Saturday, January 25, 2014 at Duvall Library
Attendees: Sara Baquero-Garcia, Jennifer Dotson.
Several people were out today for family reasons.
Old Business:
1. Update on Riverview meetings - Sara met with the Riverview School Board. While the school district is not able to officially partner with the pool initiative at this point, there is general interest and support for the idea.
2. Update on meeting with City Planner - Jennifer met with the Duvall City Planner. While the city is not able to officially partner with the pool initiative at this point, there is general interest and support for the idea. The City Planner has the idea of a pool on the radar for the 10 year Comprehensive Plan. In the summer of 2014, the Planning team will dive into recreational planning for the city and the pool initiative will be invited to any relevant discussions.
3. In the fall of 2013, some regional representatives were contacted. Senator Andy Hill http://andyhill.src.wastateleg.org/ replied back with some grant writing ideas. We are following up on researching more about these.
4. Update on pool research - Veronika and Mari sent updates on research they did on pools in towns around 10,000 people. At this point, only a handful of pools have been found in smaller communities. More research needs to be done, but current findings have been posted to the "Small Town Pools" tab at http://duvallpool.blogspot.com/p/small-town-pools.html.
5. Update on old document research - Mari spent time researching old documents left over from the Eastman Rush pool initiative and sent out an update.
6. Update on nonprofit status - Nothing has been started yet in investigating requirements for nonprofit status.
7. We brainstormed a name that represents an area broader than the city of Duvall limits but keeps it narrower than the entire Snoqualmie Valley. Since we are targeting the physical area around the Riverview School District, we decided on calling ourselves the Riverview Pool. We hope that this doesn't cause too much confusion. Hopefully, once it's clarified that the name reflects that we hope to serve the people around the school district rather than being an official part of the school district (which we're not) that people will understand.
New Business:
1. Our top priority is coming up with a plan to obtain nonprofit status. It sounds like it could take up to a year and $1000, although we hope to acquire status by September 2014 if possible so that we're ready for the corporate giving campaign season. It may not be possible in a 6 month timeframe but we will investigate to see what our next steps need to be.
2. We will meet with WAVE Aquatics, the nonprofit that runs some of the pools in Redmond, to talk about possible resources and get on their radar as a possible partner.
3. We will try to meet with the city to give them an update and keep them in the loop.
4. Sara will meet with at least one local business person to talk about fundraising ideas.
5. We talked about some interesting information that Steph discovered about operating a nonprofit pool.
6. As a team, we need to come up with fundraising ideas, both as short term projects to help pay for an attorney & accountant for nonprofit status, as well as longer term after 501(c)3 status is acquired.
7. Sara is looking into a logo and business cards to help with communication.
We plan to meet again in February 2014 and the date will be sent to the team once scheduled.
