Property & Grounds Annual Report Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025:
Committee members: Bill Lane, Robert Gladney, Nancy Robbins, Mary Yancey, Amy Kimball, Sally Claggett, Sam Steffens, Drew Gundlach, Dan Sweeney, Priscilla Bond Sener, Clay Owens, Ben Tilghman, Winslow Womack (emeritus), and Larny Claggett, clerk.
Activities from 10/24 to 10/25:
A. The property and grounds committee provides hands-on care and oversite of our campus.
We work to maintain our buildings in good repair; plain, pleasing, and unpretentious; with quality materials; open and safe. The meeting, through the property and grounds committee, provides for our caretaker and pays the utility bills. The property and grounds committee oversees about half the monthly meeting’s annual budget and the property and grounds expenses were generally within budget.
B. The property and grounds committee conducted clean-up days in the spring and late fall with the usual efforts to mulch the beds and tree roots, weed and vine pruning, mowing and leaf raking, and general cleaning of buildings.
These are times for the entire meeting to pitch in and all effort is appreciated. It is recognized that some persons can’t make the clean-up days, but are able to come at other days. There is always much to do.
C. We contracted out some of the heavy pruning and tree removal, the vine control, major mulching, and lawn mowing.
D. A big challenge the meeting and the property and grounds committee faced this year was the surgery and subsequent recovery our caretaker has undergone.
The committee and the meeting as a whole stepped up and provided the caretaking of our buildings and grounds as well as the caretaker. We are glad the caretaker is recovering well.