Full+Board+March+23rd

President's Report: Jo

Treasurer's Report: Janet - did we get a second hard-drive as back-up?

Executive Assistant Report: Tina

Program Director's Report: Karen - HUGE thanks to Karen for putting together the final report and auditor's report stuff! Great work!

Reports from Working Group Leaders Education: Mick - Winter Camping? Sorry, no winter camping this year. We can plan to have a winter camping experience for December (early in Dec.) or to spend the money on a summer camping experience for this year - perhaps, depending on prices, we could subsidize canoe training even more, or ecotour for board or something like that? - Canoeing/Leave No Trace Masters Trainer Trip Hi Karen, Sorry for not responidng sooner, yes I am still interested. I was hoping to have some confirmation from **Clearwater Canoe Company**, if these dates work for them. I asked them to provide me with a cost estimate to provide the logistical end of things. I can then add up the ocst of the ocurse and let ou know what the final tally will be. I will try and get a hold of Clearwater this week to finalize the dates. Thanks for the email Dean Email received from Dean Cattell on March 17: Hi Karen,
 * Email received from Dean Cattell on March 2, 2010:

I have a confirmation from Clearwater that they are interested in doing the trip (on the North Saskatchewan) on the dates indicated. I am in the process of finalizing the course with Leave No Trace Canada and locating an additional instructor. Once I have all that completed I can provide a cost per participant. Do you know off hand if the 10 participants have any Leave No Trace reference material? I don't want to duplicate any material provided.

I have also asked Clearwater to provide some more details about the location of the trip.

Dean

- Should Flying WILD be an Education Working Group job? It would really be nice to increase the membership of this working group - maybe some other Flying WILD facilitators?

Vice President: Kyle - Thank you for ongoing support & Carter's birding gear - Need Omnidirectional Microphone for meetings (Snowball is an option ) - Nature Moose Jaw Presentation - Geocaching supplies - stickers - Conference Videos - Richard Louv booked for EECOM - Mileage Coverage for out-of-town board meetings? - support working group endeavors. willing to help out where I can

Public and Families: Paul - Ecotour 2010 update - Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary - Ecotour 2011 - Athabasca Sand Dunes - I've got a bit of info (Jo) - Wings Over Wascana - family day - Can we do anything there? We usually lead eco-games or have a booth/centre. The WOW planning committee would like to know if SOEEA has volunteers for the day to help in the craft tent or with hikes, etc. They are also wondering if SOEEA would like to run a Leave No Trace Camping workshop for families or have info available.

- other stuff?

Communications: Audrey - (Kyle &/or Mark or Karen could speak to website development) - website: unveil to board and review it - set up time to learn how to edit it - "Take Action" section of website - add content - bios, pics and personal contact info for board members - other ideas...

Partners: Mark - Did we get cheque to RBE? What was this for again? (This is Jo forgetting and asking...) - GUESS? - list of partners in levels/tiers (put on website or on wiki?) - partners for EECOM - this could but doesn't have to be a "partners" job but we should start solidifying partnerships and contributions for EECOM

Decision Makers: Nicole - Welcome Nicole! - transfer contact info over to Nicole - meeting with Miistry of Environment on Climate Change Action in SK - March 29th

- Flying WILD - Educator Training Course Saturday April 24th 1-5pm at uni - Can anyone else help out? (get books and program organized for teacher training) - Curriculum connections - Jenna - $1500 - Where are we at with this? Let's write up a contract and get it going. - Add Flying WILD activities to WOW school day program? Can we do this Janet? Nicole?

Other Business: - EECOM committee/planning meeting? Plan the date/time - we need to get partners and one from each partner org to be on committee - Request for funding from Scott Mickelson, U of S Arts Ed student going to Nepal to work on "Sustainable Forests and Livelihoods" (theme of the seminar). He still needs $1000. - Creating an active membership (ex. Ashley & Nicole for the EECOM proposal) and growing the working groups (Jo) - Review grant for 2010 and pay any projects we can - Create/present draft of a timeline and/or action chart for 2010 to be filled out further at Full Board Meeting - EECOM and NAAEE "Board Professional Development" money - who's confirmed to be going and move a motion on the amounts we'll give to each person attending - Plans to spend "our money" (star-gazer, Flying WILD curriculum connections, WOW Banquet table, other?) Who will buy/do it? - Children's Festival in Saskatoon - we've been asked to take part. June 9-12th 9am-4pm eco-games/coop games, Earth Ball, etc. I can go on Saturday for sure. (Jo) - Craik Solar Fair - June 18th - 20th - SOEEA will be an official sponsor with a donation of $500, table & possible presentation? 1 weekend pass included. (Paul) Green Drinks June 18th w/ Glenn Sutter - Earh Day - What are we involved in? Can we be more involved somehow? (by attending events, creating a competition, asking for Earth Day stories for website, sponsoring???)Type in the content of your page here.