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.
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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