Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
These minutes have not yet been approved by the Board of Directors, and minor changes may be forthcoming.
MINUTES APPROVED AT THE MARCH 27, 2007 MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE PARKMERCED RESIDENTS. ORGANIZATION

I.        Meeting Details

Meeting Date & Time:  
Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 1:30 PM

Meeting Location:  5 Josepha AV, San Francisco, CA 94132

In Attendance:  Betty Biles, Jim Coppfer, Michele Miller, Jean Moore-Woods, Robert Pender, Daniel    
            Phillips, Mike Smith, Healeani Ting

Guests:  Lora Traveler, Jean Adams

Copy to:  Members of BOD

Group Coordinator
:  Daniel Phillips        

Minutes Recorded by:  Betty Biles

II.  Meeting Agenda – Prepared by Daniel Phillips

Roll Call
Approval of Agenda
Resignation of Secretary Adriana Torres
Introduction of Any Guests
Appointment of Interim Secretary –
President’s Report
Treasurer’s Report - Michelle
Membership Committee Report – Daniel
New Business – Procedures and plans for General Membership Meeting on Sunday, February 25, 2007
Next Meeting Date – Tuesday March 27, 2007 7 PM, Discussion if necessary
Suggested Meeting Close:  3:00 PM

III.  Minutes of Meeting

Called to order at l: 55 PM by Daniel Phillips

It was announced that Adriana Torres had resigned as Secretary and as a member of the Board.

Approval of Agenda – motion made by Michele Miller and seconded by Jim Coppfer.

President’s Report – Robert has appointed Jean Moore-Woods to the Board.  Jean was welcomed by the
members.

There was no Secretary’s Report due to resignation of Adriana.

Daniel brought up the question of whether the Secretary should be considered an employee or a contractor.  After
a short discussion it was brought up that we need to be sure that it meets the criteria for non-profit organization.  It
was decided that for the time being that the Secretary be considered as a sub-contractor.

The appointment of Betty Biles as Interim Secretary was approved.

Mike Smith made a motion that the Board pay a minimum of $100 a month against $50 per meeting, whichever was
higher, seconded by Jim Coppfer.   
Motion passed, 6 in favor, 2 abstentions.

Treasurer’s Report.
 Michele Miller submitted the treasurer report, which shows a ending balance of $3,598.40
and also indicated that she had received the material from Bruce Kennedy and in reviewing the material from
01/01/01 to 10/05 is incomplete.  The records are complete from 10/05 to 01/07 when Bruce Kennedy was
Treasurer.  She also stated that she would only continue as Treasurer if she is not held responsible for the
incomplete records prior to 10/05.  (See detailed reports submitted by Michele.  

Robert made a motion that he would conduct an internal audit of the Treasurer Report.  Michele stated that she
had already done that.  The motion was seconded by Jean.  Passed – 6 in favor and 2 abstaining.  

Daniel made a motion that the Treasurer’s report be approved and that Michele not be held responsible for any
previous Treasurer’s report.  Motion seconded by Mike Smith.

M
embership Committee Report:  Daniel reported that as of today there are 94 prior members who have not paid
the 2007 dues.  He stated that he would contact Terrance and ask that he (Terrance) would contact those
individuals and see what their status will be.  Lora volunteered to work with Terrance on this project.  Michele made
a motion that the Membership Report be accepted, seconded by Mike.

New Business.  Procedures and plans for General Membership Meeting on Sunday February 26, 2007:
1.        Amendment to By-Laws to indicate that any employees of Park Merced cannot be member of the Park
Merced Residents Organization.  As only members of PRO can vote, a motion was made by Michele and seconded
by Robert that a ballot be created and passed out at the beginning of the meeting to paid members.  A discussion
of this followed and it was passed unanimously.

Daniel stated that BOD members need to be present at least one hour prior to the scheduled meeting.  Lorna
stated that every Board member needs to be active at the general meeting.  Mike and Michele will be handling the
Safety material.  Michele needs to be available to take additional dues.  Jean volunteered to assist in this.

The need of a Sargeant-of-Arms was discussed, however no definite decision was made.  

Daniel passed out material to be handed out at the meeting, which includes:
Incident Documentation – this will deal with problems with neighbors
Conflict Resolution with Management
This material will be copied and used as part of the workshop at the General Meeting.

The content of workshop and a discussion of procedures for the General Meeting followed.

The proposed agenda will be:
1.  Ballot and voting for the proposed By-Laws change
2.  Introduction of the Board
3.  Committee Reports
4.  Workshop
a.  Incident Documentation
b.  Conflict resolution
c.  Safety
5.  Summary and Closure

Newsletters distribution:  Daniel reported that we have gaps in the distribution of our newsletters and it is unfair
to Robert to expect him to handle distribution and to perform his duties as president.  Daniel made a motion that in
the future all copies of the newsletter will be delivered to him for distribution.  Robert will continue to pass out the
newsletters to individuals outside of Parkmerced.  The cost of these newsletters will be the responsibility of PRO™
and not Robert.  Robert stated that he wanted to continue to do this and will be willing to train a member of the
BOD to take over this at a later date.  Daniel’s motion was passed 7 in favor and 1 abstention.  A discussion of how
to efficiency handle the distribution of the newsletters followed.  Lora indicated that in the past there was a group
called 411, which saw that the newsletters were distributed by members of PRO™ in a timely fashion.  This needs
to be followed up.  Mike made a motion that this be tabled until the March meeting.

IV.  ANNOUNCEMENTS – Lora

1.  Report on Meeting held on February 14 at Supervisor Elsbernd’s office.  Genevieve and Lora Traveler were in
attendance.  The discussion was in regard to leftover Money from Litigation regarding the Utility Passthrough
dollars.  There is an attempt from PRO™ to receive approximately $8,500 of this.  In order to do this Legislation
needs to be passed by Supervisor Elsbernd.   He promised to make this action a priority.  

2.  Celebration of Black History Week – Union Bank of California proudly presents a series of CDs honoring
prominent African American University presidents and vice presidents in California.  A complimentary CD may be
obtained at any Union Bank of California branch.

3.  She reminded us that Vintage PRO™ information Sheets including the “Mold” one can be copied and distributed
to members at any time.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:35 PM.

Respectfully submitted

Betty Biles, Interim Secretary
Parkmerced Residents' Organization, Board of Directors
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