Meeting Notes
Important thought: waste reduction is always top priority and should be considered before organics/recycling/etc.
Event Framing: We want to host an educational event where we as a group have brought together the information surrounding the Stevens County Organics program to inform anyone interested in the system. We see there being multiple audiences: commercial users who want to partake, individual users who want to partake, backyard composters, and those who desire finished compost, with an emphasis on the first two.
In order to share this information we need to know how the system is going to get set up & ~when~. So our next steps are to set up meetings with the following folks to gain information.
- Nathan (& Chris Watkins)
- Steven’s County (Bill Kleindl, Chris Watkins)
- Engebretsons (Troy, Chris Watkins)
Questions [PLEASE EDIT THESE AND ADD ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE]:
Nathan (Chris Watkins, WCMNCN):
- Do you have a strong role in the stevens county system?
- Can we use your documents and alter them to be Morris specific?
- What are the Green Warriors? Would we qualify for that?
- Tips and Tricks for coordinating this community outreach
Stevens County (Bill Kleindl, Chris Watkins):
- Do we know where the drop site will be?
- How is the system for commercial users going to work? For individual users?
- Questions on funding similar to Pope Douglas Green Warriors
- What will people be required to do in order to utilize the drop site?
Engebretsons (Troy, Chris Watkins):
- Who/how is hauling organics from restaurants?
- Who/how is hauling organics from drop site to Pope Douglas?
- What parts of this system are not figured out yet?
- Do we know where the drop site will be?
- What is the pricing for all of this?
General Questions:
- How are we incentivizing this to make it so compost isn’t a hassle?
July and August will be gathering/coordinating the organics program information.
September will be event planning mode.
Quick notes for event planning mode:
- Invite: Vance Gullickson, Josie Rehbein, Gail Boe?, OOS Interns
- Advertise for businesses to come but also in businesses for general public
Our first in person meeting in a long time!
Details:
Saturday, July 10th @ 10:30AM in Eastside ParkIf you cannot make it in person but would like to attend, let @syd know and we will call you in or something!
BYOLC (bring your own lawn chair)
I did get permission from Lori of the Makers Fest for us to be in the park, she said we could maybe put our info in the Makers Fest program if we wanted and that there probably wouldn’t be much going on in the park until noon anyways so we are good there!
Here is the FB event for that.Agenda:
- Come up with some general framing of the event: overall outcomes, what we want people to learn, vibes, etc so we can send that info to the folks
- Come up with a list of folks (partners/experts) for this event
- send emails to these folks to plan some initial meetings with them to think through some of the content/activities during this event
- Pick a couple general dates/times for ideas to suggest to the folks
) has a chance to look it over and see if there’s something we should change before we print a few out.