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Colleyville Community
Garden Advisory
Committee
Agenda
City Hall
100 Main Street
Colleyville, Texas 76034
817. 503.1000
www.colleyville.com
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
6:00 p.m.
Colleyville Senior Center
2512 Glade Road, Colleyville
1.CALL TO ORDER
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
February 11, 2020
3.REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS
3a City Update
3b Update on recruitment of new members
4.ADJOURNMENT
I hereby certify this agenda was posted on City Hall bulletin boards Wednesday,
May 6, 2020 by 5:00 p.m.
Christine Loven, TRMC
City Secretary
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CCG Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes
February 11, 2020
Approved by Committee on _____________
Present: Amanda Novak, Rich Hendler, Linda Newton
City Representative: Lisa Escobedo
Absent: Uma Lal, Pam Buie
1.Call to Order: 6:00pm
2.Approval of January 14, 2020 Minutes
a.Linda moved to approve; Rich seconded
b.Unanimous vote to approve minutes
3.Regular Agenda Items
a.Update on community group connections
i.One Tarrant County Master Gardener, a Grapevine Resident
named Rachel Howe, reached out to Amanda to see how she can
be involved. She currently has a garden plot at the NRH Common
Ground garden. Amanda to meet with her to share where we are in
the process and learn more about how she would like to be
involved. She is a likely candidate for one of our subcommittees
since she is not a Colleyville resident.
ii.Grace Food Pantry – We have a connection now thanks to Rich’s
email introduction. Linda will set up a tour with Grace and include
other committee members how are available.
iii.Garden Club – expressed that individual members can participate
in community garden, but the club will not be involved.
iv.GCISD Ecology Club – Linda met with the Environmental Sciences
Teacher, JJ Burton. She teaches environmental sciences as well
as oversees the ecology club and mentioned that National Honor
Society student members need out of school volunteer
opportunities.
v.Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) – Linda is connecting
with Tracy Friday who is the VP of Education and Volunteers.
b.Finalize plan for participation in Arbor Day
i.Lisa shared that it’s typical to have ~250 people attend the Arbor
Day/ Junior Anglers event. The event is 9am-12pm and attendees
register for door prices. The city passes out free trees and t-shirts.
ii.We all agreed that participation would at Arbor day would be ideal
so we could promote community information sessions in late April/
early May. Amanda is unavailable during the last half of April.
Confirm if Pam could attend on our behalf. If none of us are
available, the city can pass out flyers on our behalf although it
would be better if we could have a representative there.
iii.ACTION ITEM: Create a ¼ sheet flyer with info about
community garden, list of information session dates, and
contact info
c.Select dates for potential community information sessions in May 2020
i.Library is open late on Tuesday evenings so that is the ideal
location. Need to contact them soon to reserve.
ii.Potential Dates are Tuesday Apr 28, May 5, May 12, and May 19
d.Discuss community information session agendas
i.We agreed that it would be nice to have these sessions serve a
dual purpose: education and recruiting for the CCG.
ii.Ideas for topics include:
1.Urban Flower Farming/ Growing Cut Flowers (Amanda
knows two very local flower growers; one in Colleyville, one
in Coppell)
2.Recycling/Compost
3.Backyard Birding
4.Gardening for Wildlife
5.History of Colleyville
4.Meeting Adjourned: 7:21pm