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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi greenies, this is what I have so far for our July 21<sup>st</sup> meeting. Please let me know if you have any other items for discussion. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Just so everyone knows about the current recommendations for the solar bench, which was damaged by flood waters this spring, I am including these excerpts from recent emails:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jay has agreed that he can rebuild the solar bench but only if it is in a safer location. Roger and I have an idea:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Since the solar bench needs moved to safer ground I'm wondering how FUUSM folks would feel about moving it to the Washington Co. main library. There's been a discussion of creating a garden with some wooden sculptures and this could be a location. Or, perhaps in front of the library. I'm hoping Roger and I will have a meeting in the next couple of weeks for a wrap up from May Art in Alley (to begin planning for 2025 as well) and it would be good, if you have no objection, to suggest the idea of a new home for the solar bench. Annie Warmke <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Thanks for your vigilance with the solar bench.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> I think that the placement of the solar bench is a call for the Green Sanctuary Committee. They'll be meeting soon. George Banziger<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think the plan to move it to higher ground is wise—no one will object to that. The challenge, though, is that we worked with the City of Marietta on this project, and the library is Washington County property. Surely the city will understand the need to move it to higher ground, but they might want it to stay on city property. If they let us move it to county property, and if the library and county commissioners are agreeable, then I think the library would be a great spot. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But this needs to be a Green Sanctuary discussion, and then we need to talk to municipal officials. Thank you for suggesting it, and it’s high time we get this bench moved and working again. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Huge gratitude to Jay for being willing to repair it after it is moved to a more sensible location. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>—dawn<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please be prepared to weigh on these options or to offer your own ideas. – Jim Grecni <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>