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Shay, Thomas, et al,
Do we have many volunteers for tomorrow? For whatever reason I was under the impression we had volunteers coming out of the woodwork, but I'm a little worried since I haven't heard a peep in a week or so. Can we get a quick chat today or chat here to see how many folks we have?
Greg - any word from Kirk on the paint?
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Hi everyone:
I presented to the Buckman Community Association last week and 11 new people signed up to be a part of the Friends group! Our group is now 40 strong! So amazing.
I'm reaching out to take a poll on a good time for the group to meet. Our meeting times have been on Thursdays at 3:00. It's been great and there's a core group that attends. I think we should continue these 3:00 Thursday meetings maybe once a month.
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Hi all! I thought I'd put this in writing and you can chime in or clarify or correct as needed. My takeaways from the conversation yesterday were that Friday, 4/18 is a great day for painting. It's a weekday so hopefully that would work for all. I believe a big reason for it was because the city commissioner could be there. We'll have to hope for sunny weather too. I'd throw out this plan: 9am - set up blockades, wrap the street in tape, get everyone ready 10am - start painting! If we have a lot of painters (say 12 or more) we can tackle the entire first coat in about 90 minutes, then be done by 2 easily. I'll do a paint audit and figure out the paint order and what we need as far as rollers, etc. Let me know your thoughts!
What's our current volunteer list/plan/timing for Friday? I'll join after my class finishes at 11am
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Hi everyone:
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow at 3:00 at Moonshot Tavern. One of our agenda items is to finalize our furniture plan. As you know, we’ve received feedback about the initial draft. This type of iteration is totally normal in making decisions about public space.
Attached are a few options that we came up with for consideration. These will be for our agenda item tomorrow. For those of you who are not able to make it, please provide feedback here.
Thanks Greg, this is really helpful! Much appreciate you taking the time to visually mock each option up for us. See you all later!
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Hi everyone:
A heads-up that our next Friends meeting is this coming Thursday, 4/3 at 3:00 at Moonshot Tavern.
AGENDA:
Finalize furniture plan
A central event calendar
Ideas for increased marketing for events
Looking forward to it Greg! The sun is shining and I'm so excited to see how much life and fun we can bring to Rainbow Road this year 😍. One thing we might want to do at this meeting too could be to agree on a process for decision-making going forwards that balances inclusivity and timeliness? I hear loud and clear that you'd like us to take responsibility for managing this group ourselves so you don't have to be the instigator and decision-maker.
Does anyone have any ideas about how we could structure the organization and decision-making of the Friends group?
So far it seems to me like the things we'll be doing fall into 2 main categories Maintenance (incl painting, plant watering, trash pickup, furniture repair) & Events (administering the calendar, managing bookings and assisting at events themselves), but perhaps there are other elements I'm missing?
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Hi everyone: I'm checking in because I've received feedback about the furniture plan we developed at the last meeting. The feedback is that some folks are interested in having fewer picnic tables than are currently in the plan and more benches or Adirondack chairs.
Please take this 2 question survey to help determine how to move forward relative to this feedback.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/67W3BJY
Thanks!
Greg
Thanks for the heads-up Greg! I saw your email. Do we have enough votes yet to move forward one way or another? I'm easy either way but it would be great to have the furniture in place soonish so we can use it for the various reopening events!
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Hi all,
If you'd like to come to our soft opening, we're seating tables from 5-7:30 Thursday & Friday, Apri 3rd and 4th. We're probably going to do a lunch and a dinner on Saturday. Let me know if you're interested or email travis@gorgesbeer.com
Also, with the asphalt scheduled for 4/2-3, I think a good paint day would be Monday 4/7. I believe that's meeting day. But if anyone wants to volunteer for painting let me know!
Travis
Hi Travis! Sadly I'm not going to be in town next weekend (away Friday through Mon eve), but very happy to do touchup painting or any other work needed to get the street in good shape.
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We had a ton of fun at our planning event last night!
By a happy error, we overestimated the cost of planter installation. Please find below an estimate of the options we selected--please feel free to correct any errors you find! If these calculations are correct, we'll have an extra $1812.
I think another 6x6 picnic table would be great, and we'd still have plenty more to pick out.
It looks like we should have enough to do more non-table seating as well as signage, without removing or changing the plans we developed at our meeting.
If we did 3 more Adirondacks and left $400 for signage, we'd have $362 left for potentially something else, or we could get 4 Adirondacks and signage and max out the budget. Thoughts?
I'll come as soon as I can after work!