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May Meeting Minutes

posted on May 4, 2017

  • Meeting Minutes
    • Approved
  • Treasurer’s Report
    • Made almost 4k in the month of April
    • $37,499 in the bank
    • Approved
  • Report Backs
    • Gear Swap
      • Remember for next year to advertise that gear can be a straight donation
    • Photo
      • Thank you and donation letters are being sent
      • Special thank you to Paul Whetstone, Hunter Davis, and Richmond Xperience
  • River Rock
    • Got a free table for RR
    • Looking into a different spot for table setup
    • Joint booth with JRPS, RVAMORE, and JROC
    • Will have kayaks on tubes again
    • 4pm – 8pm Friday, 12 – 9pm Saturday, 12 – 5pm Sunday for staffing
      • Waiting on vendor packet for more info on setup
      • Will will send out a doodle poll for staffing times
    • River Rock will be May’s service project
  • JROC Roles
    • Membership coordinator
      • Needed to send thank you and stickers
    • Treasurer’s Apprentice
      • Sally is awesome but won’t be doing the books forever
    • Web Editors
      • rotating monthly responsibilities for blog posts
  • 14th St
    • A lot of kayakers cleaning up after fisherman
    • mixed reports on the trash situation
    • New signs on flood wall for trucks with trailers
  • Fisherman Outreach
    • Fisherman BBQ @ 14th st
      • Postponed until September
      • Possibly put up signage announcing the event
      • Try to recruit fisherman into JROC
      • Hopefully meet the more regular fisherman
    • HS students had good outreach at Ancarrows
      • Personal engagement seems to be helping
  • Corporate Sponsorship
    • Motion for promotions subcommittee to research language for corporate logos on website
      • Approved
  • Subcommittee report backs
    • Access
      • Reached out to two groups for letters of support and waiting to hear back
    • Events
      • King of the James
        • Assist Joey
        • Provide Insurance
        • individuals and teams
        • change in transition area needed
        • proposed for Oct 21
          • After Folk Festival and Pocfest
        • Gender issue with King of the James?
    • Projects
    • Promotions
      • 20 for 20
      • Push at River Rock
      • katie will make one side of trifold for campaign
      • Mitch has stuff from Max for project stuff
      • Goatocado funds have not be received yet
      • Katie approved for $100 to make as many 20 for 20 stickers as possible
      • Fountain at Tredegar
        • Preliminary work almost done
        • Nate will send bill for our portion of the bill
        • Possible additional fountain at Brown’s Island
    • Trails
      • New features out at Gillies
      • New bike racks at FH Park and Tredegar
      • Rebuilding bridge on buttermilk
      • Shifting to work for river rock
    • Visitation
      • April 236k visitors
      • projecting 1.5 million for the year
      • TPOT pushing numbers
  • Nate report
    • Work continues on conservation area
    • possible another island to be brought into conservation easement
      • Above Z Dam
      • Working to finalize property lines
    • Bringing on seasonal staff
    • Interviews next week for final position
    • 2 additional full-time permanent staff members
    • having issues with csx to get access to northbank tower at texas
    • Friends are having a contest to name the osprey
    • Commercial access to wetlands
      • Access is a free-for-all currently
      • Rafts can access wetlands when level is below 3.8
      • Nate will send out a doodle poll questioning park vendors
      • Will remain available for handicap individuals and programming
        • Will have scheduled access
  • Zeke Report
    • Questions about budget in Economic impact statement
      • All staff are paid from the budget in the impact statement
      • Nathan says we need 15 full time and 7 seasonal
      • The budget should be over $1,000,000

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