Fw: Board Meeting Next Wednesday 3/30 at 7:30 PM

[Ken Horwitz]

Gentlemen:

We have a full agenda and much to discuss at tomorrow nights meeting. Lots of events coming up soon.

Please make every attempt to attend and let's try to start this meeting at 7:30pm if possible.

thanks,

see you then

Ken

 

Subject: Board Meeting Next Wednesday 3/30 at 7:30 PM

Hello Everyone:

Hope you're all doing well and celebrating as Spring has finally arrived!

Our upcoming Brotherhood Board is next Wednesday 3/30 at 7:30 and thanks in advance to Rob Zimmerman for all the tasty treats.

Please submit your committee reports to Ken before next Wednesday and here's the Meeting Agenda followed by the minutes for approval from our last Board meeting in February.

Enjoy the week and see you next Wednesday.

Brotherhood Board Meeting

Wednesday March 30th, 2016

AGENDA

        Announcements

1. Approval of February 24th, 2016 minutes
2. Treasurers Report – Rob Russo
3. Temple Board Meeting (3/7/16) Report – Ken Horwitz
4. Committee Reports

Administration – Mark Felder  

Building and Grounds – Lou Okrent

Cemetery – Elliot Chalef

Communications – Michael Braun

Finance – Elliott Collins

Lifelong Learning – Rob Zimmerman

TS Membership – Eric Levine

BH Membership- Jay Kohn

Religious School – Michael Bloom

Renaissance - Ken Kline

Ritual – Michael Schreiber

Social Action – Gary Putlock    

Ways and Means – Ken Kline

Youth – Gary Lobel

Nominating Committee Report – Eric Levine

1. Unfinished Business and/or Re-cap:

        3/5 Int’l Art Show & Sale – Barry

        3/11 BH Shabbat – M. Braun

        3/20 Purim Carnival kitchen – M. Bloom

        3/20 Devils game – Jay/Gary P.

6.Upcoming events

        4/17 MADD

        4/17 Men’s Seder – Eric Levine

        4/30 – Comedy Night – K. Horwitz

7. New Business

        Intrepid visit?  E.Chalef

        Possible TS game/martini night – June 4^th

        Poker??

        Men’s Retreat Repeat w/Westfield T.E.?

8. Good and Welfare

9. Next Brotherhood Board Meeting:

 Wednesday April 20^th, 7:30pm  (M. Braun - snacks)

 

Brotherhood Board Meeting:  2/24/2016

Present:   Ken Horwitz, Robert Adelstein, Sam Olshan, Jay Kohn, Ken Kline

                   Rob Russo, Mark Felder, Michael Schreiber, Eric Levine, Barry Goldberg

                   Al Kaminetsky, Elliott Collins, Michael Bloom, Stan Saltz       

Excused:  Gary Lobel, Gary Putlock, Mark Strauss, Lou Okrent, Michael Braun

                   Elliot Chalef, Mike Peters, Joe Guido.

AWOL: Rob Zimmerman

Meeting called to order at 7:40 pm

Treasures Report:

Money Market :   $5083

Checking :               $1812

We spent $1350 so far for the Comedy Night.

Glen Salny stopped by to talk about Make a Difference day on April 17^th.

They need 4 people to volunteer with the garden and need money to buy

supplies.

Jay made a motion that we spend up to $400 for mulch or fertilizer and $200 for the garden supplies. 2^nd by M. Schreiber. The vote was passed.  They would also like to set up an irrigation system to make it easier to water the garden.

Temple Board Report:

The Temples new web site is going live approx. March 1^st.

They again were discussing the 50 /50 raffle to make it a success.

The Boards religious school trustee Raellen Kessleman stepped down.

Committee Reports:

Administration:

They are still looking for ways to raise money for the Temple. They

are thinking about renting out space for funerals. There was a suggestion

that maybe we should offer 1 year free membership if someone not a member

has a funeral at the Temple.

Lifelong learning:  is having an event February 29^th in the Judaic Study Center.

BH Membership:  a goal is to have over 100 members.

Religious School:

The religious school has a new assistant. It is a paid position.

The Rabbi’s wife was helping out before the hiring.

On Sunday March 6^th the kids will walk through the art gala.

Renaissance: On March 6^th Rabbi Soffin will be hosting an event.

On March 13^th there will be a trip going to see A Jew Grows in Brooklyn.

Ritual:  There will be second night Seder again. They would also like the BH to repeat the Glow Stick/Hot Dog Shabbat on Memorial Day weekend.

Social Action: On April 17^th there will be another Habitat Build, part of MADD.

We need a few volunteers to set up beds again for the housing of the homeless program.

Unfinished Business:

The Fiddler Raffle made $265. Jay has a connection that maybe we can raffle

off 2 NJ devil tickets.

Our constitutional amendment passed. Ken Kline will take Joe’s place

for now on Ways and Means.

Upcoming Events:

Tomorrow night, February 25^th, 5 people are going to see “A Night with Janis Joplin” at the Mayo PAC in Morristown.

The Art Show is from March 3^rd to the 6^th. Thursdays preview will begin at 7:30pm. We have sold about $2500 of sponsorships for our ad book. The better wine glasses are $1 each. M. Schreiber made a motion to buy 150 of these glasses, 2^nd by Barry. The vote passed.

March 11^th is the Brotherhood Shabbat and dinner.

March 13^th is our next breakfast.

There have been 16 tickets sold for the Devils game on March 20^th.

Purin Carnival is 3/20. M. Bloom will man the kitchen for hot dog duty.

Our Men’s Seder will be on April 17^th, 5pm.

Comedy Night is April 30^th.  Ken Kline made a motion that we Charge $45 in advance per ticket and $50 at the door. 2^nd by M. Bloom. The vote passed.

New Business:

Ken appointed Eric Levine to chair the Nominating Committee. He will assemble the committee and will be contacting all trustees within the next month.

Discussion about MADD. We will look into another clothing drive with Jason Apter’s help.

Meeting Called 9:55pm

Recording Secretary Rob Adelstein

 

 

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