LEAF Board Meeting Minutes | June 23-24, 2017

at Hickory Nut Gap Inn - Bat Cave : www.hickorynutgapinn.com

Board Members: 16 Board Fri eve confirmed
x Reggie Tidwell x- Jen Beasley ?Fri Christine DiBenedetto No- in Anthony Thomas
bed yes miami
& Sat BBball
cam
camp
x Derek Allen x- Gary Broome x- Vanessa Guerrero x Pete Roe
tent bed
x Adrian Vassallo X Deborah Bryant x- Kerri Hampton-Pyle x Robert Todd
Sat? bed
x Bill Feste x- C.D.Daniel x Holt Moore ?? Ford Willis
bed Z-Jills Lake House work
x- Cleaster Cotton x- Neely Neu X Mike Zinsmeister (Lisa Fri
bed bed? eve- can bring camper if
needed)

LEAF Navigator Staff Members : 12 Navigator+BE Fri eve confirmed

x Adam Bowers x Elena Chu x Ehren Cruz x Schree Chavdarov
Z- Lizz House
x Leigh Maher x Jennifer Pickering Late Cortina Caldwell x Kyley Cross
Fri/Sat Z- Lizz House
x Larissa Lopez x Megan Crow no BE- Kelly Hanson no BE-River Guerguerian
x- BE-Elbert Hargrave & Lynn x BE- Jill Jones
Fri Z-Her Lake House
Eve
Supplies: Past Board minutes (2 copies), Agenda (20), LEAF Sign, Flip Chart-Stickies, Pens, any gifts, snack & drinks.
Agenda

6 Welcome & Get Present Board President Reggie | Executive Committee Vision
o Reggie: Get Present!
o Leigh: Ticket Sales up and down, aligning with 2014 ticket sales need a push
o Cortina: Teacher Artist Training went awesome. Steelpans have arrived.
o JP: Welcome, History of the Hickory Nut Gap Inn and its involvement with LEAF
o Don: Introduction and Why LEAF?

6:15-7:30pm Dive In:

o Sitting in circle, went around and each commented on their engagement with LEAF, no time
commitment given, speakers went rogue(this sounds like a good idea, but lets not do this
again.)

LEAF Downtown AVL Engagement LEAF Downtown: Board Roles, Maximizing LEAF Love Fund
Campaign & Funding possibilities & community engagement.
o Ehren:
Engagement needed downtown
Speak LEAF as a whole, sum of its parts

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 How do we weave together all WE do
Event Committee is loudspeaker of whole organization
Board Super Powers Flying for LEAF Downtown AVL

o LEAF Board 2020 Committees

Committees meet, no discussion of what happened at meetings.

#1 #2 Global #3 Cultural #4 Event #5 Equity &

Development Citizenship Arts Education Engagement Human Resources

Adrian Kerri Bill Feste Derek Allen Reggie

Gary | VB Vanessa Jen Beasley | FW Mike Z C.D.
Holt Moore Ford Cleaster- 1st Robert Todd | DW Ashley Ambassador
Christine Neely Deborah Ehren / Elena/ Kyley River - BE
Pete Schree Anthony Jennifer
Adam / Megan / Kelly- BE Cortina as Connector
Leigh Cortina/ Larissa

Dinner and break till Saturday

Saturday
Equity Training led by CD

CD has requested no minutes be kept, instead he requested that you reach out to him and the
equity committee for more information.

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