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HomeMy WebLinkAboutKFB Minutes 2012-11-27Keep Friendswood Beautiful Minutes November 27, 2012 Board members in attendance Susan Stephens Kaye Corey Patty Steinke Todd Mendenhall Paul Marx Jeremy Sampson Sherry Goen Sara Eakin Pat Sullivan Martha Cotton Charles Richardson Brian Mansfield, staff Tonya Hilton, staff Debbie Murphree, staff Terry Byrd, Fire Marshal Ray Hunter, FVFD Dean Spencer, staff James Toney, Director of Community Services Kimberly Ramirez, Staff Whitney Chandler, guest Chris Chism, guest Billy Enochs, Councilmember Liasion 1. Call to order: The meeting was called to order at 6:30. 2. Discussion/approval of October 23, 2012 minutes: Patty made a motion to approve the October 23rd minutes, Martha second the motion and the motion was approved unanimously. 3. Communications/Guest: Sherry informed the board that the City’s fire marshal’s office has attended our meeting to go over a scenario of an incident at the Santa in the Park. Dean Spencer with the fire marshal’s office went over the first 1st scenario, which is a child is reported missing at the park. Dean detailed the scenario to the board and asked the board what they would do. Board members responded on suggestions on what to do. Patty stated to inform PD, Pat stated announce the incident over the PA. Kaye stated PD should take care of this situation and we observe. James suggested announcing thru the PA system to go to the information tent which KFB will be manning. PD suggested having a lost and found area in the park like Halloween in the park. Dean stated this has reduced our time in reuniting the families. This has reduced our time. Dean asked if we have a communications plan. James stated we will have all our cell phones on laminated ID, which all board members will be wearing. Next scenario, child has fallen from an amusement ride and has hit his head. Board stated call 911, PD can block area. Dean stated this incident has happened 10 minutes later after the missing child. KFB can help with search and rescue. Sherry wanted to bring up another scenario on what do to with disorderly conduct. Brian suggested notifying James Toney and he will contact PD. A. Volunteers sheets: Sherry stated that she is keeping up with the volunteer hours and needs board members to turn in their hours to her. B. Median Maintenance: James stated that the electronic reader board on FM2351 and Blackhawk should be up within a couple months. C. Stevenson park trees: James stated that there is working being done by the drainage district on Shadwell near the creek. Galveston County Drainage District met with the homeowners along Shadwell to gain access to the easements. One of the homeowner s wants to donate 6 trees to the park. James also stated that a bridge will be installed soon that will connect Stevenson to Old City Park. Board asked how big the bridge will be, James stated 8 to 10 ft. wide bridge. D. Keep Friendswood Beautiful ***Banner Renwick and FM2351: James stated that the banners at Renwick Park are up. James stated were only putting banners in front of park not by the school. He stated that we ordered 2 more banners to complete that process. James informed the board that the KFB banners on FM2351 are now up. James stated that the green banners have been taken down and will be replaced with blue KFB banners. ***Solar Lights: The plaque for Texan Bank sponsorship was installed on the solar light. Plans are made for a photo-op with Texan Bank and KFB. ***Educational Projects: Susan, Pat and Sherry has an educational presentation at the to the Galloway school this week with 65 students in attendance. Figgy was there and they were very appreciative. James stated the presentation was awesome. Sherry stated that the group is going to Klein Elementary on Friday for another presentation. ***Tree Giveaway order and event date: The giveaway date is January 19th. The board decided to give away only container trees this year and excluding the seedlings. Board will be asking for identification to help keep it to 1 tree per family. ***Spring Sparkle date: Board discussed possible dates for the spring cleanup either April 13th or April 6th, James Toney will discuss with Progressive and Youth sports groups before confirming dates. ***2012 Governors Grant deadline- February 5th. Sherry informed the board of 2 webinars that are coming up and encourage those who can to participate. She stated that there have been some changes in the grant application this year. E. Fall Haul a Day/Garage sale American recycles day reports: Sherry asked if anything needs to be changed to improve the event. Kaye asked if James could attend the HGAC hazmat meeting. He stated that he did and they talked about e -recycling and hazardous waste events, the information he received showed that these types of events are very expensive. Kaye suggested that Friendswood partner with League City on a hazardous waste event. James agreed that partnering with another city or organization to provide a hazardous waste event would be the way to go. F. Committee Santa in the park: The board members decided on what areas they are going to working at during the event. Kimberly will send email out when shirts and badges are ready to be picked up. Business beautification: Paul stated that he presented the beautification plaque to Texas First Bank. Board agreed to present Mary Queen with the 1st quarter beautification award for 2013. G. New Business: Sherry suggested having KFB attend the council meeting to serve wassail and cookies to those attending the council meeting for awareness purposes. Sherry would like to have a table set up and serve between 4:30-7pm. Patty, Pat, Martha, Susan, Kaye, Whitney and Sherry volunteered to man the table that night. Todd asked about clothing donation boxes that are near businesses in Friendswood, he suggested moving them to the back of the building. James stated he'll check with Cathy in CDD. Patty asked how the street sweeping going is. James stated that he has a number of a street sweeper but he hasn't got a call back. Kaye asked about getting more entrance signs. She suggested having the City’s water towers lit and using that as an entrance sign. James stated that we need to get property acquisition to install more entrance signs. Board would like to have sign coming in from League City. Kaye asked if there’s any money of the budget for another sign, James stated no, it would have to be a decision package. James stated we spent 12 to 14 thousand per entrance sign. Kaye stated that we need to set our priorities at the January meeting. James stated that we signed a contract on FM2351 irrigation and I will bring plans back to the board when their ready. Adjournment: Meeting was adjourned at 8:18p.m. Approve by: Kimberly Ramirez Date: January 22, 2013