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June 2019 Minutes

posted on June 6, 2019

  • May Meeting Minutes
    • Minutes approved
  • Treasurer’s Report
    • Wild & Scenic reimbursement funds moved back to general fund
    • Treasurer’s report approved
  • The Mary Morton Parson Foundation
    • 50k challenge grant
    • From May to May
    • Long established grant
    • Possible signage for put-ins
    • Possible pamphlets
    • Brochures at
      • Riverside
      • Sportable
      • JRA
    • Motion for up to $500 for 3 banners
      • Approved
    • Redo website to promote
    • Motion for up to $300 for 1k postcards and artwork
      • Approved
  • Brochures
    • WE ARE OUT
    • Need to update photos and verbiage
    • Up previous order by 50% so we don’t run out
    • Up to $500 for new brochures
      • Approved
  • Quick Reports
    • Riverock
      • Need more literature
      • Kudos to Zeke for helping all weekend
    • Legends of the James
      • Good attendance
      • Keep mother’s day date for future events
      • Advertise the availability of food
      • Advocate for donations for MMPF 
    • Gear Box
      • Status undetermined
      • Trash pickers for box
    • Camera for Reedy
      • Greg was maybe going to get it?
    • Shirts
      • JROC shirts order in by Maymont
      • Normal Ts and Tanks
    • Master Plan
      • Two steering committee meetings since conclusion
        • More places to be alone
        • More parking
        • More police presence
        • July(late?) presentation of preliminary discovery
  • Riverside Raft
    • Invited JROC after painting on flood wall 
    • Just the lower
    • Members of city council may attend
  • June Work Project
    • 15th at Pony Pasture 9am building dumpster blinds
    • Need to figure out how to disburse funds
    • Jess will post FB notices about work projects
    • JRPS will augur post holes
    • Design is done
    • 9am is ok for parking but may block off some parking
    • Possibly park at Weston’s house
  • Music At Maymont
    • JROC members get priority
    • Tip chair needs to be where tickets are purchased
  • Films on the floodwall
    • Sept 18th
    • Not called that anymore
    • Films on the canal walk
    • Call for films
    • Need to spread the word
      • Promote via facebook
  • King of the James
    • Whitten has paid sponsorship
    • Follow up with other sponsors
    • Sponsorship monies will be matched by MMPF
    • Need to hear back about permit for FHP
    • Artwork
      • Illustrator returned undesirable artwork
      • KOTJ artwork is original or public domain
        • Approved
      • Up to $500 for new artwork
        • Approved
        • Theme of skulls and death
        • Going out to prospective artists
        • Interest reported back to board
  • Subcommittee Reports
    • Access
      • Meeting soon
    • Projects:
      • Will meet in September
      • Belle Isle wedge building
        • 10k in donations to fix roof
        • Need help fixing up the roof
    • Events
      • KOTJ radios are possible
    • Promotions
    • Membership
  • Trails report
    • Trail counts
      • Through End of April
      • Overall ahead by 30k yoy
      • 2018 was down a bit due to rain
      • 53k on Belle isle north
      • 22k south
      • Pony 26k 
      • Reedy 7k
      • Ancarrows 12k
      • T-pot north 47k
      • 547k total 
    • Northbank Connector
      • Positive feedback
    • Interviews for new JRPS trails manager
    • Trail crew moving to Byrd Park 
  • Bryce report
    • Clean the bay day
      • Six sites in JRPS cleaned up
      • State officials came and said nice things
        • yay
      • 40 bags of trash hauled out of Ancarrows
    • JRPS accepted into Old Growth network
      • 1 of 96 sites across US
    • 10 years of being under Capital Region Land Conservetory
    • Hopefully filling labor crew chief position soon
    • Goal to have 15 positions
    • 2019-20 budget
      • Increase of 123k
      • Dedicated to new positions
      • Operating budget went down
      • HFW is budgeted at 50%
  • Zeke report
    • Native Plants
      • Bill Shandibrook
      • Reedy Creek Environmental
      • Works with invasive species task force
      • Small business working on native plants
      • Collects seeds from JRPS and other parks
      • Plants derived from these seeds
      • Provides plants at 50% discount back to city parks
      • Possibly solarize invasive plants at 14th
      • Possibly plant shrubs once invasives are gone
      • Zeke will fund new plants 50/50 with JROC
      • Put up signs to identify each new plant
  • Attendance
    • Katie Lemmert 4
    • Matthew Rosenberg 0
    • Mike Martin 0
    • Norwood Scott 0
    • James Dailey 7.5
    • Jess Wilk 6
    • Christian Spain 0 
    • Zeke Zebrowski 0
    • Weston Spivey 0
    • Bill Shanabruch 0
    • Rick Barnett 0 
    • Tricia Pearsall 7
    • Margaret Maslak 10
    • Patrick Griffin 0
    • Brian Mutchler 0

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