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Present: Keith Austin, Ken Bodie, Harold Byrd, Mark Cawood, Stevan Curtis, Phyllis Fansler, Terry Faulkner, Scott Frith, Mary Lou Horner, Gary Loe, Sam Maynard, Edythe McNabb, Page Pratt-Greene, Susan Rudell, Goldie Simpkins, and Tim Wheeler

Absent: Mark Brown, Tisha Calabrese-Benton, David Collins, Johnnie Conner, Neal Denton, Martha Dooley, Kim Hansard, Jan Hutchison, Susan Long, Janet McGaha, Cassandra McGee, Jenny Raines, Sarah Surak, Lori Tucker, and Garrett Wagley,

Staff: Tom Salter & Cortney Piper

Call to Order
The meeting was called to order by Page Pratt-Greene at 12:15. There was a quorum for this meeting.

Approval of the Minutes
Page asked board members to review the minutes from the August 2004 board meeting. Mary Lou made a motion to approval and Tim Wheeler seconded the motion. Approval was unanimous.

Presidents Report – Page Pratt-Greene
There was a discussion of the impact of the reduction in the State Litter Grant. We understood in July that the base amount would be $60,000. We were notified during August that TDOT cut these grants across the board to reflect lower than expected revenue from the soft drink and alcoholic beverage bottler tax. (Wholesale revenue in the state has been declining for several years). Our new base amount would be $40,000. In addition, Page informed the board that the $7,000 bonus grant to cover the billboard campaign expense will not be reimbursed due to an overestimate of remaining funds in the County Solid Waste Litter Grant budget. Therefor the billboard campaign will end up reducing our cash by that amount. KKB and County Solid Waste staff are discussing possible solutions for this but at this time there is no money available to reimburse this cost.

Page asked the board to approve a revised budget reflecting the new litter grant amount. The reduction in the litter grant is balanced by a payroll cut (Annie Morton's position will not be filled at this time), there is no national travel in the budget, and the goal for the Clean Business Program is raised to $15,000. Mary Lou made a motion to approve the revised budget. Mark Cawood seconded the motion. Approval was unanimous.

There was a discussion of the impact of the wheel tax vote on KKB's County Grant. There was a consensus to wait until the outcome of that vote and then look at any changes we might need to make.

Executive Director's report – Tom Salter
Tom presented the Financial Statement and Summary for August 2004. A motion was made by Mary Lou Horner to accept it. Mark Cawood seconded the motion. The August 2004 financial statement and summary were accepted.

• South Knox Beautification did two separate cleanups in August, 8 volunteers, 2 hours each, 18 bags of litter.
• Billboards continued to be displayed through August.
• The Clean Business Committee met and approved the printed material and overall goal of the program.
• Keep Knoxville Beautiful participated in a planning meeting for an October 6^th community wide watershed cleanup called CPR. It stands for clean, preserve and restore. AmeriCorps is the primary group on this project.
• Website: 3,161 web site pageviews for August 2004.

Beautification

• Cortney attended the cemetery preservation committee meeting. KKB's role will provide coordination and support of cemetery cleanups at some point in the future.

• There were no specific waste reduction projects in July 2004.

Awards & Recognition

• Activities for the 2004 Orchids & Onions Awards program and the News Sentinel Environmental Achievement Awards have kicked off. The News Sentinel provided us with a complimentary FULL-PAGE COLOR ad that has already resulted in several nominations.
• Cortney was interviewed by West 105.3 to promote the Orchid & Onion Awards.

Membership

• Regular membership donations are $670 for August.

• KKB completed its annual report to Keep America Beautiful on time.
• KKB submitted an affiliate award application to Keep America Beautiful. Winners will be announced on October 15^th.
• The executive committee met to discuss the litter grant budget cut.
• Tom attended a mandatory County Grant recipient workshop.
• Annie Morton, KKB paid intern has accepted a job in Cincinnati. Her last day was Friday, August 13^th. KKB interviewed two volunteer interns from UT. Both agreed to work on Youth Advisory board and other projects. They are Matt Christopher and Melissa Knowles.

Orchids & Onions Committee - various board members
There was a discussion of the Hall of Fame award. Mary Lou made a motion to present the Hall of Fame Award to former board member and former president Eddie Howard. There was a discussion of the Community Service Award. Wally Edwards (of Edwards Tree Service) and Mike Blankenship (Halls Ag Teacher) were considered. Scott Frith made a motion that we give the Community Service Award to Mike Blankenship and that Wally Edwards and Edwards Tree Service be submitted to the Environmental Achievement Awards judges for consideration for the News Sentinel award. Harold Byrd seconded the motion. Approval was unanimous.

There was a discussion of a need for more O&O judges. Recommendations are Mitzi Rouse, Susan Hamilton, Michael Versen, Donna Young and Duane Grieve.

In addition to Edwards Tree Service, staff will nominate the Halls B&P for the Environmental Achievement Awards program.

Board members wanted to make sure staff sent table sponsor appeals to Lamar Advertising, Commercial Bank (Adam Robertson) and Harry Sherrod.

Gary Loe wanted to make sure the Wee Course at Williams Creek was nominated for the Orchid Award.

Clean Business Program - Ken Bodie
Ken reported the committee has set a goal of $15,000 with $10,000 to be raised by board members in $50 and $100 memberships. Staff and committee members will work on larger gifts to raise the other $5,000. The effort will begin after the Orchids & Onions event.

Unfinished Business
There was no unfinished business discussed.

New Business
There was no new business discussed.

• Orchids and Onions committee meeting time TBA.
• Emporium Tenants Open House, Friday, September 10^th, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. - RSVP required
• Orchid, Onion and Environmental Award nominations due September 10^th
• Environmental Achievement Awards judging the week of September 20^th
• Orchids & Onions Judging the week of September 27^th
• Orchids & Onions Luncheon, Tuesday, October 12^th, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 a.m.

Adjournment – the meeting was adjourned at 12:59pm

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Harold Byrd, Secretary Date