Twelve people braved the rain and came out to the LAPS meeting Monday night. Everyone in attendance agreed that we should try to keep this organization going in some form. It was decided that we will hold a pot luck dinner for our meeting in October and hold nominations then for the two open board positions (President and VP). We hope to advertise this heavily to encourage as much participation as possible, via the website, blog, e-mail, posters, signs and hopefully a banner or two.
We also talked about the things we thought were important to do or keep doing at minimum. They included:
- · The Spring Yard Sale
- · Have some kind of program or speaker for the meetings (anyone feel called to be program chairperson?)
- · Go back to renewing of all memberships in January (we can work something out for folks who renewed late in the year if necessary)
- · Organize social opportunities like cookouts, etc. so we can get to know each other better
We will be open to more suggestions at future meetings and everything will be considered if we get overall agreement and willingness to volunteer from the membership.
We also want to give kudos and high praise for whoever a) weeded the flowerbed up at the arches and b) tended to the trees at the ballpark. Thanks to anonymous worker bees!
Please help out by telling your neighbors about the pot luck on Monday, October 24th, 6:30pm at the LakeShore Woman’s Club and make sure you come yourself and nominate someone you love to serve on the LAPS board. Of course, you can always volunteer yourself !!
I attended your meeting Monday night. I am not a member but came with someone who is a member. I have to say, I was appalled at what I witnessed. I have noticed so many changes in my passes through your neighborhood and was curious. The amount of back-biting and running down of people turned me off completely. I would never join your group after witnessing what I did Monday. I can't believe it, honestly. wow.
ReplyDeleteNot sure we attended the same meeting, anonymous person. The only mention of anyone by name was in reporting the difficulty there had been in contacting them. I think we are just a group of folks who want to see positive growth of the group to benefit the community. Grace and peace to you though.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous must have wandered into a city council meeting by mistake! I saw a group of people who are trying to work together and move on. Some people can only see the negative, but LAPS has lots of positive energy!
ReplyDeleteYou are so right, Anonymous #2! We need to pay attention to what's positive.
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