Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting
July 21, 2026
Pillette Village Business Improvement Association
In Attendance: Tess Always, Bridget Scheuerman, Councillor Jo-Anne Gignac, Terry Yaldo, Brett Sereres, Robert Cence and David Duke
- Approval of Minutes
- motion by Tess and seconded by Terry to accept the minutes of the previous meeting. Passed.
- Roberto Cence attended the meeting and he is the owner of a new business within the BIA, Sparkling Cleaning Services and will be located at 4746 Wyandotte East. Roberto has a strong background in business and is a welcome addition not only to Pillette Village BIA, but also to the Board of Directors.
- Financial Report
- Bridget provided the following financial report
- Bank balance as of July 21, 2026 $23,837.64
- Deposit 2nd installment of Operating Budget $22,397.68
- Balance after deposit $46,235.32
- No outstanding cheques
- Capital Works balance $35,600.
- Motion by Terry and seconded by Tess to accept the Financial Report. Passed.
- Open Streets
- David reported that we will be going online with Open Streets on July 27th.
- The Board confirmed that we will be going ahead with the event, toned down a bit from the original dog themed event of May 30.
- Bridget indicated that she will have to confirm with the City how many vendors will be allowed and what parameters we have to meet.
- David will revise the website and it will be on social media as plans progress.
- We are waiting to hear from the City to confirm the route as there are some road construction issues.
- We discussed that we will require volunteers and how to get them. Jo-Anne suggested contacting Riverside Minor Hockey and Bridget also suggested that we want to ask the Human Society to attend the event and perhaps they would have volunteers.
- The event will include a Selfie Station where dog and owner can have pictures taken, Jazz Cats Band, other musicians will also be available as indicated by Brett. We will require power outlets for both of these musical groups.
- Terry will be doing a BBQ and Pup Cups,
- there will be balloon animals, face painting and glitter tattoos,
- Pawcasso event at Nancy Johns,
- kids corner
- discussion about sidewalk sale, but that would depend on what the City will approve as they are footing the bill for the road closure.
- There will be a colouring book which will feature all of the businesses within the BIA.
- Bridget will contact the City to confirm what can be done and what is now allowed.
- Emergency Strategies
- David put together ideas on how to approach the business and property owners to become part of the Board of Directors. As previously mentioned Terry will be stepping down in October and we need to increase the number of Board members.
- David started to go over his plan that he had put together, but the discussions went into several directions .
- There were suggestions as to a different time for the meetings and perhaps add food or snacks.
- Jo-Anne stated that the meetings should be kept to one hour.
- Perhaps meet at restaurants.
- Other comments centered away from the Board structure and concerns were raised about the poor presentation of flowers in the planters. Bridget indicated that the City had done the planting at no charge and that the BIA was responsible for the watering. Comments were made about the flowers in Riverside and it was indicated that was completely out of our budget and the price for those flowers was about $20,000 per years.
- The triangular banners were once again brought up and Brett said he would get prices, but needed to know the budget. Motion by Tess and Seconded by Terry to allow $500 for the purchased of triangular banners that would be placed around the planters.
Meeting Adjourned