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Keep Knoxville Beautiful

Board of Directors, Regular Meeting

Minutes for November 2006

Present: Tobertha Anderson, Keith Austin, Harold Byrd, Ray Clift, David Collins, Gary Drinnen, Terry Faulkner, Anne Felknor, Scott Frith, Maxine Gunter, Dave Hood, Mary Lou Horner, Susan Long, Sam Maynard, Edythe McNabb, Sharon Webb, and Tim Wheeler.

Absent: Mark Brown, Dino Cartwright, Mark Cawood, Stevan Curtis, Neal Denton, Martha Dooley, Janet McGaha, Cassandra McGee, Doug McGill, Judy Newby, Page Pratt, Jenny Raines, Darren Rhines, Sarah Surak, and Garrett Wagley

Staff: Tom Salter, Jillian Gilbert and Stephanie Hood

Call to Order

The meeting was called to order by Harold Byrd at 12:15. There was a quorum for the meeting. 10/19 regular directors were present. Six special directors were present.

Approval of the Minutes

Harold asked board members to review the minutes from the October 2006 board meeting. Mary Lou Horner made a motion to approve and Sam Maynard seconded the motion. Approval was unanimous.

President’s Report – Harold Byrd

Harold appointed Mary Lou Horner, Susan Long and Sam Maynard to the Christmas party committee.

Tim Wheeler, Terry Faulkner, Ray Clift and Dave Collins volunteered for Tree Cycling.

Dave Collins, Terry Faulkner, Edythe McNabb and Anne Felknor volunteered for the Retreat Committee.

Jill Gilbert reported on the status of the Youth Advisory Board. Gary Drinnen and Scott Frith offered to volunteer to help the YAB.

There was a discussion of our future meeting location. The offer of space and meals from Coke ends with this meeting. Mary Lou offered to talk to Baxter Caldwell about continuing. Staff will send a thank you letter and research other locations.

Executive Director's report – Tom Salter

Tom presented the Financial Statement and Summary for October 2006. Positive net for October and year to date. There was a motion and second to accept the financial statement, approval was unanimous. Board members making the motion and second were not recorded in the notes.

Activities Report - Tom Salter

Litter Prevention

· Jill led the first meeting of the 2006-07 Youth Advisory Board at the Fulton High School library. 23 students representing 7 schools have signed up. 12 students representing 6 schools attended the 1^st meeting. Students received an orientation overview and discussed possible projects.

· Stephanie met and/or worked with UTK groups including S.P.E.A.K., Campus Beautification Committee, Friends of the Fort and several fraternities and sororities to promote the AmeriCorps CPR creek cleanup and planned waste-free events for GAC 2007.

· Tom made speeches to the O’Connor Senior Center, Fontinalis Club, the Norwood Kiwanis Club and C.O.I.N. (Council of Involved Neighborhoods) – total audience of about 115.

· KKB has a new intern, Leah Festa, who will be helping Jill and Stephanie with whatever they want her to work on.

· Website pageviews for October 2006 – 3,584

Recycling

· No significant recycling events in October.

· Received notification that Mount Olive Elementary School was in the top 50 schools competing in a plastic bottle recycling competition. Mount Olive and KKB each will receive a $1,000 Sam’s Club Gift Card and KKB will receive 2,000 recycled plastic fleece jackets (all children’s sizes) to distribute to the top 3 participating schools and several youth programs including the Boys & Girls Club.

Beautification

· The 2006 Orchids & Onions Awards were an unqualified success. We had great attendance by nominees and others, good board participation and good media coverage. Stephanie did support for O&O judging and the awards program and Jill did support for the Environmental Achievement Awards and judging.

· KKB provided cleanup supplies for Austin-East High School, South Knox Beautification and Ijams Nature Center.

· Cash for Trash donations: $225 to Carter Middle Beta Club and $75 to Xtreme Student Ministries.

· KKB staff helped Bob Santore transport some donated flowers.

· KKB gave some donated bulbs to Green Elementary faculty for a planting day.

Membership

· No significant membership activity in October.

Media

· WBIR covered the Orchids & Onions awards – story ran the following day featuring Robin Williams.

· News Sentinel ran story with all the winners and had a slide show of Orchids & Onions Winners on their website.

· Halls Shopper ran 1^st page story of Scott getting Environmental Achievement and Community Service awards and that KKB named the Hall of Fame Award after Mary Lou Horner.

· Halls Shopper ran 3^rd page story of Tom presenting speech to the Fontinalis Club.

· Halls Shopper ran story with color photo of Ridenour Orchid.

· UT Daily Beacon ran a 1^st page story on “Cleaning up Creeks” with a quote from Stephanie and a mention of Keep Knoxville Beautiful.

· Stephanie is working on a “viral video” on environmental issues related to KKB for a graduate school project.

Orchids & Onions Committee

There was a positive post-event discussion. Tom showed slides from the banquet.

Good First Impressions Committee

Gary and Tom reported that the Good First Impressions Committee had narrowed its focus to right of way projects near the County line on high traffic roads. A map was passed out with major roads, primary and secondary classification based on traffic. Gary mentioned several commercial groups interested in partnering on the landscaping projects with materials and donated labor. Tom is researching grant opportunities.

Unfinished/Ongoing Business

Terry suggested that we send flowers to the singer and that we put the properties’ addresses on the slide show in the future.

New Business
Harold announced a book signing coming up at Mabry-Hazen house.

Meeting Times and Announcements

§ Mt. Olive Elementary, Sam’s/Aquafina press event, date & time TBA.

§ Youth Advisory Board, 2006-07 start-up meeting, Thursday, November 16^th, 4:30 p.m., Fulton High Library.

§ Keep America Beautiful national conference, Orlando, December 6-9, 2006

§ KKB Christmas Party, date, time TBA

§ KKB Annual Retreat, date, time, TBA

§ Next regular board meeting, location TBA, 12:00 noon, Thursday, February 1^st, 2007

Adjournment – Tim Wheeler and Mary Lou Horner made the motion to adjourn at 1:10.

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Sarah Surak, Secretary Date