[Advocacy-outreach] Draft of October 15 Coordinating Committee Meeting. Zoom

[Lorraine Kells]

Hello all,

Please read before our Nov. 19 meeting so that we may approve the minutes.
Changes may be made before a motion to accept in that meeting. Minutes are
below and attached.

CCGA Coordinating Committee Meeting Minutes, October 15, 2024 - 6pm on Zoom



Attending:  JW Glass, Amy Olson, Barb Dennis, Gina Jamison, Mamie Gray,
Mary Fran, Lorraine Kells, Emma Pierce, Food System Organizer, First
Presbyterian Church of Chicago and Katherine Kenny, Nettlehorst Elementary
School Garden

Meeting called to order 6:09pm. Motion to adopt minutes of September 19 was
made Gina and seconded by Amy

New members were welcomed. Katherine told us about her work at Nettlehorst
Elementary with their children’s garden. She reviewed how they did winter
sowing in donated gallon milk cartons. She is glad to hear about CCGA and
is looking forward to the bulb distribution in Oct.

Emma stated that she has been in touch with Ellen who will advise here on
greenhouse growing.

Due to a time constraint on her attendance, Amy gave an update on the
Newsletter and Mailchimp. A fall newsletter will go out, and now that we
have a paid account there are added features which will provide more
flexibility, user roles, and subscriber metrics for both the main CCGA
mailing list as well as the Resources mailing list. If they choose to
import their database. We’ll have better functionality to create and track
forms. We also talked about the Newsletter format and ideas for recurring
features and columns to help make it more meaningful and engaging for kids
and families. We will re-establish quarterly calendar, with a submission
timeline coming in early 2025.

*Project/Event Updates*

Tribute for Julie Samuels. As Gina was the only one present, she was asked
to contact the ad hoc group that is planning a memorial for Julie. They
will put some content together for the Newsletter.

*6:40 Committee Reports*

*Resources – *Barb stated that 6000 plants had arrived for the Resources
Fall Perennial Distribution which included pollinator plants and garden
tools. The set up was done with completion in record time. She announced an
Oct 26 garlic bulb and spring allium and hyacinth distribution at the
African garden.  Miscellaneous bags of compost and peat moss will be
available as well as garden hoses and other bits of garden materials to be
included.

*Advocacy and Outreach – *No one was in attendance, but Lorraine stated
that the collaboration with AUA for creating an urban agriculture ordinance
had been signed.

*Education – *Gina stated that the committee would offer a vegetable
fermentation workshop as well as kombucha in 2025.

*Communications – *JW wants to know the cost of the new mailchimp account.
He reviewed the Communications team routine tasks.

*Finance – *No one present.

6:59 Motion to adjourn was made by JW; seconded by Gina

Regards,
Lorraine
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