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Keep Knoxville Beautiful

Board of Directors, Regular Meeting

Minutes for March 2007

Present: Harold Byrd, Mark Cawood, Ray Clift, David Collins, Anne Felknor, Maxine Gunter, Terry Faulkner, Sarah Surak, Tim Wheeler and Sam Maynard.

Absent: Tobertha Anderson, Keith Austin, Mark Brown, Dino Cartwright, Gary Drinnen, Stevan Curtis, Neal Denton, Martha Dooley, Dave Hood, Mary Lou Horner, Susan Long, Cassandra McGee, Scott Frith, Janet McGaha, Doug McGill, Edythe McNabb, Page Pratt, Jenny Raines, Darren Rhines, and Garrett Wagley

Staff: Tom Salter, Jill Gilbert and Stephanie Hood

Call to Order

The meeting was called to order by Harold Byrd at 12:20. There was not a quorum for the meeting (9/19 regular directors). We need 10 regular directors for a quorum.

Approval of the Minutes

Harold asked for approval of the minutes of the February 2007 meeting. Sara made a motion to accept the minutes, Sam seconded the motion. Approval is not official for lack of a quorum.

President’s Report – Harold Byrd

Harold appointed Terry Faulkner (president-elect), Ray Clift and Tim Wheeler to be the nominating committee. All board members are obliged to recommend good board prospects.

Date for donor phone banking is April 10, 2006, from 4 to 6 at the KKB office. Tom will provide board members with lists of names prior to the event.

A sign-up sheet for the GAC kickoff and the Women’s Expo was distributed.

Executive Director's report – Tom Salter

Tom presented the Financial Statement and Summary for February 2007. All factors are positive for the month and YTD. Tom reported that Bob Santore has provided him with proposed expenditures for about $9,000 of the $13,381.48 balance for the South Knox Beautification.

Tom disclosed to the board that KKB will manage a modest grant from EPA to study the Sundown in the City Zero Waste Event and create an event waste reduction guide. KKB will receive approximately $5,500 from this grant to cover costs related to managing the Sundown project.

Activities Report - Tom Salter

Litter Prevention

KKB shared space with the City of Knoxville Solid Waste Department at the Booth at Dogwood House and Garden Show. Dogwood volunteers: Anne Felknor, Katie Bennett, Lisa McMahan, Kellie Morrison, Darrin Rhines, Janie McDow, Dave Collins, Mark Cawood, Sarah Surak, Eric Smith, Harold Byrd, Sam Maynard, Mary Lou Horner, Billie Solomon, Melissa Ouellette, and Joyce Hausman. Tom and Jillian also worked at the booth. StopLitter and GAC™ flyers were distributed.
KKB provided gloves and bags to Brookfield Acres for a cleanup.
Twenty-three neighborhood groups and organizations have registered to participate in the 2007 Great American Cleanup™.
Gresham Middle School has signed on as a new Litter Free School.
Friends of the Fort Cleanup did a cleanup near Grand Avenue. Stephanie worked the cleanup for KKB. About 30 UT students participated and a pickup truck load (about 20 bags) of bags was picked up.
The Keep Tennessee Beautiful Advisory Council (Tom is a member) approved new language to update the state litter ordinance at its meeting in Nashville. The new language was delivered in person to Senator Tim Burchett who sponsored the bill in the Senate. A house member from Memphis is co-sponsor.
KKB continues to receive surveys from regional police agencies on litter citation practices. As of today 25 surveys have been received and data is being analyzed and prepared for release. We do not plan to release the names of any specific police agencies – only the data.
The Dogwood parade committee met. KKB’s float will have a litter theme.

Recycling

The GAC™ poster contest will have one new sponsor and one return sponsor. SP Recycling will look at funding half the cost of our EarthFest tent. The National Dairy Council will provide prizes for winners and seek financial support for the tent from Flav-O-Rich, the milk supplier for Knox County Schools.
Four new schools signed up for Students for Recycling: Mount Olive Elementary, Sterchi Elementary, Chilhowee Intermediate and Gresham Middle School. Two more schools are being targeted for participation.
Tom sat in on the Solid Waste Board meeting at the Solway Greenwaste Facility. There was a spirited exchange between board members and citizens who live near the facility about odor control.

Beautification

Stephanie and Jill did a Talking Tree presentation at Arnstein Jewish Community Center. The presentation included a discussion of trees, animals who live in trees, how people need to help trees and reading from a short book. About 50 students participated.
KKB has been approached by the new director of DWAF to help them plan a drive to plant 50,000 dogwood trees by the kickoff of the 2010 festival. That will be DWAF’s 50^th anniversary.
Tom toured a major brush clearing project by South Knox Beautification at the Seymour Fire Department.

Membership

$225 in membership donations were received in February.
KKB began using the $1,000 Sam’s Club card won last year in the national recycling competition.

Media

Tom appeared on the Hallerin Hill show for 45 minutes to promote the Great American Cleanup™. The focus was on urging homeowners and businesses to pick up trash on private property that belongs to them.
The News Sentinel did a short item on our state awards with information about signing up for the Great American Cleanup™.
KKB website pageviews for February 2007 – 2,137. (we have switched to a new hit counting system that ignores hits from our office computers).

Other

KKB’s request for funding from Knox County was submitted on time.
We have a new YAB member from Fulton High School.
Planning to make EarthFest and Sundown in the City zero-waste events is proceeding.

Great American Cleanup™

A handout was distributed with an overview of all the activities planned for GAC™ 2007. Events include: Kickoff, Neighborhood Cleanups, (UTK) Campus Cleanups, River Rescue, Williams Creek Cleanup, Poster Contest, Trash Bash and more.

Unfinished/Ongoing Business

There was no other unfinished or ongoing business.

New Business
There was a brief discussion of the DWAF parade float.

Meeting Times and Announcements

Next regular board meeting, 12:00 noon, Thursday, April 5, 2007 at O’Connor Center
Kickoff, GAC™, 4-6 pm, March 6, Mabry Hazen House
Women’s Expo/Food City Show, March 9, 10 & 11, KKB booth, various times
Williams Creek Watershed Cleanup, 10 am to 2 pm, March 10, East Knoxville, several sites
Orchids & Onions Committee, March 13, 11:30 am, Chesapeake’s
Third Creek Tree Planting Project, times TBA, March 17^th, near West High School

Adjournment – the meeting was adjourned at 1:05 pm

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Sarah Surak, Secretary Date