Mountain Lakes Centennial Steering Committee

Meeting Minutes, March 22, 2010

 Committee Members Present:     Halpin, Barlow, Rusak, Terlizzi, Thompson,

Council Liaisons: Bravo and McWilliams

 1.  The minutes from the Mar 1, 2010 meeting were approved.

 2.  Neighborhood Map: The final version of the neighborhood map is complete and was distributed to the committee by e-mail. Doug McWilliams offered to make letter size versions to go out with the newsletter in May; and Pat Rusak will have enlarged copies made for the library and Borough Hall.

 3.       Logo update: The RFP for a ML centennial logo was distributed on March 6^th to 7 artists and ML100 committee and the media committee. Proposals are due Thursday, March 25^th. The graphics committee will meet on March 26 to select the winning artist. The aim is to have a logo ready to use by May 1^st.

4.       Events updates:

a.       The committee for the kick off event, a Mtn Lakes Open House, had their first committee meeting Kris Barlow reported. The date will be Sunday, January 9, 2011 and the theme is a general store. The committee chaired by Nancy Biglesen had lots of good ideas and was very organized.

b.      Birthday Gala hosted by the Town Club in March 2011 will have their first committee meeting on March 23^rd Debbie Terlizzi reported.

                        c.   Memorial Day – May 30, 2011: Debbie Terlizzi will co-ordinate the 100 years of automobiles working with Scott Kimmelman, and 100 years of people working with Doug McWilliams and Kelly Thompson. Debbie, Kelly and Doug will co-ordinate with Blair Bravo and attend the next Memorial Day committee meeting. The Centennial committee might want to suggest a Speaker and a Grand Marshall for the 2011 ceremony.

d.   House Tour – December 2011: After some discussion, the committee agreed that the Town Club might need some help to ensure that there were enough volunteers of historic houses to make a tour that year. It was also suggested that the Churches might want to be on the tour that year.

e.   The Mtn Lakes League of Women Voters is planning to update its 2000 study on Who is Mountain Lakes, with a 2010 Who is Mountain Lakes, then and now, looking back over the first 100 years. With the timing of the Census the event will be in the fall of 2011.

 Banners:  The Borough Council approved the use of Centennial Banners on the Boulevard, and possible Midvale and Morris Avenues, during 2011. There was not agreement on whether there should be ‘sponsors’ listed on the banners. The Committee discussed this point further and agreed that the Banners committee would decide on precise parameters (i.e. size, font, color, number of words, format) for names on the banner, and report back. Pat and Kris will also solicit additional bids.

Centennial Bricks/Stones: $50,000 has been set aside for a Borough centennial project.  A feasibility study of pillars on the Boulevard and a wall along the Cove will be developed, working with Barry Lewis and Mark Prusina as well as input and approval from the HPC. Findings will be presented to Council. The fundraising subcommittee will continue to oversee the effort. Kelly, Doug and Blair will contact Barry, Mark and Bill Reiden the borough engineer.  Blair will set-up the initial meeting and report back to the Steering Committee. 

Committee target date for the project and banners presentation to Council is 4/26.

Mountain Lakes Production: Laurel Durenberger would like to hear “stories” from current residents.  Doug offered to meet with her.  A suggestion was made to include this request in our newsletter.

Centennial News:  The plan is to have this ready to distribute by May 1, 2010.

Upcoming Meetings:

Graphics Subcommittee: March 26

School Subcommittee: May 7

Steering Committee: April 19, May 10, June 7 -  10:30 at Borough Hall