LEAP ECOLOGY CLUB DRAFT MINUTES

March 25, 2008

4^{th Tech Drawing- Notes to Valerie (Rabel) and Andrea (Taudel)}

5th Salma, Yuna, Ola, Andrea (Note), Valerie

6th Miranda*, Miriam*, Christine*, Nola*

7th Christine, Miranda (Gym)

Any food homemade *responsible for food Kayla

Recycling

Nola needs to see Ms. Cooper

Need a Timeline

Need to spend $

Meat Out- Sylvia, Miranda

Ovens secured!

Will make poster (2) for display

April 3rd

Natalia- Quiche

Also posters to advertise

Christine will make flyers

Talk to Calais about her job

Sylvia- "Chicken" nuggets & Yams and apples

Yuna- Spanish rice

Kayla needs to enter Golden Apple (has been done)

Needs recycling logs

Jessie Cannizzaro’s News

Design with flowers where the tree is, near Reservoir

Pictures will be emailed to Jessie and Christine

Planting starting April 16th and 17th

Earth Day

Tables- from $6,000 we need to use by June

Need to talk to Karishma

Partopia- approximately $248.75

Need to find out Vendor Number

Some Ideas for spending the $6K

Cotton candy machine, plant trees, inflatable Earth ball, flowers, Earth day shirts, bags

Attending: Jessie Cannizzaro, Christine Chan, Mr. I.C. Levenberg-Engel (advisor emeritus) , Sylvia,

Miranda, Miram, Kayla, Natalia, Ola, Olivia, Nola, Salma, Dr.Julie D.Mankiewicz (co-advisor)

Minutes from last week: Bake Sale, Better planning, No objections- Accepted as read!

Recycling Report

Meeting with Ms. Cooper

How many green recycling bins? In classrooms, how many have them?

Buy the ones we need, one/classroom

Kayla has a list, do we need to update? Needs number by tomorrow

One blue recycling bin/ 3 classrooms

Posters- Salma will make: "Recycle please", "This is trash bin", "This is for paper"

Start by April 3rd à the bins need to be in by then

Talk to faculty on April 7th at after school conference

Janitors will manage with clear bags

April 3rdà talk to homerooms about it, recruit Cabinet, Arista members = 80 homerooms

Need people to sort trash out

Ola will write what people will say by tomorrow for homeroom visits

Miranda will talk to ms. Paolercio

Black bins?

Ms. Cooper will talk care of bins $ from janitor, unless it’s too much, LEAP $

Audtorium à slide show about recycling for people who have subs

Nola will get date it needs and timeline

Email through naviance

$6000

Deadline: April 18

Ideas: Ads in school paper: recycling, Earth Day; Ola will talk to Ms. Schoenfeld about $

Make professionally made posters from poster contest

T-shirts & Totes: Carousel Ads- Direct

Raffle on clean- up date, when you bring a bag of trash, get a ticket

Flowers for designà Horticulture can provide

Something that runs on solar power and makes food

Planting trees

Tables

Smoothie supplies

Little Earth balls/ hackey sacks, Frisbees, Chewing gum cleaner

Earth Day Guest Speaker

Green architect- Fox and Fowle

Sculptor that does water

Miranda’s mom lower for Green Grows (community gardens)

2 short 10-minute presentations

Jessie connections at Botanical Gardens

Adam R Green- Rocking the Boat   

Respectfully Submitted, Natalia Piland (acting) Recording Sec'y

Minutes for Regular Meeting 7

December 19, 2006

1)      Holiday Sales:

a.      Discuss that no members are showing up during lunch periods to sell and others outside the group have been selling

b.      Available Periods:

                                                              i.      Period 4:  Ola, Ruben, Tatyana

                                                           ii.      Period 5: Martina, Leah

                                                         iii.      Period 6: Marni, Nola (Thursday), Daniel (Wednesday, Friday)

                                                          iv.      Period 7: Olivia, Johana, Julia

2)      Committee Meetings:

a.      Recycling Committee: went outside to take pictures of trash

b.      Treasury Committee: discussed holiday sales and decided that Valentines Day Sales would be bake sales

c.       Animal Rights: research possible animal shelters in which members could volunteer