Scene Two: Weekly Meeting with our Sponsors

Backstory: As part of our weekly meetings connecting our project team, our sponsors, and Maitland Garden Village members, we met at the MGV Community Centre on 5/11/2012.  The meetings were moved to 14h00 as agreed upon during the previous meeting.

Attendance: Ronell Trout, Crispin Barrett, Scott Jiusto, Bob Hersh, Sarah Thayer, Shahbaz Soofi, Tara Meinck, Caitlin Donovan, other Maitland Garden Village project team

Meeting agenda:

  • Past week update
    • Thursday: Sustainable Livelihood meeting, National Library research
    • Friday: Walked desire lines with Martin
    • Monday: Meeting with Jonno and Martin
  • Contact update
    • Local economic development department
    • Non-motorized transport department
    • Property management department
  • Contact update
    • Local economic development department
    • Non-motorized transport department
    • Property management department
  • Pathway proposal
    • Degree of heritage
    • Questions on proposal:
    • Business proposal
  • Future plans
    • Harvest of Hope visit
      • With Babylonstoren Garden
    • 9 November: TRUP Committee meeting at Envirocentre,14h00
    • 16 November: Steering Committee meeting at 12th Floor Boardroom, 44 Wale Street, 14h00
To read the minutes from this meeting, click here [PDF, 230 KB]
Reflections: 

This meeting was very helpful in providing future plans for this project.  Our team is excited to start mapping, the first step in creating a concrete product for this project.  We are also starting to understand the issue with the footbridge more and more.  For example, we are understanding the ramifications of making a new bridge and the different possibilities of other pedestrian access. When we tried to brainstorm possible options for a pedestrian bridge other than building a new one, the challenges were brought up more than different possibilities.  Moving forward, we hope to really lay these issues in our proposal.