Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Garden Steering Committee Meeting 8.2.21

 

East Phillips Community 17th Ave. Garden

Garden Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

August 2nd 2021

 

NEXT Steering Committee Meeting - falls on Labor Day - hold it Tuesday, Sept 7?

 

Description of groups - parks - Jeanne? - what was agreement, how are they working that?

 

What plots are officially empty

       Brad and Carol’s plot

       Plot 1

 

Charter - can’t find notes on who wants to work on this - who is interested?

 

Trash pick up service

       Pros and cons

 

Budget

 

2021 Budget

 

 

 

 

EPIC contributes

Budgeted:

To Date:

Property Tax

 

$384.12

$384.12

Water

 

$300.00

$155.27

Other

$450.00

 

 

TOTAL

$450.00

$684.12

539.39

                    Paid plots as of 7/22/21:    705.00

 

Water: 4/29-5/12: $88.56

5/12-6/12: $39.25

6/12-7/12: $27.46

 

What is $450 from EPIC?

Going forward make more detailed budget for garden, don’t need further approval for those items

          -insurance policy details

          -garden meeting vs. steering committee

 

For General Garden Meeting:

       2 Open plots: plots 1 and 19

       Budget/finance update

       Update on work days

       Charter - who wants to work on this?

       Visioning: Creating a garden development plan - short term and long term

       What do people want to see happen at the garden?

       Example: Better composting system

       Do we want to form a work group focused on this?

       Motion to install syringe box. Clarifying questions, discussion, amendments, vote.

       Fall Harvest Party. Who is interested in helping plan this event?

       Who wants to plan and raise money for it?

 

Notes on people’s skills:

Lauren: Teamwork, spirituality, network building, facilitating, event planning, permaculture, mycology, and visioning, working with children and adults with special needs

Lindsey: keeping notes, research, keeping track of information, making an agenda so it gets done, ethnobotany, growing things that are drought and climate resilient, things that will support non-human ecosystem

Flo: meeting logistics, helping to set agendas, helping to facilitate, seed to table, educational, especially with young people, weeding, lens based work - photography or videography, PR type stuff

Gabe: carpentry, grant writing

 

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