Review of Minutes
The minutes from our last meeting were approved with no changes.

Treasurer’s Report
No change since last month. The group agreed to track contributions by project/ contributor intent.

Please note: We are actively accepting donations!

Mission statement
Due to low attendance this was tabled to our next meeting.

Committee Reports

Borough Liaison Committee:

• Borough Parks & Recreation Committee Meeting: Anne and Jeff attended the meeting, looking for money for the project of restoring the Swiss cottage. It was looking grim but in the end the Borough committed $10,000. Our group will raise the rest, starting with the PCED grant application secured by Deb Pekala from EZ Taylor’s office.
  

• Jeff has cranked out and donated very beautiful plans on which to base the bidding for the restoration. He will aim to meet the Dec 31 grant application deadline.

  As the official owners of Marshall Square Park, the borough must complete and submit the application, and Deb will contact Shelagh Purnell to manage this process. Jeff will supply the costs.

  Deb noted that we can submit the same grant through both the state House and Senate, and we agreed to pursue this course.
  

• We are pleased to have a website.
• Anne passed around a logo designed by a local graphic artist, that features the leaf of the ginkgo tree. She has also heard that Jim Salvas may have a few to offer as well. Nothing was decided with respect to the logo.

• For some reason, we did not make it into the Fall issue of the Borough Park and Recreation booklet; will have to have follow-up on the next issue to be sure we get in.
• We did get our application into the West Chester Old Fashioned Christmas insert for the Daily Local News for our luminary display.

• As indicated above, the first major step in fundraising will be the PCED grant application.
• Holly has friends who are involved with the Frick Foundation, among others. They encourage us to seek funding from local and regional foundations because they think there is a lot of support in the area for preservations.
• We could also be seeking help from local businesses, banks which are especially competitive these days, Longwood and others.
• As a way of building interest in our organization while raising smaller amounts of dollars, she thinks plant sales in the spring and fall would be helpful.
• Selling Marybeth’s notecards and the logo-laden mugs etc. will also help to raise awareness and a few dollars as well.

• Jeff explained that to line the park, we will need about 200 luminaria. They will cost $100 plus the sand and perhaps lighters; total would be about $125.
• Ann will write up an attachment to the solicitation that Travis distributes which will invite people to make a donation to the project.
• We need to fold the top ridges of the bags and refold them which we can all do at our next meeting.
• Anne has recruited about five Boy Scouts who will help with the setup and the lighting.