WHALES of Teton Valley • Entered by Liz McCane on July 28, 2020
Leadership team meeting
July 20, 2020
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 1 |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 1.5 |
| Participants | 5 |
| Total Hours | 8.5 |
Key Issue: Doesn’t apply
Activity Type: Broadband Meeting (prep, implementation & follow up)
Short Description of Activity
Three new leaders met with two existing leaders to determine roles and activities for the year. One additional leader could not attend.
Janna’s Report from our leadership meeting:
“Acknowledging that I am getting older (and at least wise enough to ask for help…) here’s what we did on the deck this week.
Liz has officially stepped in as co-leader for our Broadband and will take over all of the reporting for our various projects. This requires a bit more keeping track of numbers of participants and hours of activities, and we all agreed that we needed to be more conscientious doing this. I’m not sure how I will handle it asking people to report back with letter-writing projects, but I’m working on it.
Elaine and Lori will work together as hike leaders for summer. We spent some time trying to figure out how we could safely hike this summer and, as a bottom line, decided we can’t. The logistics of signing up for multiple hikes, of limited trailhead parking, of keeping participants distanced or masked, and the reality that women are arranging their own hikes made us decide not to try to keep them going during COVID-19.
Deb agreed to step in to monitor local projects we can/should help with — for example, trail maintenance for TVTAP this coming week. She also agreed to organize the winter cross-country and snow-shoe activities. Downhill at Targhee on Wednesdays doesn’t really require a leader as we simply meet, break into groups by skiing ability/desire, and go ski. The post-ski lunch at Snorkels has just sort of happened on its own.
Because Kathleen wasn’t there, we assigned her all of the other hard work. She will represent us on webinars, write sample letters (and real letters) so our responses to local and national issues are coordinated, and, when we are back to physical meetings, will represent us (and recruit other WHALES) for those meetings.
Peggie will let us know of WWA projects that would benefit from our involvement. Currently we’re talking about a Wilderness area solitude study and a webinar on letter-writing for FS Management Plan revisions.
I will continue to be a scribe…getting the email out roughly once a week (yes, my timing hasn’t been so reliable during the pandemic because unless something has critical timing, it seems a little flexible). The rest of you will feed me information that needs to be disseminated — or is timely, funny, whatever. You know what I won’t cover: profit-making stuff (“my daughter is opening an antiques shop”), personal stuff (“Mary Ann is sick” which invariably means I miss 12 other sick people), and politics (policy, yes — politics, no). I will continue to serve as co-leader for the Broadband and liason on the Teton Creek Corridor Project.
Katya, I’ve copied you on this. Your job is to give us gentle nudges and non-stop smart-ass comments from Great Old Broads. That’s it. Y’all have the report. (And you thought I wasn’t taking minutes!!)”
Reflection/Evaluation
Our roles are clear and we’re looking forward to sharing the work of leading the WHALEs this year