<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi folks, here's some info for you for tonight's meeting.</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, 'new york', times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, 'new york', times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Big thanks to Trish W. for sitting me down and getting this recorded so I don't look like a complete idiot at my first SVI meeting as chairperson.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, 'new york', times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, 'new york', times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Date: 9-23-2009</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, 'new york', times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Location: UTC Holt Hall</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 15px; ">Time span: 7:00-8:15</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">1. Read Previous Meetings Minutes for discussion and approval</div><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">2. Wine in the Woods</div><ul type="disc" style="margin-left: 0.75in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; "><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Talk about donors letters sent out. = Trish</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Artists & Musicians-</span></li><ul type="disc" style="margin-left: 0.375in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; "><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Off/11- a band from Chattanooga-<span> </span>have committed- Music</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Scott Sullivan? - only with other musicians</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Barrett - Artist</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Bradley - some art?</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">MC?- ______</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Reading? Acting? ______</span></li></ul></ul><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.125in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><ul type="disc" style="margin-left: 0.75in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; "><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Date change & what that means on time frame? </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">- Chris</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Food & wine donations - pick up helpers?</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Membership drive? Advertisement- Chris-</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Child Care- Tadd ?anyone want to help? <br></span></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">3. Solar Tour- Chris</div><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">4. Fundraising-Trish</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Does anyone have a proven program that will work to generate money:</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Who, What, When.</div><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">5. SVI Cookbook sales: Trish, Cookbook- small.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Date to send recipes - : ________</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Projected date of sales- Thanksgiving.</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Money for General Fund.</div><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">6. Set dates for: <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Board- Visioning weekend? Fall/ winter? - to revisit our visioning workshop<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Tree Pruning- Fall? & spring</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Shiitakii Workshop- Spring</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Wildflower Walk - Spring</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Food For Life - Spring</div><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">7. Set Date for Next Meeting</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; ">Suggested- within month Wine tasting @ SVI? <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; "><br></div>8. Adjourn to Lupi's for pizza and visioning discussions at 8:15<br><br><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">FYI, Minutes of previous meeting:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: nowrap; "><h1 style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); width: 464px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-align: left; ">SVI Board Meeting Notes: Feb 1, 2009</h1></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><p><strong>Attendance:</strong> Alex Fear, Asha Ironwood, Gilbert Everett, Stephanie Dyer, Jeannie Cerulean, Maya Crum, Jake Lewis.<br><br><strong>Guests:</strong> Sandy Katz, Will Gilligan, Don Piggett, Sonia Campbell, Kendall Gray, Trish Woolbright, Jeff Rogers, Trey Henson, Josh Claunch.</p><p>This was a brief meeting because it occurred on the <a href="http://svionline.org/svi/527/svi-visioning-notes/" style="color: rgb(51, 84, 170); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; ">Visioning Weekend</a>.</p><p>Chris Gilligan accepted a nomination and a vote to become the board President. Jake Lewis agreed to be secretary and record meeting notes in the future. Trey Henson and Jeff Rogers joined the Board of Directors. Kendall Grey and Trish Woolobright joined the Advisory Board. Gilbert moved to the Advisory Board (big thanks to Gilbert for being our president for so long!)<br><br><strong>Next meeting</strong> is Friday March 13, 5pm, at moonshadow. Please join us for a meal and get-together during the evening. The main agenda item for the meeting will be Committes & Roles. Planning for the upcoming Wildflower Hikes, Shiitake Workshop and Food For Life will also be on the agenda.</p></span></span></font></div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#171717" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="2"><b>Chris Gilligan</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="2"><b>Board of Directors</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="2" color="#414141" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(65, 65, 65); "><b>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#171717" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="2"><b>Sequatchie Valley Institute</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="2" color="#777777" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); "><b>1233 Cartwright Loop</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="2" color="#777777" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); "><b>Whitwell, TN 37397</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="2" color="#777777" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); "><b>(423) 949-5922 tel</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="2"><b><a href="http://svionline.org/">svionline.org</a></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>