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Home My WebLink AboutKFB Minutes 2016-02-23Keep Friendswood Beautiful Meeting Minutes February 23, 2016 Board members in attendance Sherry Goen Tom Goodwin Paul Marx Todd Mendenhall Martha Cotton Patty Steinke Leslie Peralta Kaye Corey Chris Chism Natasha McAdoo Susan Stephens James Toney, Director of Parks and Recreation Kimberly Ramirez, Staff Mary Wise Katy Blanchard, Staff Jeff Smith, Guest Mike Foreman, Guest Tim Anderson, Guest Mary Piwetz, Guest Tammy Zurawski, Volunteer Maria Revell, Guest John Maisel, Guest 1. Call meeting to order: The meeting was called to order at 6:31pm. 2. Discussion on the approval of January 26, 2016 minutes; Patty made a motion to approve the minutes as presented, Martha second the motion and the motion was passed unanimously. 3. Communications/Guest: Mary Piwetz introduced herself as a volunteer that wants to join KFB; she is a master gardener and has been a Friendswood resident for the past 23 years. Jeff Smith introduced himself and also wants to join the KFB board; he has lived in Friendswood for 34 years and was also a worked with the Galveston Fire dept, and the Director of League City’s Fire Department. Mike Foreman was in attendance and introduced himself to the board as a City Council candidate running for city council. He was an Astronaut for NASA and wants to educate himself on how the city works. Maria Revell was in attendance as also introduced herself as wanting to be a member of the KFB board. She lives in Rancho Viejo, and has been a project manager most of her life, John Maisel was a guest at the meeting he stated he owns the property behind Ms. Lannings property on Shadwell and has 5 acres of land. He just wanted to let the board know he’s selling his property and wanted to know if the city would be interested in purchasing his property. He stated he would like to begin a conversation on selling the property to the city and would like everyone to consider the fact that we have lots of parks for special events and for athletics; he would like his property possibly to become a nature center. The bayous are fabulous; he felt this would be a nice addition to the community. He has a master plan that he has worked on for a long time. He doesn’t want it to be a parking lot. HE stated it has potential for weddings, family activities or a seminar room. John asked the board if they had any questions, Chris asked where it is, John stated it’s directly behind Stevenson Park. Also I will be willing to have the opportunity to continue to live there after it’s purchased and help find funds to develop the area; he gave the board his email address to contact his with any questions, Eagleheart222@gmail.com. He thanked the board for what you are doing; you’re welcome to arrange a visit to the land, thank you! Paul stated he thinks a nature center is a great idea. Wonderful jogging trails. James stated that the city has already purchased the property next to him; it would be a great idea for the parks subcommittee to visit the property. The properties will be adjacent to the bridge that will be going in soon. A. Volunteer Hours: Sherry asked the board to please send in your hours. B. Committee Reports **Executive Committee-Sherry Goen: Sherry informed the board that they did meet last month, their some things we have in the works, the luncheon we’re trying to do. We are meeting with the other affiliates for a networking luncheon. Keep Dickinson beautiful and keep Alvin beautiful will be attending. **Public Awareness—Natasha and Kate Cross: Natasha stated we want to involve more people on our facebook page and want to do that by starting a contest. The contest would consist of participants submitting photos on “What do you think make Friendswood beautiful.” Doesn’t necessary have to be a flower or tree, it could be anything. For a good moral booster, we need a prize. Katy stated that she did look at the billboards but it could be pricey but we could add create custom street banners. Also offering a VIP parking pass for the 4th of July. We need to start in March or early April. Have winner announced in May and concert in the Park. **Education—Patty Steinke: Patty was able to contact Primrose and will have a presentation on April 1st at 3pm. Patty stated she doesn’t mind being Figgy. Give out stickers and pencils. This can be a Pilot presentation, day cares would be great to start and the Girl Scout troops would be great too. **Beautification-Kaye Corey: Kaye Corey stated that the Heritage Gardeners were interested in landscaping the Memorial Monument. She stated that they had to present a plan for the memorial monument and said they didn’t think they could move forward with that. She stated that the Bed at the psb was landscaped by cornerstone and irrigation has been fixed. Also the entrance signs at Fm2351 and El Dorado solar lighting has been fixed and the rose bushes at FM2351 blocking the solar light/panel has been removed. **Parks—Tom Goodwin: Tom stated he would like to start presenting at different HOA’s and the access to the hoa’s has to the PDO. Kaye has invited tom to the San Joaquin HOA meeting. Tom stated he’s going to throw out his ideas to them and see what they have to say back. **Environmental Action Paul Marx-Paul stated one of our goals is schedule a clean-up, possibly a waterway cleanup. C. Median Maintenance/Grant Project Update/Cleaning out of Medians update-Sherry showed the board a redention of the new medians, the removal will possibly done in stages. The knockout roses will be recycled and some of the trees will be recycled. We decided to do the demo in house because we didn’t want it to cut into our cost for the look we’re trying to have along Friendswood Dr, TxDOT has gone above and beyond on helping us get what we need with the finest of materials. Working with TxDOT has been a pleasure and we need your support that things will get better. Susan suggests putting signs at the medians stating “pardon our mess” so people will be aware of what’s going on. Katy suggested “Beautiful medians coming soon”. Sherry thanked Kimberly for all her work on this project. D. Keep Friendswood Beautiful **Budget Consideration: Katy informed the board that the recycle club is out of bags, they have reached out to kfb. Sherry asked how long did the bags last, Katy stated they lasted a year. Katy would like to ask for 300 bags for their recycling purposes which are $150 worth bags. Susan made a motion that we approve to spend $150 for 300 bags for the FHS Recycle club, Natasha second and the motion was passed unanimously. **Stevenson Landscaping: Kimberly informed the board that landscaping at Stevenson will begin in March. **New city signs to replace old wooden ones: the PSB sign will go up right away but the other median signs will go up after the medians are completed. **KTB Conference Natasha would like to do a day, Leslie, a day, Kaye, Paul a day. **Rain Barrel Workshop: Katy stated it’s confirmed for august 6th, check has been sent we are good to go. She stated she would like to try to do an art contest again this year. **Affiliate Meeting Report: Luncheon is scheduled for March 10th, lunch and training with Alvin and Dickinson. **Santa in the Park Report Funds: Board would like to get a quote for Christmas décor, and Kimberly informed the board that we presented the yetis to hometown bank and they were thrilled. **FHS Recycling Club Report Katy: Katy asked if you could clean the caps before you drop them off. **Back to school event w/Vocal Trash and FISD: James stated it’s not going well. He had a brief conversation with Joel with FISD and doesn’t see any good dates in the summer for this event. James stated that Kim came up with a good idea, maybe kfb can host an event at concert in the park when Vocal Trash is playing, have some activities for the kids. Vocal trash is scheduled for May 13th, we can advertise more to get more people at concert in the park that week. **Spring Sparkle April 9: Galveston bay foundation contacted us and wants to know if it’s ok if they can attend the event and hand out materials. We will have the shredder there; Kimberly will let them know that kfb is ok with it. Sherry informed the board that they found out that the green waste is recycled and not put in the landfill from Progressive. 4. New Business: New Hope, Paul is going to meet with New Hope to present the beautification award to them on Friday. Sherry informed the board that they need volunteers to help with the Friendswood of Downtown event. If you’re interested in helping please let Martha know. Paul went to the Friendswood downtown Friendswood meeting and their looking into beautifying an empty lot, the corner of spreading oaks and fm518. They’re going to meet with the owner of the property; he doesn’t plan on doing anything with that lot. 5. Adjournment: the meeting was adjourned at 7:40p.m. Approved by: Kimberly Ramirez Date: March 22, 2016