Friends of Starkweather Creek
Board Meeting
12/19/17
Meeting notes
Parks Report – Deborah is completing the report to Parks. Last piece that is needed is a survey of the group to see if anyone used the canoes for personal use. No one except Carl and he emailed Deborah already.
Solstice Celebration – Event starts at 4:00 with drummers. Parking at Olbrich Gardens is allowed. Fire will be lit at 4:30. Lance and Doug will be there early.
Miles Varna Contact – wants to volunteer to do some GIS mapping. Contacted us through facebook. Lance will follow up with him.
Revolution Cycle Meeting – Art event last Friday night. FSC received $50 in donations at the event. Good partner group. Opportunity to partner on extending the bike path to Sun Prairie. Need more representation at their meetings. madisonbikes.org is leading the charge. Jeff at Revolution is the contact. Dave will set up a meet up.
2018 Madison FUN Calendar and Events – Paul passed out a 2018 draft events list. Good year last year with lots of events.
2018 Events are at http://tinyurl.com/2018-Bird-And-Nature-Outings
Starkweather Outings (Draft)
January 20 – Deborah Crabtree – sledding and hot chocolate
February 17 –
March 17 – Jeff Steele: Spring Phenology Signs
April 21 –
May 19 – Jeff Steele: Woodland Ephemerals
June 16 – Tom Murn: Nature Lives in the City
July 21 – Lance Green: Monitoring the Creek & Critter Viewings
August 18 – Biking the creek
September 15 – Carl Landsness: Canoeing Starkweather
October 20 – Tom Murn: Autumn Traces of Nature
November 17 –
December 15 –
Treasurer Report:
$1,000 Annual meeting
$ 50 Revolution Cycles
$ 160 Mailing
$ 60 renewals
$1,270 Total
2018 Meeting Dates: keep the third Tuesday. Lance will book the Goodman Center.
Darbo-Worthington Proposed Canoe Access – $35,000 is available build canoe/kayak access for the neighborhood. Marsha Rummel requested a letter from our group to the Mayor to say how good this would be for the neighborhood. Lance will write a letter in support of a canoe launch. Carl will think about setting up a meeting with the neighborhood.
Garver Construction – access to the creek during construction. Last nature outing was forced out into the wetlands. Carl will reach out to the project manager for Baum and take a walk to see where the access is blocked. Lance will put it on the agenda for the meeting with the city.
Spring Planting Project – Feb 1st application deadline to get native plants for our plantings. Pictures need to be taken. More plants are needed where the fall planting happened in 2017. Early January subgroup should get together to decide on sites. Jeff, Dave, Deborah, and Carl want to be on the subgroup. Jeff is on the Eken Park Neighborhood Association and will approach that group to see if we can do a joint planting.
Meeting adjourned at 8:27
