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HomeMy WebLinkAboutKMB 03/06/2018�ppsflclr7Oero . L_ Y.FEP AMENICA OEAUIIFVt AFf II�AiE RECEIVED GErC;iS OFFICE "Empowering residents, businesses, and goverjjnAp$ 18 A I I make Mansfield a greener, cleaner place to live, work, anc(glt' FIELD Meeting Minutes for F r'+:f`-_I ETTS March, 6th 2018 7:00 pm, MBC Room 3d floor Town Hall Attendees: Nancy Wall, Pat Colbert, Mike McCarthy, Jason Dodd, Jeff Ward, Mike Healey, Ana Newell, Neil Rhein, Team Up members (Elizabeth Clemmey, Barry Cioe, Maureen Cioe, Jack Cooney, Deb Medeiros), and Girl Scout Troop 85101 (Scout leader Lisa Morley; Scouts Lauren and Claudia) Absent: Martha O'Connell KEEP MANSFIELD BEAUTIFUL Welcome & Call to Order • Meeting called to order at 7:05. • Nancy welcomed the Team Up committee members and Girl Scout Troop 85101. • Minutes accepted from previous meeting and signed by Pat Colbert. Treasurer's report - Mike Mike picked up lots of checks today. They have not been deposited in the account so the financials listed below do not reflect the current amount. Mike will deposit and update the Google Document with the latest financials. Currently, the account is as follows: Balance from Town Hall is $10,403.97. Balance with Mansfield Bank is $532.80. • We have received the following donations: $100 -Auto Body Pros $100 - Christine Dumouchel Paypal donations (not yet reflected in Mansfield Bank balance, some fees will be taken out): $500 - Barbara Clarke $100 - Kathleen White $500 - Steve Schoonveld Team Up Committee Presentation The Team Up Committee consists of Elizabeth Clemmey, Barry Cioe, Maureen Cioe, Jack Cooney, and Deb Medeiros. They are a group of Mansfield residents who are trying to raise awareness about negative impacts of plastic straws on our planet, as well as, other issues like plastic bags. Team Up stated 500 million straws are used and discarded every day in the US. In Mansfield alone, 38,000 straws, enough to fill 3 large trash barrels, are discarded every day. This is even more disturbing because they are not recyclable. Plastic straws are filling landfills, polluting our oceans and streams, and leaching toxins into jour food chain and water supply. Team Up is starting an initiative to work with restaurants to do the following: • Do not offer or provide a straw by default. Allow customers to request one. • Use plastic straws instead of plastic. • Eliminate plastic stirrers and drink decorations. They want Keep Mansfield Beautiful to help with this project by placing information on our social media (website and Facebook) and providing guidance about fundraising. We told them we would be happy to place information about this initiative on social media. We also told them about the non-profit gift fund as a way to obtain funds. They also submitted an article for Town Meeting to reduce plastic bag usage in town. See details below. Girl Scout Silver Badge Project This Girl Scout Troop is also working with the Team Up Committee to build awareness and reduce the use of plastic straws. They have the following goals: • Educate the facts and harms of using plastic straws. • Challenge people to sign the pledge to stop using plastic straws. • Challenge people to order drinks with "no straws please'. • Challenge people to buy metal, paper, or glass straws for home. • Challenge people to ask restaurants to switch to metal, paper, glass, or no straws. • Challenge people to pass this conversation forward. They would like to have a table at the Cleanup picnic to highlight their project. We all agreed this would be a great thing to do. We all agreed to help in whatever way we could. After they left, it was suggested they paint a barrel with "Last Plastic Straw" as a theme. Pat will follow up with them. Relay for Life Event - Pat • As agreed at the last meeting, Keep Mansfield Beautiful will have an information table at the Relay for Life event on June 16 from 6:00 - 9:00 at Ahern Middle School in Foxboro. • Pat has setup a Keep Mansfield Beautiful team and will provide a link for the members so they can join this this. Even though there is no requirement to donate, Pat started the account with $50.00 and hoping members will donate a small amount. Cleanup - All • Pat has reached out to all the Precinct Captains from last year and they are going to participate again this year. • The banner is scheduled to be hung from April 9th - April 201h. The patch to the banner is done and Pat will pick it up and bring to the Electric Department. • Neil will send the flyers to Nancy for printing. Once printed, Mike H. and Martha will make sure they are hung around town and placed in the school's e -newsletter. • Pat is going to email all the community groups this weekend. • We currently have 3 cases of reusable bags. For each community group, Pat will place all the supplies in our reusable bags. As our way to help reduce plastic bags, we will hand out our reusable bags at the picnic and give them to Mansfield Food Pantry. • We would also like to hand them out at the Town Meeting to support the plastic bag ban. Nancy is going to check with the Town Clerk if this would be allowed. • Neil will begin the social media campaign for the Cleanup. • Nancy and Mike will be filming at Cable Access next weep • Mike will get back to us on when he will do the Litter Index, either Saturday, March 24th or Saturday, March 31st. • Jason needs to get the Police and EMT contact information from Neil. • We will be looking for people with boats to clean the perimeters of Kingman Pond and Fulton Pond. Nancy and Ana are going to send a letter to the abutting residents on whether or not they would be interested in doing this on the day of the cleanup. • Neil needs to fill out the State paperwork that allows us to clean Route 140 (either side, but not the middle strip). • Neil told us we have accident insurance from Keep Massachusetts Beautiful since we are an affiliate. Article for town meeting on banning plastic bags - Neil As discussed by the Team Up committee, they created an article for the town meeting to ban plastic bags for businesses with a square footage of 3500 or greater (Stop and Shop, Shaws, Home Depot, etc.) and for businesses with 2 or more locations in town, regardless of square footage (Dunkin Donuts, etc.). All the members agreed to support this article, except Mike H. who wants to see a complete ban on plastic bags. Adopt -a -Spot Veteran Memorials - Neil and Martha • There are 28 veteran memorials in town. We want to list these memorials on the town website with information, pictures, a map, and the person/group responsible for maintaining the site. We want to include these memorials as part of the Adopt -a -Spot program. • A book was written about all the veteran memorials. Martha is working off the electronic version of the book and producing a one page summary for each memorial. Neil stated this is very labor intensive and Martha is making great progress on this effort! • Lou Andrews is working on obtaining pictures, medals, etc. 106 Embankment trees - Martha • Guerrini will be spraying the trees on the embankment in the spring. Keep Mansfield Beautiful will pay for the cost of spraying. Ana stressed the importance of doing the spraying before the trees flowers. The buds can be on them, but if they are flowering, it is too late to spray. Flower Barrels - Nancy and Pat • Nancy has solicited previous businesses and a half of them have responded. Many businesses have requested additional barrels, which may bring our number of barrels up to 100! Pat has confirmed with Patrick Lyons that they will have at least 100 pansies available to us. • Nancy and Pat need to meet beforehand to count the number of usable barrels (some were damaged and will not be used again). We will need to purchase new plastic barrels and will use the remaining money on the Home Depot card we received from Toyota last year. • We will prepare the barrels at the Fruit Street site on Thursday, March 22 at 4:00. We should be able to finish, but if we do not, we will complete either the next day or Saturday. Mike H. will pick up 12 bags of soil from Patrick Lyons. Pat has fertilizer from last year that we will use. Nancy and Mike H. will bring a drill for creating holes in the new plastic barrels. All should bring a hand and large shovel for mixing. • Pat will to coordinate with DPW on placing the barrels the first week in April. • The planting of the pansies is scheduled for the second week in April. The exact date depends on when Patrick Lyons tells us it is safe to plant them. Painted Barrel update - Pat • There are two barrels in Pats basement waiting to be placed. Mr. Mehigan's 8w grade art class barrel is a sea theme and will be placed at the intersection of Rumford Avenue and Old Colony Road. The Mansfield Connection's Candy Land barrel will be placed in front of the library. Pictures of these barrels were placed on Facebook, along with a thank you to the group responsible. From now on, all newly painted barrels will be recognized on Facebook. There are three outstanding barrels: Friends of Memorial Park (for playground), another barrel from 8th grade art class, and a private individual. Pat has requested DPW prime 10 more barrels for 2018. Wellness Expo at Jordan/Jackson - Nancy and Pat • Administration, Teachers, and Parents of Jordan Jackson have teamed together to provide a Wellness Expo at the Jordan/Jackson School on March 15th from 6:30 - 8:00. Set up time is 6:00. The purpose of the event is to provide a variety of resources to support the physical and emotional well-being of elementary -aged children and their families. Our organization was invited so we can share materials about our programs that can help families and children get more involved in the community. • We will be setting up an information table. We will highlight the Cleanup (Fall, Spring, and Litter Busters) and Painted Barrel programs. • We will bring two of the recently painted barrels from Mr. Mehigan's 8th grade art class (sea theme) and Mansfield Connections (Candy Land theme). These barrels are currently in Pat's basement waiting for the winter weather to end. The barrels will be transported by Nancy's truck. • For door prizes, we will be donating reusable bags, Cleanup t -shirts, and trash grabbers. March Madness - Jeff • March Madness is Thursday, March 29th from 6:00 - 8:00. Jeff is coordinating this effort. We currently have 8 people on the team. Current and past KMB members are playing (Jeff, Neil, Mike M., Mike H., Erik, Jason, and Dave K.). Martha's son-in-law Mark is also playing. • Pat, Nancy, Martha, and Ana will be at the information table. • Arrive time should be 5:30 for table setup and basketball practicing. • Everyone should be wearing a Cleanup t -shirt! Xffnity program for Non -Profits - Neil • Neil is still waiting to hear back from Xfinity on whether or not we can chose the concerts. • Neil is not quite sure if we will go ahead with this as it is a huge commitment (6 concerts with a minimum of 6 people), requires training, and the total amount to be received would only be approximately $5000 - $6000 (this represents a base amount of $3,500 with a percentage of the profits). Neil will get back to us on his decision. Bertucci fundraisingopportunity - Nancy • Bertucci reached out to us for using the restaurant as a fundraising activity. On Tuesday, April 24 from 11:00 am - 9:00 pm, Bertucci's will give us a percentage of the sales if you show them the flyer they provided Nancy. • Nancy will distribute the flyer to us electronically and will post on Facebook. • All members should pass along the information to friends and family. Handicapped ramps at train station - Nancy • Nancy showed us the design of the handicap ramps at the Train Station. There is so much concrete in this design. When it is done, we would like to enhance the area with landscaping and possible art work. Action Items Nancy Continue to solicit businesses for flower barrels. Meet with Pat to count the number of usable barrels and purchase additional barrels. Talk with Town Cleric about handing out reusable bags at Town Meeting. Send Bertucci's flyer to us and place on Facebook. Print Cleanup flyer and give to Mike H. and Martha for distributing. Provide the truck to transport the 2 painted barrels to Wellness Expo. Setup information table at Wellness Expo and March Madness. Work with Ana on writing a letter asking residents that abut Kingman Pond and Fultons Pond if they would like to clean the perimeter of these areas, via boat, during the cleanup. Do Cable Access segment with Mike H. Pat Contact Patrick Lyons about getting 12 bags of soil and notify that Mike H. will pick them up. Call Patrick Lyons to guarantee they have enough pansies for at least 100 barrels. Meet with Nancy to count the number of usable barrels and purchase additional barrels. Coordinate with DPW on placing the barrels downtown the first week in April. Send email to Girl Scout Troop and Team Up Committee about painting a barrel and having an information booth at the Cleanup picnic and Relay. Set up information table at Wellness Expo and March Madness. Send out email to all the community groups. Get the supplies ready for the Cleanup. Pick up banner and bring to Electric Department. Help prepare barrels at DPW site off Fruit Street. Mike M. Set up a time for the Litter Index. Deposit all the checks we have received in our account. Prepare for March Madness! Mike H. Pick up 12 bags of soil from Patrick Lyons. Do Cable Access segment with Nancy. Distribute flyers to downtown businesses. Help prepare barrels at DPW site off Fruit Street. Prepare for March Madness! Martha Continue to consolidate information about the Veteran Memorials. Set up information table at March Madness. Help prepare barrels at DPW site off Fruit Street. ason Get the Police and EMT information from Neil so you can contact them to guarantee they are available for the Cleanup. Prepare for March Madness! Help prepare barrels at DPW site off Fruit Street. Jeff Coordinate March Madness team! Help prepare barrels at DPW site off Fruit Street. Ana Work with Nancy on writing a letter asking residents that abut Kingman Pond and Fultons Pond if they would like to clean the perimeter of these areas, via boat, during the cleanup. Set up table at Wellness Expo and March Madness. Help prepare barrels at DPW site off Fruit Street. Neil Get back to us on decision about Xfinity Center. Do social media for Cleanup. Provide Nancy with Cleanup flyer. Fill out paperwork for cleaning Route 140. Prepare for March Madness! Next meeting is Tuesday, April 10th at 7:00 Meeting adjourned at 9:15 Minutes approved on: 1� i�' ° f % at % l Secretary signature: