Revitalize Delton Board Meeting April 11, 2024
Called to Order at 6:34 by Marsha Bassett, President
In attendance: Marsha Bassett, Dewey McCoy, Chris Zuzga, Allie Rouse, Sarah Sandell, Jill Steele, Ashly Goldsworthy
Absent: Marie Ferris, Don Perry
Strategic Plan
- Affirm mission and vision, go back over 3 main areas of focus
- Re-do committee structure and then make an action plan within each committee
o Board representation in all committees
- Vision Statement: Where do we want to go and what do we want to be
- Mission statement: what we will do to get there (vision statement)
- Discussion on Vision Statement
o Want to include school - Marsha
o Want to enrich life for current residents and encourage people to stay around- Allie
o Want to encourage economic growth by offering a healthy and enriched community – Sarah
o Want to attract young families to the school – Dewey
- Discussion on Committee Structure/focus areas
o Recreation focus area
§ Parks and rec and gyms, etc.
o Economic development
§ Business development, support, etc.
o Community Engagement
§ Events (festivals, community events, etc)
§ Encouraging residents to get move involved in the community
§ Get live music in the park back up and going
o Education
§ How involved do we want to be and how do we want to go about that
· Be there to support school board
· Make the community more attractive as a total school district
· Need to engage with the school district
§ Housing incentives for new teachers (future goal) through community foundation
o Broadband Access
§ Possible grants available?
- Want to focus on attracting young people to stay and/or come back to Delton and want to enrich the lives of community members and make this a community people are proud to be with.
- Need to make sure we get together on and get our input in for rezoning in the county
Feasibility Study
- Main focus for trip up from the feasibility study
o Barry Bowers
o Christy Tiggchelaar
o Drew Chapple
o Chamber of Commerce representative
- Getting update this week on status of study
- Need roughly $5,000 more to pay for it
o Marie is heading up a fundraiser with scrap metal
o Possible fundraiser in the works from Marsha (raffle?)
Fund Raising
- Corporate sponsors (local businesses helping to sponsor the project)
- Grants available to small communities are coming up but we need to get a grant writer on board
o Need to identify resources for partners
§ Some grants are available to only governmental agencies so we need to work with partners (county, townships) to apply with them
o Some grants are available to non profits
o The corridor study that is being done at the county level in august will also come with
o A lot of grants also require match money so we need to have our own funds being raised
o Want to be intentional about asking for money, so want to have fund raisers only when we have specific projects or goals that we are funding
Projects
Rec Center – update from Julie Aukerman
- Working with lots of people who want to do certain programs
- Working with the school to get the space needed for this
Feasibility Study
- Getting update from Dewey this week
- Get money for balance
o Reconvene after Marie’s Fundraiser
o Will reach back out to MEI
o Have seed money from BCF left that we can use
o Appealing to the board at the 11th hour if need be
Strategic Plan
- Chris is getting a working document together and we will hopefully ratify at the next meeting
Board Member Recruiting
- Will think on who we might be interested in joining our Revitalize Delton board that may represent interests of the school (teacher, administrator, school board member)
Motion to Adjourn at 7:51pm - Marsha Bassett
