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December 12, 2017
Meeting Minutes
Attendance: Liz Klohmann, Suki Tabor, Jim D’Alterio, Barnaby Knoll,
Jesse Tedora, George McGonigal, Jody A. Hallett-Harris,
Caitlin Moss, Jason Hecht and Dave Warden
Excused: Eric Nichols
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Last official meeting called to order at 6:13 p.m. by Liz Klohmann
As of January 1st the new Committee Structure officially commences. Liz passed out a Memo from the
Boards & Committees Working Group wanting to know what current board members are looking at and
how they are feeling about the new structure. Jesse stated that possibly wanting to be on an ad hoc
committee but wouldn’t want to commit to anything permanent. Jason stated that he is thinking about
joining Friends of the IYB, not sure about the new structure and would need more understanding before
committing. Barnaby is not currently interested in working with the new structure but is interested in
joining Friends of the IYB.
Jody will email Jeff Love Jesse, Barnaby and Jason’s email address so that he can give them further
information regarding Friends of the IYB.
There were some concerns regarding about how many different agencies/committees/boards are now
squeezed into these 4 groups and how things will get done in 2 hours and how do issues get brought up
and taken care of right way if it is something time sensitive?
Liz stated that working groups will probably be put together to take care of urgent/time sensitive issues.
She also stated that IYB will not be the focus of the meeting unless there is an issue/urgent matter or other
matters that will be brought up as needed.
Liz briefly explained some of the things that Friends does on behalf of the IYB and other matters they do,
like applying for grants on our behalf. They also table at different events and give information for the
IYB and themselves.
Suki was able to pull up the new application for the new committees and there is a line for “your
interests” if there are specific areas.
BBBS need to have monitoring done before 3/31/18 and because of the new structure, Joe Gibson has
contacted the national organization to see if Liz can sign the paperwork for this year until the new
committee structure is pulled together and organized next year.
There really isn’t anything that the board currently does that is re-occurring that needs immediate
attention other than the monitoring and the budget review.
Suki stated that it will be interesting to see how they view both GIAC & IYB under the same group and
that it may open up more opportunities to collaborate.
George asked what is the staff opinion of the new playground that Friends of SP are going to build. This
playground will be for all kids including children with disabilities and will enable them to all play at the
same level and will have different textures and structures and have accessibility for all people.
Currently Belle Sherman and Candor have new playgrounds.
Splash pad at SP will be updated and they are looking into the cost of maintaining it, as water goes to
sewer and possibility of sensors to turn the water on or off automatically so not to waste water.
Liz stated that Stewart Park will be a destination place.
Mike Thorne – experts in that area