Meetings

This page will contain the minutes of the BIA's last executive committee meeting, along with the agenda of the upcoming meeting a few days prior to said meeting. Meetings are held every first Thursday of the month.

The minutes of previous meetings will be available in the Archives section of the site.

The last BIA executive's monthly meeting was held on Thursday November 4th, 2004. Here were the subjects discussed:
 

Present: Mike Wilson, President Lorraine Charlebois Gérald Gaudreau Marc Dufresne, Council Rep. Estelle Mignault Manon Pelletier Sylvie Otis Colette Fortin Louis Corbeil, Secretary

Absent: Daniel Larochelle Claudette Couture

Subjects discussed :
 

1		Opening - Agenda. - Prop. by: L. Charlebois, Supp. by: G. Gaudreau.  Carried. - The President welcomes Sylvie Otis, who is considering joining the Board.
2		Reports of the meeting held on October 7th. - Prop. by: L. Charlebois, Supp. by: E. Mignault; Carried.
3		Correspondence. - Kap Economic Development Team: Special Event Workshop: Info. - Letters of resignation from Board members: Rosanne Gratton, Lorraine Charlebois and Claudette Couture.  Lorraine is moving her business out of the BIA area and Claudette and Rosanne have sold their business. - Daniel Larochelle says that he is not available to attend Board meetings and has indicated that he will resign his position. - Board members accept these resignations with regret.
4		Delegation. - None.
5		Santa Claus Express. - The Santa Claus Express will be in Hearst on November 28th.  Organization is going well.  Colette Fortin will be representing the BIA.
6		Holiday Calendar and budget 2004. - Members revised the calendar which will be distributed to downtown merchants and published in the "Magie de Minuit" brochure on December 1st.  Anticipated expenses for this promotion are $2,600.
7		Christmas Decorations. - All members are invited to a Bis' on Sunday, November 14th at the airport hangar in order to prepare the decorations.  These decorations will be installed by the PUC the following week.
8		Contract - Manual Work. - Following the publication of a request for tender to do manual work downtown (i.e. remove and replace benches and garbage cans, Christmas decorations, etc.), no quotes have been received.  The Secretary has submitted an offer from Logestion at $22/hour with a helper at $10/hr.  Members have accepted this offer.
9		New members. - Board members recommend that the Municipal Council appoints Sylvie Otis and Sonia Bolduc as members of the Hearst BIA.