2008-07-16

SLC Minutes 7/16/08

Meeting Place: Surya Nagar Farm, Fairfield 7:30pm

Attendance: Briggs Shore, Lonnie Gamble, Hap Mulleneaux, Ken Walton and Grover Stock present.

Creating a budget for new personnel:

Discussed what new personnel we would like to have for next year and what kind of salaries we can reasonably offer. Decided on a BGS coordinator, a groundkeeper/maintainance person for the 10 wk. course, and an SLC director. One idea was to see about sharing the SLC director with the city to tap into some of the money they have available for their own green coordination staff.

	BGS coordinator/director: 		$15-20000 yearly salaried position
	BGS maintainance/groundskeeper: 	$4000 per season
	SLC director:	$25000 from city	$10-20000 from us
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						$44000
						+  15% for taxes etc
						$50000 GOAL

Facilities Budget

Discussed what we would like to have for buildings on campus next year. Decided living space for 10 interns, one director, and one groundskeeper. Several strategies were discussed, including building a pole barn for basic housing/classroom/kitchen space as a minimum. Estimated cost is $50000.

We will be arranging a meeting with Martha Norbeck to determine cost estimate for phase 1 of the original campus plan.

Fundraising ideas/strategies:

I’m probably going to spell most of these wrong so if someone wants to go through and correct me, please do.***

Private foundations (ALLSEES)
Find more grants, but probably more for personnel than buildings
Individuals

Events: dinners, concerts, awards nights

Raffles (talk to Bob Ferguson, David Neff)
Art Walk Booth (donated work with proceeds going to SLC)
USDA rural development money
Find companies to donate materials
Make sure website is attractive for potential donors
Trees Forever
Iowa Natural Heritage

Also discussed finding a committee of people to specifically focus on our fundraising. People may include: Dave Neff, Ditra Detman, Burt Chenowski, Kathryn Waneck, Pete Fust, Jenny Pell, Jonathan Rudney, Paula Baudeau, Bob Ferguson, Betty Barkenstock, Stacy Hurlin.

Next Step

Next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday July 23 at 7:30.

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