HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011-09-16 - MinutesFFEAC Council Meeting Notes Meeting Facilitator Susan Norton Meeting Scribe Mikel Lolley Meeting Date September 16, 2011 Meeting Start Time 9:OOam Location Fayetteville Public Library Meeting End Time 10:30am Tom Sawyer, Phil Stafford, Mikel Lolley, Susan Norton, Mayor Attending Jordan, Julie McQuade, Gladys Tiffany, Christopher Spencer, Mark Larmoyeur, Mark Kinion, Lindsley Smith Topics Lead by... Announcements: Larry Driver of Transportation Group and Susie Shinn of Health Action Group have left the leadership roles of those two groups. We thank them for their service! Action Group Reporting Inclusion - Pattie Williams Gladys Tiffany attended on behalf of Pattie Williams and the Inclusion Group. She reported that the group had a presence at the September 1 Festivall, and used the Shredder/cube to have participants put their ideas of inclusion into the shredder. Green Economy Group - Mikel Lolley Mikel reported that Chris Benson, Energy Advisor to the Arkansas Economic Susan 1 Development Commission, formerly Director of the Arkansas Energy Office, has Norton informally invited the GEG to assist in reviewing and commenting on the draft plan some time in April of 2012. He is working on the plan directly to the AEDC at the pleasure of the Governor. Creative Economy - Christopher Spencer Christopher reported that their group partnered with the Fayetteville Public Library on "That Fayetteville Sound Project" also in collaboration with the Roots Festival. Funds that were raised will go to local artists. He also announced the formation of the non-profit status of CEAG, pronounced SEIGE! Christopher also encouraged others to endorse the project to carve out space along the trail system for art as "an open air gallery." Council Topics and Discussion Phil Topic # 1 - Collaborative Agreements Stafford Phil passed out the final draft of the collaborative documents for best practices, 2 collaboration agreements for the groups, and the Group/ Project Initiative Form. The FFEAC participants endorsed the documents through consensus with a high 5 by all in attendance and thanked Phil and the subcommittee for the great hard work. The group discussed asking action groups to target adoption of the FFEAC Council Meeting Notes documents and completion of the collaboration agreements and project/ group forms by the end of the year. Phil and Mark Larmoyeur offered to take the documents to group meetings to explain the purpose and answer questions. Topic # 2 - Branding Susan Susan and Christopher hosted a subcommittee meeting over lunch to try to identify Norton and purpose and issues related to branding the FFEAC name for the purpose of issuing Christopher a "call to action' to get involved. Christopher volunteered to draft a paragraph Spencer that would be included in each FFEAC and FFEAC group correspondence that would begin with the definition of FFEAC from the Charter and then add a founding date, an accomplishment or 2, and anything else that would describe us in a nutshell. During the meeting various tag lines were discussed. More discussion needed, but initially, the group liked: 3 FFEAC- Where inspirations grow! As a tag line that may fit into the logo graphic we use. Topic # 3 - Community Link The group discussed its intention to migrate all group work to Community Link and to use it as a launch pad for new projects and to house group agreements and forms. Thanks Julie!