SOUTHEAST ARIZONA BUTTERFLY ASSOCIATION
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, February 28, 2018
Lutheran Church of the Foothills
The Executive Committee (ExCom) meeting was called to order by Larry Fellows, President, at 5:30 p.m.
Members in attendance: Larry Fellows, President; Gerry Wolfe, Vice President/ Webmaster/Hospitality; Sharon Overstreet, Executive at Large; Vicki Wolfe, Publicity Chairperson, Cindy Bethard, Membership Chairman, and Ginny Peterson, Executive-At-Large.
Absent: Priscilla Brodkin, Treasurer; and Fred Heath, Education Chairperson.
The meeting was called to order by president Larry Fellows.
Cindy Bethard offered to put together a tentative schedule for 2018 field trips. It was agreed that she would ask the meeting attendees to lead trips and add them to the schedule.
The minutes from the last meeting and the treasurer’s report were approved as submitted.
The webmaster, Gerry Wolfe, got the password for BlueHost, the host of SEABA’s website, from the previous webmaster, Yvonne Bourgeois. This allows him to pay the annual fees for the website. But he still needs the administrator username and password in order to update the structure of the website. He will follow up.
The publicity chair, Vicki Wolfe, placed an ad in the Desert Leaf for this month’s meeting and two previous meetings, at a cost of $36 each. The board will evaluate the value of the three ads she placed after the February meeting.
The board approved Larry Fellows as the backup emailer for SEABA events when Cindy Bethard is unavailable.
Member-at-large Sharon Overstreet is continuing to process the paperwork to make SEABA an official partner to the Pima County Certified Naturalists, to allow these people to volunteer for SEABA counts and log volunteer hours for their certification.
President Larry Fellows asked the ExCom to give more thought to listing the names of SEABA members on the website who are willing to give butterfly- related talks to interested groups. At the February ExCom meeting Fred Heath and Fellows agreed to have their names listed.
Larry Fellows mentioned that he saw numerous butterflies at Brandi Fenton Park last year and recently read that there is a new butterfly garden at Christina-Taylor Green Park. He asked whether there is a list of other parks/gardens in the Tucson area. Webmaster Gerry Wolfe offered to publish a list of butterfly gardens in the Tucson area on the website, if others will submit names. Known gardens are:
Pima County Master Gardeners Demo Gardens
Tucson: 4210 N Campbell Ave, free, open Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm, pollinator garden
Green Valley: 1100 Whitehouse Canyon Rd, open Monday-Friday 8:00am-12:00pm
Brandi Fenton Memorial Park
3482 East River Road, open dawn to 10 pm
Christina Taylor-Green Memorial Park
North Shannon and West Magee Roads
Tohono Chul Park,
7366 Paseo del Norte, Tucson, fee: adults $13, seniors $10, open 8 am – 5 pm
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
2021 N Kinney Rd (west of the Tucson Mts), open 7:30 am – 5 pm, adults $21.95, Seniors $19.95
Tucson Botanical Gardens
2150 N Alvernon Way, open 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, adults $15, seniors $13
Desert Meadows Park
Just east of Abrego Rd and just north of Continental Rd, Green Valley, free, open all day
Ventana Canyon Resort (butterfly garden is behind the resort)
7000 N Resort Dr, Tucson, free, open all day
Sparkman garden (current status in question, not maintained last two years)
Sparkman blvd just south of Bermuda St, (nearest address 2621 Sparkman)
An Ex-Com meeting will not be held immediately prior to the March 27 SEABA meeting. The next ExCom meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. April 24. Gerry Wolfe, vice-president, will preside due to the absence of president Fellows.
Minutes Submitted By:
Cynthia Bethard
Acting Secretary