Report from June Board Meeting

Yestermorrow Master Planning Process Report
Dates of Process Planning: 20 November 2010- 25 June 2011
Regenesis Group: Bill Reed, Joel Glanzberg, and John Boecker

Introduction:
The following notes are intended to capture and interpret key concepts generated through working with the Yestermorrow Board, the School community, and the larger Community of Mad River Valley over the course of Regenerative Development and Design classes held at Yestermorrow and the more focused work with the Board from November2010 through June 2011.

During these classes and meetings, Board Members were introduced to the idea of regenerative development as a distinctive approach to working with the Master Plan as a means for resolving seemingly contradictory issues or forces, and for developing a process to discover new opportunities for Yestermorrow, the Mad River Valley community, and larger field of design/building.

Looking forward: ideas generated through this initial work can serve as a basis for a coherent and holistic school and stakeholder engagement process. The challenge is to articulate, discover, and arrive at common ground. The essence concepts herein are candidate ideas and will evolve as more core thinking develops in the next phase of master planning.

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Core Team Update 8/10/11

From Robin Morris: 8/10/11

Dear Board Members,

I wanted to provide an update on the Master Planning Schedule and Core team status.

The Core Team met last week with Bill R and John B by phone to finalize the dates of the three workshops and clarify roles and goals.

Monday, August 22/Tuesday August 23: Programming workshop (Monday 8.00am to 4.00pm, Tuesday 8.00am to 1.00pm)

Attendance; Core team + interested board members + Bill + John

Monday, September 19/Tuesday, September 20: Design workshop (Monday 8.00am to 4.00pm, Tuesday 8.00am to 1.00pm)

Attendance: Core team + interested board members + 2 students + 2 faculty + Bill and John

Friday, September 30/Saturday, October 1: 2nd Design workshop/Faculty Meeting (2 days)

Attendance: Core team + interested board members + Bill + John + Joel + experts on Friday 8.00am-4.00pm and

Sat 8.00am to 12.00am, Faculty + staff + board included Saturday PM 1-5.

Jeff sent a great overview to the Core Team last week, Thank you Jeff! We would like to encourage you all to share your thoughts on the directions YM could take especially on the subjects below:

Community – how might YM engage the community – lodging/food/organizations?

Energy – what are the different or shared energy options that should be considered?

Water – Wastewater, ground water, rain water, storm water – what alternative options should be considered?

Food – Should available YM land be used for for food production; YM personnel or community farmers?

Phasing – How do we integrate new initiatives onto the campus and into operations while continuing to build existing initiatives?

If you send your thoughts to Kate and myself we will circulate to the Core Team, Bill, John and Joel.

Our plan is to keep the Board apprised through this process. Let me know if you have any questions.

Robin Morris