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Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM EST
Location: North Andover Senior Center, 481 Sutton Street, North Andover 01845
om itt a Members in Attendance:
❑x Liz Costerisan, Co-chair ❑x Renee Procopio-Melino, Clerk
❑x Judy Nigrelli ❑x Mark Wilson
Other Attendees
0 Timra Carlson
Ag'ende and Minutes:
• Call to Order
o Renee Procopio-Melino call meeting to order at 6:07PM, seconded by Liz Costerisan.
• Attendance
o Completed by Renee Procopio-Melino.
• Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes
o Renee motion to approve meeting minutes from May 7, 2025; unanimous approval.
• Sheep Shearing Festival -Feedback and Lessons Learned
• Well attended and flow of event was seamless
• Positive community feedback on entertainment
• Youth Center volunteers were a huge help
• Sent feedback survey to vendors, lots of great and positive feedback
■ Well-organized and good communication
■ Request to not increase vendor pricing for next year
■ Beer tent sold out right at end of event-good planning
■ Vendors who are further away from stage had less foot traffic during the
entertainment
• Finalized value of raised funds are pending but estimated to be -$4,000
• Renee authored a "Sheep Shearing Playbook" to capture all logistics and lessons learned.
• AOB
• Summer Fitness Series
• 12 spots still open in the schedule
• Continue to look for certified fitness instructors to fill the spots
• Christmas Tree Lighting
• Potential for hot chocolate vendor/ideas
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• Stop & Shop to donate cookies? Other local businesses? Approximately 1000
cookies?
• Looking for quotes for tree lighting vendor
• 4t" of July Fireworks
• Liz reached out to vendor; they are working with the fire department directly but asked
for primary contact info for the event
• Liz to reach out to NAFD to get primary contact for the vendor
• Renee to coordinate ice cream truck(s)to be at Kittredge and NAHS during the event
• Crafts & Cocoa with Santa
• Need a Santa
• Character costumes— high school volunteers?
• Start looking for crafts
• Storage Unit
• Renee and Liz to clean out storage unit; DPW interns to help move what is left to old
Senior Center storage closet
• Setting of Next Meeting Date
o Next meeting date planned for August 7, 2025.
• Adjournment
• Renee Procopio-Melino motion to adjourn, seconded by Liz Costerisan, unanimously in
favor. Meeting adjourned at 7:16 PM
Vcued D cisiohs
None.
Action 1trns:
Actions Owner
Actions captured in minutes above.
Append ix' 'A. Attchrnent
None.
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