2014_03.11 KKB MinutesKeep Kennedale Beautiful
March 11, 2014 Meeting Minutes
Call to Order 6:01pm
II. II. Members Present:
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Michael Chandler
Vickie Chandler
Fred Winters
Pam Breault
Rachel Rogers
HR Director, Kelly Cooper
Visitors: UTA Capstone Students:
1. Cody Mayberry
2. Kristina Esparza
3. Bob Watson
4. Sophia Ipaye
5. Ge Wei (Bill Black)
III. Motion to approve the minutes of February 25, 2014 by Vickie Chandler, second by Fred
Winters. Motion approved
IV. Visitor /Citizens Forum — none
Our visitors were present to observe our meeting since we have our strategic
planning meeting with them this April.
V. Regular Items
A. Review and consider approval to move the April 2014 KKB meeting:
I. Since other events are taking place and Kelly will not be available for our
next regular scheduled April meeting, we voted to move the meeting to
April 15th. Motion to move was made by Fred Winters, second by Vickie
Chandler. Motion approved.
B. Review and discuss the Spring butterfly garden planting:
I. The board agreed that April 26 as decided on in our last meeting is still
the best date and the time chosen is 10:00 AM to noon.
II. Pam will be checking with Home Depot to see if they have received their
bird baths and ask about making a donation to our garden.
III. We need to decide if we want to finish the walkway, plant more plants
and what plants, and if we want to open this event up to volunteers.
IV. Michael and Vickie will get the event details to the outdoor club and
Rachel will send this event to troop 35, pack 276, and troop 235. Kelly will
provide flyers.
V. Michael will bring the supplies to water seal the bench and get pea gravel
as well as the metal trim for the walkway.
VI. Pam and Wilda will discuss which plants to get for this event.
VII. Since we are still trying to determine if and how we will have a spring
cleanup event, we considered including a cleanup of Clock Tower Park
and Sonora Park.
VIII. It was also mentioned that instead of holding a cleanup event on the
same day as the garden event, we would incorporate a cleanup event
with the cleanup and planting event taking place at Arthur on the 12
Refer to reports at the end of these minutes for additional details.
C. Discuss and consider implementation of the Adopt -A -Spot program:
I. Michael updated the board that the Park Board liked the idea of this
program and will support it since it may include adoption of park areas.
II. Michael will present this program to the city council at the next meeting
since this includes city property and signs.
III. The board now needs to work on what types of signs will be used and
how they will be installed.
1. The board may be able to use existing structures in park areas.
2. The board may be able to attach signs to the concrete circular
walls if someone adopts the center area of any of the rounda-
bouts.
3. We asked the volunteers if anyone had experience with this since
we did not want to create a large concrete pad or erect a pole
that will be unsightly if an area becomes unclaimed. A suggestion
to use a ground sleeve that allows you to insert a pole and bolt in
place seemed like a good suggestion. They also mentioned the
signs need to be 8 feet high to not be an obstruction to
pedestrians, and these poles will need to be out of the way to not
be a tripping hazard.
D. Discuss completing a Street Tree Inventory with Texas A &M Forest Service:
I. Cory Blevins with A &M suggested doing this street inventory. His group
will train us on how to identify trees.
II. Cory would like to do this in April, but due to the number of events taking
place in April we would like to move this out to May.
III. We need more details about this event:
1. How long is training?
2. They said this takes a week, what exactly takes a week?
VI. Reports
A. April V we plan to meet 8:00 to 8:30PM (after the strategic planning meeting) to
discuss the cleanup and planting event taking place at Arthur and how we would like to
participate.
B. We will discuss the possibility of doing a quick cleanup event and advertise the "Don't
Mess With Texas" slogan so that we are complying with the requirement to have a
cleanup event associated with this program. The area we are considering is the area
around Apache at Kennedale Parkway and Tower Rd.
C. We will also discuss is this will be our spring cleanup event and if we want to narrow
down our large "Bring It" clean up event to once a year in the fall since we always have
many projects taking place in the spring.
VII. Adjournment — 6:57P
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