West 46th Street Block Association, Inc.

October 11, 2005/ Hartley House at 413 West 46th Street

May 02, 2006

1. Welcome and Introduction
2. Guest Speaker: Kathleen Treat, Hells Kitchen Neighborhood Association , Chair, to discuss the proposed Pedestrian Safety Coalition.
3. Reading of the Minutes of Prior Meeting
4. Reports of Officers
4.1. President?’s Report
4.1.1. Progress on our Emergency Preparedness Project- attended The Ready New York's ?“All Together Now?” all day household emergency preparedness training program on Saturday, September 24th at the American Red Cross headquarters. The program was presented by the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and the Empowerment Institute . A suggestion was made to hand this out to the businesses.
4.1.2. Report of Internet site (http://www.west46streetblockassociation.org) activity through September 30th: 186 visits to entire site, 76 home page, 12 calendar, 13 newsletter
4.1.3. Meeting with Tim Tompkins, President of the Times Square Alliance on October 29th which addressed matters posed by restaurants- Darrick reported that he addressed restaurants concerns to the Times Square Alliance over lunch at Le Rivage, namely better recognition for Restaurant Row.
4.2. Vice President?’s Report
4.2.1. Status of Bulletin Boards- Christina resported that she built a bullitan board and will be hanging it on the building where the Galaxy resides.
4.2.2. Fall Block Cleanup- Christina scheduled a fall clean-up for Saturday, October 14th. Darrick will make arrangements with Partnership for Parks to borrow tools.
4.3. Treasurer?’s Report- In Allison?’s absence, Darrick reported that the balance as of September 30thth was $2,223.06.
4.4. Secretary?’s Report (in position?’s absence, President will address any matters)
5. Reports of Standing and Ad Hoc Committees
5.1. Ivan Shapiro House (Watty Strouss, chair)- Watty reported that the committee met this evening and that ISH is moving to a transitional housing model from their permanent model. ISH also mentioned they would like to get mailboxes installed for their residents.
5.2. Parks & Recreation (Christina Boers, chair)
5.3. Nominating (Watty Strouss, chair)- Watty agreed to be the chair of this committee, and Seth Sibanda and Mariana Kind will be committee members. They will present a slate of candidates for the November meeting.
6. Unfinished Business
6.1. Status of getting approval for amending name of playground- project is moving along, and in the hands of the Parks Department
7. New Business
7.1. Possibility of selling air rights from the Martin Beck to where McHales now stands
7.2. Suggestion to invite Eddie Dean of JMED to our November meeting.
8. Public Announcements
9. Adjournment

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