Enviro Minutes for the 25th of May

25/5/16: Present: Mrs S, Al, Ash, Sam, Grace, Ruben, Zena, Neha, Nitika, Aarlin, Flynn, Heather, Matthew, Yuda, Tegan, Leo

Absent: Josephine, Amelia

Construction: Nearly finished first panel, one more row to go. Extra meeting at lunch. Mrs S talked to Mr Marsh about corogated purspects because more bottles aren’t coming back in. Posters are to be made to advertise for the bottles. Grace is to let Mr Cowman to know about the bottles, for facebook page.

Garden: Everything is growing quite well, we need to make sure that we are protecting the younger plants from the wind.

Bin Competition: Totara isn’t winning the bin competition, Nikau and Kowhai are tied at the moment. Suggestion is to remove the black bins completely. Al will talk to Mr Marsh about getting a big version of the Purple (General Rubbish) and Yellow (Citrus). Mrs S thinks two people should do the bins all the time. The roster system doesn’t work very well. Tegan and Sam will be doing the bins everyday. Matthew is the backup.

Worm farm:

Diane has reinstated the worm farm last week.   The original compost was nice and damp all the way through with the occasional worm in it and the bottom layer of food scraps had lots of worms, big worms and baby worms.  The top layer of food scraps did have too much bread (She put some of this in the other compost bin) but otherwise was okay, not really smelly, sludgy or otherwise disgusting, too many fruit flies but we felt that can't be helped.

One comment though, it is very wet around the bin and she had to wheel it out of the enclosure to work on it.  I noticed Sean (or someone) has put a whole lot of mulch around the "lake".  If more mulch is available, can a layer be put around the bin area too please. Perhaps we could get some treated for hardwood pallets to place down as a temporary flooring.

Working Bee: potentially in term 3 depending on weather - on hold as we gathered ideas last time.

Idea: is that we have a general picking up rubbish model (lead by example)  in our lunch times and playtimes.

Colgate: Counting collections will be on Friday. Grace is drafting a blurb for the school facebook page and the school newsletter. The current leader is Room 1.

The report was filed with the BOT, they would like to know if we need any help with our Green Gold which we are aiming for.

Mr Cowman will be putting the link to the school enviro page so more people can see what we are doing.

Meeting ended 10.55