Meetings - Red Hook Village Green Committee

Meetings

February Update

No official meeting was held in February. Instead, the committees submitted updates on their activities.

The Fundraising Committee met at the home of Evelyn Krueger on February 6^th.

	Stewarts has agreed to match any donations received during a selected week in 2003. The fundraising committee designated the last week in April (4/21-4/27) for this event. We will be soliciting donations at both Stewarts Shoppes during this week. A letter will be distributed to inform the public about this event.
	The Fundraising Committee wrote a letter that will be used to thank donors for their tax-deductible contributions. The letter also states that donors should let us know if they do not want their name published on a donor list.
	There was a brief discussion about the Preservation League Grant.

The Greens Committee met at Billie’s Restaurant on February 18^th.

We will find out the location of trees removed in the past years.

April 26^th is Red Hook Arbor Day, rain or shine.

Four male Ginko trees, 4 London Plane trees, and 4 Goldenrain trees were chosen as the 12 more “stately” trees to be planted during Red Hook’s Arbor Day (April 26^th). Twelve more trees will be planted later in the year.

It was decided that brass plaques to name and/or commemorate a tree at $92 each were too expensive. Other less expensive ways to identify a tree will be researched.

The Greens Committee attended the Bard College presentation on February 25^th.

	Received a request from one student to be apprised of the greens committee projects.
	Discovered that both David Seymour and Evelyn Krueger know where trees were removed in the past years.
	Decided that when the snow melts, we will have a field trip in the village to identify the placement of our first 12 trees.

The Media Committee reported the following:

Franceska Urbin talked to PANDA. The “PANDA Forum” program is available to all local organizations. An episode is essentially given over to an organization. There would be no interviewer – it would be entirely up to us to do what we wanted with the air-time in terms of content, length (10 minutes to an hour), etc. We can also videotape a meeting or event for later airing on PANDA. Franceska suggests that an ideal opportunity for this would be a content-heavy event, such as a guest speaker at a meeting or an Arbor Day event, and that we should make an effort to videotape it as professionally as possible.

Mark Meritt will prepare a blurb for the April village water bill to publicize our Arbor Day observance, including the Stewarts matching grant week. Cindi Cole has requested that the blurb be submitted to her by mid-March.

On February 25, 2003, in lieu of a general meeting, the Village Green hosted an open dinner at Bard College. The Outreach Committee organized the event.

	Several Village Green members were present and Bard students could discuss participation with the various committees.
	Presentations by the committees were planned, but there was no point during the event in which a number of students were there at one time, so formal presentations were skipped.

A number of students, though, expressed their interest in getting involved with the Village Green. The particular committees they signed up for will follow up as appropriate with the students.