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Mar 21, 20232 min read

March 21,2023 - Keep RC Beautiful Full Committee Agenda


Meeting minutes

Keep Rutherford County Beautiful

Full Committee Agenda

March 21, 2023 at 2pm


Attendees: Allegra Lucas, Taylor Hardin, Jenna Bailey, Cindy Cobb, George Moyer, Don Cason, Scott Webber, Engle Troxler, Amanda Byers, Gabe Isaacs, Maddie Summers


  • Welcome - Don Cason

  • Committee Reports / Old & Upcoming Business

    1. Education / Marketing Report – Amanda Byers, Chair

  • Looking Back

    • Dump Tours

      1. RC Convenience Center and Asheville Curbside Management Tour

    • Pawns In the Park

      1. March 28th chess pieces due

      2. March 31st reveal in Kiwanis Park

    • Yard Signs

      1. New - “Don’t Pay the Price, Keep Our County Nice” “Be A Quitter, Stop The Litter”

      2. $25/each

      3. How could we sell more of these?

    • StoryWalk

      1. Norris Public Library & Kiwanis Park

      2. “Why Should I Recycle?”

      3. KRCB provided blurbs

    • Leave No Trace - LLCA

      1. Trash timeline of what degrades in what amount of time

      2. Possibly going to do this program at Chase Middle School as well

      3. Could we turn the timeline into signage? To raise awareness/inspire people to recycle & be less wasteful

  • Earth Month Events

    • ICC Science & Technology Expo: March 31st

    • Pawns in the Park : Fundraiser

      1. Reveal 3/31 at 8:30am, Brewtiful Mornings

      2. Tot Story Time 3/31 at 10:30am, Norris Library

    • RecycleBot Challenge: 3rd Grade Students - due April 7th

    • Heritage Day: Sunshine Elementary K-5

      1. Dayna Causby

    • Green Scholarship

    1. Litter Report – Gabe Isaacs, Chair

      1. Looking Back

        • March Drive Around

        • Litter Sweeps

      2. Earth Month

        • Spring Litter Sweep : 12+ April 1st-30th

          1. Litter Kit Assembly : every Friday 10am

          2. current volunteers: Scott Webber, George and Marian Moyer 4/21, 4/28

        • Scavenger Hunts : up to 12

        • Paid Pickup Search - Taylor Hardin

          1. McHenry’s Lawn Care - committed as of 3/21

    2. Executive Director Report – Jenna Bailey

      1. Social Media

      2. Keep America Beautiful

      3. Certified Green Business

        • We need someone to head this committee

      4. RC Chamber

        • Taylor Hardin represented KRCB at the first luncheon since the pandemic

        • KRCB received certificate

      5. Green Scholarship

      6. Befesa 4/28

        • We need volunteers

      7. Fiction-to-Fabulous 4/21

      8. 4/22 Earth Day - Fabulous 4-Miler, with Roxi, at Kiwanis Park

      9. 4/1 Carryover day post science expo - family day, organizations to come to promote things to do with families. Good day to present litter sweep, TDA will be there, Roxi has been asked to be there. Organizations come from 10-11, setup at 9:30. ROC might be doing a table as well.

      10. Ruffton Recycling Grant - still waiting on info

      11. Is there some way we could get the town to require restaurants to have a place to put litter, and more recycling bins, requiring a receptacle in the drive-thru line (Admin & Policy Committee?)


  • New Business

    1. Proposed Budget - Jenna Bailey

    2. Committee Involvement

    3. Website / Headshots


  • Next meetings

    1. Marketing/Education In Action –

      1. RecycleBot Judging 4/17 10am, Woodrow Jones Building

      2. Heritage Day 4/6 7:30-2:30, Sunshine School

    2. Litter – Build Team Kits, every Friday in April, 10am

    3. Full Committee – May 16th, Woodrow Jones Building, 2pm


Meeting adjourned 3:10pm


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