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<br />MASHPEE COMMUNITY GARDEN ADVISORY COMMITTEE (MCGAC) <br />MEETING MINUTES <br />April 17, 2024 @ 7:00 P.M. <br />Popponesset Meeting Room <br /> <br />PRESENT: Chair, Kirsten Nordstrom, Frank Gallello, Brian Logan (via Zoom), Polly Minugh (via Zoom), <br />Roslyn Robinson Mann (via Zoom) <br />ABSENT: N/A <br />GUEST ATTENDEES: None at This Time. <br /> <br />CALL TO ORDER: Chair, Kirsten Nordstrom called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m at the Mashpee Town Hall, <br />16 Great Neck Road North, Mashpee, MA in the Popponesset Meeting Room. <br /> <br />DISCUSS AND APPROVE MINUTES OF JANUARY 14, 2023 MCGAC MEETING <br />Tabled until next meeting. <br /> <br />COMMUNICATIONS & CORRESPONDENCE: <br /> Applications coming in for 2024 season. <br />Chair Nordstrom stated that applications are coming in for the 2024 season. She said that she has sent out <br />numerous emails to people that haven’t returned indemnity forms and/or applications. Frank Gallello <br />suggested giving them until the end of the week to respond and then move on to assigning people on the <br />waitlist a plot. Chair Nordstrom said she would mail a formal letter to them on Friday, April 19, 2024. <br /> REPORTS <br /> <br /> Per discussion and vote from 1/17 mtg. we’re no longer tracking volunteer hours. We’ll solicit <br />volunteers at key times during garden season (e.g. spread wood chips, planting/weeding native garden, <br />ongoing weeding and year-end clean-out). <br /> <br />Chair Nordstrom stated that she has requested a delivery of wood chips and as soon as she hears back from <br />the DPW Director she will send out an email in search of volunteers to help spread them. <br />It was suggested that it would be good to communicate to the gardeners at the first event that there will be 3 <br />events during the season when volunteers will be needed and that the gardeners should plan to attend at <br />least one of them. <br /> <br />OLD BUSINESS <br />nd <br /> March 2 event: Jay sprout, Sprout Farm. <br />nd <br />It was reported that attendance was light at the March 2 event with about 18 or 19 people attending. Mr. <br />Gallello suggested that the event be scheduled for April next year. Roslyn suggested some short talks right at <br />the garden. <br /> List of native plants provided to Catherine Laurent. DPW will purchase in the spring. <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />