Greetings West Bank Businesses,

A few event announcements and opportunities for you below.

Yours,

Jamie Schumacher

Growing Smarter: Training for the University District–Developers and the Community at the TableGet the Kind of Development You Want:

For community leaders, increase your neighborhood’s effectiveness in shaping development.

For developers, understand how to get positive community engagement.
Tell us your priorities for future community forums and training.

Admission is free.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (CDT)
University Lutheran Church of Hope
Fellowship Hall
601 13th Avenue Southeast
Minneapolis, MN 55414

Please RSVP Via Eventbrite.

Brian Coyle Center Gym – …

A few points of business:

2014 Planning Session

Please mark your calendars for next week Thursday, October 17th, at 4:00pm. An agenda is below.

We’ll be meeting at Augsburg’s Oren Gateway Center. If you’re not able to make it to attend this planning session, please feel free to complete the survey here so that your input is taken into consideration as we update our Strategic Plan and prioritize for 2014.

Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YHWBGG7

Check your calendars!

Do third Thursdays at 4pm still work for everybody? We want to make sure we maximize business attendance, and we are considering adjusting days/times for 2014. We’ll be bringing …

Hi Everyone,

As many of you already know, we will not be having a vote today regarding the new bylaws. Some further revisions were made at our membership committee meeting on September 12; as such, per our current bylaws we need to have a 1 month period from the presentation of the bylaws to the voting on them. I am hopeful they can be passed in our October meeting. Hard copies of the bylaws will be available at the meeting, and I’m attaching digital versions here, …

The following correspondence was sent to the WBBA delegates. There will be a meeting of delegates at 4pm on Thursday the 19th.  This meeting will be open to members. The member meeting will immediately follow.

Hi Everybody,
 
Thank you everyone for your contributions on the bylaws over the last few months.
 
There will be 2 more opportunities for discussion before we vote: 
 

Thur Sept 12, 9a Mapps Coffee / Membership Committee Meeting
Thur Sept 19, 4p Oren Gateway Augsburg / Board of Directors Meeting.

Here is the most recent version of …

Just a reminder that our monthly member meeting is coming up this Thursday August 15th, 2013- 4pm at Augsburg’s Oren Gateway Center. Stop by to pick up your complimentary wristbands to the festival!

The agenda is below, as well a few other updates.

See you in a few days,

Jamie
August – Monthly Member Meeting

4:00pm Thursday August 15 2013 –
Oren Gateway Center, Augsburg College

Agenda

4pm – Call to order

I. Welcome/Introductions (5 mins)

II. Business (5 mins)
– no meeting / minutes from July

III. Cedar Avenue Updates – Joe Bernard

IV. Committee Updates (10 mins)
– …

Greetings!

The West Bank Business Association’s Executive Committee is calling a special public forum of the WBBA membership to discuss changes to our by-laws. Over the last 3 months there have been multiple drafts reviewed and we wanted to have a specific meeting dedicated to getting feedback and input.

Wednesay, July 31st
6:00 – 7:00 PM
Augsburg Oren Gateway Center – Room 100
(this is the same space in which the WBBA holds its monthly Member meetings)
Map below

Our objective for this meeting is to solicit solutions to the following challenge: …