Board Meeting Minutes - June 14, 2001

Present: Nancy Braker, Allison Russell, Tom Flesch, Yvette Lokotz, Dan Cole

Meeting Summary:
We voted for officers. Nancy was re-elected President; Allison was re-electd Treasurer, Steve was re-elected VP and Tom was elected Secretary.

We applied for $500 and physical assistance grant for invasive species control from the Lake Wisconsin Lions club. It's likely we will get the support. We'll know later this month.

We won't know about the status of the Columbia County grant until the beginning of July. This is the grant to support the UW-Madison Watershed assessment study. The grant would be from the DNR to Columbia County.

We discussed past and upcoming events:
- Spring Fling was successful. We made $59.50. We decided to do it again next year. We also decided to do some sort of publicity before the event so people know who we are.

- The prairie planting will be Saturday the 16th. We will do the planting across from the doctor's office by Pioneer Place. We talked about getting a permanent plaque to say who donated the plants and when the planting took place. We also talked about eventually getting a
bench for the area. Maybe the HS kids could do one.

- Rain garden demo will be June 23rd from 8:00-12:00. Master Gardener newsletter will have a blurb about it. We should take a picture and submit it to the paper with an article.

- Fish Survey Demonstration - Tom and Nancy will work on this. The date may be earlier than 9/13 or 9/15.

Upcoming workshops in "board member basics" and grassroots conservation organizations were discussed. Allison and Nancy may attend the River Alliance one; Dan may attend the board member one.

Nancy asked if 3000 copies of the new brochure should be ordered from the printer. Cost would be $450 from Kinkos. We voted that 3000 copies was fine. A mailing will follow.

We discussed leadership of the committees. They are as follows:
Long Range Planning -Nancy with Allison
Publicity/Communications - Dan with Tom and Theresa
Nominations - Steve
Membership - Allison
Fundraising - Tom with Nancy
Projects - Dan with Tom
Public Events/Education -Yvette with everyone

We discussed strategic planning and the interview process Allison and Nancy are going through. We discussed whether or not we want a consultant or would do it ourselves. Allison and Nancy will continue to interview consultants and we will continue the discussion at future board meetings.

Action Items:
Allison - will contact the Portage and Lodi paper upcoming events
section about the raingarden event to tell people to stop by.
Allison - will call to see if there are still openings in the River Alliance workshop
Nancy - will order 3000 brochures for later mailing
All Board Members - Create a committee description for the committees you are leading including the goals of the committee and some sample activities and tasks.

Next Meeting:
Thursday, July 12th.at the park shelter in Poynette. It will be a potluck, so everyone bring dishes to pass and share. -Allison Russell, Treasurer