7/25/11 Minutes

·          3 goals have been met!

·         City council meeting scheduled for Monday aug 15^th 6pm at City Hall

·         Annette met with Marjie Pettis City manager who sees no opposition, resolution page to be done and ready for the meeting.  Once resolution is passed it is law for members of the city hall, they will be committed to buying ft coffee, sugar etc to take the place of whatever products they used before.  This also includes city programs like the after school programs, which would be a great place to do a  ft presentation to the local kids.

·         She would like to get the rotary involved with certifying at the artisan level

·         Would it be a good idea to have the Paul Rice video from Fair Trade USA to play at meeting?

·         Progress for getting businesses and organizations to switch to serving ft coffee at their meetings/establishments:

                Dry Creek Kitchen uses local coffee, switching not an option

                Bellezza serves bean affair coffee, not sure if what they serve if ft but look into

                Relish already uses and always serves coffee at their meetings

                Copperfields is willing to switch over once they are capable, it is a goal

                John Holt let us know that the rotary meets at Costeaux  who provides whatever    refreshments he knows the owner well and would like to talk to him about considering serving ft coffee..

                Waiting on responses from a couple more organizations

·         Gretchen is headed to the first Fair Trade Towns national conference in Philadelphia in September to represent Fair Trade Healdsburg!  Any questions or specific information you would like from fellow towns or fair trade towns experts please get them to Gretchen!

·         Check out the blurb for Fair Trade Healdsburg in the tribune under Chris Loves community corner

·         No answer from the questions that were sent out to established fair trade towns as of yet.  Except Taos, NM  !  I got a response from them during the meeting!  A lot of the steps they took are the same was what we’re doing currently.  Although they did mention getting a small budget allocation to support the ft community once it was appointed by the mayor, sounds worth looking into as well as fundraisers.

·         Goals after resolutions is passed is to:

                 Regularly present information and videos to the public to educate, at the raven or the high school “black box” theater/presentation room.

                Plan a day to feature businesses that carry ft products, serving coffee/chocolate and highlight them, during October (fair trade month)

·         Before City council meeting shall we all meet to prepare and unite J , 5pm?

·         Goals to complete before next steering committee meeting, contact the Raven, Black Box and Farmers Market.

·         Next meeting TBD