Friends of Santa Teresa Park Meeting, 5/2/19

 

    • Attendees: Mike Boulland, Kitty Monahan, Greg & Roxanne Koopman, Kim Gardner, Gus Letona, Ron Horii, 
    • We held our meeting in the Santa Teresa Golf Club main clubhouse restaurant because our usual meeting place, the upper banquet facility, was in use. Ron could not give a slideshow presentation..
    • 19 people came to our last meeting, with Lisa Pappanastos speaking about the Grant Ranch. We should take a field trip to visit the Grant house in the future.
    • Ron taught his outdoor photography class on 4/27. Mike and Joan Murphy helped. 16 people signed in. Ron showed a slideshow in the ban, then led a wildflower hike up the Joice and Bernal Hill trails. Mike talked about the history of Rancho Santa Teresa.
    • Mike said the Almaden Ting (pagoda) group will be tour the San Jose History Park's Chinese Historical Museum.
    • Kelsi Ju wanted cake stands for La Fuente for displaying cakes. Mike gave some to her.
    • Mike submitted the application to the parks dept. for National Night Out.
    • The Koopman's have not been working in the gardens at the Bernal Ranch lately, but they are still interested.
    • Mike will be volunteering at the Bernal Ranch. He will be taking a class to become an official docent there.
    • Greg is willing to water the trees in the Pueblo Area. He needs to contact Jason Gorman in Maintenance about it.
    • Power went out at the Bernal Ranch. Sam said he heard an explosion in the neighborhood. Neighbors also lost power, so it wasn't just the ranch or something related to the power lines in the park.
    • Treasurer's report (Greg): current balance $2433.63. Pending expenses: $579.48. The balance will be $1854.15. The Beautify SJ Grant is $2380. 
    • It will cost us $300 to file for federal 501c3 status, since we're an established non-profit organization. It would be $800 if we were a new organization. We register with the state attorney general yearly for $20. We are a state non-profit. We signed the paperwork for the 501c3 application. We need a letter for soliciting donations. Sam said it's better to be a non-membership corporation, rather than a membership corporation, but we already incorporated as a membership corporation. We became a corporation in 1995. We have an EIN.
    • Kitty will our next speaker, as part of our special speakers series, date TBD.
    • We need to buy a table runner with our logo on it for events. We can get a plain tablecloth for $15 and put the runner across it.
    • We have a purchase order form to approve purchases. If we want to buy items to be paid for by our Beautify SJ Grant, we have to make sure they are covered by the grant.
    • We need FOSTP business cards. We need to wait until we have 501c3 status so we put the correct information on it.
    • We need to get a flyer holder. A stacked holder that holds multiple flyers costs $24.
    • Mike went to the Parks Commission meeting. It was reported that trail counters showed that usage of the Santa Teresa Park trails spiked up, probably due to new housing in the area.
    • We will be giving our Pre-Mother's Day hike on the Stile-Mine-Fortini trails on 5/11 at 10 am. We will pass out our newsletters. Meet at the Stile Ranch Trailhead. Ron and Mike will be leading.
    • 8/6 is National Night Out (NNO). We'll do the same things as last year. We need to advertise it online and pass out flyers. We need to make flyers.
    • Our next meeting will be 6/6. There will be no meeting in July, as it will be the 4th of July. Our next meeting will be 8/1, which will be before NNO. 
    • We need to create a new newsletter. We'll pass it out at NNO. We should target June for having it ready. Write articles by the end of May. Possible topics: new staff, last year's NNO, Pyzak cleanup, park usage, Muuriel Wright status, walking sticks, our wildflower hikes, Ron's photo class, the chicken coop.
    • The junctions of the Joice and Norred trails and the Joice and Bernal Hill trails were very muddy this year. They need to be fixed. We need to contact Lisa Pappanastos. 
    • Bike demo days start this weekend at Santa Teresa, from Friday-Sunday. Mountain bikes are available for trial on the Santa Teresa trails. You can test our as many bikes as you like during the time period. They are high-end bikes.
    • Mark Frederick, County Parks construction manager, retired.
    • May 19 is Viva Calle SJ. It starts at Story Road. It runs along Story Road to Willow Road and up Market Street and St. John St. to St. James Park. It is not in District 2 or 10, so we were not invited to participate like last year.
    • Ranger Bryan Lu is is leading hikes to Coyote Peak. We should help with one or more of them: "Saturday June 29, Sunday July 21, Sunday August 4, Sunday August 18, 2019, What's "Shaking" in Parks? 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Santa Teresa's Pueblo Day Use Area.Trek to the highest peak in the park to view fantastic vistas and explore local geology formations. Meet in 2nd parking lot (on left by yellow call box) with hiking shoes, layered clothing and water. Questions? (408) 225-0225."
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       Created 5/13/19 by Ronald Horii, secretary of the Friends of Santa Teresa Park