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Meeting Minutes
June 13th, 2012, 9:00am
Bozeman City Hall, Madison Room
Members Attending:
Jay Sinnott, Nick Bentley,
Kathy Powell, Kristen Walser, Kathy Powell, Paula Beswick, Benjamin Bennett
Cyndy Andrus (Commission Liaison), Emily Baker (Energy Corps Member)
Staff Present:
Natalie Meyer (Staff
Liaison)
Call to Order
Changes to the Agenda
None
Approval of Minutes
Motion to approve minutes from May 16th by Powell; seconded by Bentley.
Public Comment
Powell gave group information
on how climate change was officially incorporated into the Democratic Party Platform.
Andrus gave the group a brief update of information on coal trains that has come before the city
commission. She asked the group how we thought we should be involved in the issue, to consider whether we should take a position or not. Bentley let the group know that there are two
other local groups working on the coal train issue: the Bozeman Climate Alliance, and another unnamed group, as well as the Northern Plains Resource Council. Bentley said that the impact
of ghgs from the exported coal will decrease our goals of greenhouse gas action.
Ethics Handbook
Meyer distributed the “City of Bozeman Ethics Handbook”, which she asked working group
members to read. She informed the group that all Advisory Boards are required to go through an ethics training, as a working group, which is somewhat less formal than an Advisory Board,
we are not required to. However, we should read this ethics handbook, as a great background in government accountability, fairness, etc.
Logo Selection
Review color palettes for two
top logos.
Group preferred colors in 1a and 2a.
Beswick commented that very light colors are hard to read in certain applications, such as website buttons. Bentley agreed. Beswick pointed out that at a distance, lighter colors are
more difficult to see.
General discussion on the relative merits of the two design options.
Group voted on options 1a vs 2a; 4 voted for the city-type logo, and 3 for the flower-type.
Bennett
arrived, and gave his opinion on the two logos: identity #1 steps away from the look of a municipal symbol. #2 is more municipal looking, and is something you would expect to see on
the side of a garbage truck (as came up earlier in discussion as well)! Logo #1 is a logo that will be city-associative over time, but doesn’t necessarily evoke the city immediately
when looking at it.
Bennett remarked that when next to the City of Bozeman logo, #2 looks pretty similar from a distance.
Color options: group was not in love with any of the options
presented, though many are good. Sinnott thought that Climate Partners could be highlighted better. We will ask for another round of color combos, and choose from that.
Vote on logo
choice: Unanimous for #1 (flower-type option).
Beswick asked group to clarify exactly what we want from Bunkers.
4-5 new ideas for color, using his artistic judgment.
We want the “Climate
Partners” to pop more than the “Bozeman”.
Website RFP Update
Meyer showed RFP to group; has been vetted through legal and IT.
Question of hosting: in-house, or outside (RFP asks for
a recommendation)
Benefits to both: the N. 7th board hosts outside the city servers.
Revised timeline:
Bennett: timeline is tight, but doable.
Designers will have choice to submit proposal
in accordance with the timeline, but could propose changes as well if they feel it is too tight.
Meeting Schedule Adjustment:
Meeting Schedule for June, July and August:
June 20th (regularly
scheduled): discuss in-progress website content
July 3rd (moved to Tuesday because of holiday): select design proposal
July 12th (additional Thursday meeting): meet with web designer
Aug
1st (regularly scheduled meeting)
Aug 15th (regularly scheduled meeting)
Levels of administration: can we have many people able to edit?
Bentley said easy to accomplish with WordPress.
Can
have many editors, with one person able to approve before publish.
Number of design concepts?
Not specified; we can keep flexible, as long as there are a few.
Motion to approve the RFP
with revised timeline: Beswick, seconded by Bentley. None opposed.
Website Content Update
Bentley informed group of progress on transit and energy sections of website.
Group decided upon GoogleDoc to compile content, in order to keep tone and depth somewhat consistent.
Beswick
volunteered to be the final editor, keeping a coherent voice in the content over the entire site.
Baker will create a GoogleDoc, and send the link to edit to the group.
Detailed content
updates delayed until the meeting next Wednesday.
Meeting Adjourned 10:30am