Lindheimer Chapter Board Minutes July 2026 (Preliminary)

9:30 AM 8/11/26.   Called to order at 9:34 AM

Tye Preston Library Boardroom

Attendance: Dick _x_ Sara T. _x_ Debbie _x_ Bev _x_ Sarah M. __ Craig _x_

        Nancy _x_ Christina _x_ Mike Laffey _x_ Jan Walker __ (Quorum met, 8 of 7 required).

Old Business:

• Were the yard signs from Thompson Printing (open through August 3rd) ordered?  Unknown.

State Society:

President’s Report: Sara Torres, Acting

• Continue Board meetings at TPML at 9:30, on the second Tuesday, reservation for Sept. through Dec. at TPML has been approved.  We will hold our chapter meetings at Mammen Family Public Library during construction.  Nancy has reserved a room at Mammen Library for August through December for the chapter meetings.  Sara will ask about doing TPML for chapter meetings.
• Please turn in your Event Liability Forms.

Secretary’s Report: Dick Bigelow

• Dick Bigelow, VOTE to approve minutes.  Dick made a motion to approve the July minutes, Craig seconded, unanimous approval.
• Dick will be stepping down from all duties at the end of the year.
•  The battery in the old laptop has died but it can still be used when plugged in.

Treasurer’s Report: Sarah Mato

• The bank balance did not have an update, Sara said there had not been much change from last month.
• Update on 2025 audit.  We don’t know if Sarah has gotten everything she needs to finalize the audit.

Director of Formal Education: Craig Bruska

• Native Seed Library Program, upcoming workdays
  • August 13th (second Thursday) Mammen seed cleaning 2-4 PM.
  • August 20th (third Thursday) Garden Ridge seed cleaning 1-3 PM.
  • August 21st (second Friday normally) TPML seed cleaning 2-4 PM.
• September 19th NLCP 2 Mammen.  Registration is full, looking to have one mentor for every 4 students.
• October 31st NLCP 3 Mammen.  Registration is full.

Director of Community Outreach: Sara Torres, Acting

• Demonstration Gardens: 

Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country – Mickey Riviere, 1^st Thursdays at 9:30-11:00.

       Chamber of Commerce demonstration garden – Sara Torres, 3^rd Wednesdays 9 AM. 

• Our next workday is Wednesday August 19^th.

Mamman Demo Garden – 2nd Wednesday only August 9:00-11:00.

Gorge Preservation Society workdays (Canyon Lake Gorge) – Every Tuesday 9-11, 2nd Saturdays 9-12.

• Leon is part of A tree Huggers Guide: A Native Tree Care and Landscape Design Course, September 12th 10 AM – 2 PM at the San Marcos Public Library 625 E. Hopkins St.
• Debbie has signed us up for the HEB tabling for Native Plant Week.  We will be doing the 2nd weekend Oct. 24,25 at the Spring Branch location.

Director of Communications: Open

• Facebook – Nancy 161 followers up from 158 last month.
• Send upcoming events to Dick to be updated on the website.

Director of Plant Sales: Debbie Kyrouac

• Fall plant sale will coincide with NLCP III on Oct 31 at Mammen Library, she is looking at plant digs to get plants.
• Spring plant sale – With Easter being March 28, she is looking at reaching out to the Mammen Library to see if we can secure April 3 for an NLCP class and Spring plant sale.

Past President: Sara Torres really needs someone to take on the duties of President, she has had a number of things     come up that have to be dealt with impacting her available time.

Program Committee Chair:  Mike Laffey

• August 18^th room B at Mammen, Tracey Brown will speak on “Fruitful Choices”, the talk will explore a variety of fruit-bearing trees and shrubs that thrive in Central Texas, focusing on both native species and well-adapted cultivars.
• September 15^th Jeff Pavalat at Mammen – the Curator of Cacti & Succulents of the Zilker Botanical Garden in Austin, speaking on “Cacti & Succulents of South Texas”.
• October 13th Mammen Room B.  Will check on a Monarch Program presentation.
• November 17th Mammen Room B.  Seed exchange.
• December 15th Mammen Rooms A&B.  Christmas party.

Field Trip Chair: Christina Campbell

• Field trip to Inevitable Technology at 103 Center Point Rd. Ste A in San Marcos is lined up for Saturday, July 18th at 11am.  Went well.
• September field trip to Zilker Botanical, Austin. Guided tours start at $7 per visitor and usually last between 60-90 minutes. Saturday, September 26th 10 to 11:30 AM.

Membership: Bev Willman

• As of 8/6/26, we have 105 primary members + 37 affiliates = 142 total.

Hospitality: Jan Walker

• Sara requested that Craig contact Jan to be sure she has the dates for the NLCP classes.

New Business:

Adjourned at 10:38 AM.