Steering Committee Minutes January 24, 2012

Minutes  Newlands Greenlands Steering Committee

January 24, 2012

Present:  Kay Bingham, Vernita Cannon, Cathy Conery, Tim Eaton, Alison Rogers, Deborah Yin

City of Boulder Sustainability

Cathy gave a brief update of the last meeting she attended.  We thought it would be a good idea for Kristen Hartel to set up a table outside Ideal Market as an outreach effort.  We are also wondering if Kristen might get involved with the summer film at the Ideal parking lot. Cathy has emailed her film contact, Suze Bragg, at Ideal about this summer’s film, but has not heard back from her yet.

Events

Vernita spoke with Nancy Peter and the two of them have decided to head up the Progressive Dinner if we want to do it this year.  After much discussion about what time of year we might want and how locavore we may want to be, we finally decided on Saturday, May 19.  We will probably call it a Community Progressive Dinner and ask participants to support their community businesses and food sources.   We will use it as an introduction to smaller locavore dinners to possibly be held later in the growing season.

With that on the agenda, and the idea of having a newsletter out by March 17, we started thinking about what else we could plan to be included in the newsletter.  After much discussion again, we finally decided to see if Kristen would be interested in helping us organize (and pay for) an event at Foothill Elementary sometime around Earth Day (April 22) that could possibly include a few other north Boulder neighborhoods.  Ideas include Energy Smart, Foothill Elementary gardens and/or the Community Gardens, and speaker Al Bartlett.  Cathy will contact Kristen about this.  Once we know what Kristen might be interested in doing, Kay can find out who is charge of the Foothill Elementary gardens and Alison can contact someone with the Community Gardens.  We will also see about being involved with the Ideal summer movie again.

The remainder of the agenda was tabled until our next meeting so we could adjorn and listen to the State of the Union Address.

Action Items

• Vernita will look for the old progressive dinner signup sheet in her computer and will get in touch with Nancy Peter to inform her of the proposed date.
• Cathy will contact Kristen regarding an April event and will also follow up with Ideal regarding the summer movie.

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