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Home My WebLink AboutKMB 10/14/2025�9 apAO CJ J��. o � 0 4 g9jF�AS AO\SAP t'. �lirO 1 J Empowering residents, businesses and government to make Mansfield a greener, cleaner place to live, work and pla}s^ KEEP MANSFIELD BEAUTIFUL COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes Meeting Date: 14 October 2025 @ 7:00 p.m. Location: Room 3A/B-Mansfield Town Hall Attendees: Jeff Ward (Chair), Kelly Kemp, Janice Wivagg, Kara DesRoche, Pat Colbert, Danielle Dupree Absent: Martha O'Connell, Tobey Ludlow Welcome & Call to Order • Meeting called to order at 7:08 p.m. • Motions were made to accept minutes from the KMB meeting of September 10 2025 approved by KMB members in attendance. Treasurer's Report Treasurers Report as of 14 October 2025 Town Account FY 2025 $14,059.39 Mural Account $ 3,000.36 Net Total: $17,059.75 Breakdown of Financials by KMB Program Program Town Hail Account PayPal PayPai Fees Expenses FVT' . Cleanup 2026 0 0 0 0 0 Flower Barrels 202$ $240.00 0 0 $5,239.22 ($4,999.22) Flower Barrels12026 $180.00 0 0 0 $180.00 Fondly Fun Night $122.00 $40.00 $1.07 $169.39 ($8.46) KMB Administration $225.00 0 0 0 $225.00 41ue i' n—i Keep MA Beautiful $518.40 0 0 0 $518.40 Nip Bottle Stipend 2025 $1,000.00 0 0 0 $1,000.00 Nip Bottle Stipend 2026 $1,800.00 0 0 0 $1,800.00 pg. 1 Additional Financial Notes • Non -Profit Gift Fund grant requests will be open from 4 February 2026 through the end of June. Funds are distributed in July. • Jeff Ward presented KMB's Budget Recap on October 9 2025 to the Select Board. Recent items • Lisa Chaffee joined us. Lisa is considering applying for a position on the committee. Lisa was well received. She participated with important observations. • Keep Mansfield Beautiful held a Meeting at Angle Tree Brewery on October 9 2025 Kelly and Tobey attended. Kelly met the Keep Massachusetts Beautiful Professional Fundraiser and got some ideas for improving the Fundraising letter. We should use them as a resource which is available to KMB free by paying dues to Keep Massachusetts Beautiful. • Kelly completed and posted the quarterly KMB Newsletter. • Received $25.00 from the Shaw's Reusable Bag Program • Danielle to perform audit of Adopt a Street in 2026 • Need to decide on dates for the Spring and Fall 2026 Clean tips. • Josh Reinke is the acting Town Manager and continues to be the DPW Director. • Mike Healy recognition ideas - Community award, gift from committee members, heck planter, dinner at Kelly's Memorial for Nancy Wall Ana spoke with David Loving, Nancy Wall's husband. They discussed memorializing ideas including planting a tree, dedicating a Bench with a plaque and adding a metal or painted plaque on the mural. David mentioned he would like all three of the ideas done. He even mentioned donating money towards the expense. The committee discussed using one of the donated Subaru trees, and the potential location of the bench at the North Common with a view of the mural. Also contacting Ian Geaudreau to paint a plaque on the mural or getting a metal plaque. And having a dedication and presentation. Fundraising To be discussed at the January Meeting. Included in the discussion, applying for the Non -Profit Gift Fund for Mural Lighting. Kelly recommended improving the letter based on her discussion with the Professional Fundraiser from Keep Massachusetts Beautiful. Some of the suggestions include more direct contact with large donors, improving our reach out and engagement strategies. Increase the number of times Newsletters are sent out and requesting In -Kind donations. Trees from Subaru Neil Rhein, Director of Keep Massachusetts Beautiful, contacted KMB about the offer of free trees fi-om the Patriot Subaru North Attleboro business. The business is tied to the national Subaru/ Arbor Day Foundation (ADF) Tree Program. The trees are being held at Ana Newell's house. They are growing nicely. Some suggestions to get trees planted - Kids Planting Day/Earth Day/Cleanup. Traffic Light Box Wrap Pat Colbert advised the members that the vendor (Cool Air Creations from Smithfield, RI) has not been responding to her call. Pat, heard from Eileen Cusack that the vendor might be going bankrupt or through a reorganization phase. Pat will contact Eileen Cusack to discuss other options. Also other vendor options were discussed. The timeline for the project is for the Spring. . Mural Project The work on the mural was completed. Mural illumination has been put on hold due to cost constrictions. The balance of the mural funds is being considered for Memorials to Nancy Wall. 2025 KMB Annual Fall Cleanup Event The date for the annual fall event is scheduled to take place November 1 to November 15th, 2025. Banner went up on 10/20. Reminders to community and sports groups sent on 10/5 and 10/13. Sign ups as of this date are low. Ana will be away on vacation and Kara agreed to be the Precinct 3 leader. Ana will send her all the information. Cleanup materials will be left at Pat Colbert's porch for the annual Fall cleanup. Pat mentioned how easy it is having the event participants pick up materials at her residence — a self -serve type operation that works well. Suggestions were made to allow some flexibility on the timing indicated on the cleanup banner and to update the verbiage on the flyers to expand info on the sequence of activities on cleanup day. Kelly suggested a more engaging effort should be made to encourage Sports teams to sign up. Which could include attending Sports Board meetings. Kara mentioned promoting competitions by teams for a Pizza party. Danielle will create a flyer and put a package together to encourage/advertise the events. Many groups require service hours that could be accomplished by participation in the clean ups. Family Fun Night 2026 Date TBD We Noticed! The committee discussed the possibility of nominating Mansfield Shredding for this year's award. Kara sent an email to the committee with various ideas to enhance the program. Discussion tabled until January meeting. Some of the ideas include nominating twice a year, timing nominations and requests for nominations with social media posts and newsletters. Downtown Flower Barrel Program Pat Colbert reported there are 119 Begonias plants from Patrick Lyons Nursery in downtown area barrels. There is a barrel sponsored at Memorial Park. That veteran's bench barrel is being sponsored by Pat and John Colbert this year. KMB also sponsors 24 barrels, and the COA sponsors some veteran barrels in the downtown area. There are some barrels at the Fruit Sheet triangle that are sponsored and maintained by nearby residents. Cost of each flower barrel remains at $60 and the Pansies will be replaced mid -season with Angel Begonias. Only one sponsor has not paid. The program was profitable this year. DPW will remove the barrels in the next few weeks to avoid frost. Adopt -a -Spot The Happy Hallow AaS was adopted by Celia Herschlag. The Jordan Jackson AaS was adopted by Kara Hanks and friends of JJ School. Mike Healy's AaS is still available. Ana reached out to Mulkhern but received no reply. Ana will reach out to Wicked Good Chiropractor. Litter Busters Samsonite Corporation performed a cleanup on 9/23/25. After they mentioned safety concerts during the clean up of Rte. 140. KMB Clean Community Award Ceremony The KMB Clean Community Awards event is scheduled to be held in May. We discussed nominating Mike Healy for one of the awards. pg.3 KMB Meeting Dates for 2025 Next meeting is scheduled for lhesday, November 11th. Meeting Adjournment Meeting Adjourned- 9:24 n.m. Minutes approved on Secretary signature: