City of Laredo, Texas Laredo Center for Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, 10 Feb 2022

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Laredo Center for Urban Agriculture and Sustainability Meeting 021022

A

um Well, the the meeting is now called to order. uh Please feel free to interrupt me if I'm doing something out of order, um uh the pledge of allegiance. Do we have to do that.

B

Now we can skip through it if you just want to get to the.

A

B

The roll card- yes.

A

Okay, so roll call guillermo walls here, uh j.j gomez, no um john porter. You do not see him here, I'm here for mr paul. Oh I'm, sorry, okay! Thank you! uh Orlando navarro.

A

Or somebody in this behalf no okay, viviana, frank somebody on her behalf, not sure.

A

Roberto gonzalez bobby, don't see him myself marilyn. I see you right here. Yes, priscilla iglesias,.

C

And I think media roblox is on her behalf, but she's having problems with her computer she's. Just talking.

A

Okay and dr claudia, I see her yes, so she's, sorry, yes, okay! So um public comments are, I'm not sure if there are any. I don't think so.

A

Next would be secretary report and that is for a nomination of and election of lcua as president, I'm not sure what else continues. I believe that was viviana going to be nominated, but she is. She isn't here.

C

Yes, but we have merely no, we can.

A

I'm not sure, I'm sorry, I'm not sure if we were going to elect somebody else or if something was going to be done on this.

B

So the way it usually works is a board member would nominate somebody on the board for to become president.

B

If there's uh no nominations or nobody volunteers, then we would just move uh table this item until the next month until it gets um completed.

A

But do they have to be present? I assume so.

B

Yeah because they have to accept okay,.

A

So are we going to table this item?

A

Yes, okay, um we'll treasure report. We uh bobby isn't here, so we also tabled this.

B

Correct there would just be no treasure or report.

A

Already no treasure report.

A

And then we'll volunteer report we don't have a volunteer, so that is also no report. um Executive. Sorry.

C

Yeah we have marilyn, uh oh.

A

C

Yeah, this is the first meeting for her. Can we nominate her as a volunteer rep.

B

I think that's a great idea um from what I would see on social media. Marilyn is uh probably a great volunteer, so she would kind of just uh assume that role. You know, of course, if she accepts it.

D

Definitely definitely, I feel very, very passionate about canseco community garden. um I I took over like well, I didn't take over, but I started volunteering there with them and we actually organized the pumpkin patch, which was very successful.

D

I think that community gardens have a lot of potential in our community and I believe, there's a lot of people that want to volunteer it's just that we have to create those opportunities for them to volunteer. So I'm really excited to see what what new ventures we have with with el quest here and in my position.

B

Great and just so everybody knows we're on the same page, since this is not. um I guess the volunteer representative is not in an elected position. She can volunteer for it or or switch it out whenever she wants, it doesn't have to be nominated in the second dish. You know you, she assumes it. She assumes it. So thank you for that. Marilyn.

A

C

She's having problems with her computer, but I mean we already know that okay she's she tried to connect yeah. I wanted to talk to you about a couple of things that we are having we okay. Next saturday, we have the food drive at canseco.

C

This is our first attempt to establish a relationship with our local chefs and restaurants like maita like bobby and others, so we are inviting small business owners and and restaurants to join us this this saturday and in common, see the garden what we have to offer and see if they need, or they can benefit from the food that we are growing right now. This is our first attempt to establish this relationship, and this is this will be also our first collaboration with frontera grocery operative right. So we're very happy about that.

C

I'm working with bobby to see we can have then a venmo and cash up account for this saturday, so we can start getting donations through these applications. um So that's one thing, another thing, another project that we that we will have in the next month. I guess we are going to well. I would like to request um your approval, a support support to collaborate with a an entity.

C

This is a ee composites, it's an llc, it's a business, they reached me and they asked for support and collaboration uh because they are going to develop a green mural at the environmental services building in mr porter. So they are. They are contractors, so the collaboration, the support that they need from us from from lcu, as we the idea that the what we have talked is that we can provide to them around 500 plants, germinated from our greenhouse and it'll, represent about one thousand dollars muscle minerals, something like that. One thousand and.

C

That's a good, I think, that's a good number uh we can we can. We can get that phone, we can. We can do that easily with our volunteers and our city bank that we have right now. So I don't see our big problem and we will be collaborating with them, making this green bureau at emperor, emeralds or environmental services. The idea is to have they will have flowers and and green plants, but my input was to include some edible plants in this mural, so they they are happy about that.

C

Mr porter, I guess is, is supporting this also, and this is a prank that I'll see. I see it coming in the next month or so next couple of months.

C

And then the my last um request this time. I have two opportunity. Well, we we found two opportunities, two grand grand opportunities uh I can share with you the links or, if you want me to share my screen, I can share my screen. Let's go here see we can see this yes,.

E

C

Can you see my screen right now.

C

Okay, this is the arp community challenge.

C

This is a grant that we may be eligible to apply and we can request all the average amount requested in the past is around 12k. The largest project, funded historically by them, is 50 000.

C

We can we can, I think we can fit. We can fit in that in this uh application we can develop a good project and uh deadline is march 22nd.

C

So, if you allow me to pursue or to go ahead and make what I have to make to apply, this is one opportunity. The other one is this other one is the climate adjusted for all project grants.

C

This is the max amount that we can request is 20 20 000, but the deadline is march 70s. I have left about a month to develop or to have my project ready, bye.

B

um Jose would you need any assistance from the grant writer on this, and, if so, would there be any incurred cost to lc uas on this.

C

We are going to yeah.

B

C

Talked about that, uh we are trying we're going to try to fit the the product that we developed for lbb. We're gonna, try to adapt it and and apply for this. These couple of products of opportunities.

B

Okay, so there wouldn't be anything charged to us just yet.

C

Not for these two.

B

Okay, I moved to allow was that to apply for both of these grants.

A

Okay, is this a is this a vote.

B

Yes, I don't know.

A

Oh okay, so um everybo every everyone in favor we're all in favor.

B

We need a second.

A

I cycle who that was dr claudia. Yes,.

A

A

No one opposed so um carrie. It passes yeah, okay, awesome.

C

Okay and our last thing we are going to participate also with media. This is saturday in the farmers market we're going to send them whatever we have to harvest. We have lots of food right now very happy, and so you're welcome to go to the farmer's market or come to the garden and harvest with us and have a good time get some vitamin d yeah.

C

That will be all for me.

A

Next would be the grant update, but I think um jose just finished that so um I don't think, there's any there's nothing else in the agenda. Would that be? Would that be it? I don't know if there's any other comments or anything else.

B

No, I just wanted to welcome marilyn to the group. uh Thank you for joining us marilyn. We're very appreciative very appreciative that you're that you're here, as you can see uh it's hard for us all to get together, but uh we we are trying. So any support that you can offer will really appreciate it. Keep in mind guys that we still have one position available. So if anybody knows anybody that would be a good fit, you know have them come to the to the next meeting and let's, uh let's keep it going.

E

I just wanted to mention also we will like um jose mentioned. We will be having the farmers market this saturday, it's usually every third saturday, but because of the wbca events on february, we usually move it up to the second saturday. That's why the farmers market market is happening this saturday. So if anybody wants to join us or share our flyer, we are going to be at the outlet shops from 11 to 3 p.m.

A

Well, thank you and this meeting is called to adjourn.

A

I think that's it. Yes,.

E

I don't know if.

A

There's any other any other comments or anything else.

A

Ready well have a great day. I hope I did. Okay.

B

You did great right there. Thank you.