Bob Harry presented the new regulations coming into effect for food handlers in the risk 3 establishments. The employees will need more than 4 hours of training. There are new instructions in advance preparations, cooling and reheating. The new danger temperature zones are 41 degrees for cold and 135 for hot. There is also an added serve safe class that will entail 1 to 1 and ½ days. Bob will be teaching these new classes in the fall. If the local restaurants are interested he will be looking for the best location. Mike Federici said maybe he would have his upstairs available. The class day will run from 8 to 5.

Mike Federici said he still has enough post cards for motorcyclists to cover the first Kurise.

The co-op advertising for Shop/Dine/Discover that Sylvia put together was reviewed again and still determined to be too expensive for most to participate.

Jayne reminded everyone that the Annual Meeting is scheduled for May 9, 7 p.m. at the Partnership offices. At that time the reigns of this committee will be turned over from Keith Lewis to Mike Federici.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 3:45.

3:00 p.m. @ the Court Jester

In Attendance: Jayne Carr, Eric Darnley, Keith Lewis, Giorgio, Mike Federici, Angelo from Stefano’s and Mike Page.

The minutes of the meeting of March 6, 2007 were approved as presented.

Mark Lamhut at Paul-Mark has the final edits and photos for the upcoming restaurant guide. He should have a proof ready by next week. Giorgio asked that the South Street Steak House be included. This is a new venture for Giorgio and his partners. They have purchased the old Portobello restaurant and expect to have a new steak house opened within six week.

Jayne presented the watercolor of the restaurant promenade that was made by our local artist, Mary Caruso Albert. Mary is proposing that the cost to us for the original print will be $200. the one time usage for the restaurant guide would be of no charge and we will include an ad to read “Cover Art – Restaurant Row, By Mary Caruso-Albert, Prints and other works are available upon request. Contact the artist at 732-431-2534”. Jayne will propose to Mary that if we sell two prints at $200 and buy the one for ourselves in return for branding this picture with future marketing pieces of the Partnership. We will additionally agree to ad the advertisement for the artist with each use.

Mike is checking with Verolla Meats to see if they are willing to add to the sponsorship costs of this piece. Eric offered to contact Quorum his coffee distributor.

Sylvia will be providing exact and multiple options for the proposed Shop/Dine/Discover co-op advertising in the local newspapers.

The trash pick up schedule was discussed. There will be 3 six-yard and 2 four-yard dumpster in the dumpster area. All of them are emptied on Mondays and Fridays.

The Borough intends to get padlocks through J&H to have everything in this area locked down.

The Holiday Trolley and the Freehold Idol plans were not presented in Jane’s absence.

Mike reported that there is a scheduled meeting with the Borough Administrator and the Police Chief next Friday to go over the plans for this season’s Kruise Nite.

Mike met with representatives of the Freehold Kruisers last week. They intend to continue their assistance during Kruise Nite. They are looking to increase their payment to $200. per night and Mike agree to the increase. We are looking toward making West Main Street restricted to specialty cars/trucks.

Mike will provide an update on the final plans at our May meeting.

The annual meeting of the Partnership is scheduled for May 9th, 7 p.m. at the Partnership offices. This is the meeting whereby we vote on Board of Directors and the 2007/2007 budget for the year.

Eric asked about the Holiday Trolley. We are in the development stages for a trolley ride through town on the weekend of December 15th and 16th from 5 to 9 p.m. Sylvia’s office will be approaching both Nestle’s and Old Monmouth Candy to see about making them a stop on the tour with a demonstration. Eric stated that his manager is the candy maker for Old Monmouth so he thought that might serve as a great assistance. He will approach the manager for the contact. We are also working toward Center Players providing actors and actresses to ride the trolley dressed and acting out the theme whatever we decide that to be. (Similar to what is done in Disney)

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

3 p.m. @ the Court Jester

In Attendance: Jayne Carr, Mike Page & Mike Federici

With attendance at 3 members it was discussed how imperative it will be to encourage as much participation as possible for the upcoming April 3rd meeting. Topics that will need to be addressed will be Kruise Nite, Freehold Idol, finishing touches to the upcoming Restaurant Guide and budget request for the 2007/2008 budget.

Basic numbers for the budget were reviewed; last years request and expenditures and next years proposed projects and their funding.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 3:45 p.m.

3 p.m. @ Tony’s Freehold Grill

The minutes of the meeting held January 3, 2007 were approved as presented.

The committee agreed that with the delay in moving forward while working with Ansorge that it would be more productive to take out the restaurant portion of the directory and make it a stand-alone project. Jayne will re the records to see what the exact amount that has been donated and sponsorships along with what had been budgeted under restaurant directory. Mike also asked Jayne to find the final disk of pictures that had been taken by the Studio.

When the disc is located Mike asked for help in reviewing for new picture selections, new copy and a cover change. Keith Lewis, Mike Federici and Tom Iliadis all agreed to help in the review. The target date for completion is one month.

Jayne reported that Sylvia would have new event calendars for distribution. There was a request to add to the schedule the Born to Run Race and the Memorial Day Parade. Questions on the American Idol project were bumped back to the marketing committee for resolution.

The dumpster in the Market Yard lot has been bungee corded to keep the gates closed. The Executive Committee is still negotiating the financing issues. The redesign will not be possible until the financing is resolved.

Tom announced that the diner would have its 60-year anniversary this year. He is working on celebration and marketing to mark this special date.

Mike Page, Rob Kash, Jayne Carr and Joe Bellina are scheduled to meet with Michele Wilkes this Friday. Michele is a very successful development and strategist in the commercial real estate world. She has done extensive work in Long Branch @ Pier Village and in downtown Red Bank.

The next meeting of the Restaurant Committee will be held on March 6th at the Court Jester.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:30

In Attendance: Jane Gursky, Jayne Carr, Rob Kash, Mike Page, Giorgio & Herman from Casa Latino.

Mike Page ran the meeting in Keith’s absence.

There was some discussion about the independent company Ansorge that will possibly be producing the upcoming business/restaurant guide. Thee committee feels that if this does not move forward quickly that they would prefer to do this edition independent of the business guide.

Mike reported that he has not yet received a proposal from the culinary school @ Freehold Borough High School.

Rob reported that the cost of the proposed new dumpster and its enclosure is approximately $50,000.00. We are working with the Borough and the County on financing this as one of the infrastructure projects. We will know more after the 22nd.

Jane Gursky reported that Wayne Delhagen no longer works for the News Transcript. Sylvia is working to develop a marketing program with the person taking Wayne’s place.

The final event schedule was distributed. Jayne asked Jane to make sure that everything to do with marketing make a pass through Jayne before moving forward.

Jane suggested that we might look into having people who would like to sell their antique cars as part of the spring antique festival. Everyone agreed that this might work as a good addition to the event. Everyone agreed that music was important to give it the festival feeling.

Wednesdays at the gazebo will be the audition for Freehold Idol from 6/13/t o 8/23 (10 nights) from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The committee would like Spook Handy to help to organize the event with Jane and Sylvia. The committee feels strongly that the prize for this event should be a Jeep in order to attract the crowd we are looking for.

Info on the trolley tour is not yet available.

Mike asked that Rebel Yell from Howell High School be contacted to see how they could be incorporated in any event we are having. Everyone was very impressed with their performance at the gazebo with Santa. Everyone agreed that this is a local resource that we should use and support.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4 p.m.

The next meeting is scheduled for February 6th, 3 p.m. at Tony’s Freehold Grill.

In attendance Mike Federici, Sylvia Allen, Jayne Carr and Keith Lewis

The Ansorge Company out of Red Bank is working to complete the business directory and make it fully self-sponsored. They will also be coordinating with Sylvia so that sponsors are not overly solicited.

Jayne reported that Mike Page and Rob Kash continue to meet with the County officials to try to obtain a loan to amortize the cost of the Market Yard dumpster and the restriping project. The committee will continue to be updated, as information is available.

Jayne has purchased a digital camera and a printer in preparation to take pictures of children with Santa Claus at the gazebo. The two dates advertised are December 9th and 16th from noon to 3 p.m. Mike Damico, a friend of Jayne’s has agreed to play the part of Santa Claus. We were planning on paying Santa $75 per day but Mike wants his $75 donated for a good cause. On short notice there has been minimal advertising but the committee is in hope of generating continued outside attractions throughout the holiday season.

Some suggestions for the upcoming 2007-event schedule are breakfast with the Easter Bunny and Santa. The Board has approved the previously proposed event schedule.

Sylvia reported that she has Desiree Berengeur-Carton and Christie dedicated to marketing Freehold out of her office.

Jayne reported that she has been in touch with Wayne Delhagan from the News Transcript and he is definitely interested in working with us on a battle of the restaurants for the Fall San Genera/Antique Fest. He was unable to make today’s meeting but will be at our next meeting.

With no further business the meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.

The next meeting will be at Solo’s in hopes of attracting better attendance for the snacks and it will be on Wednesday the 3rd so there is recuperation time after New Years.

In Attendance: Jayne Carr, Mike Page, Mike Federici, Spats Federici, Keith Lewis, Ben from Quiznos and Sylvia Allen.

The minutes from the meeting of September 5, 2006 were approved as presented.

Jayne announced that the 2006 Semi-Annual meeting of the Freehold Center Partnership would take the place of the regularly scheduled Board of Directors meeting in November. The date is November 8th and the time will be 8:30 a.m. at the Partnership’s office. Jayne explained that this year’s meeting would be a little different than in the past. Jayne is creating a power point presentation that will review the past 15 years of accomplishments of the Partnership. Proud to be a Partner awards will also be given to eight recipients this year.

Sylvia reported on the total of 20 tickets that were sold at this year's Dine Around. Some of the reasons given for the low turnout were that the price was too high, there were too many restaurants participating and the advertising went out too late because the buy in to participate from the restaurants was too late. The twenty who did attend loved it and next year Sylvia will request that those who want to participate should let her know by 1/1/07. The ’07 event is scheduled for August 23rd. Sylvia when she held this event in Asbury Park, the first year’s attendance was 100.

The committee reviewed the San Gennero Fest. It was recommended that we add more clowns, stilt walkers, balloon, face painters and music. The date of the 06 event fell in conflict with the seafood festival at the shore. It was suggested that Sylvia talk to Anthony about ideas from the San Gennero run in NYC. A suggestion was to have the restaurants set up shop right in front of their restaurant and then have few traveling food carts for the day. Another suggestion was to have a return of the gurney races. Jayne will contact Wayne Delhagen from the Transcript. Wayne was the one who organized this in the past.

Mike reported that he did not have an update on Kruise Nite because they have yet to meet with the Chief and Administrator on this.

Mike is working with the photographer from the Studio to finish up the photos for the reprint on the directory.

Mike Federici reported that the cleanup day for the dumpster area has been changed form Mondays to Tuesdays at 4. There is a need for the restaurant to use better bags that do not split so easily. There is an issue at the dumpster that it is currently being used by the whole town. This will be resolved when the new design and plan are in place. The bids to do this job properly are about $50,000.00. The Board is looking at the possibility of financing this and a couple of other large projects and then pay them out over a 5 to 10 year period. This will allow us to address some large infrastructure projects without strangling the day-to-day cash flow. Part of the dumpster plan is that there will be 1 gate, 1 key and 1 lock. It will be surrounded by a six foot fence and have 18” curbing. Part of the cost is demolition, engineering, signage and lighting. The Borough has agreed to absorb the costs for labor & permits.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:30.

In Attendance: Mike Page, Mike Federici, Jane Gursky, Jayne Carr, Keith Lewis & Tom Illiadis.

The minutes of the meeting held on August 1, 2006 were approved as presented.

Jane Gursky reported that she has 9 restaurants confirmed to participate in the upcoming Dine Around event. Diageo will be making the liquor donation and it will be served at the gazebo. The banner will be going up this week. Tickets will be sold at the Partnership office, Allen Consulting, Especially for You, Federici’s and CentraState. Participants will also be able to purchase ticket the night of. The menu will consist of 3 appetizers at each restaurant featuring their individual specialties.

As of today’s date Jayne has four applications for food vendors at the San Gennaro Fest. They are, Primo’s, Stefano, Oyaka Tso and Goodfella’s. Anyone who has not saved their signs from last year should let Jane know so she can have new ones made up. Everyone must bring his or her own fire extinguisher.

Mike Page stated that he would report on Kruise Nite at the next meeting. We have not had a meeting with the Borough and the Police Department yet to review and make recommendations for next year.

Mike Page and Mike Federici will be meeting next Monday or Tuesday to review the photos for the new directory. They will select photos to be used and make recommendations for any additional pictures that will be needed.

Mike Page reported that he is waiting for school to get back into to session to move forward with the program involving the culinary school. They are definitely interested in setting up a co-op internship for the students at the local restaurants.

Mike Federici reported that they are still meeting with the garbage company and are finalizing the plans for the new dumpster are and its placement.

With no further business then meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

Jayne Carr, Jane Gursky, Anthony (Stefano’s), Mike (Court Jester), Tom (Freehold Grill), Herman (Casa Latino), Georgio (Solo) and Mike (Federici’s).

Jane Gursky reported that she has nine participants for the upcoming Dine Around (September 28th). Those restaurants that have confirmed their participation are: Casa Latino, Goodfella’s, Metropolitan Café, the Court Jester, Lorenzo’s, Solo, Federici’s, the Main Street Bistro and South Street Victorian.

We have a liquor sponsor (CMSC) but Jane is still working with the State ABC to fulfill their requirements for temporary licensing.

We will be selling 300 tickets total. Tickets will be available at 2 or 3 restaurants, on the web site and through the hospital and the Child Advocacy group. If a participant has their ticket checked at every restaurant they would be eligible for a drawing with the prizes being a basket of cheer and a weekend in Freehold.

Applications for the upcoming San Genero Festival (September 17th) were distributed. Space preference will be assigned on a first come first serve basis. There will be two 16 x 16 spaces and eight 10 x 10 spaces. The application has a space to indicate needs for signage and electric. It is important to get this information quickly back to Jane so that the supplies can be ordered.

Jayne Car has requested the closing of East Main Street instead of West Main Street. Mike Page will touch base with Joe Bellina to see if this will be allowed. This will make the event contingent in space and allow for a better use of the gazebo and the Hall of Records parking lot.

Jane requested a consensus on having the musician “Tomardo” in the gazebo. Everybody agreed that this would be a good choice.

Jayne reported that the gazebo entertainment is going better than anticipated. Wednesday’s are dedicated to Spook Handy’s open mike. We are paying Spook to recruit, screen and schedule the entertainment. The entertainers are playing for free with the hope of playing on another night for a small stipend. One of the challenges of this project is funding the stipends because there are so many spaces of opportunity to play. Jayne has been distributing applications to buy a brick at the gazebo location. Benches sponsorships will also be available with three benches that would be place in front of the gazebo for listening to the entertainment.

Mike Federici has a wedding scheduled for the editor of the News Transcript. He has requested the use of the gazebo to take the wedding vows. It was agreed that he could use the space for free in exchange for news cover of the wedding. Mike will contact him.

Mike Page reported that Kruise Nite has had nothing but positive feedback so far. The diversion of the motorcycles as they leave town seems to have alleviated the concern expressed in the past by some of the residents. There also appears to be less motorcycles participating. There still continues to be rumors that this will be the last year for Kruise Nite. (unfounded)

Mike with the Freehold Kruisers and they are working on ways to bring up the number of antique cars at the event. In the past motorcycles have been allowed to park on Main Street after 8 p.m. Motorcycles will no longer be allowed to park on Main Street for the entire time frame of the event. This should alleviate any concerns that antique car owners have had about the safety of the their cars.

There appears to be an ever-increasing number of teenagers being drawn to this event. It was suggested that maybe curfew should be imposed.

Jayne has sent notice to the remaining sandwich board sign recipients who have not had their inserts made. Anthony at Stefano’s said he was unaware of the program and would like a sign for his restaurant. Jayne will contact Rob Kash to see if there are any signs available. (maybe the one in front of the Bread Box)

Mike reported that the pictures were completed by the Studio for the directory and Jayne has reviewed them to see if there was anyone missed. It was reported that the Studio has purchased a house on West Main Street and will be moving their business to this new location.

Herman said that he was unaware that pictures had been taken at Casa Latino. Jayne will check the disk again to see if this was an over sight.

Mike Page reported that he has met with the head of the high school culinary program in Freehold Borough. With a fully equipped bakery, a commercial kitchen and two experienced chefs last year’s class had a 100% acceptance to a culinary upon graduation.

Mike is working with the school to set up intern positions in restaurants of downtown Freehold. The restaurant would be responsible for writing reports but would be receiving in return free or inexpensive serious cooks.

Mike Page and Mike Federici have been meeting wit the garbage company and the Borough to address everyone’s concerns at the Market Yard dumpster site. The gates are broken, it stinks, there have been incidents of illegal dumping and some of the participants have outstanding back payments due.

There is a dumpster area at the condos on South Street in Freehold Township call Avalon. The group would like to design something along those lines, which will consist of poured concrete, steel fencing and brick pilasters. The final product will be smaller which will allow the parking lot to gain a minimum of 4 additional parking spaces. The new gate would have a keyed access. They hope to have this accomplished by late September.

Jayne announced that Downtown New Jersey’s Manager’s meeting would be held in Freehold on August 8. Tom from the Freehold Diner offered his location as a hosting place. Jayne will meet with Tom tomorrow to see if the space would work for this group’s needs. The guest speaker for the meeting will be Bob Goldsmith and the topic will be eminent domain.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:10 p.m.

In Attendance: Jayne Carr, Jane Gursky, Mike Page, Rob Kash, Mike Federici, Georgio (Solo’s), Herman (Casa Latino), Keith Lewis, Tom Illiadis, Cy & Ben (Quiznos).

Jane Gursky reported that she has sent out 18 letters explaining the upcoming Dine Around event on September 28th. She has also requested that those who wish to participate must respond to her by July 13th.

Each restaurant will set aside a space to serve horderve to participants. Each person attending will pay $75.00 per ticket with the proceeds divided between CentraState Hospital ($50.00) and the Child Advocacy Center ($25.00) Rob Kash is working with the hospital to ensure our promotion of the event. Each restaurant will donate the food and Sylvia is still looking for a liquor sponsor to supply the alcohol.

Jane Gursky reported that there would be six concerts between July and August:

7/13/06 – Full Count Big Band

7/20/06 – Saturday Night Fever

8/3/06 – The Del Vikings

8/10/06 – The Cryers

8/17/06 – Sensational Soul Cruisers

8/24/06 – Party Dolls

The committee agreed to rent a port-o-pot for Saturday Nite Fever and the Party Dolls.

Mike Page reported that although there are still some wrinkles to be ironed in Kruise Nite, as a whole it seemed to run smoothly. The Police Department was pleased with the flow and exiting of the motorcycles. Large blinking signs went up on Wednesday forewarning of the heavy traffic pattern on Thursday. The Borough had ordered an additional 75 signs for parking and way finding but they will not be completed until the June Kruise. The Coors Light girls distributed post cards to the motorcyclist but more need to be made and distributed. Jane suggested that they be placed on the motorcycles after they are parked. Mike will get some to Jayne to distribute in the restaurants before the next Kruise. They will be distributed with dinner and/or drinks that night.

At last night Council meeting the only concern raised in lieu of Kruise Nite was a physiologist who is located in the middle of the street closing and is unable to get her patients in. Additionally there are several doctors working from this location and most of the patients are senior citizens. Sgts. Roth and Healy have been assigned to come up with an equitable resolution to this challenge.

The owner of Quizno’s complained that the sausage truck was in direct competition with their business. Mike spoke with both Sylvia and the owner of the sausage truck and they will not be returning to Kruise Nite.

Jayne negotiated and purchased 37 ashtrays for the downtown. Rob and Dan Megill have marked all of the site locations. Public works will be doing the installation and Bailey’s will maintain emptying them. Jayne will be placing an order for six more units.

The 12 sandwich board signs are completed and waiting to have the white boards inserted. The following restaurants have paid for these new signs:

360

Main Street Bistro

Federici’s

Sweet Lew’s

Cornerstone Café

Solo

Oyako Tso

Breadbox

Metropolitan Café

Casa Latino

Quizno’s

The Freehold Diner

The restaurant directory is waiting for Frank of The Studio to finish taking the new photos. He is taking the pictures in exchange for an ad in the directory.

The gazebo has been cited at its proposed location. It will be delivered tomorrow.

Mike Page is meeting tomorrow with the Culinary High School to see what kind of internship program can be developed with our local restaurants.

Mike Federici and Rob Kash have met with representatives of Waste Management. The current dumpsters in the Market Yard parking lot will be reduced from 8 to 4, which will possibly gain 6 to7 parking spots. The obtrusive and dangerous existing doors will be replaced with a sliding door, the outside will be reinforced and decorated with brick and wrought iron, and a possible mural will be painted on the outside. They are also working with the Borough for water and sewer as well as a grease trap.

The next meeting with Waste Management is next Friday with the dumpster conversion taking place.

Everybody agreed that Tuesday’s at 3 works best for the majority. The 1st Tuesday of the month will be the regularly scheduled meeting moving forward. The next meeting will be Tuesday, August 1st, 3 p.m. @ Casa Latino.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

Held @ Federici's, 14 East Main Street

In Attendance: Main Street Bistro, Federici’s, Stefano’s, Court Jester, The News Transcript, Cornerstone Café, JoAnne Vero and Jayne Carr

Larry Belkin from the sales department of the News Transcript made a presentation of the option to expand the current co-op advertising piece. His suggestion is to run this 6 times with each time highlighting one of the 6 advertisers. The ad would be a full page. With six advertisers it would $160.00 per run whether that would be once a month or twice a month. The News Transcript would pay for a $50.00 drawing each month to the featured restaurant. The total cost for each run is $960.00. Larry will be meeting with those who expressed an interest.

JoAnne Vero is the newly nominated chair of the Marketing Committee of the Freehold Center Partnership. JoAnne is the owner of J Vero Associates a marketing firm on East Main Street.

Jayne, JoAnne and Sylvia have met on several occasions. One of the ideas that has come up is the need for incentives to keep employees when revenues do not warrant a financial reward. An employee especially of a small business may not see that they are valued without some kind of demonstration. The marketing committee is suggesting to the restaurant committee the possibility of making available for the Freehold businesses to buy a discount card to eat in Freehold. The committee liked the idea and Rob Kash will look into how we can make a card in house.

JoAnne has also made a commitment to work with Jayne, Rob Kash and Joe Bellina to do an updated survey and quantification of what the people in town would like to see come to the commercial district. JoAnne’s office does this regularly as part of her business so the infrastructure for a survey is in place.

Jayne reported that a gentleman named Christopher Robbins is opening a professional art studio in the old Exciting Windows location on West Main Street. He is requesting permission to set up an easel at one of the outdoor cafes and to paint. All of the restaurants were very receptive to the idea and if Christopher has more than one artist interested they could set up at multiple sites.

Mike Page has three quotes for the sound system ranging from $7,500. to $15,000. He will set up a meeting with each one so we can compare apples to oranges, get ideas for future expansion and identify any needs to start this project.

Jayne reported that Captain Dispensa from the Freehold Police Department will be running First Night again. Last year through Cecilia Reynolds the rides were paid for by the local Hispanic businesses. The Captain is looking to expand that participation to include all of the Freehold restaurants. He will be approaching businesses to be a sponsor of one of the children’s rides.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:15.

THE NEXT RESTAURANT COMMITTEE MEETING WILL BE HELD ON MAY 4, 2004, 10:00 A.M. @ THE COURT JESTER

10 a.m. @ Stefano’s Restaurant

35 East Main Street

In Attendance: Jayne Carr, Rob Kash, Mike Page, Cecilia Reynolds, Anthony, and Mike Federici.

Rob Kash introduced and welcomed Cecilia Reynolds to the committee. Jayne suggested that Cecilia join this group since many of the Borough’s Latino population is working in the restaurants downtown. Cecilia is the owner and editor of Nosotros, the local Spanish newspaper.

Mike Page is waiting for the two quotes for the downtown sound system. He also has a contact checking with Comcast to see what they would have to offer.

Rob is working with Mark from Paul-Mark printing and will work to get a proof to the committee within two weeks. This way the committee will have time to review and edit it before the next meeting.

The Parking Committee has not met again since the last report. The Borough offices are time consumed with the ongoing laborers and quality of life issues.

Rob will be collecting this week for the co-op advertising piece in the News Transcript. He will go door to door and be responsible for placing the ad.

Mike Federici reported that the rotation on the trash clean up is working much better. The four Mondays are sufficient at this time of year and will be readdressed if needed be in the summer. Each guy is working an average of a half an hour each Monday.

Rob has talked to Reggie at Nestlé’s and they are definitely interested in working with us to sponsor the trolley. Jayne will get prices before the next meeting.

Jayne is reserving comment on the upcoming Kruise Nite until she and Arthur meet with Joe Bellini. The committee is still recommending finding a way to incorporate a rain date.

The next meeting will be February 4th, 3:00 p.m. at Goodfella’s, 31 East Main Street.

10:30 a.m., @ the Cornerstone Café

MINUTES

In Attendance: Beth Wein, Jayne Carr, Mike Page, Robert Kash, Mike Federici

Mike Page is working on getting two more quotes for the sound system downtown. He will have a breakdown from street to street and each electronic feature so we can determine what we can afford and what we will be paying for. Mike also said that huge portion of the cost will be labor. Jayne will review this proposal with Sylvia who can hopefully negotiate with Comcast or JCP&L to offset some of the cost with a sponsorship. JCP&L may be a good resource since a lot of the equipment will be going on their poles. Perhaps they could write off the labor costs and we could buy the materials. Once Mike gets the additional quotes we can work with
Bill Mehr to come up with a long-term finance plan for the Partnership’s budget.

Mike Federici reported that he has been organizing with the other Restaurants to have them each send out 1 person a week to do a clean sweep. The committee decided that they will each send 1 guy to sweep and bag on Mondays at 4 p.m. Mike will make initial reminders but hopes that if this plan works for everyone that they will start to do it automatically.

Mike Federici has been named and accepted the official garbage liaison to both the Borough and the garbage company.

Rob Kash has made arrangements with the News Transcript to run a full-page ad for four weeks from before Christmas until after New Years. It will be titled “A Taste of Freehold”

Rob reported that the Parking Committee meeting was cancelled because it conflicted with the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Jayne is going to look into trolley prices. If feasible the committee would like to work on a co-op with the mall for its use.

The next meeting of the committee will be on Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 10 a.m. at Stefano’s, 35 East Main Street.

3 p.m., @ Metropolitan Café

Attendance: Jayne Carr, Michael Federici, Anthony Mallozzi, Mike Page, Keith Lewis, Bettsy Szabocsik, Rob Kash and Irwin Hahn (?).

Jayne reported that the PC&D Committee of the Partnership is scheduled to meet on Wednesday the 6th at 8 a.m. The topic for the meeting will be garbage issues. Jayne asked for a representative of the Restaurant Committee to attend and participate so that the two committees are working side by side instead of parallel on the same issues. Mike Page volunteered to attend.

The committee discussed their issues on garbage for Mike to bring to the meeting tomorrow. There are now 8 dumpsters in the yard with a Monday/Friday pick up schedule. The pick-up is working for the summer and the dumpsters are more than adequate, with some of the restaurants scaling back in their size. One problem is that with 8 dumpsters they do not totally fit in the gated area.

The dumpster door does not shut and the restaurants attending feel that 2 or 3 larger dumpsters would work out better.

San Gennero was discussed for organization. Participating so far is: The Main Street Bistro, La Cippolino, Stefano’s, Portobello’s, Sweet Lew’s, Metropolitan Café, the Court Jester and Federici’s.

Allen Consulting will order 2 tables for each booth. The restaurants will provide their own linens. (Rob will get a price to buy them in bulk.) Jayne will contact Goodfellow’s to see if they will want to participate.

A big booth is 20 x 20 @ $425.00 and small boot is 10 x 10 for $275.00.

Allen Consulting will bring in music, stilt walkers, bike riders for additional entertainment to draw people to stay.

Bettsy reported that the music would be Debra and the Dynomites, the winner of the Keyport Battle of the Bands and an additional band.

Mike Federici asked for additional signage for parking and asked of the possibility of making Sheriff Street one way the opposite way for the day. Jayne will ask Joe Bellina if this is possible.

The next and last meeting before the festival will be held on Wednesday, September 3rd, 3:00 p.m. at Sweet Lews. The reason for the change of meeting day is to not conflict with t he Labor Day Holiday.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.

In Attendance: Dan Megill, Beth Wein, Spats Federici, Mike Page, Jayne Carr and Rob Kash.

The committee met with Dan Megill to discuss some concerns with the dumpster in the Market Yard parking lot. Mike Federici put a padlock on the gate this weekend. Dan requested that the Borough get a copy. Dan will get Jayne a list of who is participating and paying FCI for garbage service at this site. The schedule of pick up is twice in the summer and once in the winter. Dan will request that FCI check the unit on Mondays to make sure it is in good service each week. Dan will request a change to Tuesday/Friday pick-ups starting May 1. The contract is up in June so depending on who wins the next contract will depend on if any of the services change. Dan stated that the public works guys check the unit every day during the week. The restaurants questioned why the costs were higher than they would get if they had a private contract. Dan said a lot of the cost is the County’s $4.00 a ton tipping charge. FCI will of course bring that into the contract cost. The committee asked if there was any means for water access to power wash the spot regularly. Dan will look into this along with asking the water department to wash it down once a month.

Jayne reported that the plans for the 225th are moving quickly. Court Jester is still committed to paying half of the cost for George Washington ($400.00). Rob Kash is catering the reception at the Historic Association. He will bear the cost but asked for assistance in serving from the other restaurants.

Jayne has a price from the company the County has used to buy their buntings at $20.00 a piece. She is requesting donations and participation to have buntings in the windows all the way down Main Street. The four restaurants present committed to $100.00 a piece. (Federici’s, Court Jester, Cornerstone and Metropolitan) Jayne will be around to pick up the checks by the end of the week.

Mike Page has researched the cost for the outside sound system with a company he has used in the past who has a good reputation. The upcoming budget has $3000.00 in it for this project. To put the system form the Bistro to South Street the cost of materials will be $10,000.00 and labor $5,000.00. Rob will present to the Board next Wednesday the possibility of making this a capital improvement to be funded over a period of years. This may also enable us to do the project on a lease agreement with the Partnership.

Spats Federici requested that we seriously consider making a rain date for Kruise Nites. Jayne will bring this up at the upcoming Kruise Nite meeting.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.

In Attendance: Jayne Carr, Irwin Hahn, Mike Federici, Keith Lewis, Rob Kash

The traveling billboard is currently located on Route #33 East by the Freehold Mall. The committee would like to renew the contract for the year 2003. Rob will be asking the Partnership to subsidize $5,000.00 towards the $11,830.00 bill this time. Because a couple of participants remain delinquent the restaurants participating for 2003 will be as follows: The Metropolitan Café, the Court Jester, Federici’s, the Main Street Bistro, the Cornerstone Caffe, Sweet Lew’s, 75 South Street and Portobello’s. Rob will follow up with each of these restaurants to confirm their participation. The cost per restaurant with 8 participating will be $850.00 each. Jayne is requesting that payment be made up front before the contract is signed to avoid delinquencies and time spent collecting.

Irwin has a design company in Red Bank. He has offered to do liven up and upgrade the graphics on the new billboard. He will need each restaurants logo in a copy ready format.

In Mike Page’s absence the discussion on the sound system was postponed until the February meeting. (Mike is on vacation) Rob is also getting pricing on a system.

Jayne has compiled all of the information for the restaurant directory. The committee assisted in filling in the blanks for those restaurants that were unresponsive. Jayne will be meeting with Mark Lamhut of Paul-Mark tomorrow morning to set up the format for printing. The committee requested that the addition of liquor available be added to the information for the restaurants that hold a liquor license.

There was discussion referring to the need for a walking patrolman in the downtown especially for the later hours of the evening. A friendly presence of someone paying attention was seen as a great asset that could be supplied. Jayne will contact the Chief to discuss these issues. The restaurant owners would also like to set up a schedule amongst themselves for an hourly look/see of the parking lots for a self-help additional eye.

Jayne reported that the PC&D Committee is requesting to put survey cards rating the downtown in the restaurants. The questionnaire will not be restaurant specific but they are asking that they be placed in and collected by the restaurants. The committee agreed. This committee also suggested that the restaurants develop discount cards that could be distributed to the jurors, residents or everyone if a slow restaurant day is identified.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting is February 4th at Portobello’s Restaurant.

In Attendance: Jayne Carr, Rob Kash, Mike Page, Spats Federici, Mike Federici, Irwin Hahn and Beth Wein.

Jayne introduced and welcomed Irwin Hahn and Beth Wein the new owners of the Cornerstone Cafe.

RESTAURANT DIRECTORY - Rob turned all work done so far on the directory over to Jayne. Jayne will finish the info for each restaurant, deliver to the restaurant owner and give one week for edits. A letter will explain that after the one week's time, the directory will go to print as presented if edits are not received. Irwin Hahn has a design company so Jayne will work with him on layout and design of a final copy. Jayne projects a finished product by January of 2003.

ATTENDANCE ISSUES AND INCENTIVES - After much discussion on ways to provide incentive for participation the committee agreed that attendance to each meeting would decrease the cost of San Gennero participation by $25.00. This will go over a ten-month span. Rob will ask the Board for a final approval of this plan. With approval Jayne will draft a letter to the twenty restaurants also indicating that any projects the committee develops and self-funds will benefit those in attendance. The committee is in hopes this will put this issue to bed and the committee will move forward on projects with those interested in participating.

BILLBOARD 2003 - The committee sees the billboard as a success and would like to continue a renewal for the year 2003. Rob Kash will ask as a budget request for $5,000.00 towards the $12,000.00 cost.

OTHER BUSINESS -

Mike Federici would like to see additional parking signs put up to direct people to the County's Lafayette lot with directionals as to how to get there. This would be especially important on event days.

Irwin's e-mail is: circa.eightysix@verizon.net and Beth's is: roxieh33@aolcom

Mike Page will contact the company that gave us a price last year on music piped into the promenade and see what the cost would be this year.

The next meeting will be held on December 3rd, 3 p.m. at the Cornerstone Cafe.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:20 p.m.

In Attendance: Janet Werner, David Singer, Mike Federici, Spats Federici, Shirley from the Court Jester, Mary Ellen McAlevey, Umberto, Robert Bancar, Kathy Andreco, Ioanna and Jayne Carr.

Ioanna from the Leadership Spa made a presentation of different options available to the local restaurants to partner with the Spa’s activities. They could cater business meetings, use the space for bigger parties or overflow of bookings including the outside yard and gazebo (weddings, bar mitzvahs, etc.) or if seriously interested become an investor of the Spa.

Mary Ellen McAlevey presented the opportunity to participate in the Great American Smoke Out Day in November. They are asking the restaurants to be smoke free on Thursday, November 21st and in return they will provide surveys to find out what the patrons think about smoke free and free advertising space while promoting the events. Rob questioned giving the surveys on the day when there are no smokers in the restaurant. Mary Ellen stated that if Rob wanted to participate she would gladly give the surveys out the week before. Spats commented that he did not want to tell his customers what to do but would be willing to try it for one day.

Jayne reviewed the new layout for the SanGennero Fest. Ten restaurants are committed at this time with CentraState supporting with generous advertising dollars. New booth signs will be made and then collected by Rob and Jayne at the end of the event so they will not need to be done every year. The cars must be off the street at 9:30 a.m. so anyone set up in the street area must have their equipment set by then. Rob is looking into having the hospital put up parking directional signs on Route #79, #537 and South Street. With the street closed it is difficult for people to find their way to the lots. Rob will start visiting and calling to try to fill the spaces for fourteen total restaurants.

A tour was offered to anyone wanting to stay and see the facilities.

The meeting adjourned at 4:15

Court Jester @ 3:00 p.m.

In Attendance: Mike Federici, Spats Federici, Rob Kash, Mike Page, Umberto Turelli, and Jayne Carr.

The traveling billboard is currently in front of the Court Jester in Aberdeen.

Rob has talked to the hospital and they are on board with full support of the fall Antique Fest/San Gennero Day. The committee is in agreement that the spring does not work for the restaurants on many levels. The spring event will revert back to strictly an Antique Fest.

The committee would like Jayne to bill the following restaurants a split on the billing of one police officer for Kruise Nite: El Meson, Sweet Lew’s, Main Street Bistro, Lorenzo’s, Cornerstone Café, Marielle’s, Stefano’s and Rita’s.

Rob reported that he is still looking for response from a couple of the restaurants to complete the directory. He will try one more time and then make the info up to a close to accuracy as possible.

Umberto would like us to think of creative ways to bring the cars on Kruise Nite down South Street to park. There are currently signs put up that only the antique cars can park on the one side. The problem is drawing them down there to do so.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.

In Attendance: Paul Saliski (LaCipollina), Mike Page (Court Jester), Mark Tango and Mike Kowalczyk (Marielle’s), Keith Lewis (Sweet Lew’s), Rob Kash (Metropolitan Café), Mike Federici (Federici’s).

The minutes of the March 5, 2002 meeting were approved as presented.

Rob Kash will be faxing the copy of billboard schedule to Jayne for distribution to the committee. Currently the billboard is located on Route 33 East just past the Shady Rest.

Jayne presented the layout for the Antique/Food festival on May 19th. There are four 16’x16’ spaces that will cost $425.00 each and ten 10’x10’ spaces that will cost $275.00 each. Jayne explained that the spaces would be allocated the same way the antiquer’s are; first come first served. This means application and check at Jayne’s office. Jayne will be mailing the applications. Requests from those in attendance at the meeting were big: Marielle’s, Metropolitan Café +1. Small: Federici’s, Court Jesters. Rob knows the following are interested in participating: Stefano’s, the Main Street Bistro, Portobella’s and the Cornerstone. Jayne will check with Borough Hall to ask to have a group food-handling license filed as was last year. Keith Lewis will call Lorenzo’s, Mark Tango will call Portobella’s and Mike Page will contact the American Hotel. Rob Kash will speak to the rest of the restaurants not heard from.

Mark Tango is going to have a pricing package ready for the next meeting. He will also contact Sylvia Allen between now and then.

Some of the restaurants have not heard back from Sakoutis Brothers.

A meeting to finalize the plans and applications for the Antique/Food festival will be at Jayne’s office on April 16th at 11 a.m.

Mark reported that the light on pole #46 (West Main Street) is still out. Jayne will contact Dan Megill.

The next regularly scheduled meeting will be May 7th.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.

In Attendance: Dan Megill, Keith Lewis, Jayne Carr, Maryanne Olivieri (Lorenzo’s), Mike Page, Mike Federici, Mark Tango, Anthony Pane, Stan Sinotsky and Rob Kash.

Mark Tango explained the representative from Sakoutis Brothers was called away last minute. He did have an opportunity to speak with John Sakoutis and relayed that any restaurant that sent a hard copy of their bill they would beat the price and continue on the same pick-up schedule. The contact is John Sakoutis, the phone number is (732) 683-0600 and the fax is: (732) 751-1755.

Mark Tango will be contacting the representatives from Coke and Pepsi to see if they will send someone to talk to us at the April meeting.

JCP&L is scheduled to shut off the electric on Friday from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Dan will talk to the Borough Administrator to see if it can be done after 3 a.m. and preferably not on a Friday or Saturday.

Rob Kash passed out questioners to be completed for the directory to move forward. The Partnership passed the budget as presented. It remains to be adopted at the Council level. Upon adoption the cost of the directory was included in this budget. Paul Mark is making a mock up in full color including the descriptions.

Jayne wanted to know if a directory sign should be made up for the Downtown New Jersey "Taste of Freehold". It is anticipated that the directory will be finished and can be handed out so a sign will not be necessary.

The traveling billboard is up and presently located on Route 9 North by the Home Fashion Center.

Rob Kash suggested looking into the possibility of getting a golf cart that would pick the garbage up in the Market Yard 3 times a day, which would keep the yard free of all containers except for the depot.

Jayne asked for volunteers to work on the layout for the Antique/Food Festival. The volunteers are: Mark Tango, Anthony Pane, Mike Federici, Rob Kash, Jayne and Sylvia.

There was a question of who changes the light bulbs in the streetlights in town. Dan Megill said this is the Boroughs job. They have ordered and just received the bulbs yesterday.

The next meeting will be on April 2, 2002, 3:00 p.m. @ Federici’s.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m.

In Attendance: Mike Kowalczyk, Mark Tango, Gary Stefano, Rob Kash and Jayne Carr

The billboard is set to go. Rob presented three prototypes for design and he will run them past those who did not attend before ordering. Rob still has not gotten an answer from Sweet Lou’s on his participation in this project. Stefano’s is not interested in participating. Once ordered it takes approximately seven days to make the sheets. Each sheet will stay at a different location for 28 days each. A snippet of what is upcoming downtown will be on each billboard location. The cost right now will be $101.35 a piece per month.

The food directory proposal came in at $3,400.00 for 10,000 copies. This covers a 7-page directory with the possibility of being smaller which will bring the cost down. This committee will be requesting that $3500.00 be budgeted in the 2002/2003 Partnership budget to cover the expense of this directory.

Jayne requested a commitment from the restaurants to participate in the Downtown NJ Conference "Taste of Freehold" on June 12th. At this point Marielles, Metropolitan Café and Stefano’s are committed.

At the next meeting a representative from Coke will be invited to negotiate being the soda company of choice for those restaurants who would like to co-op. The discussion was to determine ways for participation that would financially beneficial to the participants. There are several areas that when the ordering is collective the price will go down. The committee decided to start with soda. Jayne will send a letter out explaining the intent to the restaurants before the next meeting.

The next meeting will be 3:00 p.m. at the Main Street Bistro.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

In Attendance: Spats Federici, Mike Federici, Jayne Carr, Rob Kash and Mike Kowalcz

Jayne reported that she has contacted Freeholder Narazonick and he has given permission to the restaurant employees to park in the underutilized lot that has access on Lafayette and Sheriff Streets. It would now be up to the individual restaurants to direct their employees to do so.

The Board of Directors is working on developing the 2002/2003 budget for the Partnership. All committees must have their requests to Jayne by the end of the month. The money that was budgeted this past year to the restaurant committee will be spent out when the directory goes to print.

Rob reported that the billboard is ready to go. The cost is $1000.00 per month, which will be all inclusive. This will travel month to month to new locations for a total of 13 months at a total of $13,000.00. There will be a monthly snippet section that can be changed to denote upcoming events. The cost with the ten restaurants participating will be $100.00 per month. Jayne will bill everybody for 4 months @$300.00 per participant. This will prohibit anyone getting stuck at the end for anything unforeseen and lighten the burden for billing to the Partnership office. The poster will read "Variety is the Spice of Life".

Rob is still working on getting prices from Paul/Mark for the printing of the restaurant directory. The rest of the work is complete.

This Thursday is the Marketing Committee meeting where the restaurants and the reps from CentraState will participate to plan for the upcoming Antique/Fest Food Fest event. All are requested to attend this planning meeting.

With no further business the next meeting is scheduled at the Metropolitan Café, 2/5/02 @ 2:30 p.m.

Meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m.

In Attendance: Jayne Carr, Diana Daniel (representing the American Hotel), Mike Page, Robert Kash, Stan Sinotsky, Mark Tango, Michael Kowalcz, Mike Federici and Frank Federici.

The billboard project is moving forward with a commitment of participation from Mariel’s, Metropolitan Café, Court Jester, Federici’s, Portobello’s, Main Street Bistro, 75 South, Cornerstone Café and the American Hotel. There will be a one-time print charge of $800.00 and then the cost will be $1000.00 per month to be divided by the participants. The saying on the billboard will read "Variety is the Spice of Life" with everyone’s logos surrounding it.

Rob has pictures of everyone who will have a picture in the directory except for Eric’s. the printing will be done by Paul-Mark printing.

It was suggested that the spring Antique Fest/San Gennero (May 19, 2001) be called the "Summer Kick-Off Festival". (food, jazz & antiques) Jayne will speak to the Chief about closing off West Main, Court and South Street. CentraState hospital is onboard again which helped emmensly in the fall especially with advertising. (approx.: $20,000.00 in ads) The restaurant representation on the committee will be Rob, Umberto, Mike, Mike and Stan.

Umberto reported that there were 315 attendees at the Star Chef event and it was a great success. The local restaurants had a good participation level and the reviews were great.

Jayne will contact Freeholder Narazonick to ask permission if the restaurant employees could park in the Lafayette County parking lot. The committee wants to develop an overall parking plan.

THE NEXT MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 8, 2002, 2:30 P.M. AT PORTOBELLO’S.

In Attendance: Spats Federici, Mike Federici, Jayne Carr, Rob Kash and Mike Kowalcz

Jayne reported that she has contacted Freeholder Narazonick and he has given permission to the restaurant employees to park in the underutilized lot that has access on Lafayette and Sheriff Streets. It would now be up to the individual restaurants to direct their employees to do so.

The Board of Directors is working on developing the 2002/2003 budget for the Partnership. All committees must have their requests to Jayne by the end of the month. The money that was budgeted this past year to the restaurant committee will be spent out when the directory goes to print.

Rob reported that the billboard is ready to go. The cost is $1000.00 per month, which will be all inclusive. This will travel month to month to new locations for a total of 13 months at a total of $13,000.00. There will be a monthly snippet section that can be changed to denote upcoming events. The cost with the ten restaurants participating will be $100.00 per month. Jayne will bill everybody for 4 months @$300.00 per participant. This will prohibit anyone getting stuck at the end for anything unforeseen and lighten the burden for billing to the Partnership office. The poster will read "Variety is the Spice of Life".

Rob is still working on getting prices from Paul/Mark for the printing of the restaurant directory. The rest of the work is complete.

This Thursday is the Marketing Committee meeting where the restaurants and the reps from CentraState will participate to plan for the upcoming Antique/Fest Food Fest event. All are requested to attend this planning meeting.

With no further business the next meeting is scheduled at the Metropolitan Café, 2/5/02 @ 2:30 p.m.

Meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m.

In Attendance: Cammie Warner, Jayne Carr, Stan – Cornerstone, Spats – Federici’s, Adam Pennetti, Debbie Burak, Umberto – Portobella’s and Rob – Metropolitan Café

Debbie Burak and Adam Pennetti made their presentation on behalf of the Freehold Borough High School’s 75th Anniversary Homecoming. The parade will be at 1:00 on October 13th followed by the football game at 2:00. There will be a dance in the evening, which will end at 10:00 p.m. It is anticipated that the students will then proceed downtown to the restaurants.

The committee is asking the local restaurants to participate in the school spirit by naming their specials after the high school the week before. (i.e. Colonial burgers) Debbie also requested that if any of the local business owners are graduates are alumni of the Borough High School they are being asked to ride in the parade.

Cammie Warner and Umberto made a presentation on behalf of the March of Dimes. On December 3, 2001 the Star Chefs event will take place at the American Hotel. This is the 1st time event for the County of Monmouth. Many of our local restaurants have signed up to participate. Anyone who has not yet signed up should do so to be included in the advertising.

The San Gennero Fest was seen as a daunting success. Next year will see some changes in planning with more room allotted and perhaps Main Street closed. It was suggested that the event be made to last 2 or 3 days. It was also suggested that it be held in conjunction with both Antique Fests – Spring and Fall.

The date for Centra State’s "Safe Food Handling" program was rescheduled for October 3rd, 2:30 p.m. at the American Hotel. As of today’s meeting 13 employees were anticipated to participate.

Mike Page has turned his work to date on the dining guide over to Rob Kash. Rob is in the process of getting the final information to move this project forward. Rob is also in the process of collecting info on the traveling billboard program.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

Marielle's

Jayne reported that the hospital has scheduled the "Safe Food Handling" class for Friday, September 28. A notice will be going out requesting names and needs of participants.

Valet parking has been officially cancelled. The committee decided that at the end of October they might revisit this issue when the need will be more pressing. A final invoice will go out this week.

Mike Page has been working on the dining guide and passed around a prototype for everyone to give suggestions to. Mike will send this to Mark Lamhut and Jayne will check with the Board to see if any money is within the budget to support this. Mike will send the restaurants a form to complete with their individual information.

San Gennero is set for the 23rd of this month. Space is still open for additional participation. Those who are signed up need to get their menus to Rob before Friday to have the signs completed. Provided in the sign up fee is: 10x10 tent, 2 6’ tables, linens and signage. Cooking and serving utensils are the responsibility of each restaurant. Rob is trying to get Norkus to provide the paper products. A hand wash sink and port-o-pots will be provided.

The next scheduled meeting is October 2, 2001, 3:00 p.m. @ Cornerstone Café.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m.

Court Jester

Meeting called to order by Rob Kash, Chair.

Ed and Carlos attended representing Prestige parking. Jayne reviewed what some of the obstacles have been with the valet service so far: We just received the certificate of insurance last week, the 1st week the valets were double and triple parking in the Triangle lot and moved their location in the Market Yard lot, signs were just completed this past week to advertise the service, two weeks ago the valet were turning people out of the Triangle lot if they were not going to one of the participating restaurants, the valets continue to park in the immediate lot they are taking the cars from instead of the County lots. Other than this…

Ed introduced Carlos as the new person who will be on site supervising the operation. Many of the employees that have worked so far have been fired. All of the mentioned items either have been or will be immediately remedied. The hours will now be from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Umberto from Portabello’s had a large hardship from the service as it had existed then when he advertised that it was available we suspended the service last weekend. All of these lines of communications need to be resolved immediately.

The signs will say: Valet parking for:…

All others: $4.00

Ticket must be validated

Additional 4 signs will say: Valet Parking:
Market Yard

Triangle Lot

Umberto is making a flyer for the valet parking

The site for the Market Yard is going to move to the alley by the Hotel.

The Billy Goat is still homeless. Jimmy at the Hotel said that with the use of his dumb waiter that it could be stored in his basement. Jayne will ask Al Michenfelder if he would have the time to use it on the promenade if we paid him. The committee wants to limit the use to one or two operators.

It was reviewed as to how the 3 officers for Kruise Nite are paid for. Rob Kash suggests that we bill all of the restaurants a minimal charge. The logistics will continue to be reviewed.

Jayne and Rob have been coordinating with Centra State the San Genera Fest to be held in conjunction with the Antique Fest on September 23rd. Rob is asking the local restaurants that if they are interested in participating to come on board quickly so others outside of the downtown can be approached to fill any voids.

The next meeting of the Restaurant Committee on August 7, 2001 will be held at the Portobello Restaurant at 3:00 p.m.

The meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.

In Attendance: Mike Page, Mike Federici, Spats Federici, Jayne Carr, Joseph Bellina, Art Kondrup, Loretta Kuhnert and Aqim (Jimmy) Kelmendi.

Mike Page called the meeting to order in Rob Kash’s absence.

Joe Bellina has reviewed the contract for valet parking with the chief of police and they are recommending two drop off sites. At the end of the alleyway between the Metropolitan Café and Bill Mehr’s office in the Market Yard parking lot (Not to block Federici’s pick-up area) and at the gazebo in the Triangle parking lot. An additional parking lot that may be used is the lot on Throckmorton Street belonging to 36 West Main Street. Jayne will touch base with the realtor to see if the owner would be agreeable to this. The insurance policy would have to have additional insured the Borough of Freehold held harmless since this is their property.

Spats still has some concerns in reference to the cost since someone using the valet for his restaurant may only be spending $12.00 for dinner. He is agreeable to trying it out and dividing the cost on a two-month trial.

Arthur Kondrup presented the KaBOOM! project and asked for a commitment to donate food for the project. He is looking for buns, rolls and coffee for breakfast and sandwiches and wraps for lunch. Art will follow up with letters and individual requests as the event nears. Those in attendance are willing to help with food donations.

Joe Bellina and the Chief of Police have been walking the Market Yard parking lot several times a day since the County moved the Clerk’s office last weekend. Their assessment is that there is ample parking for the County employees. The title searchers are encroaching on the Market Yard spaces. There is a lease agreement in place with Stavola for the Hudson Street lot. This lot has been cleaned but as of yet not paved. Starting tomorrow those illegally parked will receive a warning. A week from Monday tickets will be issued. The County will be sending out notification to those in the building. The Borough is looking into hiring a retired police officer to be a special for patrolling the parking lots.

Jayne reported that the Billy Goat vacuum has been purchased by the Partnership. There are two issues to resolve: use and storage. The restaurants have agreed to coordinate hiring one individual to vacuum the promenade, front and back, once a week and split the cost of his salary. There is still no resolution to the storage issue.

The meeting adjourned to a demonstration of the Billy Goat by Dave Coulombe.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

In Attendance: Main Street Bistro, Metropolitan Café, LaCipollina, Federici’s, Court Jester, Cornerstone Café, American Hotel and the Center Players.

The meeting was called to order at 3:15 p.m.

Jayne Carr introduced David Sorin of the Freehold Center Players/FCP Cultural Arts Committee, Chair to the rest of the committee.

Dave gave a brief history of the Freehold Center Players and the new playhouse located on the corner of South and Mechanic Streets. The first opening performance had sold performances every night including the two additional shows that were added. The theater group has worked with the Cornerstone Café, the American Hotel and most recently with Portobella’s. The group would like to have the opportunity to work with all of the restaurants that want to be included.

The CAC committee has discussed a Discover Freehold Weekend Getaway, which would include limo service, coupon books, dinner, theater and a night at the bed & breakfast.

There was much discussion on setting up dinner theater packages. The same price across the board would not make sense for the restaurants across the board. Each restaurant will submit to Jayne a price and menu option to coordinate how the packages may be offered. The price could vary per restaurant or the restaurants could rotate with different performances. The theater would collect the money for the restaurants with the ticket price and then reimburse at the end of each weekend.

The theater anticipates four shows this first year.

The theater will be putting on a sock-hop at the 5/31 Kruise Nite. They anticipate a different theme for each Kruise of the summer.

Jayne discussed the fact that Kruise Nite has become so branded that few people read past that to realize that it is the Kruise for the Hungry. All areas of Kruise Nite have been highly successful except for the collection of food and donations for Open Door. Much discussion took place as to how the restaurants could facilitate these contributions. Since some would like to have collection sites, some would like scouts or high schooler's out collecting donations, others would like to simply make a straight donation…each restaurant will add to the proposal for the dinner theater to be sent to Jayne how they will express their individual manner of participation in the donation to Open Door.

It was suggested that Jerry Norkus or Richard Saker could bring a can tower to be displayed at the Hall of Records to encourage participants.

Rob Kash has met with the Borough Administrator and the Police Department to discuss the logistics of the valet parking service. The traffic officer has not had his review or input as of yet. It is suggested that the pick-ups be on Main Street. We have received permission from the County to park the cars on their lots on Friday and Saturday nights. There are 130 spaces, which will account to 200 valet spaces. The valet service has to write to the County making the request a formality.

It was decided that for at least the first two months that the valet service cost will be split between the ten participating restaurants evenly. Until the service get know this will preclude on e restaurants liability to pay the whole cost. Tickets will still be punched to keep track as to the service is being used. After the two-month period this issue will be revisited. Jayne will draft a written letter to be signed by the ten participants making this commitment for the two months.

Rob Kash discussed the plan of Centra State to have a San Gennero Day festival in September with hopes of it joining the Antique Fest. The other possibility is at Lake Topenemus. The tables will be sold and then each participating restaurant would sell their food and keep the money collected.

Mike Page is working on the restaurant directory. Before Mark-O-Lite provides us with a prototype Mike needed final direction as to what we want to include in the book. All restaurants will be listed. Those participating in the cost of the project will have a write up including cuisine, cost, payment options, hours of operation, etc. (Possibly a photo).

The next committee meeting is scheduled for June 5, 2001, 3:00 p.m., @ Federici’s.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

In Attendance: Jayne Carr - FCP, Mike Page - Court Jester, Aqim Kelmendi – American Hotel, Mark Tango – Marielles on Main St., Michael Kowalczyk – Marielles on Main St., Robert Kash – Metropolitan Café, Richard Callamarus – Percalla, Frank Federici – Federici’s and Paul Saliski – LaCipollina and Umberto Turelli - Portobella.

Rob Kash called the meeting to order at 3:15 p.m.

In the absence of any antique dealers this item was passed over. Next month the Center Players will be invited to attend.

Jayne advised any restaurant that is interested in participating in the co-op advertising must contact either Sylvia Allen or Jayne by April 15th to meet the dead lines for the paper.

Rob Kash reported the information he acquired for the valet parking. The service he is recommending is Prestige Parking. For the two nights of Friday and Saturday, from 5:30 to closing, including 4/5 guys is $510.00. This includes all insurance for the limo company carrying the liability. The logistics and details must be worked out but for this price all agreed that it would make sense to move forward.

Rob has contacted Mark-O-Lite Sign Company and they will be making a mock up for a directory sign.

Jayne will make a mock up of the paper directory using the existing list from the web site.

Mike Page will be in charge of the directory guide.

The next meeting will be on May 1, 2001, 3:00 p.m., @ the American Hotel.

Umberto reported that on April 25 he would be hosting a benefit for the March of Dimes. He is looking for any and all support of the district.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:15.

In Attendance: Keith Lewis, Umberto Turelli, (Main St. Sandwich), Jerry Pane, Robert Kash, Rich Callandras, Frank Federici, Mike Federici, Mike Page, Mike Tango, Sylvia Allen and Jayne Carr.

Meeting was called to order by Robert Kash, Chair.

This being the second meeting of the Restaurant Committee with much greater attendance than the first, Jayne gave an overview of how the committee came to be with it’s purpose being to address issues that would benefit the economic development of the S.I.D. restaurant businesses.

Each month the meeting place will be rotated from restaurant to restaurant. Rob asked for a volunteer for next month and Umberto agreed to have it at the Portobello on Tuesday, April 3rd at 3 p.m. The meeting schedule will continue to be the 1st Tuesday of every month at 3 p.m.

Sylvia Allen our contracted marketing specialist made a presentation for the committees review to become a co-op sponsor of our activities. Jayne will put into writing the proposed opportunity and distribute to the committee so they will have time to review and decide on their participation. Outlining the concept is as follows: The full cost of the sponsorship is $7,500.00. The cost would be divided equally with the amount depending on the number of participants with a maximum of 10. This would mean a minimum cost of $750.00 per participant. In return each participant would receive their individual advertisement as part of a full-page ad of restaurants in the upcoming May, July, September and November issues of Focus on Freehold in the News Transcript. Additionally, each participant would be named as a sponsor of one of our individual events which would include their name in the advertising of that event inclusive and not limited to radio, banner, print, feature stories, etc.

The floor was opened to the committee for comments and additional ideas. Spatz Federici stated that since Kruise Nite was one of the most lucrative for the restaurants that we should put more focus on it and schedule a rain date for the five nights. Jayne explained that this might not be feasible. FCP is currently putting on 25 events per year with the resource outside of Jayne and Sylvia being solely volunteers. Police coverage would be needed, permits to be filed, land use permission from the Borough, insurance coverage expanded, and entertainment re-contracted. Sylvia also added that the Freehold Kruisers who are the sponsor of the car show are scheduled for other locations most evenings throughout the summer.

Robert Kash suggested that Jayne give an overview of the Partnership’s activities other than events for those present that may not be aware of them. Jayne gave an overview of all of the committees activities.

In regards to Kruise Nite it was suggested that a flyer be produced that would give a directory of the restaurants in town. There is a need for a possible directory at the corner of Main and South Street that would direct people to the other restaurants in addition to the promenade.

Rob suggested that maybe there would be a way to encourage the antique shops to remain open in the evenings especially on the weekends to give those coming to town to eat an additional draw whether it be before or after dinner.

It was suggested that throughout the summer there could be entertainment on the sidewalks in the evenings (i.e. jugglers, clowns). Sylvia and Mike Page said that Jeff Jones had always wanted to have music playing outside on the promenade in the evenings.

The issue of parking for the restaurants has always been and becomes increasingly more difficult. The committee would like to get pricing and explore the possibility of having a co-op valet service. The cost would be divided by use and the cars could be taken to an underutilized lot. (Service would not be available on Kruise Nite).

Additional suggestions were a progressive dinner, a taste of Freehold and a San Genera feast. Rich Callandras suggested that we should fully interface with the cultural arts committee and be seen as the "culinary arts".

Focusing on what could be accomplished this month Mike Page will check out the contact for the cost on the sound system, Jayne will contact the Borough to see which lots could be used for the valet parking and Jayne will send out the overview of the Marketing proposal.

With no further business the meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.