work on a membership drive. It was discussed that Partnership should try to take advantage of upcoming events, such as July 4th and the Harvest Festival, etc., to promote membership, as well as, promote park and other project planning and disseminate project information.

5. Scrapbook: Jane was looking for the scrapbook to add stuff to the website. Jane will get with Mike Muslaney for his help with a summary of our projects for the website.

The next regular board meeting will be June 18, 2007, at 6:00 pm at Zion.









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