Friends of Anastasia state park May 2009

attendance:

Linda Develin, President

Constance Wicking, VP

Leo Seaman, Sec

Michelle Womser, Treasurer (not present)

Paul – park manager, Dennis Salvati – board member, Shelly – park ranger, Paula – member, Richard – member, Adam – from AnJ recycling, guest speaker, bob womser – member.

1. Call to order

2. Roll Call

   1. board members

      1. 4 board members in attendance

   2. new members

      1. paula & richard – richard is new, paula has been a member

      2. adam

3. discussion and approval of march minutes

   1. approved

4. financial report

   1. 5/19/09 balance: 6,164.64

   2. poker run was: $548.00 profits

   3. bill purchased the big painting for $150.00

   4. Linda gave bob $90 for the playground fund out of the HOSP box

   5. Dennis gave bob $60 for membership

5. membership report

   1. net decrease of 3 members since last meeting, 68 active members.

   2. Would like to find ways of getting the word out about the group.

   3. Constance was going to look at the RSVP – retired senior volunteer program, but they turned us down.

   4. Could go to a condo association meeting, and try to get membership from there.

      1. Adam mentioned that along the beach, most are time shares or weekly rentals, or only here for 4 months rather than residents.

   5. Could setup a boot at the farmers market for free. Could give fliers to Adam, and he could leave them on his table.

      1. Dennis will send the new flier document to Shelly. Shelly will print them and leave them in the friend's in box. Dennis will then drop off the fliers to Adam.

   6. The park is going to be raising their entrance fee to $8, we could raise our annual membership to $25 from $20.

6. Reports from chair

   1. nursery

      1. Janet is not here. They did a propagation class on May 7.

      2. Keith Fuller was at the propagation class.

      3. Had 15 people show up for the propagation class, they were not members. Two were camp hosts, and camp hosts from other parks.

   2. road safety

      1. Linda talked to Mitch today. Everything is here to put the 'slow' sign on the road.

      2. The park had a police officer in over the holiday weekend

   3. going green / recycling

      1. guest speaker, Adam

         1. Adam will help train the volunteers on collecting and sorting the recyclables

         2. big problem is contamination

            • trash in recycle bins

            • people that are visiting might be used to recycling more than we are able to handle.

            • Examples of contaminations:

              • tubs. Ie, sour cream tubs, butter tubs, etc. these are injection or extruded grade. They will melt down at a different rate than bottles, so they cannot be mixed.

            • Things we can recycle

              • bottles, steel and aluminum cans, plastic aluminum bottles.

1. where are the bins located:

   • going to put one bin at each site, and we will collect them and sort back at the 3-bay shop.

   • Going to put 6 out in the park, and keep the rest at the 3-bay for sorting.

     • Brown glass, non-brown glass,

2. fees

   • Fees: Adam will try to keep the fees as low as possible. AnJ is looking at this as a good promotion for their business. They are not charging for time, only for fuel.

   • Mitch: try to come up with a volume of materials. There might be a report showing how often the dumpster is taken. This may give us an idea of how busy the park is during the year.

3. Tankless vs tank water heaters

   • st johns housing partnership, dave brown. Found that a tank heater

4. leo will meet with Shelly tomorrow at the shop to prep the bins.

1. Volunteers:

• Leo & Ally

• 2 couples that i've received email – one is available every other week, the other is out of town until the fall.

• Constance & Chuck?

• Paula & Richard

1. Cost for recycling containers: $189.39

2. total green budget was $1,260.00. remaining is: $1,070.61

1. playground

   1. fund raisers – a good way to raise money is to have corporations donate and we can put a plaque on a bench, etc, or a paver.

      1. Would like to find volunteers who can go out to the businesses and silicate donations.

2. benches

   1. in june, we will have a camp host to build the benches that have been budgeted.

3. grants, businesses and pavers

4. yard sale

   1. would like to set a date for the next meeting.

5. victory cruise

6. dance

7. haunted hayride

   1. linda got an email from david & cindy. Right now there is only one concert, on oct 24^th.

   2. Haunted hayride is still on hold.

   3. Mitch, Michelle, and Bob have tried to work out different locations, would like to meet and discuss them.

   4. Possibly, we could do something to tie in with the winter wonderland.

1. turtle race

   1. constance brought in a sample turtle.

   2. Would like to do this on the same day as the endless summer run.

   3. Archie Carr – UF – association, could donate part of the proceeds for turtle

   4. could also print up t-shirts

   5. we could add it to the endless summer run website, and sell turtles as an add-on as well.

1. florida state park

   1. beach bash

      1. june 6

2. old business

   1. road cleanup

      1. need to re-schedule, will do next month

   2. endless summer run

      1. leo will pick the date for the run and update the website by the next meeting.

      2. Linda will give leo contact info for ancient city road runner – jay.

3. new business

4. announcements

5. adjourn