Beautification Advisory Board

APPROVED Minutes Town of Buena Vista Beautification Advisory Board Thursday, March 3, 2022 The meeting was called to order at 5:08pm in the Aspen Room of the BV Community Center. Present: Members - Joy Duprey (Chairperson); Sue Benes, Colleen Deffner, Dorothy Distel, Diane Look, Jennifer Wright (Board Members); Paula Barnett, Shawn Williams (Town Representatives). APPROVAL OF MINUTES ● Minutes from the December 2021 and February 2022 meetings were approved. OLD BUSINESS Finances New: 10 bows were purchased from Downtown Decorations for $1,164.44 Current Balance: $10,855.56. Consider adding the scissor lift charge permanently to the Beautification budget requests to cover setting up the holiday tree. Town Gardener ● We are excited that Alison Hopkins has been hired as the new town gardener! ● Unfortunately, she was unable to attend this meeting. ● Boulders have been placed around the sculpture near Eddyline. ● Joy will meet with Alison during Spring Break. APPROVED - Town Beautification Meeting Minutes March 2022 Trees on Main Street ● Nancy has purchased shamrocks to decorate the trees on Main Street for St. Patrick’s Day. ● A small team of volunteers will work to get this onto the trees soon. Noxious Weed Plan - Chicago Ranch ● Plans for Chicago Ranch are so preliminary…we decided to put this on hold until plans firm up. ● Sue will walk the land with Alison to discuss the invasive species. Red Bows ● Ten new bows were purchased from Downtown Decorations. ● They have arrived! Joy will inventory this weekend to make sure all is in order. Wreaths on Main Street ● None of the wreaths on Main St. were lit this year. ● Shawn didn’t know anything about it, but he will find out. Solar Lights for Trees on Main Street ● We are looking into purchasing these. Beautification web presence ● Planning Director Joseph Teipel is willing to sit down with us to build a Beautification Project page on the Town website, my-BV.com. This would include previous and current projects: ○ Scarecrows ○ Adopt-a-Tree ○ Adopt-a-Planter ○ Forest Square Pocket Park APPROVED - Town Beautification Meeting Minutes March 2022  ○ Trash cans ○ Benches ○ Sculpture ○ Banners ○ Snowflakes ○ Holiday Tree ○ Wreaths ○ Plantings at Splash Park ○ Cleaning up Friendship Garden ○ Dog park work ● There could be a second page dedicated to the xeric gardens. Forest Square Pocket Park ● This is located at the southwest corner of the park…adjacent to the Montessori school. ● Shawn would like his crew to help with this. Upcoming ● Banners for East Main ● Dog Park ● Charles Street median/park (2023) NEW BUSINESS Town Updates ● Libby Faye is our new mayor…her term will start in April. ● Town is discussing repainting the water tower in 2022 ○ Libby would entertain any of our ideas. ● Paula passed along: ○ Kudos to PW Staff for getting the McPhelemy sign repainted with new logo and paid for in the 2021 Parks budget. APPROVED - Town Beautification Meeting Minutes March 2022  ○ Kudos to Town staff, Lisa Lamb and Shining Mountain Montessori School for the improvements to the St Rose of Lima Chapel including a new ADA ramp. Next Meeting ● Thursday, April 7th at 5pm. Location TBD. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 6:40pm. Projects to keep track of: ● Snowflake repair ● Increase tree adoption “donation” to $50 ● Kinetic Sculpture Garden ● Cemetery ● Consider asking for funds to paint park signs in 2023 ________________________________________________________ Approved at the Board’s April meeting. Respectfully submitted by Diane Look, Board Member. - Diane Look April 7, 2022 APPROVED - Town Beautification Meeting Minutes March 2022