Florida Native Plant Society
Executive Committee Meeting
July 29, 2006 – 10:00am
The Nature Conservancy’s Disney Wilderness Preserve
2700 Scrub Jay Trail
Kissimmee, FL 34759
Day of meeting phone contact:
Karina Veaudry 321.388.4781
NEW BUSINESS
1. President’s Comments
2. Meeting notes, March 2006
3. REPORTS
a. Executive Director’s Quarterly Report
b. Communication/Public Relations Committee t
c. Conference Committee
d. Conservation Committee
e. Education Committee
f. Finance Committee
g. Government Policy Committee
h. Land Management Partners
i. Membership Committee
j. Publications Committee
k. Science Advisory Committee
l. Landscape Awards Committee
m. Fundraising Committee
OLD BUSINESS
(this was at initiated at the BOD meeting)
4. Resolution to join the Florida Everglades Coalition – Joan Bausch
Motion is to approve the following Resolution:
Whereas, in the year 2000, Congress launched the 30-year, highly technical and complex process of restoring America’s Everglades by approving the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) and;
Whereas, the State of Florida signed onto this historic initiative as an equal partner and;
Whereas, The Everglades Coalition was organized in 1968 to fight for Everglades National Park water rights, to place the ecosystem's Big Cypress watershed under the National Park System protection and to work for protection of natural values in the entire Everglades ecosystem, from the Kissimmee River and Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Keys and coral reefs and;
Whereas, The Everglades Coalition is an alliance of local, state and national conservation and environmental organizations working together in respect and unity to protect, preserve and restore the Everglades Ecosystem and dedicated to the full restoration of the greater Everglades ecosystem, from the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes into Lake Okeechobee, through the "River of Grass", out to Florida Bay and the Keys and;
Whereas, The Everglades Coalition is dedicated to accomplishing what Congress intended when the CERP was approved to achieve ecological restoration and programmatic regulations are being improved to provide adequate assurances of achieving restoration in planning, developing and implementing CERP and;
Whereas The Everglades Coalition is an advocate for the restoration, protection and enhancement of the greater Everglades ecosystem and;
Whereas The Everglades Coalition works in the public arena to inform decision makers on the collective view of the conservation community regarding the greater Everglades ecosystem based on sound science on critical aspects of restoration,
Now therefore be it resolved that the Florida Native Plant Society does fully endorse The Everglades Coalition and their 2010 Vision Plan of Restoration.
5. Highway Beautification Council Membership – if not already addressed in Committee Reports
6. Native Plant Conservation Campaign
NEW BUSINESS
7. Policy issues – if not previously addressed by Policy Committee report
Florida Forever renewal
Hometown Democracy Referendum
Babcock Ranch
Big Bend Development
Genetic Engineering Action Network
Tostohatchee status
SR 20 – Fowler’s Prairie
Possible article in Palmetto providing policy guidance for chapters?
Alerts – streamlining them to focus on issues related to the FNPS mission
Getting legislative information
8. Grant focus -- grant availability and FNPS capacity to handle them –
report by Karina and discussion
Science & Conservation grants
9. Public relations initiatives within the Executive Committee – Karina Veaudry
10. FNPS Strategic Plan
11. Fundraising Committee – proposal to add a new committee
12. Committee chairs and co-chairs – Membership & Fundraising chair and co-chair for Education.
13. Incentives for Board of Directors Meeting Attendance
14. Chapter support (if not addressed in Karina’s report)
Jacksonville – new chapter for approval at August BOD
South Ridge – attempt at new life
Growing new chapters – central panhandle?
15. Agenda for Board of Directors Retreat
ADJOURNMENT
Stuff to leave for committee reports –
Volunteers for FFWCC and FDEP meetings -- Policy
