Animal Shelter Meeting November 29 2010
The meeting was called to order at 11:10
There were 21 people in attendance.
George Gadsby did a quick update on progress since the last meeting.
Major events. Kiki Grossman has offered her services at no charge for setting up the AC and for accounting services for the proposed shelter. She also created a spread sheet of proposes monthly carrying costs for the shelter. (See copy below)
Dick Yackley has run up some preliminary numbers based on one site in the Ranchitos. The site is 2,000 sq meters, has water but no electricity at this point.
We broke out into work groups 1) Adoptions and outreach 2) Fund Raising 3) Site Acquisition, Facility Construction and Maintenance 4) Treasurer 5) Secretary 6) Volunteer Coordination (Project Director)
When formed, the Shelter will have seven directors as well as an advisory board. There will also be volunteers who don’t wish to participate as advisors but act solely as volunteers.
The break out groups met for approximately twenty five minutes to put together some initial planning.
The groups came back to the general meeting and made their reports.
Group leaders / Board Members will be as follows:
Adoption and Outreach: Gina Franz ginafranz@gmail.com
Fundraising and outreach: Bliss Cochran blissinger@gmail.com
Facility Construction and Maintenance Richard (Dick) Yackley grizzrobin@msn.com
Treasurer: Carolyn Durand cdonyourmind@yahoo.com
Secretary (Not filled or confirmed yet)
Volunteer Coordination: Tammy Curry desertlizard@live.com
If you were unable to attend and see a group you will feel comfortable with please email the Director of that group to be sure they know of your desire to participate.
George asked each group leader / director to meet with their team within the next seven days and put their plans and suggestions in writing. The board will meet shortly after the team meetings and use the information gleaned to write a business plan.
The Site Acquisition, Facility Construction and Maintenance team is encouraged to look at alternate sites besides the three I looked at. Several of us went to the three sites I have pulled out as possibilities but no decision has been made.
John Bartlett of San Carlos Marketing has been asked to put together two options on one of the sites. Cash sale and financed sale as well as a site map.
Kiki Grossman’s estimates of the funds required to operate and maintain the shelter with 25 cats and 25 dogs in residence is a minimum of thirty five thousand pesos or three thousand US dollars per month.
At this point the monthly pledges are only three hundred seventy five dollars per month. At this point the fund raising team will have to do some heavy lifting unless the pledges increase considerably.
George Gadsby, Project Director gcg@gadsbys.com
