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GGIA task list - may 15, 2003,
committee meeting |
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Governmental/Environmental
Committee |
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1. Work on the project Fayette County, the
City of Fayetteville, the Storm Water Management |
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Association and
the GGIA are partnering together on designed in the 319H grant. |
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2. Keep updated on the City
Atlanta Green
Roof Landscape installation at City Hall. |
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3.
Pursue arranging a meeting
with the Governor. |
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Invasive Plants Committee |
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1. Committee
to consider asking a member of the Georgia Department of Agriculture to
serve on the |
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committee. |
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2. GGIA to fund
$500 survey
assessing the problem of invasive plants on federally and state managed
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lands.
($100 of the cost to come from the Retail Division and $150 of the cost
to come from the Landscape Division and $250 of the cost to come from
the Wholesale Division.) |
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Marketing Committee |
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1. Andy Rogers will continue
to work with
Walter Reeves to promote the “Georgia Grown” program |
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with Reeves as
he films at the Center for Nursery Research. |
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2. Brendon Smith
is continuing
to design the booth at SNA. |
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3. Continue working on T-shirt designs. |
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4. Continue to get together all of the people
for testimonials for the
different divisions. |
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5. Sherry is to supply
a list of
licensed companies that are not members by geographic region for |
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membership
blitz. |
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6. Send out Tail Gate
brochures to
north Florida and south Alabama. Sherry to get with Mel Garber to
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see if he can
share his annual GA/FLA updated meeting list. |
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7. Discuss Kevin Karel's
idea of
status-type membership levels for GGIA. |
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Tradeshow Committee |
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1. Have the "Gardener's Palette"
brochures ready by the SNA
show and a mailing list ready to use by |
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September.
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2. Reminder
postcards
should be prepared with mailings just before the event.
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3. Joe Napoli
to meet with the
marketing manager at Pike Family Nurseries to see if Walter Reeves can
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be located at
the event. |
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4.
Chris Butts will contact last
year’s exhibitors and new prospects. He will also check with
Chick-Fil- |
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A in Athens to see if they will provide complimentary
biscuits for the morning event. |
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5.
Joe Napoli to work with
Sherry on designing the area for the “how-to” clinics in the upstairs
exhibit |
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hall. The goal of the design is to drive landscape
contractor traffic. |
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6.
Andy Hull and Sherry are to
promote these clinics when they visit with the leadership of the
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Georgia Chapter of ASLA.
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Landscape Certification Committee |
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1. John Strickland
and Rex Bishop
will be meeting with the Alabama committee on May 30, 2003 to |
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discuss how to
adopt the Georgia test for Alabama. |
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Certified Plant Professional Test
Committee |
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1. Jim Midcap
will continue
to work to solicit authors for the new GCPP test manual. |
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2. The Committee
will continue
to discuss separate levels for the test. |
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Education Committee |
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1. Continue to working
on the four sessions in four
tracts for the educational portion of the show. |
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2. Devise
a specialized
way to highlight the retail sessions. |
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3. Mike Cunningham
is to prepare a
personalized solicitation with a Retail Division president’s message |
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encouraging
attendance. |
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4. Look into a way to
record the sessions. |
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Awards Committee |
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1. Finalization of
new programs
to be finished by retreat. |
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2. Discuss within
division the
merits of a divisional volunteer of the year award. |
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3. Finalize the brochures earlier so GGIA
staff can mail out earlier and the board can have more time |
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to make its
decision. |
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4. Compile a listing of former award winners
to be listed on the individual award nomination form. |
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Scholarship Subcommittee |
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Landscape Division |
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1. Discuss Division
goals with
president Brendan Smith and report at future meeting. |
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2. Assess the Landscape division and
clarify future goals. |
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3.
Recruit landscapers for membership and teams of landscapers for the
annual golf tournament.. |
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Wholesale Division |
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1. The wholesale division
will
begin working to encourage attendance at the upcoming Tailgate
Tours. |
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2.
Sherry is to provide
a list of attendees from last year so division members can call or fax
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people to encourage attendance. |
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3.
Bill Fallin will work to get
local Representatives and/or Senators in attendance at each tour. |
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Retail Division |
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1. Sherry to find
the contact and
determine a meeting date between the officers of Georgia State |
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Florists
Association and the Retail Division. |
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2. Finalize
information on the Retail tour/class on September 17. |
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Sales & Marketing Division |
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1. Sherry is to send
golf brochures to Bill Fallin
so he can invite Senators and Representatives to play |
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at the golf
tournament. |
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2. Work on
“friendly competition” among
Divisions of the association for the golf tournament. |
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