Trustees in attendance: Sue Allen; Abe Bruckman; Steve Henstridge; Greg Huth; Jim O’Connor; Alice Ratka; Dane Reich; Lynea Reindel-Derwis; Matt Reitz

Excused absence: John Appeldorn; Paul Ciupa; Christine Kowalski; David Lawhun;

Staff: Robyn Sandys

Matt Reitz called the meeting to order at 6:05 pm..

The Board discussed Councilman Cummins’ funding cut. The discussion centered on his authority to do so and the interpretation of the conditions contained in his June 6, 2008 email on the subject of the cuts.

Executive Session: The Board went into executive session at 6:20 pm.

Adjournment: The meeting adjourned at the end of the executive session at 8:05 pm.

Executive Session

I. Pending Litigation

The Executive Director presented an update on the two pending lawsuits.

Panas suit: The City asked for and received dismissal of the City from the case. The OBCDC filed an answer stating that OBCDC did not merge or take over the assets of OBNS. The attorney for Mr. Panas filed interrogatories to be answered by July 27, 2008. The legal costs to OBCDC in this case are as yet unknown.

Zeleny suit: Our employer liability insurance is covering this suit. The insurance company will count the legal fees paid to our previous attorney in this matter toward the $5,000 deductible. The insurance will waive $650 of the $5,000 if OBCDC settles the case.

The insurance company wishes to settle the case. The insurance company will pay the settlement amount. The Board discussed settling the case and voted to settle. The Board wants the settlement to include a settlement letter to keep the terms of the settlement confidential. The Board also gave the attorney representing OBCDC latitude to reach a settlement amount starting at $4,000.

II. Councilman Cummins’ Funding Reduction

The Board met individually with Councilmen Kevin Kelley and Brian Cummins to discuss Councilman Cummins’ funding reduction.

Councilman Kelley did not believe it is possible to split services on a time basis. In actuality more services go to Ward 15 than to Ward 16. Councilman Kelley has no problem with this as long as the OBCDC funding is split evenly between the two Councilmen. He saw a major problem in using an inexperienced community organization to manage an employee. Councilman Kelley was not aware of a situation similar to that proposed by Councilman Cummins.

Councilman Cummins said that The remaining $220,000 of funding was not contingent upon the OBCDC carrying out the 5 points in his email. He discussed his points at length with Board members who had questions about them. He pointed out that any community association activity would be accompanied by a memorandum of understanding between the association and the OBCDC. He went on to discuss his opinion regarding the lack of interaction between the OBCDC and the community associations.

Following the discussion with Councilman Cummins, the Board reached a unanimous decision concerning the things the Councilman wanted the CDC to do. It was that Matt Reitz, Board President was going to send a message to Councilman Cummins advising him that the board was not able to accept the conditions as described in June 6 email but was willing to work with him to address the issues discussed during the meeting. At the next mediation session OBCDC would discuss various options to address code enforcement. The Board would get back to him after that discussion.

End of Executive Session