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MINUTES
Ludwick Community Center
864 Santa Rosa Street, San Luis Obispo
Wednesday, November 18, 2015: 4:30 PM
CALL TO ORDER: Chair Kathi Settle called the meeting to order at 4:30 PM.
ROLL CALL: Chair Kathi Settle, Vice -Chair Toni Kincaid, Committee Members
Chuck Crotser, Bob Gordon, Eva Ulz, Susan Updegrove, and Bryant
Mills, and Ex Officio Committee Member James Papp
ABSENT:
STAFF: David Setterlund, Recreation Supervisor; Melissa Mudgett, Recreation
Manager
Public Comment
None
1. CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES OCTOBER 14, 2015 MEETING (Settle)
MOTION. (Kincaid/Ulz) Approve Meeting Minutes of September 9th, 2015 as amended.
Approved: 8 yes, 0 no, 0 absent
2. CONSIDERATION OF OCTOBER 2015 FINANCIAL REPORT (Settle)
MOTION: (Settle/Kincaid) Approve October Financial Reports.
Approved: 8 yes, 0 no, 0 absent
3. CANCELLATION OF DECEMBER 9, 2015 MEETING (Settle)
MOTION: (Updegrove/Ulz) Approve cancellation of December meeting.
Approved: 8 yes, 0 no, 0 absent
4. STAFF REPORT FOR PARKS AND RECREATION (Setterlund)
• Turkey Break Skate Camp Monday, November 23-25.
• Goble Wobble 5k at Laguna Golf Course Thursday, November 26
• City offices are closed Thursday, November 26 and Friday November 27.
• Reindeer Run 5k at Mitchel Park Saturday, December 5,
• Ranger Workday at Stenner Spring Property (Shooters) Saturday, December 5,
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5. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS FOR HOLIDAY DECORATIONS (Kincaid)
MOTION: (Updegrove/Gordon) Approve the allocation of $700 for decorations and flowers for
the Victorian Christmas.
Approved: 8 yes, 0 no, 0 absent
6. JACK HOUSE DOCENT ACTIVITIES (Papp)
• The docent president reported that the chair and vice -chair of the Jack House Committee had
met with him to ask him to resign the docent presidency. The justification given was that he
had spoken about the San Luis Square project at docent meetings. He had pointed out to
them that he had included San Luis Square at docent meetings only so often as it had come
up at Jack House Committee meetings and refused to resign. He, the chair, and vice -chair
had resolved to work together. He stated for the record at the present Jack House Committee
meeting that he considered it highly inappropriate for the chair and vice -chair of a quasi-
judicial city committee to try to oust the elected leadership of the Jack House Docents.
• The docents have formed a committee chaired by Judy Collins to revise the Docent
Handbook.
• There were 150 visitors over two Sundays for Ghost Stories at the Jack House.
• The Jack House is on track for one thousand visitors for the year. There were well over three
hundred visitors in October and the first two weeks of November alone for the Central Coast
Railroad Festival, Ghost Stories, the Victorian Musicale, and from the SLO Souls tie-in.
■ The History Center's November 1 SLO Souls program produced positive media for the Jack
House in the SLO City News (distributed) and on Dave Congalton's KVEC program.
7. FRIENDS OF JACK HOUSE UPDATES (Papp)
• The board approved membership in Spokes, which will allow Spokes to facilitate the Jack
House retreat.
• The board approved year-long membership in Art after Dark for 2016, which will entail
programs at the Jack House on the first Friday evening of each month.
• The board approved developing an ongoing program of historic sports at the Jack Gardens in
cooperation with Parks and Recreation.
• A capacity audience of forty people had attended the Victorian Musicale at the Jack House
on November 7, which included a reception, tour, lecture, and piano and opera recital. The
Musicale gave people a new way to experience the house and drew a number of the county's
most prominent philanthropists.
8. SUB -COMMITTEE REPORTS (Settle)
a. Strategic Planning (Crotser, Settle, Ulz)
Strategic Planning Subcommittee did not meet. Committee Member Ulz emailed
with Leslie Santos Dierks from Spokes, and plans for the Jack House Retreat are
moving forward.
b. Carriage House ADA Accessibility (Crotser, Papp, Walhert)
The subcommittee did not meet. Committee Member Crotser will communicate with
construction professionals in hopes of acquiring free construction services.
c. Collections Policy (Settle, Ulz, Darnell)
Laura Sorvetti, library service specialist at Cal Poly Special Collections and
Archives and a Jack House docent, was proposed for the subcommittee, and
committee members asked that the appointment be agendized for the next committee
meeting.
d. PB Development Subcommittee
Parks representative Melissa Mudgett reported that this subcommittee had been
dissolved.
9. MEMBER COMMENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS (Committee)
The meeting adjourned at 6:33 PM to the Regular Meeting on January 13, 2016 at 5:30
pm.
Approved by e Jack House Commi- t on611
Dave Setterlund, Parks and Recreation Department Supervisor