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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