Fundraiser

I think it's time for a blog update:

As we speak our friend Mike at Partnership for Parks is reviewing and passing along our proposal to the Park's Department. We are just waiting on a quote. In the meantime, we will be having a fundraiser to raise some preliminary fund and spread the word.

We now have 6 volunteers to help plan fundraiser. We need this to be a collaborative effort! If anyone else is interested in helping to plan it, please let me or Andrea know via email.

Thanks again!

Susie

Next Meeting! Tuesday, August 7th!

DiMattina Dog Run Meeting
Brooklyn Social
335 Smith St., between President and Carroll Sts.
Tuesday, August 7th
7:30 to 8:30 PM

Please come! We need a much better turn out than last time!

Fundraiser

Hi everyone. I am planning to do a fundraiser soon for the dog run. Please let me know if you would be interested in helping me with this by emailing me at susie.gersten@gmail.com. We will also discuss this at the meeting on Tuesday, August 7th at 7:30 at Brooklyn Social.

Thanks!

Pictures from Clean-up Day!

Thanks again to everyone who came out, and a special thanks to Mimi for sending these pics along!

Reminder that our next meeting is Tuesday, August 7th at 7:30 at Brooklyn Social.

Thank you, Cleanup Crew!

Thanks to all who came to the cleanup Sunday morning. Everyone worked really hard, even through the rain, and the run looks so much better. I hope this effort shows the Parks Department that we are serious about improvements. At the next meeting we will talk about how to put the pressure on.

Next meeting

Our next meeting is Aug 7th 7:30-8:30 pm at Brooklyn Social

In case of rain...

Hi Everyone -

In case of rain tomorrow, the clean up day will be rescheduled for next Sunday, August 5th, 10 AM to 1 PM.

If it's not raining, I will see you all tomorrow morning!

Thanks!

Susie

Dog Run Cleanup Day!!

Please join us for our very first Dog Run Cleanup Day! Sunday, July 29th from 10 AM - 1 PM in the DiMattina Dog Run. Feel free to brings your pups if you don't think they will get in the way. There is also the possibility that we will be painting the big wall under the baseball field fence!

Please email me with any questions and spread the word as much as possible. We are counting on a great turn out this time! Big thanks to Partnership for Parks for providing the cleaning tools.

Just a reminder that our next official meeting will be August 7th at Brooklyn Social from 7:30 to 8:30. Please try to be there and bring some friends! We need support if we want to get this resurfacing done.


Susie

Last meeting Attendees

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

REMINDER! Meeting next Tuesday.

Hi everyone - this is just a reminder that we have our next meeting on Tuesday, June 26th at 7:30 at Giardini's (Smith at 2nd Street). Please try and come! I made a flyer that I am going to start posting - if anyone would like some copies of it to give out, let me know.

Thanks!

Susie

Miro's Run T-shirts

Hi Everyone,

I think it would be a good idea to have some t-shirts for the run, especially when we are working an event.

I played around with some design ideas and came up with this.

When and if we have some money I know a silkscreen guy who is reasonable and will do small runs.

Cheers,

David

Street Fair?

I believe there is a big street fair coming up ... this weekend? It could be a great time to have volunteers with clipboards and petitions circulating.

Cheers,

David

Carroll Park Flea Market and Petition

Hi all! We had a great time at the Carroll Park Fair Saturday. We talked to lots of people and collected over 150 signatures for the petition. Thanks to David for taking the morning shift with me, to Jackie for the awesome signs and banner, and to Shelly, who collected most of those signatures by calling over everyone who walked by!

We now have 319 signatures. You can help us get more by collecting signatures from your friends and neighbors. See the May 7 post below for links to the online petition and a printable version.

See you at the June 26 meeting!

Next Meeting

Hi All - The next meeting is officially scheduled for Tuesday, June 26th at 7:30 PM at Giardini's garden on the corner of Smith and 2nd Street. Please try and come and spread the word to others that might be interested! If you would like some flyers to give out, let me know.

Thank you to Andrea, Shelly, David, and Jackie for manning our table at the fair on Saturday! Andrea will post an update soon.

Meeting Recap/News

Hi everyone! Here is a recap of the meeting on Sunday, June 4th. Thanks to Andrea for these notes.

Carroll Park Flea Market:
First off, we need more people to sit at the table at the Carroll Park Flea Market on Saturday. I will be out of town. So far we have Andrea there from 9 - 1:30 and Shelley there from 1:30 - 5. We need people to pick times between 9 and 5 to help them out. Please email me if you are able to do this. Thanks to Brownstone Aquarium who has donated some biscuits to our table!

Fundraising Event

Best time would be late Aug/early Sept to allow time to plan. Ideas:
free training demos, pet portrait for a donation, raffle.

Cleanup Day

Lynette offered to head up the Cleanup Committee. She will also call
about picking up free cleaning supplies for Parks Volunteers.

Next meeting

We penciled in Tuesday, June 26 from 7:30 to 8:30 at Giardini's garden
on Smith St and 2nd Place. Might have to change due to Andrea scheduling conflict. Will solidify date/time ASAP. Jackie can help with reproducing flyers.

Officers and Mission Statement

We decided to post on the blog nominations, allowing time for
comments. We will vote at the next meeting. Lynette will bring
some options for a mission statement to vote on.

Advertise the meeting

Hi all - Just a reminder that the meeting is this Sunday at noon. Please please please let people know! People you see on the streets with dogs, people at the dog run, friends with dogs, etc. We need as much support as we can get. You can create fliers and hand them out, or post them at your pet shops.

Thanks!

Susie