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Minutes of Meeting
April 10, 2024
By Zoom Teleconference
Members Present:
Glen Bassett and Geetha Padaki, Co-Chairs; Steve Cole, Linda Dixon, Yifang Gong, Dave
Grabel, Cerise Jalelian, Bonnie Karshbaum, Sondra Lucente, Sandy Podgorski,
Sue Stering, Pam Winters, Hong Xie
Members not Present
Sudha Balasuryan, Kevin Collins, Dabby Harter, Mary Hutton, Lorain Marquis, Julie Miller
Ashley Rooney
Business
• Meeting called to order by Geetha Padaki at 7:02 pm
• The Minutes of April 3 will be approved at a future meeting.
Patriots' Day Detailed Planning
• Geetha will pickup 2 cases of water to distribute among the golf carts on parade day.
• Dave, Pam, Glen and others will staple parade lineup numbers to posts on Sunday.
• Dave will send the applications of the paid parade units to Lorain for payment.
• Dave will resend parade orders to all parade participants.
• Linda will remind Chris Filadoro to relocate the podium for the Ceremony.
• Pam and Sandy will take tickets at the reenactment, assisted by Cerise, Lorain, Linda,
YiFang. We'll collect the entire ticket and stamp everyone's hand. Linda and Cerise
have the hand stamps from last year.
• Arrival time is 4:00 a.m. Observances start at 5:05 a.m.
• Dave Grabel's pop-up tent will be set up at the Registration area at 11:00 a.m.
• Send all sales receipts for out-of-pocket purchases to Lorain for reimbursement.
• Sponsor revenue has reached $24,000, $4,000 over projection.
• We need some serious post-parade sponsor thank-you gestures.
• The Parade Ambassador count is now up to 60; we should be in good shape.
• Cerise has a supply of Lex250 pins and will give out on parade day.
• The Knights of Columbus has offered to host a post-parade reception for the committee.
• Linda has incorporated the submitted media forms into a Parade Announcer script.
The meeting adjourned at 8:25 p.m. Next meeting: April 24, 2024
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Dixon, Member