The Land Partnership Committee - model of patience year after year!
It takes patience to grow trees... let alone reforest our natural areas! And yet year after year the Land Partnership committee members invite the various neighborhoods to come and plant new trees -- trees representing the native habitat.
Land Partnership folks certainly can take pride in seeing the fruit of their labor as Akiva Silver takes the group around to plantings from years before and admiring the then saplings becoming trees... each grove a little taller year after year.
This year on April 24th twenty five trees were planted. As Lisa and Jeff shared via email it was a great success! Thanks goes to all that participated and a special thanks to Tony Henderson for organizing this wonderful event year after year.
Monday, April 25, 2016
March 2016 - Board/Members Meeting
Taking care of the basics... would best describe our March meeting.
We took time to talk about and deal with our bylaws and our leases. One of our goals for 2015 is to understand better our bylaws and changes needed as we go forward.
Changes are of course driven by legal requirements from the State and how EVI, Inc. has evolved and its needs today vs. twenty years ago at its formation. Board members reviewed our findings and conclusions with the full board as a result of our March 9, 2015 meeting with two local non-profit lawyers.
Future action will include simplifying our bylaws and beginning the process to transitioning away from a private foundation non-profit organization to a charitable organization -- this transition was always intended, however, never completed in the early years of the organization. One advantage is reduction in paperwork and accounting fees.
The organization has four leases associated with the three farms on the property and the Song neighborhood. One of our goal is to update leases and assure uniformity and clarity. This is important as requests for additional land or new farming opportunities are emerging.
While these topics are important for the board to fulfill its obligations to both the lessees' and the EVI, Inc. membership, they are not the most interesting topics for the general membership. As a result our March meeting was limited in terms of engaging members with new opportunities.
Other topics discussed included status of potential projects and resolution of a request to potentially have one of our lessees sublease.
The following link is to the full minutes of the meeting: LINK
We took time to talk about and deal with our bylaws and our leases. One of our goals for 2015 is to understand better our bylaws and changes needed as we go forward.
Changes are of course driven by legal requirements from the State and how EVI, Inc. has evolved and its needs today vs. twenty years ago at its formation. Board members reviewed our findings and conclusions with the full board as a result of our March 9, 2015 meeting with two local non-profit lawyers.
Future action will include simplifying our bylaws and beginning the process to transitioning away from a private foundation non-profit organization to a charitable organization -- this transition was always intended, however, never completed in the early years of the organization. One advantage is reduction in paperwork and accounting fees.
The organization has four leases associated with the three farms on the property and the Song neighborhood. One of our goal is to update leases and assure uniformity and clarity. This is important as requests for additional land or new farming opportunities are emerging.
While these topics are important for the board to fulfill its obligations to both the lessees' and the EVI, Inc. membership, they are not the most interesting topics for the general membership. As a result our March meeting was limited in terms of engaging members with new opportunities.
Other topics discussed included status of potential projects and resolution of a request to potentially have one of our lessees sublease.
The following link is to the full minutes of the meeting: LINK
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