- January Meeting Minutes
- Minutes Approved
- Treasurer Report
- Sally is out sick
- ~50k in bank
- Approved Projects ~15k
- Restricted: ~5k
- Treasurer Report approved
- Next Month
- Elections
- Projects
- 20 for 20
- Total 25,212.44
- Potential for another donation
- Saw Mill Bridge
- Looks good
- Boats & Brews
- General consensus is that it should be downtown
- Wild & Scenic
- JROC has been asked to be a sponsor
- similar environmental film festival
- Patagonia is a big sponsor
- center for environmental studies at VCU certificate program
- first east coast school to join the consortium
- trying to raise money for students who want field research and capstone projects
- most of the festival is paid for
- at Vasen on march 14th
- VCU OAP event
- artwork and gear will be donated for fundraising
- 1600 to host
- $800 already in grants
- JROC can table and announce movie
- all films are river focused
- students would have to apply and get approval to use funds
- Approved: $400 to help offset costs of festival
- Explore setting up an ongoing scholarship for student capstone
- Joey will send promotional material
- Banff Film Festival
- March 8, 9, 10
- Need people to table
- Margaret will be there
- 20 for 20
- Next Work Projects
- Improve huguenot overlook and steps
- Feb 17th and 24th 9am
- Send FB and email notices
- Earth Day
- Gear swap and goatacado celebration
- Brian has us registered with Style
- Katie will redo the logo to update the date
- Katie will find out price for posters
- Display Board
- Possible new images for the panel
- new park Master Plan
- Invasive species plan info
- KOTJ info
- Gear Swap
- missing link trail
- Possible new images for the panel
- KOTJ
- proposed new date nov 11th
- 10th is richmond marathon
- Approved: Nov 11th
- Look into using Forest Hill Park as staging area
- Improve huguenot overlook and steps
- Subcommittee reports
- Access
- Meeting on site with Timmons
- Need to start proposing grants to cover grants
- Ramp construction fundraising should go on board
- katie needs hi-res renderings
- Events
- Already talked about KOTJ and earth day
- Projects
- June 2nd is national trail day
- Might get all groups to rep a trail head
- June 9th Richmond Symphony clean the river day in June
- Access
- Nathan Report
- Tredegar Fountain will be installed by Friday
- Suburu is looking to donate to park as part of River Rock
- Will probably go to Reedy Creek fountain replacement
- If working on park project use HandsOnRVa site to help track volunteer hours
- If you volunteer time on park related stuff please note it
- Can be compiled into Nathan’s volunteer report
- Visitation
- Last month a little over 86k
- Up form last year
- Last year was over 1.8 million and July numbers are missing
- Last month a little over 86k
- Operational budget is ~240k
- Budgeting is moving in the right direction
- Spending time on park master plan
- Additional Needs
- Asking for ~700k for cip
- More staff
- Additional Needs
- Maps
- Donated material is not of suitable quality for printing
- Invasive Species removal
- Coordinating with 4 different companies to help with removal
- Submitted grant to get trees and other plants to install in park
- Trash
- Boaters should take ownership of 14st lot
- Trails
- Are a mess. yay rain
- Started reroute on Buttermilk near 22nd st
- More work to be done, open in 2 -3 weeks
- New steps on Buttermilk to Riverside Dr at a different location
- March 3rd back at Gillies to finish intermediate jumps
- April 2nd Buttermilk under BLVD bridge the rock
- Missing Link
- Planning is moving forward
- 21st st to Teapot
- Has some funding for survey
- Zeke report
- RiverRock
- Raise funds for Huguenot ramp
- RiverRock
- Attendance
- Chris Hull
- Michael Burton
- Katie Lemmert
- Brian Mulcher
- Weston Spivey
- Shawna Shade
- Greg Velzy
- Mike Martin
- Zeke Zebrowski
- Margaret Maslak
- Nathan Burrell
- Will Isenberg
- Joey Parent
- Matt Rosenberg
- Mitch Smiley
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