BBGC Meeting Minutes 12/29/2009

Joan Birnie announced that the agreement with Custer County Foundation has been signed and the initial $40.00 investment and $50.00 Custer County Foundation management fee had been kindly donated by Dave and Joan Birnie and Nate and Lisa Bell respectively.

Dave Birnie discussed reusable shopping bags and announced that Bow Food Pride has agreed to donate free bags to be distributed at the Farm and Home Show in February. The group will need to create advertising for the Farm and Home Show booth prior to the show. Recycling receptacles at the new ballpark will be the focus of the group’s current fundraising efforts and will be promoted in the advertising and at the Farm and Home Show.

Next, discussion turned to handouts for the Farm and Home Show. It was noted that handouts for compact fluorescent bulb recycling was available, but not known if this would be useful.

Mean Electric, the company that performs the energy audits, is currently training an employee to perform energy audits. Mac McMeen had investigated residential energy audits and reported to Joan Birnie that currently the city has on loan an infrared camera for enhancing the thoroughness of the energy audit. The camera will be available through 1/8/2010.

Kelly Flynn mentioned that several nearby communities do not sort their recycling well and he will attempt to address this individually and at the Farm and Home Show.

It was recommended that items made from recyclable materials be available at the Farm and Home Show Booth to give attendees an idea of what can be created using the recycled materials collected by Kelly Flynn.

Kathy Larocque mentioned that there should be a recycling receptacle at the Farm and Home Show Booth in order the facilitate recycling. Kelly Flynn proposed that we also distribute recycling receptacles throughout the Farm and Home Show venue.

Kelly Flynn noted that the grant proposal for the paper shredder has been put on hold until at least September of 2010. This is due to the recycling center being overwhelmed by volume currently and not allowing any additional time to complete grants.

People who wish to donate to the Broken Bow Green Coalition may send checks to the Custer County Foundation with Broken Bow Green Coalition in the memo line to direct donations to the BBGC.

The next meeting of the Broken Bow Green Coalition will be 1/26/10 at 7 pm at the Broken Bow Public Library.