PBIA Board Minutes from May 17

May 17, 2024

Board meeting minutes CAPTURE

PBIA Minutes

May 17, 2024

7:00 p.m.

Location: Lyons National Bank

 

Attendees: Lori Furguson, Paul Way, Terry Palis, Alina Palis, Becky Hilbert, Jeff Auser, Jon Post, Korey Post

 

Special Guests: Ann Schulte and Francine Miller

 

Absent: Chris Forster, Chip Compertore, Susie Mattle, Mike Faillace

 

Opening Remarks: Lori Furguson

  • Ready, Set, Go – it’s another start of a wonderful Summer in Port Bay

 

Approval of April 12, 2024 Minutes

  • Motion for Approval made by Paul Way

  • Seconded Jeff Auser

  • Minutes Approved

 

June 8, 2024 Annual Dinner

  • Ann Schulte and Francine Miller have taken the lead and management of the 2024 Annual Dinner

  • The boat parade theme will be displayed at the dinner – Olympic Theme Red/White/Blue

  • $30 per ticket: food will be chicken barbeque

  • Donations are being solicited for auction and raffle tickets

  • As of 5/17/24 approximately a dozen dinner tickets have been sold

  • Make sure we provide Ann and Fran on reservation numbers

  • Raffle Tickets: 25 tickets for $20.00

  • 50/50 Tickets: 3 tickets for $10.00

  • PBIA Merchandise for raffle – 5 items (new items and old items)

  • A cake will be provided

  • Ann will go to the Golf Course to ask for donation

 

Treasury Report: Alina emailed the report to all

  • In good financial position.

  • Motion for approval of report made by Jeff Auser

  • Seconded by Korey Post

  • Treasury Report approved

 

Membership:

  • 250 Thank You stickers have been mailed out

  • Ann and Fran volunteered to support membership. Susie will connect with them.

 

Golf Tournament:

  • Scheduled for June 1, 2024

  • Brian Thompson has volunteered to manage this tournament

  • Need Volunteers to help with this event.

  • Can we get a list of where/when volunteers will be needed?

 

Strawberry Festival: June 15, 2024

  • Becky Hilbert will register PBIA for the Strawberry Festival

  • Will need volunteers to assist in managing our presence at the festival.

  • We will be selling PBIA merchandise and, we will have PBIA membership forms available.

 

Boat Parade:

  • Scheduled for July 4, 2024

  • Theme is Olympics Red/White/Blue

 

Fishing Derby: Terry Palis

  • Fishing Derby will be held on September 1, 2024

 

 

REDI

  • 90% of the design report has been submitted

  • Permit has not been started yet

 

Beaver Creek Culvert Project: Paul Way

  • Bids were opened April 17. Two contractor bids were received; both of which exceeded the project budget.

  • A meeting was held on-site on May 2 to discuss options for additional funding or implementation options for the culvert project. Minutes of that meeting are attached.

  • The culvert project will be built by the Huron Highway Department. Wayne County will reimburse Huron for the work through the GLRI grant.

  • Work will begin after Labor Day and be completed prior to 11/1/24.

Town of Huron

  • The Town has expressed interest in working/supporting the PBIA for these important projects.

  • They shared a recent update on a new local law. The new local law was passed in April regarding mooring buoy specifications and it is attached.

 

Weed Harvesting

  • South Boat Launch is bad

  • Towns can contribute money to the Weed Harvesting organization

 

NOAA:

  • NOAA expects to make announcement this Summer

 

Channel Dredging:

  • Channel has been dredged

  • No complaints have been heard

  • First payment made

 

Channel Lights:

  • 2 green lights need to go in

  • Proposal for a sign on opposite side of current Channel Sign

 

Conflict of Interest: Jeff Auser

  • 501C required by law to have this policy in place

  • Jeff will have a draft by Wednesday, May 22nd

 

Merchandise:

  • Korey will pick up merchandise at least 1 week before annual dinner

    • Visors, caps, sun hats, sweat shirts, long sleeve t-shirts

    • 2 new designs will be introduced at the annual dinner

 

Fireworks: Chip Compertore

  • Permits are in except for the Coast Guard

  • Greg LaValley is on board to use his barge again this year

  • July 3rd – Ring of Fire is at 9:15 and Fireworks will start at 10:00

  • Flares will be ordered in early June and distributed by mid- June

  • 12 cases of flares left over from last year

 

Entertainment

  • Myrtle will work with Steve Drechsler to work on music events for this season.

 

Tax Return

  • Extension was filed and return will be prepared for review at next meeting.

 

Communications:

  • Messages received on website: when answering – should the responder hit “reply all”

  • Francine Miller has volunteered to help with Communications, Facebook, Website, etc.

  • Fran will draft a “Thank You” letter to all vendors for donations to the PBIA annual dinner

 

Meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m.

  • Motion to adjourn made by Becky Hilbert

  • Seconded by Terry Palis

  • Approved

 

Next Meeting: June 7, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at Lyons National Bank