Hi everyone,
Here's what I remember from tonight's meeting (in no particular order), if
yall recall something I missed please add it!
- There is leftover funds to go towards wetland restoration. VCCP will
hopefully be building new wetlands as part of their stormwater mitigation
efforts. We will know more as soon as the initial report is given to the
Park. We also want to repair the bridge at the Foscoe Wetlands and maybe
build a boardwalk, but permits might make that more trouble than it's worth.
- I will send out a blast email to all of the emails I have from membership
forms to make sure they are on the listserve if they want to be. We are
going to update the list of efforts the HCAS has undertaken on our 'join
us' page, and then I will email the listserve to encourage anyone who gets
our emails but is not a member to join.
- The board is ok with people announcing birding events and tours being
offered via an email to the listserve. We will update the listserve
automatic reply when someone joins to tell them vaguely that if they want
to announce an upcoming trip they should limit the number of emails they
send.
- We voted to get an intern. The intern will go to festivals and do other
inter stuff.
- We are continuing having a monthly bird walk at the Greenway on the 3rd
Tuesday of the month instead of a regular monthly meeting.
- We are looking into reserving the shelter at the Greenway for our yearly
party in July. IF we can't reserve the shelter someone will stake out the
shelter early that day and chase off any rival picnickers.
- We are going to choose a Wednesday sometime soon to plant the tree and
put up the sign on Beech Mtn. This way folks can go to Beech Mtn straight
from the VCCP bird walk and avoid bridge construction. Let me know as soon
as we know the date and I'll make sure Lauren picks a spot for the tree.
- Bradford Pears are terrible. My phone died for a few minutes and I missed
part of this discussion. We are going to email the listserve about bounty
programs to remove them.
- I will email Guy details of the upcoming Bio Blitz at VCCP (it's April 30)
- Debbie has served three terms as president. If she wants to do a full FDR
we will need to find out how to change the bylaws.
- Upcoming work day at the BRC pollinator garden on April 10, we will see
where it goes from there...
- We will eventually plant some more trees at Brookshire, just waiting on
the town to figure out which trees to plant. The signs about the trees will
also have to wait until the trees are figured out.
- We have climate education money to spend. There might be an option to put
signs about wetlands and flood control at VCCP and we can use it to buy
stuff for our intern to do displays at festivals.
At this point I would like to motion that we make sure we have a secretary
for all future meetings.
Happy Birding!
-Paul
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