Minutes from Sustainable Crown Hill’s First Meeting
June 24, 2007

Greetings Sustainable Crown Hill! You are all amazing people. Thank you for coming and bringing your energy and ideas.
Down below is the list we generated. I added a few more items that came up in discussions and from an email from Dennis after our meeting,

MONTHLY MEETING: Mark your calendar for our regular meetings on the last Sunday of each month from 5-7pm. Potluck; kids welcome. We’ll do a potluck each meeting because that will help us stay focused on having a BLAST. Let’s eat from 5-5:30. Our mtg portion will start promptly at 5:30 and end promptly at 7pm.

KIDS: I think it goes unsaid that parents will be responsible for managing their kids. That said, I think we could come up with a creative team approach for parents and other members who want to, to share in the task of watching the kids. Maybe rotate 15 minute watch slots? Also, parents might want to bring activities to the meetings that will keep kids engaged and relatively quiet……..portable DVDs, coloring, etc. Parents: do one of you want to coordinate making sure there is a plan for the kids, then you could rotate this responsibility from month to month? Just a suggestion.

ALCOHOL: Okay, here’s my thought. While I love a glass of wine and in fact supplied a bottle for us at our mtg, I don’t think it helps us run a focused and productive meeting. Let’s keep it fun and have a blast. If people really want alcohol there, we could hold it until after the meeting, if people want to stay and socialize. Comments and suggestions welcome.

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Here’s our brainstormed list.

Walking community
Health – Food
Crown Hill businesses to be accountable to community business plan
Increase small businesses, decrease chains
Farmers Market
Neighbors watching out for neighbors
Create community – committing to the neighborhod
Community identity
Less talk, more action
Affordability
Expand/include other neighborhoods
Garden Share
Tool Share
Worm Share!
“Barn-Building” projects with neighbors
Guilds
Have a BLAST even if hardly anyone shows up….always have food….plus kids, art and MUSIC
Food security, water security, energy security
Connect with south of Holman Road
Inclusivity: ensure opportunity for EVERYONE to have their say
Create bumper sticker: SUSTAINABLE CROWN HILL: RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW
Place making (City Repair)
Community Education forums
Monthly movie nights showing documetary movies that address the interface of nature and humanity (farming, industry, recreation, global warming)
Approach City Light to name Crown Hill as the next (2007) neighborhood to participate in the Neighborhood Power Project

Here’s our top priorities for projects, so far:

Monthly meeting – with kids
Place Making (City Repair)
Farmer’s Market
Community Education forums
Garden Share
Garden Tours
Pea Patch
Get a web page and add to Crown Hill Neighbors web page

ACTION STEPS
Think about what projects you want to focus on and bring them to the next meeting. Check out the websites of the 20+ sustainable groups and see what they’re doing. No need to invent the wheel — we CAN copy what others are doing.

NEXT MEETING AND AGENDA
When: Sunday, July 29 from 5-7pm
Where: Veronica and Mark’s studio at 10017 Mary Ave NW

AGENDA
Identify 3 projects to start with and split off into “pods” or “guilds” — whatever we want to call it.

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