WINTONBURY LAND TRUST – September 10, 2014, Seabury
Retirement Community, Bloomfield
Present: Jim Trail
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1)
Minutes for the August 20th Board
Meeting were approved.
2)
There was one addition
(discussed under Financials), a $630 structural engineering bill for the Thrall
Farm Potato Barn.
3)
Committee Reports
a)
Grants – (1) Evans
Property – The Environmental Review is scheduled to be done by the end of
October.
b)
Financial
1.
Our August 31, 2014
account balances are as follows:
Checking - $2,559.16; Savings - $23,219.49; Restricted -
$113,536.83. Vikki reported that a
number of contributions had been made in memory of Paul Hughes.
2.
Vikki requested Board
approval to purchase a laptop and software for (approximately) $330 from
Techsoup. Money had been budgeted to do
so. The Board unanimously approved a
motion to do so, noting the appropriateness of Wintonbury Land Trust owning a
computer dedicated to Land Trust business.
We also discussed different options for data backup. Paula will pass along a copy of Simsbury Land
Trust’s Record Retention Policy to the Financial Committee.
3.
Vikki reported that we
had received a $630 bill for structural engineering work for the Thrall Farm
Potato Barn that was not budgeted for.
We briefly discussed how we could avoid this in the future by including
in our annual budget any potential expenditures included as part of grant
applications.
c)
Events
1.
Stewardship work days: A work day is scheduled for Stout Family
Fields on September 13th (rain date September 14th). A work day is also scheduled for Van Otterloo
on October 11th at 10 AM, with a follow-up beer tasting at Back East
Brewery at 2:30. Rain date will be
October 12th (with no tasting since the Back East is closed on
Sunday).
2.
Lisa Lane Ribbon
Cutting on September 20th – There will be local, state, and federal
government representation at the ceremony.
3.
October 4th
hike from Stout Family Fields to LaSalette – Jim Trail
d)
Membership/Community/Website
1.
Trail Guide for
website – After some discussion, we decided to collect some examples of trail
guides in order to determine upfront what format we would like to use. Kevin offered to scan some pages from
Simsbury Land Trust’s Walk Book; Doris also
offered to provide some examples.
2.
Board Members Bios –
Paula will send Diana Hughes the Board bios used at the Annual Meeting in June,
with Jim, our new Board member, copied in.
We agreed that Board Bios should be used as filler material in
newsletters. We also agreed that it
would be good to have a group photograph of the Board.
3.
Paula set up a Land
Trust account for The Hartford
e)
Capacity
Building
1.
Volunteers –
(1)
Nancy Bowden would
like to do a Community
Garden Bloomfield
(2)
Christopher Shepard
will attend an upcoming Board meeting to provide his analysis of our membership
data, and to make some recommendations regarding building membership.
(3)
Catriona Horstmann has
volunteered to serve on a Committee.
2.
Kevin reported that he
had met with Joel Neuwirth about WLT’s participation in Pride Week Bloomfield
next June. Kevin conveyed that the Land
Trust wants to participate, and suggested ideas generated during our August
Board meeting. Joel was receptive to
those suggestions, and indicated he would be setting up a meeting at the end of
September or early October. Kevin
offered to represent the Land Trust at that initial meeting.
f)
Stewardship
1.
The Stewardship
Committee has completed a Baseline for Hawk Hill.
4)
New Business –
a)
Next meeting
dates: (2nd) Wednesdays
October 8th and November 12th at Seabury Retirement
Community. In general, we are planning
on the 2nd Wednesday of the month for Board meetings. Start time:
6 P.M.
b)
No Community Q&A.
Recorded
by Paula Jones
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