Tuesday, May 29, 2012

May Minutes 2012

May Minutes 2012

Attendees: Scott Utley, Cynthia Daughtery, Ginny Jones, John Ferrante, Linda Ferrante, Ed Jorolemon, Betty Morley, Esther Plyter, Darrell Plyter, Subrata Paul, Carol Hopkins

1. April minutes approved.

2. We have approximately $1800 in the treasury. Discussion on t-shirts to identify our club. Club fee will pay for the t-shirt and all members will get a t-shirt. Will need to decide on color of t-shirt and design. Looking for artist to create design. Lettering Lounge can create whatever we have set up. $53.17 paid for mulch for raised beds, solar lights for green space and stain for the community center planters.

3. Two wooden planters for the community center on main street have been donated. John will stain them and get them ready for planting. We can ask the community center to water them. Janis wants them on the wall but will need to take a look as they are designed to be on the ground.

4. Sign for raised beds. Looking to create something similar to the one on Ontario. $96 for a 2x3 sign and Chamber of Commerce will split the cost. Getting a design and according to lettering lounge we can do anything. Does the town have an image that we use so that there is some kind of continuity or branding? Suggestion: Do a contest encouraging students and artists to create a sign. Indicate that we reserve rights to use parts of the sign for our sign. Just need to give general dimensions. Give directions on what we are looking for with regards to words and descriptions. Set up description and then give to Sun and Record as well as high school and middle school. If we get more than one good design and they are similar, we can use different ones. Have it submitted to post office or by email. Question on whether to go to a 3x4 or 3x5 sign. Needs to be a little bigger so it can be seen as people can see it. John will follow up on pricing of signs. Current bigger signs are $1600 and now need maintenance. Set up committee to follow up on this. Looking for volunteers for this. John to meet with Lorraine to talk about plants for the planters and also to see what chamber can provide for any additional money they can provide. Will it be 50/50 or something else.

5. New raised bed for west lake road. There is a farmer with a farm there who will let us put in a raised bed. We will Ned to put in a sign for that. The cost is les than $100.00 to put in the beds. Talk to Perry to make sure we have permission for this.

 6. Lynda Parmlee to help John select plants for the planters. Last year, the grasses took over and the flowers were not so apparent. Lorraine reecommended begonias for those areas that get a lot of shade. We need something with height. Begonias grew 2 feet last year so they at a good choice. What did we use last year to raise them? Was it 5 gallon buckets? Can we cut a disk and wedge it in there? How about raising them off the sidewalk due to rust on the sidewalk? Lynda recommended plastic tubing for the bottom to stop the rusting. Plastic pots used last year need to be prepared. May 11, 9:30 am, John, Ed, Scott and Darrell will take out dead plants, loosen soil, remove trash from planters and cover planters in preparation of Apple Blossom. Will look at planters to see how to not use as garbage cans. John to bring a cart so they can be moved if needed. If you are available, please join them.

7. Planting of flowers. Will wait until the weekend after Apple Blossom Festival. Planting will be Wednesday, May 23rd, at 9:30. If you are available, everyone will be meeting in downtown Williamson, near the Green Space.

 8. After Fall planting and before Spring planting, when we take the trees out, we can put a plastic bag to cover the planters. Or we ned to move them over so they can go onto pallets and store until springtime. John has scrap plywood that we could use that to put the on.

9. Plant Sale. Eric and Subrata will set up a table at their house and sell plants through craigslist, etc. Will start selling as soon as we have enough plants, and it will be during the weekends. Subrata has extra pots if needed. Japanese maple trees.

Ed to dig some up and plant them for the sale. Two will go to Sodus Garden Club. We will not be setting up a table at Apple Blossom this year.

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