June 26 Meeting

Hello, all,

Here is a report on last week's meeting. First of all, we had a very small turnout. There were only five of us there. We know that a lot of you care very much about the dog run, so we need to see more of you at the meetings. This is especially important now as we need to vote on officers, bylaws and a mission statement at the next meeting. Which is...

Tuesday, August 7th from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Brooklyn Social. (335 Smith St)
Meet us for drinks, planning and voting! More details to come.

There has been no feedback from Craig Hammerman at Community Board 6 about our proposal. We will have to get noisier if we are to get our run fixed!

At this last meeting we decided to have a cleanup day very soon. We are planning it now and you'll be getting details in your inbox. We are also planning a fundraiser event for September. There will be free training demos, raffle prizes, maybe an agility course!

In order to get grants and such we need to formalize our structure. We have learned that one thing we must have is elected officers. We decided to follow the organization of Astro's Run in Hell's Kitchen. They have a council of four who work as a team. The positions are Coordinator, Treasurer, Maintenance and Conflict Resolution. Read descriptions of the positions here: http://www.hkdogrun.org/rules.html.

These are the nominees so far:

Coordinator - Andrea Vaughn
Treasurer - Susie Gersten
Maintenance - Lynette?
Conflict Resolution - David Chalk

If you would like to be a nominee for any of these positions, please contact us now so we can add your name to the agenda. We will present the nominees and vote at the next meeting.

We also decided to use David Chalk's Miro's Run logo on our signs and letterhead. (See t-shirts below.) We will be making a banner for tabling events and stickers, as well as t-shirts for events and to sell.

We need lots of volunteers for cleanup day, getting the word out at local events, attending community meetings, and collecting signatures for the petition.

Please print out the petition at http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/7/1057616/petition.doc.pdf and bring your signatures to the next meeting.

Let's make the dog run beautiful.

Best,
Andrea