Adhoc 50th Anniversary Planning Committee Minutes 2007 02-05-07 APPROVED
AGENDA
COMMUNITY AD-HOC 50"ANNIVERSARY PLANNING COMMITTEE
Monday,February 5, 2007
7:00 p.m.
City Conference Room
Present:
City Staff
Art Prochaska, Mayor Scott Sleezer, Public Works
Glory Spies. Community Relations Director
Tim Evans,Yorkville Park District
Others
Jeff Grezlik Stephanie Allen
Cecelia Sanders Stephanie McCue
Tom Zerante Kathy Farren
Johanna Byram Nicole Fleehart
1. Introductions were made
2. & 3 The Mayor discussed the events and .
April 9—Kathy has started a mailing list of former Mayors and Aldermen. She would
like approval of the letter before it is sent. Glory said to e-mail it to her. It was
suggested to put in an RSVP by March 9 to make sure that plaques/certificates can be
ordered and made up in time.
Scott will find out the timeline for the brown signs. We are only going to honor the
original `founding fathers' in this manner.
Glory said there will be `light' refreshments—this needs to be discussed and a budget
or donation list made up.
Someone mentioned that Ron Clark said that the Groner family has a DVD of old
family movies of Yorkville from the 20's and 30's. It was suggested to ask if this
could be used on April 9th, and to see if anyone knows who else may have old movies.
This would be `word-of-mouth' only, not publicized or we would be inundated with
movies that would have to be gone through. Scott will work on getting a laptop to
show the DVD.
Glory stated she needed help with mounting the old photos for hanging. Stephanie
McCue said she could do that at home. Scott said they have foam board that can be
used.
May -Volunteer Appreciation Day—"50 Years of Volunteering."
There will also be the Awards given that day for Outstanding Volunteers. It was
suggested that the Jay Cees and Women's Clubs should be contacted to see what
projects they have worked on over the years (possibly they have old home movies of
the projects, too. Other groups to include, the American Legion, Scouts, Fire Dept.,
etc.
June—Music Under the Stars with the Big Band at Riverfront Park..
The contract for the Big Band was brought in. The CPA will serve food. Things for
this date are `good to go.'
July—Float in the July 4 1 Parade. The Mayor has talked to the Police and Fire Depts.
Usually the events in the park are over by 1:30 p.m. The plan is to close Rt 47 for
about 15 minutes to get the people from the Park across the street and into the
northbound lanes—then the southbound lanes can be used for 2-way traffic until the
people have moved to the Riverfront Park. The plan is to have an Ice Cream Social at
Riverfront Park. The Senior Services vans can be used to shuttle those who cannot
walk the distance. Kathy will call Steve Steinwart at Meadovale about donating ice
cream.
Scott will work with Public Works on getting barriers and signs at Rt 34 &47 and at
Rt 126 about the closing of the highway and detour route. He will also work with the
Police Dept. on this.
It was suggested to decorate the bridge. Johanna suggested school groups who do this
for Homecoming and other events. The Park District is going to offer a class in Float
Building. This could be done in conjunction with making the float for the 4`h. It was
suggested to contact the Character Counts group at the High School to possibly help
with this.
It was suggested that Glory contact CBS and the other Chicago tv media about our
event to see if we can get some coverage.
August/September—Hometown Days celebration. Phil Nelson has donated a vault to
be used as the Time Capsule. It will tentatively be put in front of the Beecher Center,
with a marker, Scott will check on whether a stone or bronze marker would be better,
and get some costs. 9 x 12 envelopes will be gotten(donated or bought) for schools
and families to place their mementos, essays,photos, etc. in. Instructions as to what
can and cannot be placed in the envelopes will be included.
Kathy will try to find the instructions that were used for the Bicentennial time capsule.
It was suggested to have booths at all 50`h Anniversary events to hand out envelopes to
all who want them. It was also suggested to find out how many envelopes the vault
will hold.
Stephanie will check on the website on preserving things in time capsules.
4 Sponsorships were discussed. The Mayor and Glory both felt that local merchants are
approached for many items. We need to have a complete list of costs before money or
items are solicited. The Mayor will contact FedEx and UPS to see if they would
donate envelopes. He will check with PostNet to see who to contact.
Next meeting will be Monday, February 26,2007, at 7:00 p.m. at City Conference Room.
Bring possible costs of items related to the various committees/dates.
Meeting adjourned at 7:55 pm.
Respectfully submitted
Cecelia Sanders