[Hvcatskillcewg] Meeting date and LTA grant

Fri Nov 7 10:31:08 PST 2008

Hi David,

Either Lynn Bowdery or I (or both!) will be there on the 2nd at 1 PM

Chris

**************************

Christopher Duncan

Executive Director

Wallkill Valley Land Trust

  _____  

From: hvcatskillcewg-bounces at lists.ltanet.org
[mailto:hvcatskillcewg-bounces at lists.ltanet.org] On Behalf Of David Diaz
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:37 AM
To: hvcatskillcewg at lists.ltanet.org
Subject: RE: [Hvcatskillcewg] Meeting date and LTA grant

The votes are in!

The meeting will be on 12/2/08.  The agenda is attached.  A location has yet
to be determined but I am working with a couple of members to locate a
relatively central location.  

Please RSVP me if you will or will not be able to attend the meeting.

Thanks all.

David

David M. Diaz

Senior Land Protection Manager

Columbia Land Conservancy

PO Box 299

49 Main Street

Chatham, NY 12037

(518) 392-5252  ext.205

(518) 392-3099  fax

www.clctrust.org

Confidentiality Notice: This communication and any accompanying document(s)
are confidential and privileged. They are intended for the sole use of the
addressee. If you receive this transmission in error, you are advised that
any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in
reliance upon the communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received
this communication in error, please contact us at (info at clctrust.org
<BLOCKED::BLOCKED::mailto:info at clctrust.org> ) or by telephone at
518-392-5252. Thank you.

  _____  

From: hvcatskillcewg-bounces at lists.ltanet.org
[mailto:hvcatskillcewg-bounces at lists.ltanet.org] On Behalf Of David Diaz
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 5:00 PM
To: hvcatskillcewg at lists.ltanet.org
Subject: [Hvcatskillcewg] Meeting date and LTA grant

Here's the results of the responses from group members regarding the
comments in the previous email (found below):

1.	The group will wait until next year to apply for a LTA grant.
2.	At its next meeting the group will redefine purposes/goals and
create a Steering Committee and a separate Grants Committee.

Nearly 100% respondents felt that they could attend a meeting before the end
of the year, so let's give it try:

Please let me know your availability for a meeting for a 1pm-3:30pm meeting
on the following dates:

11/20

11/25

12/2

12/4

Location has yet to be determined.

Thanks everyone

David

David M. Diaz

Senior Land Protection Manager

Columbia Land Conservancy

PO Box 299

49 Main Street

Chatham, NY 12037

(518) 392-5252  ext.205

(518) 392-3099  fax

www.clctrust.org

Confidentiality Notice: This communication and any accompanying document(s)
are confidential and privileged. They are intended for the sole use of the
addressee. If you receive this transmission in error, you are advised that
any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in
reliance upon the communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received
this communication in error, please contact us at (info at clctrust.org
<BLOCKED::BLOCKED::mailto:info at clctrust.org> ) or by telephone at
518-392-5252. Thank you.

  _____  

From: hvcatskillcewg-bounces at lists.ltanet.org
[mailto:hvcatskillcewg-bounces at lists.ltanet.org] On Behalf Of David Diaz
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:19 AM
To: hvcatskillcewg at lists.ltanet.org
Subject: [Hvcatskillcewg] apologies

Good morning,

I have dealing with health issues over the past few weeks and have been
unable to get back to the entire group in any meaningful way.  Here's the
bottom line on our next steps regarding Conservation Catalyst Grants:

1.	Some feel it would be better for the group to redefine its goals (it
has been almost two years we last did this), and create a costs schedule
before pursuing an LTA grant.  This would mean applying for a grant next
year. 
2.	Some feel that we should pursue a grant now and redefine goals after
hopefully being awarded a grant.  Essentially using a portion of the grant
funds to facilitate goal creation.

I can see the value of both choices although we would be much better
prepared if we redefined our goals and prepared a related costs schedule
before applying for grant funding.  We did create a topics list and had some
general agreements about # of meetings but much has changed in two years,
especially the most pressing topics of the day.

Secondly:  We need to makes some decisions about Steering and Grant
Committees.

I recommend that we:

1.	establish a date for our next meeting
2.	redefine our goals at that meeting (goals may include regularity of
meetings, hierarchal master topics list, 
3.	create the Steering Committee and the Grant Committee

Please let me know your thoughts on these issues and if you could be
available for a meeting before the end of the year.  I recognize most orgs
experience an end of year crunch so would avoid the last 2-3 weeks of
December.

David        

David M. Diaz

Senior Land Protection Manager

Columbia Land Conservancy

PO Box 299

49 Main Street

Chatham, NY 12037

(518) 392-5252  ext.205

(518) 392-3099  fax

www.clctrust.org

Confidentiality Notice: This communication and any accompanying document(s)
are confidential and privileged. They are intended for the sole use of the
addressee. If you receive this transmission in error, you are advised that
any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in
reliance upon the communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received
this communication in error, please contact us at (info at clctrust.org
<BLOCKED::BLOCKED::mailto:info at clctrust.org> ) or by telephone at
518-392-5252. Thank you.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://beagle.furfly.com/pipermail/hvcatskillcewg/attachments/20081107/940b26b7/attachment-0001.html