April 14, 2022 CCFM Board Meeting- APPROVED

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Board members present: Randy George, Rose Thackeray, Krysta Zabriskie, John Snell, Karen Huard Board, Lila Humphries-LePage

Others present: Keri Ryan

Called to Order: 7:00 AM 

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• Minutes from last meeting  

  • Approved

  • Rose will connect with Keri to upload minutes in real time

• News from Keri         

  • Blackbird Organics- goes by Littlewood Farm approved for all starts

  • Cedar Tree Pottery approved as sub

  • Finalizing music calendar

  • Trailer is going in Union Mutual parking lot will meet with maintenance guys to determine where

  • Repainting chalkboard sign

    • Where to put the gas heater? Ready to store it for summer

      • Lila offers to store it

  • Randy is going to bring over picnic tables and look at dismantling the music stage

  • John + Keri have begun making design for market history stickers

• Follow-up on Keri’s proposal for stipend for market goods 

  • Randy- we have to create a mechanism for budgeting pay increases for managers salary in the future

  • John- we can use grant $$ now while we work on creating the mechanism

  • Randy- if vendor fee was restructured to be based on sales then there would theoretically be additional revenue to accommodate pay increases to the manager

  • Janet- shouldn't assume that membership votes to do that

  • Lila- may not actually increase revenue may decrease it because of lower sales vendors

  • randy - we need to have executive session on this matter

    • Rose- lets have it before summer market starts

• Review of meat vendor rules regarding raising animals on the farm 

  • Are our meat vendors aware of this rule?

  • Janet believes the genesis of this rule is to make sure that farms aren't buying in feeders from PA etc then slaughter and sell them as local just a couple months later

  • Remind vendors that we have this rule in place and that they need to follow it

  • Vendors selling meat are required to own, manage, and feed the animal for at least the last 75% of the animal’s life (except for poultry and laying hens, which must be raised for their entire life by the vendor)

• Support for BIPOC vendors

  • Brought up by the fee restructuring committee

  • Could be subsidized by a grant- nofa is working on funding for this

  • Janet- bringing new members in + keeping the market vital as well as encouraging new customers that had not attended before

  • Currently no decision to be made- fee committee may submit a proposal. 

• Benches and umbrella purchases

  • John- North Branch Nature Center will make 5 benches and we will pay for lumber and make a donation to the center

    • If we feel like we need more Rose offers to build a few with donated lumber

    • We will want to tarp benches/picnic tables and chain them 

• Trailer or shipping container?

  • Ben Z estimated will cost $3000 to fix

  • Trailer is 5ftx10ft

  • Luckys Trailer Keri will contact; lead time on fixing? Trade in? Used trailer?

  • Karen- we could rent a storage unit while it gets repaired

  • Krysta- do we want to get a trailer big enough to fit picnic tables/benches so that they last longer

  • Rose- new 7x16 enclosed trailer less than $7k allows for picnic tables to fit inside; need to remember that we can sell our current trailer and make money on it

  • Krysta- should we get insurance on a new trailer

• Review of new applications and requests

  • Done above

• Sponsor outreach  

  • Skipped for time