May 26th 2006 Board Meeting Minutes - special meeting

A special meeting was called May 26, 2006 to discuss how to mobilise our efforts

We are making good progress, but some of the board are concerned that it is hard to see what we are achieveing, so we want to try to move forward a little quicker towards getting more sub-committees and action groups up and running.

Members Present

• Wayne Jones


• Steve Howard


• Sarajane Smith


• Nadine Nicolls


• Wanda Pate

Teresa Jones also attended as an invited guest

Minutes

• The Board has decided to work together to condense the Community Plan so it will be in a format more easily understood with priorities defined and listed in concise terms.


• Steve Howard spoke with Dorothy Jones. She is still interested in helping with the Farmer's Market. Ms. Jones came by and sat in on part of the meeting. She agreed that the neighbors in the area of the future market should be visited. Sarajane Smith volunteered to speak to these people and get their opinions about the market. She will report on what she finds out.


• Ron Corder has a sign stating that there is a Farmer's Market coming soon. The sign will be placed once we have spoken to the neighbors and to Dalton McGuire.


• SIA needs to work on organizing the many volunteers who want to help. It was decided to have a community meeting to do this. Tables would be set up for each area of interest. The people would be given an opportunity to study the information and decide in which area they would like to volunteer. To prepare for this, each Board member should have definite goals set for his/her area, and work on refining these before the community meeting. Each committee should have step-by-step plan in order to implement the goals. It was determined that the community meeting should be in August. August 8, 2006 was chosen as the date.


• Your Town workshops may be a possibility in our area. Patrick Bonck contacted Steve Howard about this. Steve will get more information on this and report back to the Board. Wanda Pate will check on a possible location for the workshops and report back to SIA. It was noted that yourtowndesign.org is a good website to check out.


• The community center is the main focus of SIA at this time.


• In July the architects will be visiting. SIA will invite them to attend a meeting.


• SIA has decided to explore boundaries for installation and maintenanceof water and sewage. This falls under the area of Environmental Resources.


• Wayne or Steve will check on projected population figures for 2010, 2020.
  
  

The next meetings have been set for Thursday, June 1, and Thursday, June 8. Both will begin at 5:30p.m.

posted by Steve Howard @ 11:11 AM