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Workin on Waukegan

Meeting Agenda for 5/13

Topic	Issues	Comments
TOWN Board	Expand TOWN Board	A letter recruiting new members will be sent next week.
Meetings	How would we like to schedule the meetings for the rest of the year?	Meetings will be scheduled for the second Wednesday of the month.
WOW (Working on Waukegan)		The city is working to raise the environmental awareness of its citizens by creating a group that would organize projects for volunteers to work on. The first event is this Saturday from 9-12. Please forward the email I sent you to anyone that may be interested in ‘working on Waukegan’.
Materials	Do we have enough soil, compost and wood chips to get us through the end of May?	I ordered 5 cu yds of compost and container mix. I purchased a garden cart, 6 buckets, 1 75 foot garden hose, 3 75foot soaker hoses, 2 60 foot soaker hoses and a hose ? Router to connect the soaker hoses to the regular hose.
New raised bed and flower bed	Julie Dodds has taken the offer to work to create one of the new raised beds and work on an existing flowerbed.	Julie will guide volunteers to the creation of the raised beds. She will also work on one of the flowerbeds.
GTW Events	Earth Day, Music and Art Festival, Closing Event, Educational Event	It rained on Earth Day. Other events will be scheduled during the summer. We will work with Larry to schedule a music Event in August or September.
Website	Update website to reflect the changes we have taken. Funders will be looking at an out of date website.	I will provide website changes by 05/14/09.
Fundraisers	Music and Art festival will be a fundraiser. A letter to local business has been drafted but not finalized. This letter will be sent out the week after next.. Please keep a running list of possible businesses that we can approach. I would like to have someone available to help me create the labels and stuff envelopes.	.
Plants	I will begin the search for free plants in April and May. Please let me know what we would need.	I have sent letters to Jamaican Gardens, Gurnee Garden Center, Larsen’s Florist, and Midwest Groundcovers. I will try to call each of these before the weekend. I will pick up flowers from Chicago Botanic Gardens on 05/18/09.
Seeds	Dan Traynoff has a greenhouse and has offered to start our seeds.	Dan has picked up the seeds and will begin to grow them in his greenhouse so that we will have small plants to plant in May. I purchased strawberry plants to plant this weekend. I also have herbs for planning.
Trees	Please provide me with a list of possible trees we could use.	Margaret Martin provided us with a list of trees that we should look at. If anyone would like to take the role of calling for trees should contact me. I will contact The Care of Trees came out the end of last week. The will either provide us with free tree or provide them to us for a discount.
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Radio shows		DK Environmental and EarthWild Gardens did a pod cast show last Wednesday. Cheryl Pytlarz and other members of the group would like to run a 10 series program on issues such as how to identify where to put your garden, how to start seeds, which seeds should be direct seeded, canning and so many more.
Education		We are working with The Academy of Our Lady school after school club will help at the garden the last Thursday of the month.
Volunteers		.
Budget		Please review the 2009 budget and provide me with any changes that should be made.
Parking Lot: Com Ed and the use of the land under the power lines for growing food or grains. Ravines, and locally grown food.