Smiths Falls Downtown Business Association Board of Management
The Board of Management is the governing body of the SFDBA. The volunteer Board of Management is elected from its members and works on behalf of its members.
Our Board of Directors (made up of volunteers from
the business community) is the decision making body of the
organization. The Board meets regularly to oversee policies, financial
decisions, and general management. The Board’s powers and
responsibilities include:
selecting the Executive, reviewing
committees, hiring staff, establishing organizational polices, and
initiating and assessing programs and projects. The DBA Board of
Management establishes a budget every year which is
approved by the DBA membership at their annual general meeting in
February and then submitted to Town Council. A mil rate is calculated
by the Treasury Department of the Town of Smiths Falls to realize that
budget figure. The mil rate is applied to the realty value of the
business property and then only varies by the size of the annual
budget. The money is collected through property taxes and allocated to
the Board of Management of the DBA.
Any commerical property owners paying the DBA levy and their business tenants within the SFDBA boundries has the opportunity to apply for Board Directorship.
The Board of Management consisting of minimum five (5) to maximum twelve (12 members (sometimes called the “Board”) which members must be at least eighteen (18) years of age and officially appointed by Town Council and shall be determined as follows: eleven (11) of such members are to be nominated and selected by the Members during a nomination and election period coinciding with the municipal election period and appointed by the Town; and one (1) of such Members shall be Smiths Falls Town Councilors and shall be appointed directly by the Corporation of the Town of Smiths Falls to serve on the Board of Management.
The term of the directors of a board of
management is the same as the term of the council that appointed them
(4 years), but continues until their successors are appointed.
Directors are eligible for re-appointment.
2012 SFDBA Board of Directors
Maire Hogan (Elizabeth Interiors) - Chair
Susan Richards (Creative Computing) - Vice Chair
Glenda Bak (Special Greetings)
Barb Willoughby (Personal Pampering Spa)
James Benda
Kristina Crosbie (Dominion Lending Centres The Mortgage Source 10145)
Shawn Pankow, Councilor