7:30 Meeting called to order. Minutes of May meeting approved.

John Rohan was announced as the new Second VP and Membership Chair. He will be replacing Chris Spencer.

Robin Carpenter announced her plans to step down as PRNC President after July 31, 2008 in light of multiple

time conflicts both professional and personal. In response to requests for a complete accounting of funds for

the 07-08 fiscal year by the general membership; she presented an accounting of the general fund account with a

profit and loss statement and listing of all checks for the period of April 13, 2007 through May 30, 2008.

Available funds as of 5/30 were $4,096.07. She announced that the board plans to have the April 08-09 budget

Wig-Wag fund and other two accounts at the next meeting.

President Carpenter announced that membership is up to 165 members and that we are in the middle of renewal

season which began in April. We had 263 members last year and hope to surpass that number this year. We are

ahead of where we were this time last year regarding renewals and ahead of the total membership number of the

06-07 year. She turned the rest of the membership report over to John Rohan.

John Rohan introduced himself and talked about his background as a Microbiologist. He is now doing webbased

work. He has worked before in political advocacy and was very active in union volunteer work. He has

worked in every aspect from membership to secretary as part of the council level of organization. He is big on

process and equal and fair access. Very willing to roll up his sleeves and work hard to keep our membership

momentum going.

Treasurer Margaret Morkowski’s report stated that we currently had a total of:

$8,467.71 which includes the

Bishop Alley 711.06

Ferry Point Fund 689.58

Wig Wag Fund 2,970.94

This leaves a General Fund Balance of $4,096.13

Rochelle Monk from the City of Richmond came as a representative of the Graffiti Removal Program:

To arrest the graffiti, we need to act quickly to abate the graffiti and keep the blight under control and to

discourage the “taggers.” It turns out that most is not by gangs, but by teenagers that are tagging to create an

identity and will be discouraged if tagging is removed immediately. Rochelle offered 4 kits for volunteers to

be part of the clean-up “team.” IMMEDIATELY 4 neighbors volunteered to be part of the clean up team and to

receive kits. More kits are available from the city. You can let the PRNC know or call Rochelle Monk at the

City and you will be provided with the kit, which comes in a small pail to keep in your car or nearby for

whenever you see graffiti. If you see some tagging, call in to Graffiti hotline 231-3031. What about other

agencies such as CalTrans, RailRoad? It is collaborative effort. The arrests are detention and not long term.

a call. The people in the Point do call in, and this helps constrain crime.

“Police Academy” special hands on and virtual training on Police procedures. 8-week commitment Saturday

night, starts July 10, through September 11 and class at temporary station on Regatta call 233-1214 for more

information on attending the Academy.

There have been some break-ins using false identity. If you don’t know someone don’t answer or open the

door. We will be adding “crime watch” information to the website and Tom will work with us on this. Email

report when you see to the 233-1214 number. You can also take a digital picture (from a safe distance) and

email the picture of the criminal activity to Tom or to the officer on duty.

during emergencies. Focused on radios – the emergency radios tested did not work well on hillsides. Pat would

like the PRNC to have REACT training in Fall.

Arts of Point Richmond had an artists showing during the Music in the Point series and their next show is July

early transfer and draft remaining property and $28,000,000 for clean up. Please look at the document on clean

up. Still is set for a casino. Don Conley from Mechanics Bank lost a son in the Iraq conflict

and Chevron. The Chevron the issues are vetted and challenged on both sides, on to City Council. Conditions

of the authorization were rejected by Planning Commission, but did get $5Million for Bay Trail. Currently up

Land Use, Design Review approved 540 Grandview Court new home for Dan Doellstedt with no conditions.

The General membership approved this as a Consent item.

The new bylaws were presented to the General Membership. The membership received copies with all changes,

deletions and additions in bold. Each area of change, deletion or addition was discussed and then voted upon

separately. Once those sections were individually approved, changed or not approved - it was moved that the

Bylaws be approved as a whole with the revisions from the general membership. It was seconded and approved

by a unanimous vote. The Bylaws will be published on our website and copies will be available at the July

Meeting called to order at 7:00pm at Brazil Café

agenda and LU/DR because the city is requiring two weeks notice for printing. Only 7 neighborhood councils

will be putting on National Night Out events this year.

discussed in the June meeting. Even though they were passed in the overall vote, the Board unanimously voted

to have it presented and discussed at the July meeting by the general membership. It was voted to make sure

that the language in the bylaws is gender neutral.

Safety Committee that would be co-chaired by Pat Pearson who has been our REACT representative to the City

and by Cathy Branstetter. Carole Woodrow will be a member of the committee and the Board will seek out

other members and in particular we want to have a member from Brickyard.

some ideas about how to get the site updated and our database current. The board agreed that John should let

the board know if we needed more help from our designer or other changes.

breakouts of expenditures in the previous year and a suggested budget for the 08-09 year based on previous

expenditures. Margaret took the board’s feedback and was going to create the budget to be sent out to the board

for final approval before the next general membership meeting. The board voted to not sponsor a National

Night Out event this year. The board agreed that it was best to determine the most important events and

activities that we sponsored or attended before further expenditures. The board voted to explore grants,

sponsorships and other funds so that we can attend and/or sponsor as many events that would further our goals

and mission. The board agreed to find our own storage space to keep our records and archives.

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