Red Cliff Updates – 2/23

Red Cliff Meeting: Thursday, February 23, 4:15pm, SLIS Commons

Attendees: Louise Robbins, Robin Amado, Janetta Pegues, Jennie Freeburg, Troy Espe, Jake Ineichen, Omar Poler, Sarah Morris

Louise just conference called with the Library Committee meeting up at Red Cliff

Library Committee’s 3^rd meeting since TLAMers went up for capital campaign workshop in January! This is great.
Beth Paap has returned to the library project, and is now a member of the core group, which includes: Rose Gurnoe-Soulier (tribal chairwoman), Dee Gokee-Rindal (Early Childhood Center & Education Division Administrator), Carmen VanderVenter (Education Specialist), and Patricia Aiken-Buffalo (community member).
Jeff Benton, zoning administrator and planner, has joined the project. He will be a second planner in addition to Randy Hella.

Business Card drafted: community created 2-sided card:

Front: Ginanda Gikendaamin; We seek to Learn; brightly colored hands border (on all early childhood stuff, means the flow of learning); sacred plants and canoe
Back: Seven feathers (representing 7generations); seal of the Red Cliff band; story fire and transmission of knowledge; trees and sag

Other Notes:

Beth is working on setting up a 501C3 account.
Louise completed a Programmatic Considerations document (met Feb. 20 deadline); being circulated for revision and acceptance in Library Committee; sent to Christian for architect input; available to TLAMers upon request (ask Robin or Troy)
Beth will stay with Louise after a conference on March 14-16 to talk about library project
Rose might not come to State of the Tribes, will be traveling for fundraising for health clinic
Rural Library Project posted a blurb on their website about Red Cliff

Goals: Find Start-Up Money for Capital Campaign (Louise says $50,000 is a great goal!). Tasks for TLAM students:

Next Steps:

Omar and Louise need to talk about grant due on the 15^th of March
Jeff will get an estimate on geotechnical surveys cost (based on past surveys)
Louise will email Jeff to introduce Troy for email correspondence
Louise will email Melissa at Leech Lake on how she used the site Razoo (sp?) to raise money
TLAM Red Cliff Meeting at Memorial Library Grant Research space on 2^nd Floor, Wednesday, February 29, 2:15-4pm to work on Tasks 1, 2, and 6. All interested are welcome.

Qs? Feel free to contact attendees above.

– Robin

Red Cliff Updates – 2/23