Members Present: Tom Casselman, Jenna Deibel, Mary Opperman, Janet Hutchison, Suzie Hermreck, John Shelk, Kevin Kewon, Dawn Alexander.
Agenda Overview: Additions to the agenda: contract renewals, facilitator letter, old brochure, climate change workshop Nov. 6th (Dawn will send out an email notice to everyone), Meeting dates for November and December, elections.
Tom made a motion to accept the minutes with corrections, Mary 2nd the motion. Motion passed.
No updates to the financial report.
Monitoring: Kevin mentioned the iPad is secured and working on the protocols for Jill.
Forest Service Update: No one in attendance.
Membership: Jenna- Isabella Isaksen is the new public information officer for the Ochoco National Forest. Will ask her to come to the November meeting to introduce herself.
Will have the letter ready for the full group meeting in November to present. It can go out in December. Can also update the brochure.
Janet passed out copies of the old brochure for the committee to look and give feedback before the December meeting.
Heart of Oregon: Suzie mentioned that Madi Cunningham with Heart of Oregon had 3 teams of Prineville Youth that worked in the Ochocos this summer. She would love to see them come and present at a full group meeting. Dawn will email Madi to see if they can present in November.
Big Summit Discussion/letter/support: We will write a letter at a later date.
November Full group meeting: Heart of Oregon presentation.
Future Plans: Executive Committee Meeting for December will be held Dec. 17. Nov. Full group will be November 19th, no executive committee meeting in November and no full group meeting in December.
Website Update: 64 active users last month. #1 page visited is the Collaborative and Documents page.
Facilitator Update: Letter from Cari Press discussion. Tom made a motion to approve the hiring of Cari Press as our facilitator. Jenna 2nd the motion. $70/hr. for work with 67 cents per mile for travel. Motion passed. Janet will talk to Kit and Sadie to work up a contract for her.
Tom made a motion to renew Dawn’s contract at $50.00 an hour starting in January. John 2nd the motion. Motion passed. Tom made a motion to renew Travis Hollman’s (webmaster) contract as written. Jenna 2nd the motion. Motion passed.
Elections: Who wants to be on the executive committee and who would like to be chairman and vice chairman? We need to advertise as a public notice. Get recruitment letter out and then have elections. Will be on the agenda for the November meeting. Reminder sent in January email.
Tom made a motion that for this election to be on the executive committee, remove the attendance requirements. Suzie 2nd the motion. Motion passed.
Suzie mentioned our letter going to the senior center, real estate offices, the chamber of commerce.
Adjourn Meeting: Tom made a motion to adjourn the meeting. John 2nd the motion. Motion passed. The meeting was adjourned at 3:01 pm.
