As of January 31, 2021, Joe K. reports that the treasury contains $4,652.73. The tax papers for the foundation have been filed with HR Block. The paperwork for the tax report to the State of Maryland has been filed, due in April. The federal tax papers are due in May. Members who made donations to the foundation in 2020, should have received tax information in the mail during January from myself and Joe K.

Membership stands at 43 members with the latest members being Deborah Goldman, Dr. John W. Hawkins, Leon Kalas, Jane Currier, and Colonel Allan R. Burke.

I have been in recent contact with Joe Hopkins who has donated Hopkins Family memorabilia to the foundation – letters, deeds, photos and furniture including a grandfather/ case clock dating circa 1780. He and his wife hope to visit Havre de Grace from their new residence in Ohio in May.

FYI, The dates for the Community-wide Yard Sale have been picked for 2021. They are Saturdays, April 17 and September 11 from 8am to roughly 4pm. Raindates are the Sunday after. I have been working with Lauri Orzewicz and Bonnie Castillo at the HDG Visitor Center with the yard sales for many years now. Since sites are scattered around the HDG community, a comprehensive list is provided by the visitor center on its website and on flyer form near to the dates of the sales. . Flyers are available at 226 North Union Avenue and the visitor center- 450 Pennington Avenue on the dates of the yard sales. Also spaces are available to folks who wish a downtown location at 226 North Union Avenue for $10 with proceeds going to the foundation treasury. Please contact me if interested.

ADDITIONAL NOTES FROM Bambi Johnson, Executive Director, Havre De Grace Alliance
In Addition, As you know, the HDG Alliance applied for the Governor’s Maryland Strong Economic Recovery Initiative (MD-SERI) grant. This grant program, which is administered by the Maryland DHCD, is for the state’s 33 designated Main Street Maryland communities and Baltimore City’s 8 designated Main Street neighborhoods to support the economic recovery of local Main Street businesses. We were originally awarded $150,000.00. But wait!! On Monday, in addition to the Relief Act legislation that was signed, SB496 was also signed. This allocated an additional $2 million to the total amount of funding. As a result, all of the awards were recalculated and the Alliance’s award was increased to $210,474.00!

Once all the paperwork is signed and the money is in our account, we will begin distributing it to the Main Street businesses and non-profits. Each of them only needs to fill out a very simple form to receive funds. The funds will be disbursed evenly among those who submit.

We are so proud of this effort and a big “thank you” goes out to Julie for writing the final grant and to the executive committee for convening to lend us their wisdom and guidance! Also to Joe Smith, Rebecca Jessop, Lauri Orzewicz and Johnny Boker for your ongoing work to help us establish the gift card program.

HISTORIC HAVRE DE GRACE FOUNDATION-July 28, 2020 Meeting

Attending: Ron Browning, Darlene Perry, Kathy Keen, Kathleen Lee, Roger Lee, Jean Johnson, Judy Plitt, Carolyn Zinner, Joyce Rodgers, and Joe Kiester.

Budget $2806.60 as of June 30, 2020. Joe K. is our new treasurer.
Taxes have been filed for 2019. Membership cards have been mailed out to all members. Tabitha created the membership cards and the website.

The Foundation needs to attract business memberships. Carol Nemeth (Spencer-Silver Mansion) and George Wagner will offer business discounts. We now have 25 members.

Tabitha has been putting blogs from and about various historic sites on our website. Please give merchants a brochure. Ron is working on a credit card account so we can accept credit applications from memberships and donations. Tabitha is working on a crowdfunding account for the Foundation for projects we may want to do.
The John O’Neil statue is put on hold for now. We need to do more research on him. We may have a plaque honoring him.

Grant: Jean Johnson, Dianne Klair, and Carolyn Zinner have been working on a grant to have a new survey done of all homes built before 1970 in the Historic District of Havre de Grace. An Intent Letter was sent out last week. We are asking for $40,000. This would pay for a Historic Architectural Historian to conduct the survey with the help of volunteers. The volunteers would be paid $25.00 an hour.

There were no new announcements.
Meeting was adjourned at 7:41 PM
Respectfully submitted by Kathleen Lee, secretary

Meeting of the Historic Havre de Grace Foundation, July 23, 2019 was held at 226 North Union Avenue.

Attendees present : Ron Browning, Richard Stubing, Roger Lee, Kathleen Lee, George Wagner, Julie Runkhe, Carol Nemeth, Jim Nemeth

Actions : Attorney Woody Stark’s letter and the annual report for 2019 were mailed to the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation.

We have yet to file the IRS form 990N

Suggestions for logo design for the foundation.

Laurie Dawson will work upon a membership application form. Decisions must be made about membership fees.

Jim Nemeth and Ron Browning will work upon setting up a checking account for the foundation at APGFCU credit union.

Tabitha Boehmer and Jay Loane will be working upon a foundation website/ blog of information/ and membership list.

A thank-you note should be sent to attorney Woody Stark for his efforts in getting the paperwork completed and filed for the foundation.

Notes from meeting submitted by Ron Browning

Meeting of January 28, 2020, of the Historic Havre de Grace Foundation was held at 226 North Union Avenue

Attendees present: Ron Browning, Kathy Keen, Darlene Perry, Roger Lee, Kathleen Lee, George Wagner, Kevin Purcell

Report from treasurer Jim Nemeth: $30 was earned from ticket sales to the Oyster Feast in November. Letters will be sent to members for tax purposes (Ron Browning, Darlene Perry, Joe Kiester}. Tax papers for 2019 will be filed with IRS and Maryland (Ron Browning, Joe Kiester, Jim Nemeth}, at H &R Block in Havre de Grace.

Membership cards were produced by Tabitha B. They will be printed at Office Centre and mailed to membership (Ron Browning / Joe Kiester}.

Encourage members to seek businesses that will offer discounts to members in exchange for listings to membership and inclusion on our website. (Already Bahoukas Antiques (George Wagner} and Spencer-Silver Mansion B&B (Carol Nemeth} are open to this idea.}

Receipt of letter from attorney Woody Stark, thanking us for honorary membership.

Donations have been made to the foundation for the future Moore Family Homestead site— a chair by Robert Greene, and a rocker by Peter and Carolyn Zinner.

Notes submitted by Ron Browning

NO meeting will be held Tuesday, February 25, 2020 as this is Mardi Gras in Havre de Grace and members will be participating in the parade that evening. Next meeting will be Tuesday, March 24, 2020 (NOTE: this meeting was suspended due to the Covid-19 ban on meetings}