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February Meeting Minutes

posted on February 7, 2018

  • 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
  • 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
    • KOTJ
      • proposed new date nov 11th
      • 10th is richmond marathon
      • Approved: Nov 11th
      • Look into using Forest Hill Park as staging area
  • 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
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 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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