May13fullboard

Full Board Meeting  Monday May 13  6:30pm

 Meet at 6:30pm - Skype at 7pm.

 **President's Report - Karen**  - EECOM decide who's going and how much per person - motion to accept submitted by Audrey Aamodt and approval for subcommittee to move forward with next steps in spending the $2000 and applying for additional funds - review the 2013 grant amounts in comparison to spent on financial statements, any questions? Check in where we are at - halfway through the year nearly! - advertising plan for events for spring, summer, fall: where to take out ads, what should they say, who will help with social media, etc. - see bottom of page for updates on each of our programs for the rest of the year - add info that you have gathered - board PD reminder - submit this

 **Past President's Report - Audrey**  - Envisage Journal Report - Audrey and Karen met to determine next steps: publisher/editor,, theme, partnership with U of R (Val Triggs) for Community Research grant  - offer for support for new board members  - Melanson award committee update - 1 nomination

 **Vice President's Report - Dennie**

 **Treasurer Report - Kyle**  - financial statements  - investments

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> **Program Director Report - Angela** <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> - SPRA grant & changes

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> **Communications Working Group Report - Charles Paul & Jeremy** <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> - report from working group meeting <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> - Current Envisage through updates <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> - Facebook ads <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> - SK schools list <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> - shirts?

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> **Education Working Group Report - Paul and Christine** <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> - report from working group meeting

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">-Wilderness First Aid: was waiting to hear back from Colin Frey for instructor and Ness Creek site for availability on Sept 20-22. Site and instructor are available. ===== <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">-Course cost has gone up $25 ($275/person), but will not be covering accommodation/meal? costs this time.

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">-Canoe certification: CPBW has arranged for Bill Morris to instruct in Saskatoon, May 18-20 <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> -Leave No Trace: dates? details? August 13th-18th at Forest House --> $500 per person <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> WOW: It was a lovely day! A few technical difficulties at first with the Earth Ball and the Solar Oven, but we made it work in the end - we definitely need permanently fix the solar oven (duct tape isn't good enough!) The solar oven was a hit, and so were the worms, and the Earth ball when we finally got it going. WOW organizers said they would send us the final count, but they approximated 800 people. Christine, Jessica, Jolene and Jeff were all there - Paul couldn't make it because his son got sick. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> -Communicating with School Divisions: Does the Communications Group have email addresses for all the school divisions? Each division should have a Communications Officer, who will post SOEEA info (like grant info) to a weekly file to their schools. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">**KM - here is a[| list of school divisions] - maybe we can each take a couple and find their communication officer email address?**

Public and Families Working Group - Amanda and Andrea
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> - report from working group meeting **

General Manager Report - Jess


 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> - current Envisage e-newsletter **


 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> - current membership **

__**Other Business:**__


 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> Board Retreat - Charles Paul update on venue? If not Saskatoon, book Lumsden Beach Camp **


 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> Special initiatives from SPRA **

Next meeting - (thanks jess for awesome chart!)**
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Sunday, June 9 || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Family Day + Executive Meeting & Full Board || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Buffalo Pound || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">11:00AM ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Monday, August 12 || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Full Board || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">TBA || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">6:30PM ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Saturday, September 14 || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Board Visioning Retreat || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Saskatoon || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">10:00AM ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Monday, October 7 || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Executive / WG || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">TBA || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">6:30PM ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Monday, November 18 || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Full Board + year end financial discussion || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">TBA || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">TBA ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Monday, December 16 || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Executive / WG || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">TBA || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">TBA ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Monday, November 18 || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Full Board + year end financial discussion || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">TBA || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">TBA ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Monday, December 16 || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Executive / WG || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">TBA || <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">TBA ||

__<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">**UPDATE ON 2013 GRANT COMMITMENTS:** __ <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> From last year, people we got to lead or teach programs: <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> **Canoe certification** **May 18-20 -** Charles Paul headed up the organizing, Bill Morris taught the course through Paddle Canada - contact: <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> 213- 510 Saskatchewan Cr E, Saskatoon, SK S7N 4P9 306-249-4064 Cell: 306-222-4919 Email: wmorris@sasktel.net

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> **Leave No Trace - August 13-18 $500** coordinated through general manager, Vinessa Currie-Foster from Clearwater Canoeing organized, marketed, and ran the program last year - SOEEA just gave her the money to do that. They paid fees straight to her company. She provided final report. Email:clearwatercanoeing@sasktel.net

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> **Wilderness First Aid -** Paul Stinson headed up the organizing and coordinated the accommodations and meals. Colin Frey with Renewed by Nature/JT Consulting taught the Red Cross Wilderness First Aid course at Ness Creek (NessCore Adventures). Email:renewedbynature@sasktel.net(interested in doing this again)

DONE ** - **<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> **Wings Over Wascana Nature Festival** - Dennie/Karen organized who would volunteer to run workshops at Wings Over Wascana. Usually they email us to see if we are interested again, and one person on the board is the contact, go-to person for questions. Lizabeth also did a workshop building bird feeders as part of the day.

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> **Unconference - November 15-17 -**new this year. Karen could help with the coordinating. Perhaps Vinessa Currie-Foster would be interested in working with this as well. (She is also Education Director through Nature Saskatchewan and has really good contacts). She mentioned she was interested. Looked into Beaver Creek - http://www.beavercreekcamp.ca/Rentals.html

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"> **Special Subject Council -** New this year. Paul Stinson initiated idea. Perhaps Communications Working group would be well-suited to do work on setting this up and researching this as well? <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">**Yvette warned Special Subject Council would have to be non-political/non-partisan**


 * DONE - **Loppet - **2013 - done! Dennie and Jess organized much of this event including accommodations and meals and taking registrations.**

Spring Ecotour - Children's programming at Nature Sask Spring Meet - June 14-16


 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Lori Milligan and Dennie Fornwald (working group leaders) organized logistics for much of this. In the past we've done more active ecotours and less active ones with people even staying in motels and having presentations from different authors or photographers and eating meals at small town restaurants, etc. **

Fall Nature Retreat - October 19 & 20 - Ness Creek is available. Boreal Forest Learning Centre interested in setting it up. Need to find out prices.
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">Ange Edmunds expressed lots of interest in this and thought Ness Creek would be a great place to do this type of event - Boreal Forest Learning Centre has done lots of this type of workshop before. Joseph Naytowhow, John Murray, and Leanne Kadyshuk are great people to be involved. **

Winter EcoFest and Camping -** Paul Stinson has mostly been involvled in this in the past. Mark Wilson has also offered support and volunteering time to lead some of this. Lori Milligan may also have support to offer.