May: Loralyn Fabian

EAST LIBERTY DEVELOPMENT, INC.
Sustainable Community Fellow

ELDI

Rain Gardens

- A lot of my time was spent continuing to meet with Barton and Gary on site for measurements and
further assessment
- With rain garden assessments/dimensions in hand, determined which 5 of 6 sites were the best
- Budget
- Figured out kinks / got it up to date
-Tracked all new expenses / managed monies to keep garden designs under budget
- Met with Roxanne Swann from Audubon Society / Rain Garden Alliance to brainstorm rain garden
designs on site
- Inquired from homeowners what plants they preferred from rain garden plant list
- Most of my time involved brainstorming and drafting up plan views and sections for the rain garden
designs in AutoCAD
- Recruited volunteers through many mediums
- Recruitment of rain garden experts
- Sent designs to Barton and Roxanne to review
- Sent designs to homeowners via email and met with them in person to review
- A lot of time spent on Determining what all must be purchased to implement projects
- Purchased mulch/compost/soil amendments / calculated amounts needed
- Ordered plants through RGA
- Purchases through Home Depot such as gravel
- Other purchases, such as through second plant center, downspouts, etc. come June
- Had to reschedule date, and therefore, had to re-recruit volunteers
- Many more steps to come in June, including preparing the actual volunteer event day (work plan,
introductions, safety, tools/materials, etc.)
- Implimentation: June 12th and 13th, 2010

Car Free Fridays

- Most of my time involved promotion: creating many write-ups / press releases for community paper,
newsletter, e-blast
- Met in person with Jeff from Trek to confirm their presence at Car Free Fridays June 18th
- Free bike maintenace / free water bottles
- Took over Jenny's business position: Got voucher discount information to Lou
- Creating bike tour through East Liberty
- Contacted Venture Outdoors and met in person to have them lead tour

Elm Street District

- Met with Nate to work out budget kinks
- Met with Matt Erb; went to Elm St. planting locations together
- Assessed whether residential locations were good for planting
- Brainstormed shrub planting possibilities at East Liberty Blvd.
- Requested Blvd planting budget estimate from Matt Erb
- Emailed / met with Lisa Ceoffe, City's Urban Forester, to look at Blvd. and discuss permitting process

Storytelling Device

- Met with Nate to brainstorm ideas after I read through community plan, annual reports, etc. last
month

National Night Out

- Neighborhood wide block party in August, in the evening, to promote public safety
- ELDI to inform block groups of event, and let them know ELDI will refund their food
- Tiffany, my co-worker, managing project until she leaves end of June
- Meetings with Tiffany weekly on the project to offer feedback and stay up to date
- I am taking over when she leaves

SCA

Green Cities Blues Festival

- Many meetings with Lori and Ray; and Sarah joins the team
- Emailed all of my contacts
- Called all of my contacts who did not reply in email
- Strategizing new way to reach out to contacts
- Hartwood Acres tour / visit with the Food Bank
- Created Google Doc of all partners and contacts to keep team organized

Website

- Took website training
- Collect bios and pictures from Fellows / edit
- Created Google Map of partner locations
- Wrote my bio for site
- Created Green Cities Corps section of website