<p>Hi Everybody,</p><p>I wasn't suggesting that we exclude Greg. In fact, this gives us direction as to what we should leave to discussion until the second meeting when he can be there (i.e. details of seeds, fencing, financing).</p>
<p>I think we can get started for the first meeting (on Feb. 23) on the member recruitment and possibly planning a social event for this term (i.e. marketing overall) as it doesn't sound like Greg would necessarily feel the need to be there for that discussion? We can at least get the ball rolling... some things such as making a poster would definitely take more than one meeting, anyway.</p>
<p>Greg, let us know if this is a suitable option in your opinion.<br></p><p>Alicia</p><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:45 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcmichal@envmail.uwaterloo.ca">gcmichal@envmail.uwaterloo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Looks like February 23 is set. I'm disappointed that it couldn't be held when I could be there. Please don't finalize seed decisions without giving me a chance to comment on it. I have about 50 packet of seeds of various sorts, good catalogues, and will end up starting a lot of seedlings in my "growth chamber" in my basement. I also would like to be part of the discussion of whether or not we need fencing and how much, financing, weeding, and some other items. Can you provide those of us who can't attend with a chance to contribute to these decisions? If we were given a choice of possible dates and then picked the one most suitable to the greatest number of people, then I would not feel badly about the choice of date, even if I was unable to attend. But I don't think this was a fair way of deciding on a date - one date was suggested and that was that.<br>
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Candace,<br>
I have stayed out of this thread, until now, because things go faster with fewer people, and I am at work. I'll be there on the 23rd, but a bit late. The fence requires locates to be done with gas and hydro.<br>
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Hey all,<br>
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I'd actually like to get the ball rolling on this and have *gasp* more than one meeting this term. I just feel that if we delay on this too long, things won't actually get done. There are some things especially (like a budget) that would likely benefit from having a bit of long-term planning in place?<br>
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Let's start with the first meeting of the term on Monday Feb. 23 at 7:00 pm. Unless there are strong objections?<br>
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Tentative agenda:<br>
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1. Introductions<br>
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All of the following points will need two-ish people to take on the coordination of:<br>
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2. How, where and when to recruit new members<br>
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3. Budget: Where to get money for seeds and other purchases<br>
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4. What seeds we need to reorder (we should get on this)<br>
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5. Do we want to get stuff for a fence?<br>
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6. When to hold the planting party (if we are having one).<br>
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7. Finding foster parents for the seedlings we grow. 8. Compost from the city, compost runs from food services<br>
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9. Deciding when gardening times will be, having official volunteer greeters to ensure people feel welcome at the garden<br>
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Given that this looks like a long agenda, I say that we set the priorities at the first meeting as to what we most urgently need to talk about, and leave some of the less urgent/important points until the next meeting. If somebody wants to take on advertising a social garden meeting for our second meeting of the term, that would be a great way to bring in new members.<br>
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Just my thoughts, do feel free to add!<br>
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Alicia<br>
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Paul Nijjar <<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Given that Greg is a primary foster parent and that he wants to come<br>
to the meeting is there interest in rescheduling?<br>
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