HomeMy WebLinkAboutKMBmin05082013 Meeting Agenda
May 8,2013
7:30 pm @ Town Hall 3rd Floor
Attending:Neil,Mike,Nancy,Pat,Jason,David,Dan(guest—looking to become official member May
15)
Absent:Brian,Patricia
Welcome&Administration: 7:30-7:40
1. Call to order
2. Review& approve minutes from previous meeting -ok
Litter Prevention and Cleanup 7:40-8:00
3. 2013 GMC: post mortem
a. Good turnout-700+-great weather-great success
b. What worked?-the groups that went out the week before or after did great work
—maybe we advertise that more for future options
1. People like the gloves
2. We may have needed more bags (yellow)
3. People like the recycle bags-we likely do need to educate more on
picking up trash vs picking up recycle
4. Great having the band there
c. What can be improved?
1. The different groups(usually middle school/high school kids, if not
properly supervised/directed,;sometimes socialize more than pickup
trash. This is ok, but maybe we set targets (ie-your group has 10
people, we are hoping you can fill 8 bags)
2. We need to discuss whether or,not we want to invite Norton next year—
we need to maybe discuss with Theresa who runs the party the logistics—
maybe invite her and Norton leadership to KMB meeting to discuss
d. Tee shirts—We liked the new shirt design-we want to do different colors every
year-we like the company we used($3.55 per shirt-Finn Graphics $1775 for
500 shirts)=we ran out of adult sizes we had some extra kids sizes-some
precinct captains ran out-others had extra-next year maybe we open up vote
to public-maybe we sign up via survey monkey/constant contact survey next
year-so things are more automatic.
4. Litter Busters SWAT team-3ro Saturday of the month-9am-10am
a. June 15-Relay for Life—High school track area
b. July 20—Train Station Downtown
c. August 17-School Street
d. September 21 Comcast/South Main
e. October 19—Maple/Francis
Beautification&Community Greenins:8:00-8:30
1. Route 106 embankment(Guerrini)-
1. we did not get the money from Lowe's/KMB
2. Guerrini -contacted us— he wants to donate 4 trees to donate- he
agreed that would be a good spot—flowering crab apples
3. We discussed purchasing an additional 5 trees to plant to finish off phase
1 of this. Vote is 6 yes- 0 against.
2. Downtown Flower.Barrels-we are in process for doing this again-we did get a $1000
grant last year—and we overspent by$18--so this year we need to plan on the out of
pocket costs to be roughly$500. We decided not to up the charge. $50 for 1 barrel$85
per 2 barrels. Planting date is slated for June 18t to 2"d week. Pat and Nancy
coordinating this.
3. Adopt a Spot(Pat)
1. Girl Scout Troop is meeting this Saturday May 11 at Mansfield Green
2. Adopt a spot signs-DPW is going to make these
4. Mural Update (Nancy) Wall has been power washed-Primer will likely be put on in
the next 1-2 weeks. -Then next step will be to draw grid lines—the group is looking for
volunteers to help out
5. We Noticed nominations-HarborOne is our May winner
6. Farmer's market sign is-$1300-it is double sided-the town is going to buy it and pay
for it
Administration: 8:30-9:00
6. Treasurer's report(Mike)
a. 2013 fundraising update (have all promised checks arrived?)-We have
$11,327.49 in the account
1. Clean-up$5950 in donations
1. we have not got$1000 from Samsonite (Jason is going to follow
up)
2. Our expenses are just under$2000 for the clean-up this year
3. Google docs will have our most up to date financial document on it
-Mike will be uploading
b. Status of account at Mansfield Bank and'Paypal—all set- it is working.
c. In the town meeting report document, there are a number of accounts
listed that may be beautification listed - it would be worth checking to see
if we can consolidate and into our beautification account. (ex-South
Common Beautification Fund, Downtown business fund)
d. Non-profit gift fund grant—Non-profit gift fund is awaiting to hear from the Tiger
Woods Foundation about status of the money-so there is no update yet
7. Communications& PR(Neil)
a. Cleanup press coverage—nice article in Boston Globe, Patch, Sun Chronicle,
Mansfield News
b. Website and social media updates (Brian) lots of updated
c. Thank you notes?
d. Attleboro pulled off their clean-up with good success-they want to sign up for
KAB—they had about 400 people for their clean-up
e. West Bridgewater has contacted Neil about how to organize a clean-up
f. Do we want to try and get Foxboro involved into clean-up next year since other
surrounding towns are participating.
8. Open issues; new ideas?
9. Any items not anticipated by the chairman 48 hours prior to this meeting
10.Next meeting date June 12
11.Adjourn