MCMGA Board Minutes for September 26th, 2023

Note: These minutes incorporate August 2023 vote as there was no quorum for August meeting.

Present: Linda Goldser, Lorna Schilling, Cynthia Chase, Susan Marcus, Rich Becker, Mike Rutherford, Christine Semeniuk, Carole Hardy, Marcia McIntyre, Lisa Kirby, John Jordan, Patty Mizutani

Patty Mizutani from the Speaker’s committee talked about the work of the committee and asked for interest in exploring combining our presentations with Washington County via Zoom to combine resources to attract speakers. Board expressed interest and she will bring that back to the committee.

August meeting didn’t have a quorum. A later email vote was taken re: merchandise and sales. A motion was made to declare all merchandise as “surplus” and to discontinue sales of inventory. Merchandise that is useful for the Demo Garden will be reserved and donations of the rest to gardening organizations we support will commence in the spring. This motion passed via email. (This did not include T-shirts as they are branded.)

Demo Garden report: 3100 hours of volunteer labor was reported as well as over 1500 pounds of produce donated. Learn in the Garden via Zoom will begin again 10/16.

Harvest Fest was attended by about 63 people and awards were handed out.

Discussion of future goals for Board via a retreat was discussed and we decided to have an open forum discussion on 10/17/2023 via Zoom to talk about goals, wishes, and plans for the for the upcoming year.