<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Forwarding this<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As you all may well know, access to water is a serious concern for our community gardeners. An earlier email gave you information about the new water hydrant policy and a petition put forward by AUA that we signed on.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Many felt we should advocate for ourselves as community gardeners. May Toy has volunteered to act as an advocate for us with the city. This thread will be open to hearing from you.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We do need to address this as an organization with possibly a zoom meeting or an in person meeting.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What do you say?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">M Toy</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:mtoy.usa@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mtoy.usa@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 3:18 AM<br>Subject: Garden Liability Insurance<br>To: € CCGA / Resources committee email <<a href="mailto:resources@chicagocommunitygardens.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">resources@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>>, Lorraine Kells <<a href="mailto:lxkells@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">lxkells@gmail.com</a>>, Amy Olson <<a href="mailto:akeo@me.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">akeo@me.com</a>>, Ellen Newcomer <<a href="mailto:ecnewcomer334@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ecnewcomer334@gmail.com</a>>, Mamie Gray <<a href="mailto:mamiegray2012@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mamiegray2012@gmail.com</a>>, Patricia Hart <<a href="mailto:patahart45@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">patahart45@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>In speaking with Breanne today, I mentioned that the Garden Clubs of Illinois provides liability insurance for its member clubs which covers any events or activities that the garden club may conduct. The only problem is that GCI now charges $50 admin cost + $75 per additional insured per Certificate of Insurance (COI) needed. This is on top of the membership dues. </div><div><br></div><div>Breanne mentioned that CCGA wanted to increase it's membership and thinks that providing liability insurance to community gardens to access the fire hydrants would be a valuable perk. </div><div><br></div><div>At this point, we don't know how many community gardens would need this liability insurance but per Breanne there are a lot of non-Neighborspace community gardens who sit on private, church or other governmental land that uses fire hydrants. As community gardens become more popular, the need will only go up. </div><div><br></div><div><div>Is this something CCGA resources or CCGA as a whole would like to consider? If so, I can get quotes for this type of coverage. We can spread the cost of the insurance back to the community gardens who need it. The cost will then be much lower than each garden getting their own policy. </div></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>
I think the water permit cost itself is not a problem since it only increased by $10 but I could be wrong.
For us to help community gardens we need to address the three main barriers in the current water policy: </div><div><br></div><div>1) Cost of the RPZ</div><div>2) Cost of the Inspections</div><div>3) Liability Insurance</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div>May</div><div><br></div><div><div>The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. Do not share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur again.</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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