Beautification Advisory Board

Minutes Town of Buena Vista Beautification Advisory Board Thursday, September 3, 2020 At River Park Pavilion The meeting was called to order at 5:08pm. Present: Members - Joy Duprey (chairperson), Sue Benes, Bonnie Davis, Dorothy Distel, Diane Look, Nancy Taylor, Jan Wheeler-Kitzman, Jennifer Wright; Town Representatives Paula Barnett and Shawn Williams. A​PPROVAL​ ​OF​ M​INUTES ● Approved minutes from the August, 2020 meeting. O​LD​ B​USINESS Funds ● Beautification funding from Town: $14,740 (on hold) o $ 3,750 – Annual flowers for 50 planters o $ 4,800 – Black Metal Benches - 4 priced at $1,200 each - on hold until further notice o $ 6,190 - Sculpture; this would be a partial cost to be shared with Beautification. Estimated cost is $7,500; balance to be paid by Beautification o $75 Curb Appeal award stickers o - $1,310 - committed to BV sculpture ● Total Beautification Fundraised Funds: $4,597.14 ● Balance after above - $3,212.14 Town Funding Update ● Paula says that art sculpture will stay in the 2020 budget. Xeric Gardens/Planters/Splash Park Planters ● Bulbs for the Splash Park planters are scheduled to ship around 9/27 ● We’ve scheduled the bulb hole dig day for Saturday, 9/19 in the afternoon ● The xeric gardens look better with bark, but it runs into the sidewalk ○ We discussed using a combination of mulch and rocks and edging to hold the water in better. ○ We’ll plan a day in the spring to get the gardens prepped. FINAL - Town Beautification Meeting Minutes September 3, 2020  ○ We’ll also plant some of our bulbs in the xeric garden. Sculpture for Highway 24 Triangle/Median ● There’s a meeting tomorrow with SixLine metal works, Joy and Shawn to discuss getting the sculpture in place. 2021 Budget Requests ● Items requested: ○ Flowers ○ Gardens ○ Metal benches for East Main ■ We’ll do 3 this year with SixLine: Lobeck’s, Colorado Kitchen, and Asian Palate ■ That takes us to the end of that block! ○ 2 trash cans for South Main Kinetic Sculpture for Charles St. ● We want to have a plan before we approach the businesses. ○ We’ll work with the artist, Larry, to get a rendering of the proposed sculpture ● Paul reached out to Chief Dean Morgan, who says we’ll definitely need to get approval from CDOT. ○ Shawn will work with CDOT ● There are concerns about the artwork distracting drivers near the crosswalk ● We could get some large boulders and pave the space...we had this idea last year. ● After much discussion, we decided to do rock sculptures using river rock, to be reminiscent of the river and the cobblestone at South Main. ● We then discussed where to put the kinetic sculptures ○ We’re thinking the area just to the south of the depot is a possibility ○ Nothing grows there - it’s a bit sad ○ We could make it into a boulder and sculpture garden Winter Planters ● We don’t know how the the grasses and plants in the planter will handle colder weather ● We can continue to use pine cones and painted yarrow for the holiday season ● Nancy brought a prototype of a fake evergreen tree ○ Wondering about having an “adopt-a-tree” to purchase fake trees for the planters ○ Businesses could adopt a tree and then decorate it ○ Nancy thinks the cost would be about $50 for one plant, including delivery ○ We discussed where to store in the summer FINAL - Town Beautification Meeting Minutes September 3, 2020  ○ We’re thinking we’d need 40 of them for $1600, but the adopt-a-planter could provide up to half of the cost ○ We will put two demo trees in the planters at Town Hall to see how they withstand the sun and elements N​EW​ B​USINESS Flowers at the Stage at the Roastery ● Tom Rollings has asked if we could provide flowers around the stage. ● It’s a non-profit group ● Nancy has located 2 very long planters that they could have ● We talked about putting mums in there - they’re on sale at City Market Paula Barnett Town Update ● talked about going before the trustees to see if they’d like to help us fund this next year ● Beautification has been asked to report to the Board of Trustees at the October 13th meeting. Scarecrow Contest ● We’ll discuss the annual scarecrow contest at the next meeting. Adjournment ● Meeting was adjourned at 6:15pm (is this about right?) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Projects to keep track of: ● Friendship Garden ● Ornament Fundraiser ● Wayfinding signs ● Benches ● Cemetery clean up ● Large wreaths gifted from Chamber ● Light post globes (Sangre de Cristo has completed an inventory of light posts ● Solar lights on bridge ● Directional signs in K’s park FINAL - Town Beautification Meeting Minutes September 3, 2020 ________________________________________ Minutes approved at Beautification Board meeting on 10/1/20. Respectfully submitted by Diane Look, Board Member. Diane Look FINAL - Town Beautification Meeting Minutes September 3, 2020