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- Attendees:
Mike Boulland, Kitty Monahan,
Greg & Roxanne Koopman, Ron Horii, Kim Gardner, Sam Drake, Marilyn August.
- Our December 7 meeting was a potluck dinner at Mike Boulland's house, starting at 6:00.
- We got our Beautify San Jose grant check.
- Our bank balance is $2719.47.
- John
Dorrance said Boy Scouts would be cleaning up Santa Teresa Spring,
which has become overgrown with brambles again. Ron will find out which
scouts, when, and where.
- We talked about fund-raising. Greg will look into it. One idea is to sell items with our logo on it. Cafepress.com
allows you to upload a design, sell products on their website, and you
get a cut of the profits. We could also sell items or sell ad space on
our website. [Note that our website is not seteup for this. It would
have to be re-designed.] We might be able to set up a table and sell
items at Trailhead Cyclery's demo days in the park.
- Marilyn recommended we get a Facebook page. Sam set one up: https://www.facebook.com/STPFriends/.
He made Mike and Ron administrators. It can be used to advertise
our events. It's free, but if we want to promote it, we need to
pay.
- Roxanne and Greg are tending 2 of the garden boxes at the Bernal Ranch. Here are pictures.
They have cleared out the weeds, planted vegetables, and labeled them.
4H is tending 4 of the boxes. Chuck Rambo is taking care of the
carnivorous plants in 2 of the boxes.
- We will be holding our
National Night Out on Tuesday, August 7. Fandango hasn't been scheduled.
It may be merged into our NNO, though the purposes are different.
- The
County Parks has a new interpretive staff member, Scott Mac William. He
is working at the Casa Grande and runs the giftshop. He visited the
Bernal Ranch, where John Dorrance showed him around. He may help out at
the ranch.
- The County Parks has moved the Curie Drive
improvement project to 2025. It has $300K. We need to see if we can
speed up the process. Mike Wasserman asked if they could put in a dirt
trail.
- We have a Q&A document about the Mental Health Program at the Muriel Wright Center
from Mike Wasserman's office posted on our website. The sheriff's
office will be maintained there. What's not clear is if it will always
be staffed or if the program will have its own security.
- We
talked about having events in the park. We need to find out the
deadline for submitting events for the next Play Here. [It's February
15, for events starting in May. March-April events will be
online/Facebook only.] We can do another pre-Mother's Day hike on the
Stile Ranch-Fortini Trails. Mother's Day is May 13. We could do a
wildflower scavenger hunt like the one they do at Quicksilver, where
they pass out brochures with flowers that people have to find. They get
prizes when they turn in the checklists after finding the flowers. We
could also do a history tour.
- Teri Rogoway of the Open Space Authority wants Mike to do a Battle of Santa Teresa history talk at Tulare Hill.
- The
invasive tamarisk next to the Bernal Ranch parking lot entrance has
been trimmed. It's on private property, so there's nothing the parks
dept. can do about it unless it invades the park.
- Greg
asked about the possibility of putting benches on the Joice Trail. [The
trail runs through serpentine, which has endangered species growing on
it, so it may be difficult to do any construction on the trail.]
- Greg
talked about the power poles that used to lead to the microwave station
near Coyote Peak. The station was knocked down, so the power poles are
useless and unsightly. Who owns them?
- There is a Martin Luther Kind Day of Service event starting at the Pueblo Corral Area this Saturday 1/13 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
- Ron
showed pictures from November and December: garden boxes at the Bernal
Ranch, new tree/bush signs on the Nature Trail, our holiday party at
Mike's house, cleanup at the Bernal Ranch by John Dorrance, Santa at
the Ranch, Santa Teresa Spring, a coyote at the Pueblo Area entrance,
broken parking meter at the Pueblo Area, faded sign and new signboard
by the restroom at the Pueblo Area, the golf course, and the archery
range. Ron showed views from the Joice Trail, Bernal Hill, Pueblo Area
at sunset, Hidden Springs, Coyote Peak, Rocky Ridge, Ridge, Stile
Ranch, and Ohlone trails.
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