[2014 July 17 Board of Directors Meeting.]

The Draft Agenda is posted, including the information about  GoToMeeting.

PLEASE BE SURE TO GO TO PAGE 2 FOR ADDITIONAL REPORTS

 

[Re: Draft 2015 Budget, 2014 Budget with April 2014 YTD, and Treasurer's report]

Dear Committee Chairs,
Please use the attached 2015 budget template to add your 2015 requests. The current 2014 Budget is on one tab with some previous year budget dollars for your information. The YTD account has not yet been updated in the spreadsheet, financial statements up to April 2014 are posted under the Finance on this website.

I created a sheet for each committee. LMP shares the Education accounts unless you have another function you choose to engage in -such as conservation or research. In that case, you would contact those committee chairs to discuss. Please return the spreadsheet to me by Aug. 3rd with your additions. Please save the file with your committee name or your name.  If you have any questions , my phone is 321.544.2680 and/or email. Thank you, Kim Zarillo, FNPS Treasurer

July 16, 2014- Attached report
July 17, 2014- Attached 2014 Budget with April 2014 actuals

[Re: 2014 July 17 Board of Directors Meeting. EDUCATION COMMITTEE REPORT]

Please add attached work-plan to agenda for the July BOD meeting and looking for a vote at the August meeting.

[Re: 2014 July 17 Board of Directors Meeting. EDUCATION COMMITTEE]

Attached is the proposed contract between FNPS and the filmmaker, Jennifer Brown, if project approved.

[Re: 2014 July 17 Board of Directors Meeting. EDUCATION COMMITTEE]

Instead of a vote at the August 16th BOD meeting, I will be asking for a vote at the July 17th meeting.  I am asking that this be approved because the amount is very reasonable that will result in an excellent end product.  The Education Committee has worked with me on this project that had its beginnings at the conference with the opportunity to film Roger Hammer at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park November 1st.  The project is inline with the Chapter of Councils' Initiative of educational field trips and will lead to more films of our beautiful and unique native plant communities around the state for distribution through various media markets.  Debra.  Please contact me by email at ([email protected]) with any questions. 

[Re: 2014 July 17 Board of Directors Meeting. EDUCATION COMMITTEE]

Attached is Jennifer Brown's resume and revised contract proposal.

[Re: 2014 July 17 Board of Directors Meeting.]

Attached is the Conference Committee Report along with a revised Wiki for the FNPS Conference Committee.  Please let me know if you have revisions or comments.  Please feel free to reply directly to me at [email protected] for speedy action.

Thank you.

Marlene Rodak

[Re: 2014 July 17 Board of Directors Meeting. Conservation Committee]

Our BOD report highlights the need for action and an updating of our current policies on plant rescue/salvage and cultivation.  For your review, I have attached a draft policy on Conservation, Preservation and Restoration (thank you Debra Klein for the CPR idea).  Also attached is a Comment and Response table listing the comments made to-date by reviewers on the Conservation Committee.  The idea is to keep our current Preservation Policy while updating the 1988 policy on Transplanting Native Plants from the Wild.  We also incorporated much of the Draft Cultivation Policy that Steve Woodmansee introduced a few years ago (see attached).

We are almost finished with a package of “how-to” materials for native plant rescue/salvage and reintroduction.  Most of this is nearly complete but some of the files (PowerPoint) are large and I will share them at our next Board meeting.  Other than the size, I don’t think you want to review 20 files all at once ;-)

[Re: 2014 July 17 Board of Directors Meeting.]

Please see attached report and Florida Wildflower Foundation sponsorship flyer.

[Re: 2014 July 17 Board of Directors Meeting.]

Florida Native Plant Society
Board of Directors Meeting
July 17, 2014
Teleconference

Tallahassee 2015 Conference Committee Report

The 2015 Conference Committee is planning on hosting the state conference from Thursday, May 28 thru Sunday, May 31. This is the weekend after Memorial Day. The theme is “Born to Burn – Conservation, Restoration, and Preservation on Public and Private Land”. Instead of the usual format of two days of field trips and two days of programs, we propose changing the focus to three days of field trips and one day of programs with business meetings continuing to being held on Friday. Registration will begin during the evening of Wednesday at the Doubletree hotel located in downtown Tallahassee (same hotel as 2010 conference). A combination of full and half day field trips will be held on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. Business meetings will be held on Friday and science programs will be held on both Friday and Saturday. A full day of programs will be held on Saturday  utilizing the IMAX and Digital Dome theatres within the Challenger Learning Center plus conference rooms in the Tallahassee Community College Capital Center which is also located within the Kleman Plaza and is within 5 minutes walking time from the Doubletree hotel. The exhibitors and plant sale vendors will be set up on Friday and Saturday along the Park Street directly across from the Doubletree hotel within the regularly scheduled Saturday Downtown Market which will charge $30/day/vendor to register, setup and take down the tents, and they will provide free advertising during the two weeks leading up to the event which will increase our exposure to the general public.  The book vendors will be set up within the hotel. The hotel will charge $90/night for king or two queen plus refrigerator with no additional charge for parking, Wi-Fi or meeting rooms. For the evening venues, we are considering the top floor of the Capitol, Wakulla Springs, and Tall Timbers. We have applied for a $4,499 grant through the Leon County Tourist Development Council (TDC). We are also exploring a possible transportation grant through the same group and requesting additional assistance from Wakulla County. We are now requesting and awaiting approval of this plan so we can proceed further.

Respectfully submitted,
Helen Roth
2015 Conference Committee Co-Chair

[VP Finance Report for Board]

Please see the attached reports

Note -- one attachment, a marketing request, has been removed at the request of the individual submitting the request.  Removed 2015-08-23

[2014 07 15 Landscape Committee Report]

Please see attached.   A Landscape Workshop has been requested for the August 16th Council of Chapters meeting.

[Communications Committee Report]

See attached.

The last couple of months have been totally dominated by the website move -- but we're close

Anyone using a forwarder with an att.net email address needs to contact me .... att.net is not allowing the forwarders to work ... we need to set you up to use a web-based email program.  I think there are 2 of you.

Shirley

[FNPS Wiki Update for Approval - Landscape Committee]

Attached is the Landscape Committee description information to add to the FNPS Wiki for discussion during the meeting/comment /approval

[Re: 2014 July 17 Board of Directors Meeting.]

President Report is posted.