Meeting Minutes
05/21/15 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
Watertown Senior and Community Center
Introductions and review of agenda by Ashley and Susan
· Attendance -Don Christensen, Dorothy Degnitz, Susan Wollin, Ashley Nelson, Eric Weiss, Abbey Frye, Cindi Braasch, Lynn Gilbert, Andrea Turke, and Gary Fisk.
Review of events and resources
· Children’s Health Fair—Susan
o Extremely successful this year
o Over 600+ individuals stopped by booth
· Community Wellness Expo – Eric (Thank you for organizing!)
o Partnered with Rock the River/Tour de Goose
o Date and Time: Saturday, June 27, 2015, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
o Events include beer tent, magician, Main Street shops
o Booths: WRMC, Harvest Market, Wellness Works, Health Department, Get Healthy Watertown, Curves, Maranatha, Health Nut, Facilitated Healing, Library, YMCA—obstacle course/bounce house
§ Sidewalk to Fire Department
§ Electricity available for booths that needed it
§ Health Department booth is primarily for promoting GHW
· Info about walks
· Flavored water
· Community Bike Ride Info
Community Health Priorities
· Access to Care – Andrea
o 109 visits (down from April)
o 20% of visits were for mental health followed by musculoskeletal
· Active Community Environments—Don and Gary
o 50 locations have Walk on Saturday
o Don shared maps of starting points
o Interest in WUSD distributing maps via email to parents, teachers, etc.
· Park and Recreation Center- Cindi
o Spring sports are in full swing
§ Baseball, swim, swim lessons, soccer, girl’s fast pitch softball, men’s softball
§ Fitness classes are doing very well
§ Lunchtime walks have not been taking off due to weather
· Only about 4-5 individuals
§ Community bike rides are also slow moving
§ New fishing pier/kayak dock was installed at Riverside Park
§ 89 girls were part of Girls on the Run
· Food Systems/ Schools/ Eat Here Eat Well – No report
· Facebook – Abbey
o Reports 135 “likes”
o Posted the walk on a Wednesday and Friday, got 283 views.
o Highest viewed post for May was the post on Wednesday, May 13, 2015
o Reminder to group to like our page and like our posts. Make sure to share our post to your personal pages and professional pages if able to do so!
· Garden Program
o Discussion about interest in seeing if Carla (Master Gardener) would be interested in presenting again.
Our next meeting is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. on June 18, 2015 at the Watertown Senior and Community Center.