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MILTON GROWS GREEN COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 9, 2013 MINUTES [ACCEPTED]
Date: October 9,2013, Noon-1:45 pm
Place: Executive Conference Room, City Hall. 13000 Deerfield Parkway. Milton GA 30004
Attendees: Jack Lindon, Francia Lindon, Cindy Eade, Teresa Stickels, Lynna Lee, Kathy Johnson,
Gail Gill, Barbara Peck, Margaret Lamb, Jim Cregge, Angela Thompson.
I. Agenda: It was posted on the City's web site.
II. Approval of Minutes: No minutes were approved.
III. City Updates:
• Visioning Studies: Cindy reported the city is looking for public input on Arnold Mill and Rt.
9. Chadwick landfill is nearing capacity and a tour will be scheduled to discuss what the
options would be for a closed landfill site. Michele is setting up tour.
• Freedom Park: Jim Cregge updated the group on this new pocket park. Will have
commerative flags and a peace pole. Richard Owens chief landscape designer. Planting
schedule and planting materials have been ordered. It will have an irrigation system. Will be
a brick sale program for a fund-raiser. Grand opening Nov. 11, Veterans' Day.
• Earth Day: Angela Thompson introduced herself as responsible for special events and project
management for the City. It will be considered a City special spring event. As such the City
will be taking more ownership of the event. She said Cindy wanted her to have more of a role,
so she will be spearheading it including budgeting, marketing, advertising, press releases, t
shirts and logos, things the City usually handles for events. She will need help getting
sponsors and vendors. Budget will be the same as last year. We can spend what we raise.
Cindy will be involved more as a committee member. Angela and Cindy decided on the date
of April 19 th
• Discussion followed about other competing events in the area and the Easter
date. The City wants it held at Friendship Park but there was some discussion about keeping
it there. Angela said people don't like change. If event grows in the future, it may outgrow the
park. Jack said he got some negative comments about the venue particularly from the Boy
Scouts. Some past green sponsors who were involved, when it was held at Birmingham, said
they were not pleased with the change, seeing Friendship as being too commercial. They
would not sponsor it if held at Friendship.
Angela asked who on the MGG committee wanted to be involved in planning the event.
Kathy volunteered to help with the kids' tent. Jack will do logistics. Jon will work on getting
vendors and sponsors. Francia asked to be involved with all the things she has done in the
past -graphics, the logo, signs and the t-shirt design. Angela showed a new Earth Day logo
she and Jason had worked on saying the City wanted it to be more inline with its branding
and interesting to kids. She hoped it would be a welcomed change, something new to work
with. Francia pointed out that it was quite different from the one used for the past 4 events
and the established branding recognition would be lost. Angela said the City wanted all the
events in line with City branding and marketing, the same way other city events are handled.
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"We don't elect committee members to take care of things the City handles. Jason and I are
professional graphic designers on top of everything else we do."
There was a mixed reaction to the new logo design. Discussion followed about the event
being MGG's signature event and a celebration of Nature. That's one of the reasons
Birmingham Park is so attractive. It's full of nature. There's not a whole lot of nature at
Friendship, less so over time. It's in a pretty commercial area. Earth Day is meant to focus on
the less business-related aspects of Milton. This goes to the "new" logo. It's not a bad logo but
it might speak better to a different event. It doesn't speak to being about Nature. In the past
whatever we've done graphically, we've taken to the City and had them signoff with their
approval. Angela insisted again, the City was going to be in charge of the branding. And said
that the concerns raised would be taken up with the planning committee. A meeting date was
set for the planning committee for December 10th at noon.
• Bell Memorial Park: Jim Cregge showed a revised plan City was voting on. Reported the
addition of 32 acres of land, trying to preserve green space in corner and mature trees, reflects
change from original plan. He went over the plan explaining the details - 2 synthetic turf
rectangular fields, 4 or 5 ball fields depending on the season and alternating with soccer and a
possible swing field from the rectangular. Every study for the City says this isn't enough. Will
use pervious pavers in parking lot. A traffic study is being done to figure out what to do with
the Thompson / Francis / Hopewell crossroads.
• Providence Park: Jim reported on contamination found in Providence Park -it contained no
heavy metals. It consisted of cleaning solvents, turpentine, paint, etc. that had leached down
to bedrock. Fulton County dug out 1,000 yards of dirt. In March all the wells were tested
again and found to be clean. The GA EPD wants to see another 2 years of continued
monitoring and clean results, before it will sign off that the park is safe and Milton can
continue with the purchase process to gain ownership from Fulton County.
N. New Business
• Jon brought in recent photos pictures showing runoff and erosion in the Blue Valley
subdivision. Water is rising again. There's about 2-1/2 to 3 acres of mud. Deer prints
showed they were up to their knees. Somebody's not following code. Jack suggested he or
Jon report it to community development for code enforcement attention. Cindy told Jon to
send his photos of the violation to Kathy Field.
• Margaret Lamb is putting on storm drain markers in White Columns for Rivers Alive
project.
• Gail Gill reported "Chasing Ice" movie is Oct. 21 at GA Tech if anyone is interested in
attending.
• Oct. 23 is our Adopt-A-Stream training with Sharon Smith from Fulton County, Dept. of
Water Resources presenting a certification class.
Meeting Adjourned -1:50 PM
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Francia Lindon, Secretary
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