Welcome to the Tri-Boro Area Chamber of Commerce, a non-profit corporation serving the business communities of Bloomingdale, Butler, Kinnelon, and Riverdale.
News and Upcoming events for the Tri-Boro Area Chamber
Kickoff meeting to be held January 13, 2010 at Lina's Restaurant
November Minutes added to the January News
Happy New Year and Welcome to a Productive 2010 for the Tri-Boro Area Chamber of Commerce
JOIN US JANUARY 13 FOR OUR KICK OFF MEETING!
Wednesday, January 13 2010 will be our kick off meeting for the year. The meeting will be held at Lina's Restaurant starting at 12pm. We hope to see all of our members there.
Interested in joining the Tri-Boro Area Chamber and want to see what its all about?
Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch?
Minutes of the Tri-Boro Area Chamber of Commerce
At Lina’s Restaurant
November 11, 2009
In Attendance
Jerry Vinci President Acu-Data Business Products Inc
Jim Murasko V. President Allstate Insurance
Karen Austin Secretary Valley National Bank
Denise Brewster Treasurer Brewster Chiropractic
Lina Pagliarulo Trustee Lina’s Restaurant
Dave Warfield Trustee Retired
Julie Abels Weichert Realtors
James Affinito Climate Plus LLC
Joan Antonelli Antonelli Jewelry
Deb Arena State Farm Insurance
Blythe Bedell Treps
Lisa Bendel Lia Sophia Jewelry
Lucille Brule Blue Realty
Brandon Ciercieli Suburban Trends
Scott Clause Fred’s Town Garage
Helyne Czajkowski The Health Center at Bloomingdale
Fred Garcia Fred’s Town Garage
Kenneth Ginefra GCS Consultants and Computer Repair Center
Michael Hauck Air Expo LLC
Elaine Gordon Griswold Special Care
Donna Monfelt Space Stor Self Storage
Steven Monfelt Space Stor Self Storage
Ed Morba Family Home Funding
Janis Nelson Growing Kids/Renewal
Krissy Nelson Growing Kids/Renewal
Bernice C. Oberndorf The Health Center at Bloomingdale
Lindsey Sass The Healing Center
Mark Rostek Retire in Comfort
Sandra Rostek Retire in Comfort
K. C. Smith Suburban Trends
Linda Lee Sokerka Coldwell Banker Real Estate
Kristen Totaro N2 Publishing
Vivian Vinci Acu-Data Business Products Inc
GENERAL MEETING
The general meeting of the Tri-Boro Area Chamber of Commerce was called to order by Jerry Vinci at 12:20 with a salute to the flag. A moment of silence was observed in tribute to our veterans. Four officers and two trustees were present.
A motion to accept the minutes from the October 14, 2009 meeting was made by Lucille Brule and seconded by Jim Affinito.
APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP
Three new membership applications were submitted for approval.
N2 Publishing – Kristen Totaro - Kinnelon
Fred’s Town Garage – Fred Garcia – Bloomingdale
Retiring in Comfort Workshop – Sandra Rostek – Hazlet, NJ
A motion was made by Lucille Brule to accept the new members and seconded by
Karen Austin.
TREASURER’S REPORT
The Treasurer’s Report was read by Denise Brewster.
A motion was made by Vivian Vinci to accept the Treasurer’s report and seconded by Mike Hauck.
BILLS AND COMMUNICATIONS
A. Bills to be approved for payment were as follows:
1. Web site design and maintenance for 2009 $750.00
2. Fire Fighter Phil – Ad in Fire Prevention Books $199.00
A motion to pay the bills was made by Elaine Gordon and seconded by Mike Hauck.
B. Communications
1. Blythe Bedell introduced the TREPS program which is to take place this Spring in the Butler School system. It is a program which teaches students the basics of business ownership.
2. The Riverdale Art Center (RAC) grand opening was observed on 11/07/09.
C. Committee Reports
Nominating Committee – Based on interest expressed by the incumbent Trustees, Howard Ball and Bill Stanton, Lina Pagliarulo indicated both would like to serve an additional term. Michael Hauck is to serve as a no vote alternative to the Trustees. Lina Pagliarulo placed a motion to accept the Trustees. Lucille Brule moved to second the motion. The Trustee term is set to expire December 31, 2011.
OLD BUSINESS
Jerry Vinci reminded attendees to take advantage of the member to member discounts available on our website www.triborochamber.org.
NEW BUSINESS
The drawing for the annual raffle to benefit our Scholarship fund was held at 1:00PM
Winners were as follows:
Walter Bott $125.00
Linsday Sass $125.00
Lucille Brule $250.00
David Austin $500.00
The election of Four officers, President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer was held. K.C. Smith moved that the Secretary nominate all incumbent officers to serve additional one year terms. Karen Austin seconded the motion.
Elected Officers for 2010 are as follows:
President: Jerry Vinci
Vice President Jim Murasko
Secretary Karen Austin
Treasurer Denise Brewster
Elected Trustees for 2 year terms expiring 12/31/11 are as follows:
Howard Ball
Bill Stanton
Jerry Vinci suggested a tribute to Howard Ball naming him as “Man of the Year”.
Dave Warfield moved to accept the motion. Lucille Brule seconded.
The “Toys for Tots” train was scheduled to stop at Butler on 12/13/09.
Contact Elaine Gordon for information on Free Alzheimer Screening.
See Ed Morba for information on the Kinnelon Optimist Club’s Beefsteak Dinner to be held on 01/30/10. Tickets are $45.00 each.
ADJOURNMENT
A motion to adjourn the meeting at 1:30 PM was made by Lucille Brule and seconded by Dave Warfield.
Tri-Boro Area Chamber Rings in the Holiday Season with 5 New members!
Get ready for our annual Christmas
& Holiday Party!
Our Christmas Party will be on Wednesday, December 9, at 12:00 noon at Lina's Restaurant in Bloomingdale. Reservations are required, The price is $ 15.00 per person and all members are encouraged to bring their guests and employees. Please respond to Vivian Vinci at (973)838-5678 or triborochamber@aol.com.
We would like to welcome Five New Members to the Chamber: - N2 PUBLISHING - KINNELON, NJ
- FRED'S TOWN GARAGE- BLOOMINGDALE, NJ - view website - RETIRING IN COMFORT - HAZLET, NJ - view website - GCS CONSULTANTS AND COMPUTER REPAIR CENTER - KINNELON, NJ - view website - HOME ENERGY MATTERS, INC. - KINNELON, NJ - view website
We also wanted to take a moment and just say thank you to all of our members for helping to build up the chamber in 2009. We've acquired 21 new members this year alone! Keep up the good work and lets keep building this into an even greater organization.
Interested in joining the Tri-Boro Area Chamber and want to see what its all about?
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Updates From November:
- 2009 Officers have been re-elected for the Tri-Boro Area Chamber FOr 2010:
Gerald Vinci - President
James Murasko - Vice President
Karen Austin - Secretary
Denise Brewster - Treasurer
- 2009 Trustees have been re-elected for the Tri-Boro Area Chamber FOr 2010 & 2011:
Howard Ball
William Stanton
- Our Raffle Drawing was held at the November Meeting and Our Four Winners Were:
David Austin - $ 500.00
Lucille Brule' - $ 250.00
Lindsey Sass - $ 125.00
Walter Bott - $ 125.00
ALL NEWS from prior months including pictures, documentation, new members, etc. will now be in the NEWS ARCHIVE on this site.
Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch?
MEMBERS
Below is a list of handy tools for our members to use. Please feel free to participate in any of the member programs we have listed below.
SUBMIT URL
(If you are an active member, have paid your dues for the year, and have not yet given us your website link or short paragraph about your business, .
Tri-Boro Area Chamber Rings in the Holiday Season with 5 New members!