Board Minutes

MINUTES
AS220 Board of Directors Meeting - 2000/04/11

Members present:

Dennis diBattista, Mary Ann Hewitt-Howe, Robert O. Jones, Norma Anderson, Michael Simon, Jan Swearer, Stuart Giannini, Erminio Pinque, Jon Ozbek, David Henry, Keith Munslow, Manny Vales, Richard Welch, Alan Addison

Members absent:

Laura Travis, Bob Arellano, Steve Durkee, Venus Jones, Munir Mohammed, Jim Pfeiffer, John Scott, Shelley Weeden

Staff present:

Bert Crenca, Lizzie Araujo, Shawn Wallace, Joelle Jensen

Guest present:

Peter Geisser

(1) Call to Order

Dennis diBattista called the meeting to order. He remarked on the improved level of attendance and noted the importance of continuing the trend.

(2) Special Presentation

Bert introduced stained glass artist Peter Geisser, who presented a proposal for an installation to embellish the street facade and Cafe. Peter has designed a series of transoms to go over the Empire Street windows. This will add color and pizzazz while helping to visually unify AS220's portion of the building frontage. The piece is estimated to cost about $16,000, and it appears that LEF Foundation funding may be available to cover $10,000 of this. The board enthusiastically supported further investigation to identify additional funds for this exciting project.

(3) Staff Report

Sponsorships for the Fools Ball have reached $33,000, and 170 tickets have been sold to date for the banquet. There was discussion of Perishable's continuing interest in purchasing 95 Empire, AS220's chronic space shortage, and what to do about it. Although the Empire-Arnold-Potter Block comprises three separate buildings, when AS220 developed the property, it consolidated the land into one lot. Richard Welch outlined two options for splitting the property. The lot could be subdivided, but this could lead to later zoning problems due to undersize-lot and excess-coverage issues. This process would probably cost about $2,000 in fees. The other option is to create condominiums. This would require a survey to define common areas and percent-of-ownerships. This could cost $15-20,000 in fees.

(4) Old Business

The Secretary established that everyone had finally received and reviewed copies of minutes previously unreceived and unreviewed, and certified that a quorum existed.

On a motion by David Henry, seconded by Stuart Giannini, the board unanimously

VOTED to approve the minutes of the meetings of 1999/10/12, 1999/11/09, 1999/12/14, 2000/01/18, 2000/02/08, and 2000/03/14.

(5) Adjournment

On a motion by David Henry, seconded by Jon Ozbek, the board unanimously

VOTED to adjourn the meeting.

Recorded and submitted by
Robert Owen Jones
Secretary

MINUTES AS220 Board of Directors Meeting - 2000/04/11