INC Executive Committee Meeting

January 14, 2019

Daniels Fund Building

Board Members Present: George Mayl, Bridget Walsh, Maggie Price, Steve Nissen, Hank Bootz, Ernie Diedrich, Jane Potts. (quorum)

Board Members Absent: Drew Dutcher, Loretta Koehler

Committee Chairs Present: Ean Tafoya, Greg Sorensen

Guests: Amy Duclos

The meeting was called to order by President George Mayl at 6:33pm.

President Mayl Introduced Amy Duclos who lives in the Stokes Place Green Bower Neighborhood. He is proposing her be Chair of INC Education Committee.

Amy spoke to the group mentioning that her children are a 6^th grader at Merrill and a 12^th grader at South. She is familiar with certain issues of construction as she and her husband own rental prosperities that they maintain. She pushed hard to bring attention to Merrill school officials that water fountains were producing brown, undrinkable water, that cracks in the playground blacktop caused a students broken foot and that temperatures in some classrooms exceeded 90 degrees. Drinking fountains were replaced with filtered water fountains and the blacktop is repaired. She still advocates for AC at Merrill stating her interest is self- serving for the good of her kids and other kids against the “Intractable bureaucracy of DPS.”

When asked about her knowledge of schools around the district she admitted her focus has been on her neighborhood schools primarily but was a major player in re-opening Byers (because we needed a DSST in this part of town) and is familiar with some other issues in the district. She was not familiar with benzene and soil problems at Elyria Swansea schools but was very familiar with the fact that 64 schools have galvanized pipes.

She holds an economic degree from UCLA and taught a program at CU Boulder for 5 years. Because of her experience she feels she can well represent both Charters and other schools, which is important to best, represent all INC neighborhoods.

When asked what her one year vision might be she said she needed more time to become familiar with INC and the history of the Education Committee.

Some INC Ex Comm member will connect her with Meg Schomp, former Chair.

Minutes – The Minutes of the December Ex Comm meeting were tabled pending additional information request from another member.

Treasurer’s Report – It was moved by Ernie and seconded by Hank to approve the December treasure report. Motion Carried.

2019 Budget

Greg presented the INC 2019 Budget History and Proposed 2019 Budget for board approval tonight.

A few changes were agreed primarily:

– moving $2400 from Membership Development to hire a PR Firm (line 30) to Miss. Media/Communications (line 24).

– increasing PARC Budget (line 32) to $500 to purchase sandwiches for meetings.

– putting $200 in for Education Committee (line 31)

Discussion focused on how INC can better represent itself to the public in ways that will bring recognition of our accomplishments, grow the membership and make connections with similar factions.

– Maggie said it would be good if Denver Media could store INC files but that would not change website speed.

– Need for a rack card to tell our story that aligns with a landing page on the website.

– Host training sessions and workshops.

– Find manager for the INC calendar.

– Committee Chairs need to manage their own pages.

– INC Grant Funds for RNO’S to conduct sustainability gatherings.

(Sustainability programs have helped RNO’s grow their membership.)

– Need to re-define use of INC grants funds.

– Possibly work with Accelerate Neighborhood Climate Action (ANCA)

It was moved by Maggie and seconded by Ernie to approve the 2019 Budget of $39, 916

with final changes. Motion Carried.

2019 Awards Dinner

The Dinner will be next Wednesday, January 23rd at the Holiday Inn Cherry Creek.

All Board Members please arrive early to greet and welcome sponsor VIP’s, be sure they have a badge and complimentary drink ticket and ask them to join other sponsors at the VIP tables. There will be a separate registration table for VIP’s and Award Winners.

Karen Taylor will greet Youth Award Winners, and Jane Lorimer will greet Neighborhood Stars. Their tables will be near the edge of the stage so they can get to the front quickly when their name is announced.

Currently only at 200 reservations. Each board member and committee chairs will reach out to encourage others to rsvp.

Final Notes:

– 2019 Suggested Symposiums: ZAP on housing. PARC on pollination. Denver Decides

– Great article today in Denver Post on green space.

– Treasurer would like to receive the Word Press copy.

– Membership needs to be paid by a majority of RNO’s before elections in March.

– Maggie to draft a resolution to be presented at the February delegate meeting for letter to Council to postpone Denveright until after the election to avoid Lame Duck decisions.

Meeting adjourned at 8:15pm

Submitted by

Jane Potts