Re: Meeting minutes Feb 15, 2005

[Kathie Brosemer <kathie@cleannorth.org>]

I've made a couple of minor adjustments...

Minutes of Clean North Meeting Tuesday Feb 15, 2005



Present : K Brosemer, D McGorman, D Trowbridge, R Thomas, P McLarty,
R. McIntomney, MJ Armitage, YEP representative, Guest Chris ?

1.Financial report- Ralph gave current balance as $11474.77 plus $5000 due 
from city re tree chipping.
2.BOYD- Peter said either 16/17 or 22/23 April has been requested from PUC 
for use of usual Second Line building. Algoma Steel has a large quantity of 
computer equipment, which they will sort and give us the useful material 
for resale. They will dispose of the rest. Habitat for Humanity is looking 
at setting up a reuse centre locally and may have an effect on future 
projects. Sootoday.com has a reuse bulletin board where free but useful 
things can be advertised.
3.Scrounge Day- Peter informed us that we may need city approval to pile 
?stuff? on the curbside. The request for a free week at the landfill has 
come to council and will likely go ahead.  We need to present our request 
to council that prior to a free week there should be a ?scrounge day?.  The 
name ?freecycle? was suggested by Don and we will try to get on the council 
agenda for a Mar 7 meeting and make a request for such a day. We will try 
to arrange for the Sault Star to run an ad with related sponsors to get the 
message out.
4.Bus Terminal relocation- Peter had information that the city is 
considering moving the city bus terminal from Queen Street to the bus barn 
area on Huron Street. This would allow more parking for the proposed arena. 
We need to put objections into words that citizens can call councilors to 
express their opposition.  Peter to draft talking points, Kathie to include 
in e-news.
5.City composting- Peter reported that And-Son is no longer in the 
competition as they were unable to get MOE approval.
6.Summer students- Proposed to apply for three positions in case program is 
under-subscribed with a proposal for these students to work with the 
commercial sector to initiate and expand recycling activities in the city. 
Randy Roy, city waste diversion coordinator will be applying for the 
multi-residential sector.
7.A&P slips-notice to be included in e-news to encourage members to 
contribute, we have $7000 value in slips, which can be converted at $1 per 
$450 of purchases.
8.Rain Barrels- Peter confirmed he would go ahead again this year with a 
likely demand for 30 barrels.
9.Office Staffing- a general call for volunteers to keep the office open as 
much as possible. Another e-news point.
10.Fort Creek trails- Peter reported the city has given authorization for 
snowmobiles to pass through Fort Creek Conservation area with little notice 
or discussion. The non-motorized link trail has not been finalized and 
would possibly have used Fort Creek as well.
11.Pine Street extension- Andre Riopel organized a meeting attended by 
30-40 citizens and had support from Councilor Brian Hayes, who stated he 
was prepared to fight the extension.
12.Newsletter- Mar 1 deadline for submissions to ed@cleannorth.org
13.Tree Bylaw- Kathie and Ursula Schleen will attend meetings with city 
staff and there seems to be support. Existing bylaws in Ottawa and Toronto 
are being used as models for the proposed Sault bylaw.
14.YEP report- a successful fundraiser dinner generated $1000. From that 
amount $550 was donated towards tsunami relief, $110 to Clean North, $50 to 
adopt a polar bear and the balance $300 approx. to YEP accounts for future 
projects.
15.Next Meeting- Mon Mar 7 meeting at Council Chambers at 5:00 for 
delegation re ?freecycle? day or 6:30 at Clean North office.

--On Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:22 AM -0500 Peter McLarty 
<petmcla@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> It looks like the CN server deleted your attachment. Below is all that I
> received. You may have to copy and paste the minutes into the body of
> your email.
>
> Peter
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trowbridges" <trowbridges@primus.ca>
> To: "Kathie Brosemer" <kathie@cleannorth.org>;
> <officers@lists.cleannorth.org> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 9:01 PM
> Subject: Meeting minutes Feb 15, 2005
>
>
> > Here is the scoop, may have to adjust names next meeting.
> > David
> >
> > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/msword which had
> > a  name of Minutes of Clean North Meeting Tuesday Feb 15.doc]



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