Mid City Security District - Mid City Security District, New Orleans, LA

Topics Covered

• Approving past minutes
• Accounting review
• Financial report
  
• Status of CEA
• Status of insurance
• Status of cars
• New meeting location
• Night out against crime
•  Status of bylaws
• Resolution for Liberty Bank

These minutes are approved.

Attendance:
Angela Henderson

Susan Guidry

Corey Tisdale

Romney Richard

Also in attendance: Brenda Napolitano, Isabelle Onsen, Becker Rutledge, Maggie Viteri, Jackie Viteri and Telmo Viteri.

Previous meeting minutes approval.

MOTION to approve the meeting minutes from 6-19-09 and 7-8-09 with Ms. Guidry’s changes to each. Seconded by Ms. Richard. Unanimous approval.

Accountant

Not a lot going on in the accounting realm beyond the movement of accounts to seek higher interest rates on the security district funds.
CD came due and Whitney’s rate was relatively small so we removed the money and put it into Guaranty and also Liberty Bank.
Received check for $14,000+ deposited into Liberty Bank.

Status of Cooperative Endeavor Agreement

Today, Ms. Guidry submitted a final draft of the Cooperative Endeavor Agreement back to the City.

Status of Insurance

Got a verbal acceptance from an underwriter for commercial general liability coverage, public officers and employment practices coverage and police professional liability coverage. Floyd, West and Company is the underwriter.
Eustis is the broker we have been utilizing to find insurance.
Insurance company is willing to insure us with the reciprocal indemnity agreement.

Financial Report

Ms. Rutledge will email us the financial report and Mr. Tisdale will post the financials on the website.

Update on Cars

Cars have been ordered and we are still awaiting their arrival. Original estimate was 60-120 days.
Major Norton has told Ms. Guidry that his officers are ready to begin work with the Security District with officers who have their own take home cars. 

Terms of Commissioners
The initial commissioners all serve 3-year terms.
After the initial commissioners serve, then the board members will be appointed according to Paragraph 4 section D. MCNO will appoint 4 (one from city park triangle) and Parkview will appoint 1. Those commissioners will serve staggered terms. 1, 1-year, 2, 2-years and 2, 3-year terms. After the staggered terms, all new board members do 3 years terms at staggered starts.

Status of Bylaws

Ms. Gannon was not at the meeting. She is handling the bylaws. She will report to us at the next meeting.
MOTION by Ms. Richard to defer the topic to the next meeting. Seconded by Ms. Guidry. Unanimous approval.

New Meeting Location

MOTION by Ms. Henderson to meet at Grace Episcopal from here on. Seconded by Ms. Guidry. Unanimous approval.

Night Out Against Crime

August 4, 2009  
Need to create/print updates for distribution at Night Out Against Crime Parties. Corey and Romney will help with this.

Resolution from Liberty Bank

MCSD has opened a savings account at Liberty Bank.
MOTION by Susan Guidry to ratify the opening of the account at Liberty Bank and to adopt the resolution for the account. Seconded by Romney Richard. Unanimous approval.

MOTION by Ms. Guidry to adjourn 7:20 PM. Seconded by Ms. Richard. Unanimous approval.