February 15, 2017
In Attendance
· Alec Buchness
· Mike Daniels
· Dylan Hansen
· Josh Pause
· Karina Briceno
· Orlando Briceno
· Erik Schwarz
· Roger Ross
· Bill Deluccia
· Jason
· Tony Soland
· Fran
· Peter
· Paul
· Jesse
· Christos
· Isabella
Meeting Agenda Items & Discussion
· Dylan Hansen presentation
o Works on environmental education films
o Currently working on pipeline videos
o Would like to work with Surfrider in the future
o Coverage of blue green algea bloom in march got picked up by national and international news media to publicize IRL pollution
o Sabal trail pipeline coverage
§ Native burial groups are being destroyed
§ Being built from Alabama down to martin county
§ Building it along spine of the state
§ Sinkholes could take our the pipeline
§ Current infrastructure would last through 2025
§ Should be switching to renewable instead
§ Pipeline will carry fracked gas
§ Pipeline terminal blast radius goes right through school zones
§ Land is being taken through eminent domain
o Wants to do a series of videos addressing plastics that would tie into the chapter’s bag ban efforts
§ Would want the chapter to help promote the videos on social media, could also help recruit new members
· Treasurers report
o Last two months
o Starting dec 21st to yesterday of 2017
o Beginning : $11,923
o Ending: $16,357.42
o $4,500 endowment, ORB fest proceeds, SC saunter, $700 check,
o Spent money on Christmas party + Plastic Ocean, Surf Expo
o Made money on Plastic Ocean premier = split proceeds with KBB
o Outlays: $814.00
o Credits: $5,248
· Sea Oat Planting recap: Jason
o Planted over 5,000
o In front of monster hole 3,000
o Ponce landon 2,800
o Feb 4th events in Indian River County + Brevard
o Had help from school groups + volunteers
o Had no expensed because partners bought the plants
o Lessons learned: had more people at monster hole
o Next time have more communication between school groups and planning leaders
o Went from 9-11am with planting in Brevard @ Ponce
o Monster Hole got done at about 1pm
o Next time will plan to split school groups
o Could consider doing to separate days in future but would have to store plants and keep them alive after the Feb 4th distribution
o Ponce is our most succesful project yet
o Helps educate kids on benefits of dunes, encourage people not to trample them do to personal experience with planting
o Gel was overused at some locations = enforce sparing use
· Locals only contest: Roger Ross
o Roger was the beach marshal
o Marketing didn’t all get out in time to get many pros
o Contest still got filled with pro/am surfers
o Tried to get contest officials to have Surfrider help out more, but he struggled to generate and proceeds so couldn’t donate
o Got promise that next year will be better
o Got tent space for the chapter to try to do outreach
· Bag update:
o HB 93 + senate equivalent would allow local coastal cities under 100,000 residents to do trial bag bans
o Letters of support from Satellite Beach + Melbourne Beach
o Problem is at the state level
o Josh put together a poll on Facebook to gather as many names in support of the ban as possible.
o Josh wants data to show demographics and geographic data, which is why it’s being done through Facebook
o Have challenged Cocoa Beach to see which chapter can recruit the most survey participants
o Has been a year since went with Satellite Beach to publix to see if we could do a reusable bag event
o Mayor knows the manager, went back to corporate again, last time went to corporate, never heard back
o Community center at Satellite Beach city hall we could do an event at , could do a second showing of Plastic Ocean movie for up to 150 people, but would be dipping into same audience
o Fly fishing film festival is coming up at the oaks in partnership with Hemmingway’s tavern, could consider that as a venue
o There is a new shorter version of the film now available: 45 min long
o Could consider doing an event in Palm Bay with MRC
o Could do it as a movie night with Beach + Boards Fest
· Litter Quitter update
o Plastic Ocean premier was very successful + raised funding for the program + Surfrider
o Partnership with Edward Don + Company + Hode Group + Eco Products to offer product discounts
· Coastal Garden Fair
o March 18th event will be presenting on native plants and restoration
o Chapter has committed to having a booth
o Will be held at the Shechter center
o National will be coming out with Ocean Friendly Garden stickers
o Can give to businesses that have gone full native with their landscaping
o Could develop small stickers to mark sustainable products
§ Could apply to plastic alternative products as well
§ Allison will look into this
· Intracoastal Event
o Last year was craft beer + boards fest
o Had over 1,000 people + local shapers
o This year wanted to build on it, but the brewery brought in a group that wanted to do a reggae festival, thought they could combine, but didn’t work out, that group will now be out to the equation
o This year, looking to do three or four bands, at least two food vendors, and having other vendors besides shapers
o April 8th is tentative date, the 15th is also open
o Will meet on Friday at noon to set game plan
o Will need to get sponsorships, but will need to determine incentives
o Intracoastal liked event last year and wants to continue supporting
o Keeping the focus local
o Want to make it a fully green event = get brewery + food vendors to use sustainable products
o No plastic water bottles
o Open Mike’s will be providing music setup + a band
o Will get recycling bins from Waste Management
o Need to recruit sponsors
· News updates
o Costa Rica is banning bags country-wide
o Oceanographers in the deep Pacific trenches found traces of deadly chemicals in plastic waste in organisms living there
o New Zealand whale stranding events
o Oil drilling + seismic testing victory from last fall still standing
o Oil exploration portion will be very difficult to overturn
o City of Melbourne is considering support resolution for bag ban
o Indialantic now has an environmental advisory board
§ Melb Beach + Satellite Beach has them too
o Roger is putting teams together for upcoming compeitions