Meeting Minutes 1/26/2012

WINTONBURY LAND TRUST January 26, 2012, 52 Duncaster Road, Bloomfield

Present:  Hannah Roditi, Vic Herson, Kevin Gough, Chip Caton, Dale Bertoldi, Vikki Reski, Paula Jones

1)      Organizational Report-out by Sharon Danofsky – Those in attendance reviewed the draft report Sharon Danofsky had prepared following the Organizational Assessment Retreat in December.  Sharon is going to make a number of changes and additions to the draft report, based on our discussion.  She will also provide some sample documents from other land trusts (mainly Danbury) that could be helpful to us.  Once we have the final report, next steps would be the following:  i) Vote to adopt the recommendations from the assessment in a subsequent Board meeting; ii) Assign Committees to begin working on implementing changes.  Committees would be responsible for recommending priorities, and setting up a staging plan (e.g., year 1, year 2, year 3 actions.); iii) Develop a template that committees would use to report out progress against the staging plan at Board meetings. 

2)      Fundraising Projects – Hawk Hill - Board members in attendance voted in favor of asking the Town Council to budget funds (estimated at $130,000) to acquire the Hawk Hill property.  An opportunity has arisen to purchase and to seek grant funding to help purchase this property.  The Board’s vote in favor was contingent on two conditions:  i) receipt of a letter of intent to sell the property from the landowners, and ii) receipt of a pledge letter for some significant amount towards the purchase price.