From: "Rita Frakes" <rita42@centurytel.net> Subject: RE: How do you manage your grounds? Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:44:38 -0500 Message-ID: <EE51B90CE58745AB817594DED7A55BCE@MomBot>
The village of Mazomanie owns the building that houses our society's museum.
The village takes care of snow removal and lawn mowing and pays for water
and electricity.
A member volunteer has taken on the task of landscaping a large bank facing
the parking lot and providing perennials from his own extensive gardens.
The society paid for hose, hose cart, etc for watering. He maintains the
spaces and gets mulch provided by the village.
3 other member/volunteers provide and plant annuals in 5 urns on the
grounds, water, and oversee them through fall.
In the spring the "urn planters" are contacted to see if they want to do
that again and they usually do. We had a long time urn/planter that wanted
to discontinue the task which was very reasonable. We happened to have a
new board member that year who is quite the gardener and stepped right up
because she loves plants and gardening.
About 3 years ago the society had an outdoor faucet installed to make the
watering issue an easier chore.
Rita Frakes, Curator
www.mazomaniehistory.org <http://www.mazomaniehistory.org/> .
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From: localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu
[mailto:localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu] On Behalf Of Katie Kirby
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 10:20 AM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: How do you manage your grounds?
Hi list serve! The board at my organization is looking into options for
managing our grounds.
Does your organization hire a grounds keeper? Does a local government
provide one for you? Do volunteers do all of the grounds keeping? If it is
some combination of the three, what are the percentages? What has your
experience been with how it works out for you?
Thank you!