{"id":3733,"date":"2020-02-24T19:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2020-02-24T19:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:58:28","slug":"annual-meeting-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/?p=3733","title":{"rendered":"Annual Meeting 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">February 13, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronnie Marlar welcomed a crowd of over 35 people to the annual meeting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonathan gave the&nbsp;<strong>Treasurers report&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8211; Checking $438.70<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Savings &#8211; $25.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;2020 Mini Grant &#8211; $2,000.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronnie explained to the new-comers that we are an unincorporated non-profit.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jonathan added that he has investigated the 501C status and it is considerable paperwork, but feels that it can be accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronnie reviewed the associations accomplishments this past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Settlers Canal<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; we are working with the University of Idaho on landscaping and developing a linear park that is pedestrian friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Capital Grants&nbsp;<\/strong>will help the association with an \u201cidentity kit\u201d which includes a logo representing our neighborhood, sign toppers and other marketing information.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Community Building Committee has had several meetings on this subject as well as future plans for our association&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Fairmont Park<\/strong>&nbsp;picnic shelter and additional walking path were celebrated with a potluck at the site<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Planting at Spaulding Ranch<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; sage and bitter brush was planted in about 1\/4 of the future park by WBNA members and volunteers&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Yard Sale<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; the annual yard sale made just over $200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Mountain View Park<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; the last Saturday of each month we clean up our adopted park and Mary Margaret reports our hours to the city.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any damaged trees, vandalism or concerns in the park are reported as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>2020 plans for the coming year &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Working with city as we are an \u201cenergize\u201d area which means we get additional funds and help from the city to&nbsp;energize&nbsp;our neighborhood.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ronnie explained to the new comers about the work that was accomplished in the Vista Neighborhood several years ago with this program.<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;Outreach events to make residents aware of projects&nbsp;<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;Our first Easter Egg Hunt is scheduled for April 11 at Fairmont Park<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;Planting the orchard at Spaulding Ranch this fall<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;A Fall Festival is in the planning stages, TBA<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rochelle suggested that we give more details on where Spaulding is and our plans for the park.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ronnie obliged with more details on where it is situated.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Barn, when restored, will be an events center, weddings &#8211; parties, farm to table gardens, walking paths and much more.&nbsp;&nbsp;BUGS will provide classes as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;The old Ranch House will be offices and smaller meeting spaces for our West Bench Neighborhood Association and other organizations.&nbsp;&nbsp;As it is completed there will be more and more partners and people using the space.&nbsp;&nbsp;The plans are on our WBNA website as well as Boise City Parks and Recreation website.&nbsp;&nbsp;Discussion followed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronnie turned the meeting over to Rochelle to conduct the elections of officers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rochelle thanked all the officers for their hard work this last year.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New officers for 2020 are:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>President &#8211; Ronnie Marler<\/li><li>Vice President &#8211; Jody Hull<\/li><li>Secretary &#8211; Annie Fuller<\/li><li>Treasurer- Jonathan Melby<\/li><li>New board Members:&nbsp;&nbsp;Ken Miller, Aaron England, Diane Wilmore and Joe Gordon<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Next regular meeting is March 12, 7:00 PM, Cole\/Ustick Library<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2020 Ronnie Marlar welcomed a crowd of over 35 people to the annual meeting.&nbsp; Jonathan gave the&nbsp;Treasurers report&nbsp;&#8211; Checking $438.70 &nbsp;&nbsp;Savings &#8211; $25.00 &nbsp;&nbsp;2020 Mini Grant &#8211; $2,000.00 Ronnie explained to the new-comers that we are an unincorporated non-profit.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jonathan added that he has investigated the 501C status and it is considerable paperwork, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/?p=3733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Annual Meeting 2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNpY-Yd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wbnaboise.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}