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Attending: Kent Wagner, Anna Hull, David Ross, Henry Whitesel, Bob Gray, Mike Waltz, Mike Bertram
Scheduling Commitments
May 19 at 2pm, Anna, Bob, Henry and anyone else available will meet to walk and locate the Upper Chrome trails
We confirmed May 31 from 4-6 for our next board meeting.
Kent will lead workday on June 14 or 21. (Will let Henry know once he has decided.)
Hosting DeLoitte on June 7. Henry is leading work at Lower. Anna will lead crew at Upper.
June 8, Mike Bertram will lead botanical hike for plant monitors and other interested participants, 9am at Goat Hill
Aug. 6 – Molly and Henry (others?) for welcome
Aug 7 – Kent will lead orientation for Chrome
Aug. 15–Mike Bertram will lead orientation for New Texas
Aug. 23 –Henry and Joe will lead orientation for Goat Hill
Aug. 30 –Henry and Jay will lead orientation for Nottingham Park
Sept. 6 – Thank you barbecue at Nottingham Park (early enough so volunteers can head home afterwards if they prefer).
Sept. 8 – Trail Opening Celebration for Community: Invite landowners, DCNR, PPFF, TNC, press
Oct. 6 , 1pm– Mike Bertram will lead public hike at Goat Hill (need to promote aggressively)
Action Items
Henry to schedule meetings with landowners to discuss AmeriCorps schedule and plan of work. Hannums scheduled for May 22.
David to contact Molly to request updated TNC boundary signs for Upper Chrome.
Mike Bertram to email jpeg of the updated GIS map for Chrome to the full Board.[Done 5/5.]
Bob will set up conference call with Molly and GIS staff/intern to coordinate our GIS needs.
Henry will contact church at Media Rd for permission to park cars for Deloitte on June 7.
Henry will request weed pullers from Jay Gregg for June 7.
David will provide vests, trash bags and PennDot quality gloves for June 7.
David will invite Ruth Galantino to join plant monitoring hike at Goat Hill on June 8.
Henry to contact Molly within next three days about disposing of poison left in his care.
Kent will email the officer job descriptions.
Agenda Items
Work Days Schedule
Henry will be gone from right after Deloitte work day (June 7) until the Fourth of July.
Kent commits leading a mid-June workday (June 14 or 21) at Goat Hill.
AmeriCorps proposal –
We thanked Bob for his leadership in the drafting of our proposal. Waiting to hear back from AmeriCorps. The challenge of responding to needs from Hurricane Sandy is delaying the processing of applications and lowers the likelihood that we’ll be chosen this year. Nevertheless, we devoted most of the meeting to pinning down our workplan.
Henry is setting up meetings with landowners to discuss AmeriCorps schedule and scope of work for May 22 and possibly May 29.
Upper Chrome –
Finishing off the outside trail and putting up more markers
[Need to agree on and blaze route before August]
White for the inner trail
Yellow for the outer
Agreed that the outer trail should be unambiguously within the marked boundaries, avoid sections suffering the worst of the ATV damage.
Schedule a meeting (May 22?) to include Elk Township and Wilson King to agree on paths for our trails and the overlapping horse trails.
We will request additional/replacement TNC boundary signs with current phone numbers.
Lower Chrome
Bob will sketch out design for the cedar bridge
Chrome
Creation of brochure with trail maps.
Henry will provide copies of the Rose Trail brochure.
We’ll ask TNC GIS staff/intern to combine relevant layers into trail map.
New Texas –
Mike has a sense of what Americorps needs to do to open up the trails and clear serpentine sites.
Goat Hill –
Someone from Forestry should be there when Americorps works on the two camp sites
We will request a GPS unit from TNC to update trails map and serpentine sites
Nottingham County Park
Veterans Bridge to Wildfire zone
Drainage needs around exercise trail
Housing
Scout camp has committed
Scheduling Commitments
8/6 – Molly and Henry (others?) for welcome
8/7 – Kent will lead orientation for Chrome
8/15 –Mike Bertram will lead orientation for New Texas
8/23 –Henry and Joe will lead orientation for Goat Hill
8/30 –Henry and Jay will lead orientation for Nottingham Park
9/6 – Thank you barbecue at Nottingham Park (early enough so volunteers can head home afterwards if they prefer)
9/8 – Trail Opening Celebration for Community: Invite landowners, DCNR, PPFF, TNC, press
Need to arrange for at least one drop-in visit during each phase of work.
DeLoitte Work Day June 7
Henry will contact church at Media Rd for permission to park cars for day for roughly 30 guests. 8:30-3pm
Finish the hedge row border between two cleared areas in Lower Chrome (all day for roughly 2/3rds of group)
We’ll have 10 or so walk road near Upper and pick up garbage (Anna hosting)
At planning meeting (May 22?) Henry will request that Elk put up “workers ahead” warning signs and pick up trash bags at end of day.
David will provide vests, trash bags and PennDot quality gloves.
When finished picking up trash, crew will turn to pulling up pines in the scraped area. After lunch, this crew will join the group at Lower.
Past Action Items
October 6 fall hike 1pm. Will use 9/8 AmeriCorps celebration and Rose Chase letter in September as way of raising our visibility.
Plant Monitoring Program
June 8 botanic walk hrough Goat Hill , 9am
Mick and Mike walked New Texas; will do follow up after AmeriCorps
Ron Notvest has volunteered to recruit student volunteers from area colleges and universities – need to have a plan in place for him in the fall
Henry to contact Molly within next three days about disposing of poison left in his care.
Marci Mowrey hosts chapter chair meetings once a month. Henry will try to participate next month. This is something a landowner/partner outreach coordinator could take on.
We agreed that we’d allocate time during May 31 meeting to return to our governance issues.
Review Kristine Parkes’ board assesment report.
Discuss Kent’s officer descriptions from Horseshoe Trails
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