HINCKLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PO BOX 354 HINCKLEY OH 44233
www.hinckleyohchamber.com
MINUTES: November 07, 2024 11:30
Highland Library
NEXT MEETING – THURSDAY, December 05, 2024 – 11:30AM
Hinckley Administration Building
1. CALL TO ORDER – ROLL CALL AND INTRODUCTIONS (19) – Mark Staron
Mark Staron – S&S Heating, Cooling Sheet Metal – President – Membership
Melissa Augustine-Individual – Vice President
Vickie Getz – Our Saviour Lutheran Church – Secretary
Tristan Griffin – Farming with Friends
Jim Bialosky – Individual
Annetherese Biesiada – Highland Library
Eric Lucius – Highland Library
Melinda Mallari – Precision Market Services
Nancy Mandilakis – Individual
Laura Baciu – Coco Café
George Hoose – Edward Jones
Shawn Pepera – Pepera Medical Services LLC
Lynne Rotundo – Individual
Linda Fussi-Hinckley Garden Club
David Schweyer- Baypointe Technology
Guests:
David Sambor – My Health Architect Itd
Kati White – Edward Jones
Carolyn Nagy
Ron Richter
2. APPROVAL OF October 2024 MINUTES – Vickie Getz
Jim Bialosky made the motion to accept the minutes from October.
George Hoose seconded the motion – Motion Approved
3. TREASURER REPORT – Denise Klag
Vickie Getz, from information from Denise, said we have $41,528.82 in checking.
4. COMMITTEE REPORTS
A. Membership: Annetherese Biesiada & Mark Staron –
Mark & Annetherese invite anyone interested in Membership for a meeting at
HI LOW Winery on Monday, November 11 at 11:30 with their ideas.
Membership dues are due by December 01, 2024.
Business Membership – $150.00
Non-profit Membership – $75.00
Individual – $40.00
Melissa Augustine spoke about social media posts on Facebook. If members
would like the Chamber to share a post on behalf of their business, please email or
message Melissa.
Any comments to the Chamber Facebook page that are specific to other events,
and not posted by the Chamber on behalf of the original business or in an original
Chamber post specific to the Chamber events, will be deleted to protect the
Chamber from liability as it pertains to insurance of Chamber only events.
B. Hinckley Greeters: Heather Liccardi – Hinckley Women’s Club President, Lynne
Rotundo, spoke on behalf of Heather Liccardi: Please bring business cards and/or
information to be added to the Foster Pizza Boxes to Heather. They take a break in
the winter and resume in the spring. In the future will give & get information from
Hinckley Senior Housing at Center & 130th.
C. Scholarship: Laura Baciu– Laura shared the committee will be sending
applications to the Medina Career Center and for those just starting college. The
applicants must be Hinckley residents and will be evaluated on leadership and
entrepreneurship. The committee will interview the top 5 candidates for the two
$1,000.00 scholarships.
They would also like to connect a candidate with a chamber member as a mentor.
D. Donations: Eric Lucius – There were no requests at this time.
E. Citizen of the Year: Melissa Augustine-no report.
5. SPOTLIGHTING OUR MEMBERS
Please see Heather Liccardi to be put on the speaker rotation.
George Hoose spoke on ‘what to do with our money’. Because no one contested
the winner of the US Presidency, the market went up about 3%. His advice was to
not make any rash decisions, assess your portfolio and see if it needs to be
rebalanced and ask your investor if you are invested appropriately.
Our speaker this month was Eric Lucius, manager of the Highland Library. The library is a Community Center with 2 full time and 9 part time employees. The emphasis is on Customer Service. Highland Library is not a destination library located in the middle of town around shops, etc. With your library card, you can check out Christmas CD’s, download books and audio books. Using Hoopla, you can get movies, popular television shows and music. Kanopy will bring you movies. The meeting room is free to non-profits & you can rent a Hotspot. At the Medina library you can get passport photos, use a sewing machine or a 3-D printer.
There will be no speaker in December, and we will have a catered lunch.
6. Old Business
A. Hinckley Halloween (Trunk or Treat) – Saturday, October 26, 2024
(4:00pm-6:00pm)
The attendance was phenomenal. There were about 750 children. The signs helped slow down the traffic and there was a recommendation to get a few more. Thank you to everyone who volunteered to make it a success.
B. Hinckley Holidays – December 07, 2024 (6:00pm-8:00pm)
It will take place in the gym at Hinckley Preparatory Academy. Christina McVey
will be making all the cookies for the event. The Hinckley Women’s Club will
decorate a tree in the town center, hand out cookies and water and hot chocolate
as well as read a children’s book about an ornament so that the children can then
decorate an ornament, organize holiday bingo and help with the line to see Santa.
Annetherese will read a Christmas story.
Veterans Memorial Park holiday decorating is open to the public and will
take place Saturday, November 30th from 10:00am-12:00 noon.
There will be a walk-through at Hinckley Preparatory Academy on Wednesday,
November 13th at about 5:00pm.
Mark will check with Trish about Mr. & Mrs. Claus. We will have o start planning
in September for this event.
C. 5K Run – thinking about having it around the Hinckley Bicentennial time
frame.
D. Hometown Heros – Pictures of our veterans on flags attached
to poles. Mark Staron stated that the township will proceed with
Hometown Heros according to Jim Ascherl.
E. Buzzard Sunday-Sunday, March 16, 2025 – During the pancake breakfast paper placemats advertising the Hinckley Bicentennial will be put on each tray.
F. 2nd Annual Golf Outing-Friday, May 16, 2024, at Valleaire Golf & Event
Center (8:00am-4:30pm)
7. New Business
A. Website Committee –
8. Announcements
There will be an election for President & Treasurer at the December 5th meeting.
9. Adjourn- 12:450m: Lynne Rotundo made the motion to adjourn. Motion carried.
Respectfully Submitted, Vickie Getz Secretary, Hinckley Chamber of Commerce
