Category: Events

Village Fest (4th parade, 5th for booth)

• Parade: Ask if walkers are interested
  • Candy
• 3 messages: Organics, city council, electric cars
  • Tent (Kristin)
  • Which electric cars
  • Lona will get spots for cars and
• Organics
  • Hauling it
  • Compost bin
    • Lona will bring examples of home compost
• Questions for city council survey below
  • table-sized paper with markers
    • “What questions do you have for the city about your environmental concerns?”
  • Suggestion box
  • Clipboards with questions
  • Display city email address
• Transportation Multi-modal
  • Bike (electric)–Mary and Clif talking to bike shops
  • Walk
  • Electric Vehicles

Surveying city council candidates

• what questions could we ask of a city council/school board candidate?
  • We’re a citizen committee, you’re welcome to come to our September meeting, but we have some questions
  • Use Village Fest to generate questions
• are there any folks in CFS interested?
  • Dan will write up a blurb about local engagement being a good way to get policy change
    • http://www.savmn.com/256/Elections Get involved in Two city council positions are up in the fall, applications are ___
• Ask city to make city council commitment clearer
  • Mary will check in with

Review of Transition Forum event

• Lona and Dan provided a summary of the event
  • Meeting in people’s homes
  • Having guest speakers
  • Reach out to elder neighbors
  • Go to transition town national: http://www.transitionus.org

Updates from projects/sub-committees

• Ecology Club will happen at Elementary and Middle
  • Jay and Erin met about water conservation campaign
  • Laura (school board)
• Parks Commission presentation (Lona)
  • Propose a Parks Commission name change
  • Should we become part of the Parks Commission?
    • No, but we should attend every Parks Commission meeting
  • Propose a regular environmental update
  • Sustainability Fair
    • Make it a city thing

Village Fest booth: Michael will do early shift.

Registration for Parade/Booth

City Council candidates

• https://www.nancyforthevillage.com
• http://davecolling.com/

Other Notes

• Wilshire Park and Community Center water conservation poster contest in the Fall
• Ecology Club will return for 4th & 5th graders at Wilshire in Fall
• Alan Anderson
• Future idea: city ordinance
  • no styrofoam
  • compostables?
• Middle/High School has recycling in lunchroom and ordering recyclable plastics
• Spring Lake Park schools have a relationship with the local EMS–perhaps integrate in SAVNB
  • Reach out to the school board about some vocational training or at least some curriculum about autonomous vehicles/car programs.
• “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise” – Gaylord Nelson
  • Written 30-some years after the beginning of Earth Day
  • “You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.”
    — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Parks Commission meeting to suggest renaming Parks and Sustainability Commission
• Goodwill: Bring in your own bag, get 25% off

A4S meeting

• Two meetings, one for staff and one for citizens
  • No SAV staff went to the staff one (AGENDA ITEM WITH JAY AND MARK?)
• Ramsey County Commissioner is ready to get organics collection across Ramsey County
• Ramsey County will pay for city drop off locations
  • ACTION ITEM: Try to find a Ramsey county location in SAV
• Met Council is on board and WSB is in the know given the number of cities they work with being on board
• U of M researcher on autonomous vehicles
  • rolling out in 10 years
  • autonomous cars won’t need to park
  • do not build any more parking ramps
  • will be electric
  • will need a sort of port so there’s no person needed
  • rather than parking lots, drop off lanes
  • incentive will be that insurance rates will go up for non-autonomous
• Osseo was present despite being 1 sq mi

Village Fest

• Have we signed up? Do we have two booths? Can we suggest an environment-themed section (with bees)? Solar non-profits (Ask Paul White)? Solar-powered wind turbine display? Solar thing?
• Lona is point person
• What should we do at the booth?
  • Something for kids
  • Seed packets
• Put environmental related theme booths together
• Electric car show
• Parade
• Free bike work by Recovery Bikes (William)
  • Electric-assist bike raffle

Upcoming Events

• Transition Towns meeting 7/8/17 – 3pm
  • Tim Jordon (NE Transition Town), Michael R.
  • Council chambers. CFS Transition Forum
  • Invite: Connie Bernardy, A4S, papers, SAV display, etc.
  • Be ready with questions
• Free screening of “From the Ashes”
  • When: Friday, June 23 at 7 pm
    Where:  Northeast United Methodist Church
    (Corner of Lowry and Cleveland in NE Minneapolis)
    What:  Free screening of the award-winning documentary, From the Ashes. Open to everyone. The film is 1 hour 20 minutes and will be followed by a discussion. Free popcorn!

    https://www.facebook.com/events/224048551442497/?ti=icl

    https://www.fromtheashesfilm.com/

• DFL Senate District 41 Advocacy Fair in Fridley: 8/19
  • CFS could have a booth
• Northern Spark Festival along the Green Line tonight

Friends of Parks update

• See May notes–maybe start in the fall
• Pollinator Pathway maintenance?
• Future grants?

Scheduling a meeting with Mark/Jay

• Two Tuesdays before next Parks meeting August 22. 7:30 or 8.
  • In advance of Sept 5

Social media discussion

• Focus on Facebook.
• Fix Facebook email tie-in

Agenda

• Planning for Tuesday morning meeting with Jay and Mark (5/23)
  • Present ideas for organics collection
  • Comp plan feedback
  • Park planning (Friends of the Park idea)
  • Village Fest cross promotion?
• Review of Earth Day
• Updates on any projects/sub-committees

Notes

• Planning for Tuesday morning meeting with Jay and Mark (5/23)
  • Kristin will check in with Jay and Mark about Tuesday’s meeting (5/23)
  • Where are we at with chickens/bees ordinances
  • Review of comp plan sustainability section
  • Friends of the Park–organize activities on events
  • VillageFest: Ask if city would coordinate with us on a booth and electric car show
    • plan to do walk again

Organics pickup

• pilot area?
• Perhaps push home composting
• Incentivize organics pickup with cheaper trash pickup
• When are the city hauler contracts up for review?
• Check out Tacoma, WA’s program

City Council Meeting (5/23)

• Michael will go in front of the city Tuesday to make his case for owning chickens

Friends of the Parks idea

• Invite Friends of Roseville Parks to a future meeting (first Fridays 9am)
• Invite Kristin S to talk about Woodbury at that day
• Invite the city to attend this.
• Add signs to parks where there will be a cleanup
  • Some funding from city for supplies/treats

Agenda for next time: June 10

• VillageFest
• Transition Towns meeting outside of CFS meeting (Clif will contact Leslie)
  • invite social justice groups

Native plants, pollinator habitat, vegetable gardening, watering wisely – all aspects of conscientious gardening that protect the environment, save time and encourage pollinators. Find out what how your yard can make a difference!

On March 4 from 10:00 to noon, we’ll gather in the Nativity Commons to share seeds and learn more about the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee (native to our area, and recently placed on the endangered species list). Other topics are using native plants, watering wisely and the Pollinator Pathway program in St. Anthony.

Master gardeners will be on hand to answer questions and we’ll have kid friendly activities too. Childcare is available.

All are welcome! Please contact Donna Steinwand (donnasteinwand95@gmail.com), Lona Doolan (milo682@umn.edu) or Lynette Thompson (gardener772@comcast.net) for more information.