Meeting
Summary
6830 Via Del Oro,
Attendees:
Citizen
Advisory Committee Members:
|
Name |
Represent |
Present |
Absent |
|
Susan McKuhen |
District 1 |
√ |
- |
|
Vacant |
District 2 |
- |
- |
|
Jan Hintermeister |
District 3 |
√ |
|
|
Eric Carruthers |
District 4 |
√ |
- |
|
Chris Kangas |
District 5 |
√ |
- |
|
Yacanex Posadas |
District 6 |
√ |
- |
|
Vacant |
District 7 |
- |
- |
|
Vacant |
Agriculture |
- |
- |
|
Vacant |
Business |
- |
- |
|
Vacant |
Civic Organizations |
- |
- |
|
Daniel J. Kenney |
Development Community |
√ |
- |
|
Gloria Dirkmaat |
Education |
√ |
- |
|
David Poeschel |
Environmental |
√ |
- |
|
Son Cheong (C.K.) Kuan |
Labor |
√ |
- |
|
Dorsey Moore |
Parks |
√ |
- |
|
Kitty Monahan |
Trails |
√ |
- |
|
|
Totals |
11 |
0 |
Other
Attendees:
Board
Liaison Present:
The Honorable Dr. Kulwant Gill – Director, District
Seven
The Honorable Virginia Holtz – Director, District
Five
Staff
Present:
Teri
Rogoway,
Coordinator of Interpretive Programs
Public
Present: none
Action
Items:
|
Task |
Lead |
Due
Date |
ü |
|
From |
|
|
|
|
All |
|
|
|
Dorsey |
|
ü |
|
Eric
Carrruthers |
|
|
1.
Call to
Order – Dorsey Moore,
Chairperson
A.
Approved excused
absences – none
B.
Introduction of
Guests – Dr. Kulwant Gill, Virginia Holtz, and Teri Rogoway. Welcome new member Chris Kangas,
District Five.
2.
Public
Presentations for Items not Listed on the Agenda (Limit: 3 minutes)
No public presentations
were made but a request to return was made by Lynne
Paulson.
3.
Approval of the Meeting Summary of Previous Meeting
·
Moved: Kitty Second: Jan Minutes: approved
4.
Presentation: Teri Rogoway, Coordinator of Interpretive
Programs
a.
Background on
Teri - Park Ranger, San Jose, Park Interpreter, State Parks in Santa Cruz, Youth
Science Institute, Large Birds of Prey, County Park in New Almaden with Kitty,
Park Interpreter for OSA with goal to provoke people to learn more about
Nature, Culture and
History
b.
Coyote Ridge
·
Wanted to go and
create programs for this area, but has found that there is a need for more in
other areas besides Coyote Ridge
·
Adapted
§
Trial run at
§
Trained Silicon
Valley Conservancy docents on how to run their own interpretive
program
§
Plan to pull out
of the SVC at the end of this season and let them run the program on their
own
§
Using this as a
pilot program to come up with a process on how to train
docents
§
Modeled after
the effective State Park docent training program
c.
Things done last
summer
·
Nature Discovery
Camp with Grandparents
·
Daily hike
dependent on grandparents abilities/limitations
·
Each hike had a
different topic:
·
People from the
past, Reptiles, Predators and Prey, Insects, Plants in Our
Park
d.
Blackford
Elementary Special Education
·
Develop program
to address both physical and developmental limitations
·
Currently
working on curriculum for Special Needs children
e.
Halloween
Celebration 2007
·
First
time
·
75
participants
·
Activities
included: games, arts and crafts,
and daylight trick or treating
·
Held at Rancho
f.
Sayadinal Rose
(tarantula) was passed around
g.
86 Presentations
to 2558 people since last April.
Sample topics include:
1.
Native Americans
8. Animal Sense
15. OSA
2.
Mountain Lions
9. Butterflies
16. Creepy
Crawlers
3.
Elephant Seals
10. Birds of Prey
17.
Habitats
4.
People from Past
11. Folklore & Plants 18. Bats
5.
Snakes
12. Bugs
19.
Tarantulas
6.
Predators/Prey
13. Astronomy in the
Park
7.
Geology
14. Water Across the
Landscape
h.
Other Things
that have been done:
·
Aldo Leopold
Education Project (out of
·
Interpretation
for Development of Special Needs presenter at the
·
Certified as an
Interpreter for the National Association of Interpretation
i.
Future
Plans
·
Docent and
volunteer recruitment
·
Establishment of
set menu of programs with creative options
·
Training for
educators in the Aldo Leopold Education project
·
Development and
implementation of programs of the Guadalupe River Project
j.
Teri requested
that we each provide her with the name of a principal/school she could contact
about providing interpretive program.
Preference is 3-6 grades, but will do K through college
level.
k.
Eric went to
Halloween event and stated he was very impressed by Teri’s people skills and
program development. He requested
that Teri provide the group with a one to two page summary of her
program/services we could use in approaching schools.
l.
Gloria offered
to contact
m.
Susan suggested
that Carmen Montano (formally of the OSA) be contacted as she had been a member
of the Milpitas School Board. This
has been a hard district for Teri to get access to because of constraints on
strangers coming into the schools.
n.
Kitty suggested
looking at GATE programs in schools.
o.
David said that
he felt guilty asking her to come to his child’s school and thought focus should
be on schools were the need was greater.
He suggested possibly some schools could partner and even do fund-raisers
to provide opportunities for “sister” school to go on field trips.
p.
Teri prefers
classes that are 20-30 in size so animals can be handled
5.
Reports
A.
Board Liaison Report –
Ø
Dr.
Gill
·
He had heard
that the
Ø
Virginia
Holtz
·
Reported that
there had been a long discussion on the County Habitat Conservation
Plan:
1)
Purpose – to
ensure protection of habitat when construction occurs (i.e. building a
bridge
2)
County will put
in money for mitigation to buy land in another area to provide habitat for
identified displaced plant/animal
3)
Stakeholders
have a lot of solid experience and have been meeting for the last 2
years.
4)
Now at the stage
of going to individual agencies to give status report and get direction on how
to proceed.
5)
6)
Discussion at
last OSA Board meeting resulted in Patrick being directed to look for ways that
the OSA could be part of the Habitat Conservation Plan as it is being developed
(looking at determining how plan will be managed, day to day roles,
etc.)
7)
A link at the
county website will provide more information on this
project.
·
CK asked for
clarification if the project was just in the exploration stage and
·
Dorsey asked
B. Authority Staff
Report -
None.
C.
Members –
Ø
Eric
·
Attended the
Annual State Family Farm Conference last month
·
Went on a tour
of 3 specialty farms
Ø
Doctor from
Kaiser made a presentation about
their commitment to buying food locally for use in their hospitals and providing
space for farmer’s markets
Ø
An issue for
farmers with small parcels is how to sell produce. There is an organization called the
“Grower’s Collaborative” that has set up a system to network with farmers and
major consumers (i.e. Kaiser,
·
American
Planning Association
Ø
43,000
members
Ø
Last year
adopted “food policy” to help build more self-reliant local food
systems
Ø
Hand out on
“Farming the City” was passed out
Ø
Beginning to
permeate throughout local areas and supports OSA goals
-
D. CAC Chairperson: Dorsey Moore
·
Last Tuesday San
Jose City Council discussed recommendation to adopt Green Cities of California
Sustainability Resolution (so far
there are 15 communities involved) with goals like purchasing recycled paper,
getting rid of the use of single serving water containers, and purchasing
locally grown food products.
·
Tour of Silicon
Valley Conservancy site is scheduled for 4/13 at
·
May CAC meeting
has been moved to June 2 due to conflict with Labor Day
holiday
6.
Member Presentation – Kitty Monahan
·
Born and raised
in
·
Attended local
Catholic Schools and joined a convent
·
For 19 years
worked as a teacher in Jr. and Sr. high schools (including
·
Learned that
humor was important and told story of student unscrewing everyone’s
desk
·
Worked with
students on political issues. Took
a group of students to the Board of Supervisors to get the
·
Moved in to help
a friend in the Almaden area while her husband attended medical school and fell
in love with the
·
Credited
Garnetta Annable for getting her into the Park and Red Commission and
involved
·
Lessons
learned: Humor is important as well
as persistence and kindness.
·
Really pushed
the volunteer program.
·
Worked with Mike
Honda and Garnetta for OSA. Lost
first attempt and then got it
·
Worked on the
·
On the Committee
of Outdoor Recreation for parks that has 2300 new
participants.
7.
Unfinished Business
A.
1)
Eric asked that any
corrections be emailed to him this week and all the agencies in the document
were sent a copy and given two weeks to email any changes. There has been one
feedback response from
2)
Clarified that
this was an informational report not a policy report.
3)
Kitty asked
about the disclaimer on page iii in the last sentence and Eric said the wording
might be changed once the Board has approved it, but that would be up to the
Board.