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RBCC Board Meeting 1/27/2021

In Attendance

Keegan O’Connor Alan Ross Su Harambe

Anne Nolan Dorothy Driver Danielle McClure

Gerd Prewett Brett Boynton Joan Krueger

Agenda Topics

  1. Assessment of online membership meeting on Jan. 13 and presentation by Jamie Ptachek of Futurewise
  • good presentation
  • things happening quickly after meeting
  1. Future speakers for April and beyond
  • Kathy joining board next month and may have ideas
  • Liz Covey mental health expert was scheduled..Su will follow up
  • Keegan is going to research one person to bring up one name 
  • Keegan will reach out to Tilth
  • South Seattle Arts
  • Anne will reach out to Mark Solomon crime convention coordinator for info about neighborhood security
  • FAST (fathers and sons together) Su will reach out
  • Danielle will reach out to Ethiopian center 

3.  Discussion of ways to reach out to new families and families with children

  • refer people to facebook page
  • postcards
  • how to look at family acquisition
  • Dorothy can look into “every door direct” 
  • Danielle mentioned that Joe is production person and he can help source paper products to help

4. Agenda items for February member meeting besides 213 social event “I (heart) RBCC”

  • board introduction
  • committee announcements
  • ask for ideas for speakers or do survey for topics people might be interested in hearing about?

5.  Other discussions

  • review of committees
  • finance (gerd) we’ve lost money this year. glad to have reserves
  • future social events “food truck rodeo”(?)

Future Guest Speakers:

  1. February – Ryan Calkins, Commissioner, Port of Seattle – Ryan works as a nonprofit professional at Ventures, a charitable organization that supports low-income entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses in the Puget Sound area. For more than a decade, Ryan ran an import and distribution company in Seattle that was recognized for its industry-leading sustainability initiatives. In 2007, he formed Seattle Microfinance Organization (SeaMo) a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to capital for entrepreneurs with limited economic resources.
  2. March  – Gary Olson of Seattle Watershed Alliance (SWA).  SWA is working to bring folks from the various watersheds together to learn about, protect and improve the many watersheds in Seattle.  Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has improvement plans for the Taylor Creek watershed in the near future.  As this is a good time for us to learn about and have a voice in this effort, it is also an opportune time to learn about the SWA, who’s involved, its mission and how it is organized.  Gary will review the SPU project on Taylor Creek and Dead Horse Can
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RBCC Membership Meeting (zoom) 1/13/2021

Board Members in Attendance

Keegan O’Connor  Anne Nolan Su Harambe 

Alan Ross Dorothy Driver Brett Boynton 

Gerd Prewett Joan Krueger Danielle McClure 

Standing Agenda

  • Call to order
  • Introduction of guests or new members (Alan, Danielle)
  • Approve minutes from last month’s member meeting (2020 Membership Meeting Minutes)
  • Corresponding Secretary report (Anne) Nothing to report
  • Reports of standing and special committees
    • Membership (Brett) nothing to report
    • Building (Su) 
      • FAST (fathers and sons together) used club house to create and distribute holiday gifts kids in the community
      • The Wilmore family does this work and are strong community members and activists
  • Finance (Gerd)
    • Savings: $27,259.72
    • Checking: $8057.23
    • Total       $35,316.95
  • Technology (Alan)
    • able to upload links to all speakers
    • can view on youtube
    • thanks to Keegan and Alan for getting it all working
  • Social
    • Saturday Feb 13th  7-8 PM  
    • Valentine zoom event
    • make your own valentine
    • everyone is welcome to bring to bring their own valentine

Old Business (Please Keep Comments to 1 Minute)

  • Any membership feedback on:
    • Last month’s presentation on Youth Care
      • speaker did a great job
      • people were able to make a donation
  • Arts and Crafts Market 

New Business (Please Keep Comments to 1 Minute)

  • Member election of 2021 RBCC Board and Trustees – here are the candidates. 
  • Alan introduced candidates
  • Keegan confirmed that we have a quarum 
  • 19 people voted. The following people were elected
  • President – Keegan O’Connor
  • Vice President – Alan Ross
  • Treasurer – Gerd Prewett
  • Corresponding Secretary – Anne Nolan
  • Recording Secretary – Joan Krueger
  • Trustee – Danielle McClure
  • Trustee – Brett Boynton
  • Trustee- Kathie Weibel

Featured Speaker: Link to speaker presentation

Speaker: Jamie Ptacek, Lead Organizer for Futurewise’s Washington Can’t Wait Campaign. With a background in climate science and community organizing, Jamie has been working to build a base of support among individual constituents and partner organizations across the state to update Washington’s Growth Management Act (GMA) during this legislative session. The updates that the Washington Can’t Wait Campaign has brought forward with our organizational partners seek to incorporate policy in the GMA that would address climate change, housing affordability, and environmental justice. Jamie will be discussing the Washington Can’t Wait Campaign, the policy changes being advocated for, and offer opportunities for folks to get involved in this work 

Alan Ross Dorothy Driver Brett Boynton 

Gerd Prewett Joan Krueger Danielle McClure 

Standing Agenda

  • Call to order
  • Introduction of guests or new members (Alan, Danielle)
  • Approve minutes from last month’s member meeting (2020 Membership Meeting Minutes)
  • Corresponding Secretary report (Anne) Nothing to report
  • Reports of standing and special committees
    • Membership (Brett) nothing to report
    • Building (Su) 
      • FAST (fathers and sons together) used club house to create and distribute holiday gifts kids in the community
      • The Wilmore family does this work and are strong community members and activists
  • Finance (Gerd)
    • Savings: $27,259.72
    • Checking: $8057.23
    • Total       $35,316.95
  • Technology (Alan)
    • able to upload links to all speakers
    • can view on youtube
    • thanks to Keegan and Alan for getting it all working
  • Social
    • Saturday Feb 13th  7-8 PM  
    • Valentine zoom event
    • make your own valentine
    • everyone is welcome to bring to bring their own valentine

Old Business (Please Keep Comments to 1 Minute)

  • Any membership feedback on:
    • Last month’s presentation on Youth Care
      • speaker did a great job
      • people were able to make a donation
  • Arts and Crafts Market 

New Business (Please Keep Comments to 1 Minute)

  • Member election of 2021 RBCC Board and Trustees – here are the candidates. 
  • Alan introduced candidates
  • Keegan confirmed that we have a quarum 
  • 19 people voted. The following people were elected
  • President – Keegan O’Connor
  • Vice President – Alan Ross
  • Treasurer – Gerd Prewett
  • Corresponding Secretary – Anne Nolan
  • Recording Secretary – Joan Krueger
  • Trustee – Danielle McClure
  • Trustee – Brett Boynton
  • Trustee- Kathie Weibel

Featured Speaker:

Speaker: Jamie Ptacek, Lead Organizer for Futurewise’s Washington Can’t Wait Campaign. With a background in climate science and community organizing, Jamie has been working to build a base of support among individual constituents and partner organizations across the state to update Washington’s Growth Management Act (GMA) during this legislative session. The updates that the Washington Can’t Wait Campaign has brought forward with our organizational partners seek to incorporate policy in the GMA that would address climate change, housing affordability, and environmental justice. Jamie will be discussing the Washington Can’t Wait Campaign, the policy changes being advocated for, and offer opportunities for folks to get involved in this work 

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RBCC Board Meeting 12/23/2020

In Attendance   Keegan O’Connor Anne Nolan Su Harambe

Alan Ross Dorothy Driver Brett Boynton

Gerd Prewett Joan Krueger

Agenda Topics

  • Assessment of online membership meeting on Dec. 9 and presentation by Youth Care
    • helpful to know shelter is moving into neighborhood
    • interesting and informative
    • helpful to know of other opportunities to donate in our community
  • Feedback on Arts and Craft Fair that ended 12/20 (Dorothy)
    • Make F2F event more that 4 hours (maybe 10 am to 3 pm)
    • Dorothy asked for feedback for online sales
    • The event was a huge success and we’re hopeful to be in the clubhouse next year
    • Some artists feel that they have created a network with one another and this will help build a strong artists community
    • thank you to Alan and Tom for the technical support
    • thank you to Dorothy and Joyce
  • Future speakers for February and beyond
    • Liz Covey (February) mental health specialist (Su will follow up)
    • Kathie Weibel had several suggestions. She will be on the new board and we can follow up with her 
    • Ryan Calkins is a commissioner at the Port of Seattle. In addition he is a coach and consultant at Ventures, a charitable organization that supports low-income entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses in the Puget Sound area.(Dorothy)
  • Agenda items for January member meeting besides election on 2021 Board
    • Election 
    • FAST (fathers and sons together) received donations and stored items at VFW.  They organized give aways for holiday.  It was a hugely successful event.
    • Keegan uploaded videos to youtube.  Alan added a link to posts on website.  Links to minutes are now available on the website
    • February social event for Valentines Day 2/13/2021
      • show and tell valentines
      • include fun categories
      • Alan will contact Danielle

Future Guest Speakers:

  1. January – Jamie Ptacek, Lead Organizer for Futurewise’s Washington Can’t Wait Campaign. With a background in climate science and community organizing, Jamie has been working to build a base of support among individual constituents and partner organizations across the state to update Washington’s Growth Management Act (GMA) during this legislative session. The updates that the Washington Can’t Wait Campaign has brought forward with our organizational partners seek to incorporate policy in the GMA that would address climate change, housing affordability, and environmental justice. Jamie will be discussing the Washington Can’t Wait Campaign, the policy changes being advocated for, and offer opportunities for folks to get involved in this work.
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RBCC Membership Meeting (zoom) 12/9/2020

Board Members in Attendance

In Attendance Keegan O’Connor  Anne Nolan Su Harambe 

Alan Ross Dorothy Driver Brett Boynton 

Gerd Prewett Joan Krueger Danielle McClure 

Standing Items:

  • Membership:  nothing to report
  • Building: (Gerd) nothing to report
  • Finance: (Gerd)
    • Savings; $27,258.49
    • Checking: $8,330.48
    • Interest in deposit account :. $0.81
    • TOTAL $35,589.76
    • Arts and Crafts Market contributed $717.30 
    •  
  • Social: (Danielle)
    • harvest social was successful event. new neighbors attended, people were informed of upcoming events and meetings
  • Technology;  (Keegan) 
    • meetings are bing recorded and downloaded
    • will be uploaded to youtube channel
    • link will be posted to website

Featured Speaker – Link to speaker presentation

Randi Eseltine, Director of Community Engagement with YouthCare presented information about the organization and upcoming shelter relocation.  YouthCare works to end youth homelessness and to ensure that young people are valued for who they are and empowered to achieve their potential. And now, to accommodate the Seattle-King County Public Health Department’s COVID-19 social distancing guidelines, YouthCare’s South Seattle Shelter will be relocating to the Rainier Beach area in January 2021.    

Old Business:

  • feed back from last months speaker Olivia Reed and Gloria Hatcher-Mays from Rainier Valley Food Bank
    • Well received.
    • very informative
  • Harvest Social
    • people enjoyed participating
    • looking forward to being able to do it in person next year
  • Arts and Crafts Market
    • thank you to Tom and Alan for technical work
    • thank you to Joyce and Dorothy for creating the event this year
    • Dorothy collecting feedback from artists
    • show was successful, people felt safe, very safe social event

New Business:

  • Election updates.
    • elections will be held at January meeting 12/13/2021
    • Slate:
      • President:  Keegan O’Connor
      • Vice President: Alan Ross
      • Treasurer: Gerd Prewett
      • Recording Secretary; Joan Krueger
      • Corresponding Secretary: Anne Nolan
      • Trustee: Danielle McClure
      • Trustee: Kathie Weibel
      • Trustee:Dorothy Driver

Featured Speaker:

Randi Eseltine, Director of Community Engagement with YouthCare presented information about the organization and upcoming shelter relocation.  YouthCare works to end youth homelessness and to ensure that young people are valued for who they are and empowered to achieve their potential. And now, to accommodate the Seattle-King County Public Health Department’s COVID-19 social distancing guidelines, YouthCare’s South Seattle Shelter will be relocating to the Rainier Beach area in January 2021.    

Adjourn

Next meeting is  January 13, 2021

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RBCC Board Meeting 11/25/2020

Board Members in Attendance:

Keegan O’Connor Alan Ross Danielle McClure

Su Harambe Anne Nolan Brett Boyton Dorothy Driver           Joan Krueger

Assessment of 11/11/2020 meeting and speakers  Olivia Reed and Gloria Hatcher-Mays 

  • meeting was very interesting and informative 
  • learned a great deal about the Rainier Valley Food Bank 
  • the meeting was not recorded 

 Promotion of Harvest Festival Social Plans

  • Saturday 11/28 via zoom
  • Anne will send out follow up email
  • RBCC facebook events page

Update Arts and Crafts Market:

  • Alan is working on website 
  • Map will be on website
  • Joyce Greenberg and Dorothy Driver are organizing event
  • $750 donated to RBCC from fees (minus $18 PayPal fee)

Nominating Committee

  • No updates (Alan)
  • Anne will send slate in email
  • Finalize slate at December meeting

Future Speakers

  • Liz Covey confirmed for February 10 meeting (Su)
  • Randi Esletine director of Community Engagement @ Youth Care as possible guest speaker (Alan)

Agenda items for  12/9/2020 meeting:

  • committee reports
  • introduction of guests or new members
  • approve minutes
  • corresponding secretary report
  • Standing committee reports
  • Old Business
    • feed back on last months speaker
    • feed back on harvest social
    • Arts and Crafts Market on line through 12/20
  • New Business
    • introduction of slate of candidates
    • member vote 1/13/202
  • guest speaker

Guest Speaker:

Randi Eseltine, Director of Community Engagement with YouthCare will present information about the organization and upcoming shelter relocation.  YouthCare works to end youth homelessness and to ensure that young people are valued for who they are and empowered to achieve their potential. And now, to accommodate the Seattle-King County Public Health Department’s COVID-19 social distancing guidelines, YouthCare’s South Seattle Shelter will be relocating to the Rainier Beach area in January 2021. 

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RBCC Membership Meeting (zoom) 11/11/2020

Board Members in Attendance:

Keegan O’Connor Alan Ross Danielle McClure Gerd Prewett

Anne Nolan Dorothy Driver Brett Boynton Joan Krueger

Featured Speakers

Olivia Reed and Gloria HatcherYouth & Community Organizer, Rainier Valley Food Bank to discuss recent programs and volunteer opportunities. The RVFB opened  in 1991 as a volunteer-led neighborhood pantry serving 50 families a week. Founded as Northwest Community Services, the organization experienced a rapid rise in demand as the nation’s economy began to decline in 2008. In response to this huge increase in the number of families in need of food in our neighborhood, the board changed the organization’s name to Rainier Valley Food Bank, and hired its first professional executive director in 2009.  Links to participate in programs and services available on website.  Contact Gloria at gloria@rvfb.org for more information.

Standing Items

  • Call to Order
  • Approve Minutes from last months membership meeting (9/9/202)
  • Corresponding Secretary Report (Anne) nothing to report
  • Reports for standing and special committees
    • Membership (Brett) nothing to report
    • Building Committee nothing to report
      • Finance (Gerd)
        • savings account  $27,257.97
        • checking account  $8,513.74
        • interest deposit account $0.81
        • Total $35,772.52
  • Technology (Alan) Arts and Crafts Market
  • Social (Danielle)
    • join us for Harvest Social Saturday, November 28th from 7:00-8:00
    • facebook invitation
    • link in email announcing meeting

Old Business

  • Membership feedback on:
    • Last month’s presentation of new development  in Kubota Gardens
      • informative helpful information about beautiful local garden
  • Last month’s WineFest on October 17
    • well attended, fun, people felt very comfortable and stayed longer than expected.  good turn out

New Business

  • Nomination of 2021 RBCC Board and Trustees.  Looking for members interested in being candidates
    • Club Vote January meeting
    • Nomination committee voted October meeting
      • Contact members (JoAnn Denchant, Alan Ross, Su Harambe)  of committee if you are interested in running for any ot these positions

Announcements

  • Arts and Crafts Market (Dorothy)
    • event is scheduled for 12/5 from 11-3
    • 21 vendors
    • musicians wanted
    • thank you to Alan for website
  • Planting Date (Jane)
    • Volunteer opportunity to participate in planting pilot project of native plants 11/14/2020
    • www.comonacre.org
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RBCC Board Meeting 10/28/2020

In Attendance:  Keegan O’Connor Anne Nolan Su Harambe

Alan Ross Dorothy Driver Brett Boynton

Gerd Prewett Joan Krueger Danielle McClure

  1. Assessment of online membership meeting on October 14, update on Kubota Gardens
  • program was very informative
  • important to have overview of wonderful neighborhood resource

2. Assessment of Wine Fest on Saturday Oct. 17.

  • event was a big success
  • conversation flowed well
  • lots of new neighbors participated
  • Next event 
    • Harvest Festival 
    • 11/28/202 
    • 7:00-8:00 pm 
    • Keegan will announce at next meeting
    • Danielle will post invitation on facebook
    • Alan will create zoom link

3. Updates on Arts and Craft events  Alan/Dorothy

  • Thanks to Alan, Tom and Gerd for all their help
  • 22 vendors are participating 
  • Su will collect “A” boards
  • map of event should be downloadable as PDF for phone use

4.  Insurance update/follow-up  Gerd 

  • Premiums that we’re paying are very good according to David Merrill (especially D&O). 
  •  Gerd will talk to him again next August/Sept to review the coverage. 
  • Our annual renewal premium for liability and property coverage with Farmer’s is $761 and our annual premium for D&O coverage is $531. 
  • Same premiums as last year.

5. Nominees for 2021 RBCC Board:

  1. Pres – Keegan O’Connor
  2. VP – Alan Ross
  3. Treasurer – Gerd Prewett
  4. Corresponding Secretary – Anne Nolan
  5. Recording Secretary – Joan Krueger
  6. Trustee – Brett Boynton (new 2 yr term)
  7. Trustee – Danielle McClure (new 2 yr term)
  8. Trustee – Kathie Weibel (serving 2nd year for Su)
  9. Trustee – Dorothy Driver (doesn’t need a vote)

*Keegan will set up surgery monkey for voting as this is the best method for meeting bi-law requirements

*JoAnn will have access to survey monkey results

6. Suggestion for Future speakers after November

  • Liz Covey Mental Health provider. (Su)
  • Community Passageway (Danielle and Dorothy)
  • The Intentionalist Highlights local businesses
  • SE Seattle Creative District

7. Agenda items for November member meeting 

  • 11/28 Zoom Harvest Social
  • 2021 elections for board at January meeting
    • who is on committee
    • list positions
  • Arts and Crafts Market

8.  November Guest Speaker:

November 11, 2020 – Olivia Reed, Youth & Community Organizer, Rainier Valley Food Bank to discuss recent programs and volunteer oppotunities. The RVFB opened  in 1991 as a volunteer-led neighborhood pantry serving 50 families a week. Founded as Northwest Community Services, the organization experienced a rapid rise in demand as the nation’s economy began to decline in 2008. In response to this huge increase in the number of families in need of food in our neighborhood, the board changed the organization’s name to Rainier Valley Food Bank, and hired its first professional executive director in 2009.

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RBCC Membership Meeting (zoom) 10/7/2020

Board Members in Attendance:

Keegan O’Connor Anne Nolan Danielle McClure

Brett Boynton Joan Krueger

Featured Speaker – Link to speaker presentation

Featured Speaker:  In 2019, Kubota Garden Foundation funded the Kubota Garden Master Plan Update, hiring consultants to lead a broad community and city outreach process to help assess the current garden and provide guidance for its future design and development. KGF Board President, Joy Okazaki and the consultant team joined us to present their findings and highlight some of the recommendation to guide improvement for the next 20-30 years.

Standing Items:

  • Call to order
  • Introduction of guests or new members
  • Approve minutes from last month’s member meeting Corresponding Secretary report:  (Anne) absent
  • Reports of standing and special committees
    • Membership: Nothing
    • Building: no one present to provide report
    • Finance (Gerd) 
  • Account Balances:
  • Savings: $27,257.55
  • Checking: $9,783.03
  • Deposit: .81 
  • We have no income
  • Social – (Danielle) October 17 from 7-8pm will be our first virtual  (ZOOM) WineFest. Have your favorite wine or other beverage on hand and be prepared to describe it (Anne will provide fun adjectives/descriptors to help you find just the right word(s)!  
  • Technology (Keegan) no updates

Old Business:

  • Any membership feedback on last month’s presentation by Omar Akkari on Seattle Street Ends (SSE). 
    • Interesting to learn areas that might be available for direct water access
    • (Vicky) Cooper Street end park
  • The Arts and Crafts Fair will be a Facebook event running from late November through mid-December.  Details will soon follow on deadlines and how it will run. (Keegan)
    • Arts and Crafts fair will be virtual event.
    • Facebook event
    • Sign up extended to 10/16
    • link in invitation

New Business :

  • We were able to reach a quorum which allowed us to take a vote for members of the nominating committee. All votes submitted via the Survey Monkey poll were cast for the nominated members: JoAnn as lead, with Alan and Su as additional members of the committee. No write-ins were received. Two members were unable to access the poll during the meeting, but were comfortable voicing their vote publicly, which brought us up to 15 votes (plus the 13 received via the poll). 
  • Kathy Weibel announced that the library and Rainier Beach High School need tutors to help students via zoom
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RBCC Board Meeting 9/30/2020

Attendance:  Keegan O’Connor Alan Ross Danielle McClure

Su Harambe Anne Nolan Brett Boyton Dorothy Driver Joan Krueger Gerd Prewett

Assessment of online membership meeting on Sept. 9 and Omari Salisbury presentation.

  • new people attended.
  • people stayed
  • excellent speaker, extremely inspiring
  • thank you to Danielle

Planning for Wine Fest on Saturday Oct. 17 (Danielle)

  • Alan will post link to invitation with meeting email
  • Danielle will write blurb
  • Anne is creating adjective list 

Updates on Arts and Craft events (Alan/Dorothy)

  • 5-6 artists have responded
  • new vendor applied
  • adding musicians via separate invitation
  • Alan can we extend deadline? He will send time line to Dorothy and Joyce
  • Anne  will resend email via RBCC

Updates on Love Your Lands (Keegan)

  • no update

Should we update the website to indicate we are not accepting rentals right now, until we are able to do so (Gerd)

  • want to show we’re still renting but can’t now (Alan)

Recording of future guest speakers (Keegan)

  • As long as we are hosting meetings via Zoom, should we ask each new speaker if we can record their presentation, and then make them easily available on our website, rather than just having a link in the meeting minutes?

Update on insurance (Gerd)

  • Gerd contacted agent
  • renewal due mid- October
  • raising deductible to reduce cost may not be worthwhile
  • insurance is currently our largest expense. 
  • Gerd suggested we maintain current policy
  • Gerd received $40 check 
  • Gerd has contacted Dave Merrill to see what he can offer.

Future speakers after October

  • Kathie Weibel suggested a Board Member from Harborview  re: bond on ballot and Harborview history
    • Keegan will talk to Kathie to confirm that speaker must be nonpartisan
    • Anne can follow up with Kathie
  • Rainier Valley Food Bank (Danielle)
    • local food bank, what can we do, how can we help 
    • Brett will follow up
  • Community Passageways (Danielle)
    • youth on path
    • people post prison
  • Mental Health Specialist (Su)
    • Liz Covey hopefully to speak before holiday 
  • Marcus Green oat Emerald (Su)

Agenda items for October member meeting 

  • harvest social
  • wine event
  • arts and crafts reminder and update
  • nomination of board members

Future Guest Speakers:

October 14 – Kubota Garden Master Plan Update – In 2019, the Kubota Garden Foundation funded the Kubota Garden Master Plan Update, hiring consultants to lead a broad community and City outreach process to help assess the current garden and provide guidance for its future design and development. KGF Board President Joy Okazaki and the consultant team will join us to present their findings and highlight some of the recommendations to guide improvements to the garden for the next 20-30 years.

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RBCC Membership Meeting (zoom) 9/9/2020

Board Members in Attendance:

Keegan O’Connor Su Harambe Alan Ross Danielle McClure

Brett Boynton Gerd Prewett Joan Krueger

Featured Speaker – Link to speakr presentation

Featured Speaker: Omari Salisbury is the COO and Founder of Converge Media, a leading producer of content for black and urban audiences. The son of the first black-owned photography studio in the Northwest, Omari Salisubry hails from a long line of visual storytellers. 52 countries and counting, Omari is a true global citizen working in media across the continent of Africa, the middle east, and Europe for Media Zone, Clouds Media Group, and Status Communications. No matter where Omari finds himself across the globe, he will always call Seattle home. Omari is a proud native of Seattle’s Central District and a graduate of James A. Garfield High School.  Omari’s email is omari@whereweconverge.com.  He is willing to help bring attention to necessary community concerns.  

Access Passcode: aV?^b64X

Standing Items:

  • Call to order
  • Introduction of guests or new members
  • Approve minutes from last month’s member meeting (2020 Membership Meeting Minutes) 
  • Corresponding Secretary report:  (Anne) absent
  • Reports of standing and special committees
    • Membership: Nothing
    • Building: VFW  (Su) annual dinner will be pick up dinner.  Keegan will share info 
    • Finance (Gerd) 
  • Account Balances:
  • Savings: $27,257.13, 
  • Checking: $10,292.18, 
  • Deposit: .81 
  • We have no income
  • Social – (Danielle) October 17 from 7-8pm will be our first virtual  (ZOOM) WineFest. Have your favorite wine or other beverage on hand and be prepared to describe it (Anne will provide fun adjectives/descriptors to help you find just the right word(s)!  
  • Technology (Alan) working on on-line arts and crafts market

Old Business:

  • Any membership feedback on last month’s presentation by Omar Akkari on Seattle Street Ends (SSE). 
    • Interesting to learn areas that might be available for direct water access
    • (Vicky) Cooper Street end park
  • The Arts and Crafts Fair will be a Facebook event running from late November through mid-December.  Details will soon follow on deadlines and how it will run. (Keegan)
    • Arts and Crafts fair will be virtual event.
    • Facebook event

New Business :

Love Your Lands Campaign – Sept 19-26 Does anyone in RBCC want to sign up for a project? Details at https://mtsgreenway.org/get-involved/npld/  (Keegan)

  • Local clean up projects
  • can sign up as group
  • Any more announcements?
  • Alvin Edwards has 500 masks available.  
  • He can be contacted at Alvin.Edwards@500Seattle.gov