STRATEGIC PLAN PRIORITIES 2013 to 2025
A. INCREASE MEMBERSHIP AND MEMBER BENEFITS
1. Marketing – “Local Food Matters” Effort – Fresh Starts – September 2025
2. Membership levels/benefits – Join Local Food System to Green Island Project joint benefits for SVG membership
3. GI Jobs Bond Program – Completed – helped to purchase – 2011, rehabbed 2012-13 and fit up for Food Hub – 2017-18
4. Prius Program – Climate Change – 50% fossil fuel impacts from transportation
5. Reciprocal Membership and benefits: – What organizations should go here?
Who: Dave Bonta, Lindsay Cook, Dan Axtel, Gary Fox
B. VT FARM MACHINE TOOL CO. 30 ISLAND ST. INCUBATOR FACILITY
1. Complete Landscaping, ADA and Street-scoping / drainage – 5 part plan
2. Facility fit-up USDA RBEG – forklift, material handling equipment, secure equipment and tool storage, office fit-up, Walk-in Freezer
3. Additional Heating Capacity and Insulation Measures – Fundraise, Grants
4. PV Panels and solar tube sky/day lighting for roof
5. Additional SPF’s on South Wall
Who: Dave Bonta, Mike Spaulding, Gary Fox
C. WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING
1. Build on current website? – Joint with Great River Coop effort – Dinanda – Local Food Matters effort
2. Build new website? Funding? Sponsor? Grant? – Dinanda – join GRC and SVG
3. Marketing – brochure, social media, sponsors for newsletter? – Dinanda
Who: Dinanda
D. DEVELOP FUNDING PARTNERS
1. Maintain / enhance / expand
2. Support / initiate credit line / revolving loan fund – USDA/SEVCA
3. Support savings and build financial assets
3. Town – Tax Stabilization
Who: Gary Fox – Rockingham Development Office
E. LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORP – COLLABORATE ISLAND PROPERTY OWNERS
1. Continue Working RPM and Incubator Facility w GFFH
2. Island Corporation – fill Upper Mill (33 Bridge St.) – Tenants/Businesses/Education Training Center Anchor; Incubators – Artist West side, Manufacturing East Side
3. Island Corporation- find Anchor tenant and Rehab Lower Mill (29 Bridge St) – Architectural Features and Battery Storage or Freezer capability
4. Selvidio Property – now Wayne Grazzino – Phase I ESA, purchase, Phase II ESA, Demolish, CAP, Cleanup Implementation, Redevelop Mixed-use residential with street level commercial
4 (cont.) – onto Robertson site fne onto 30 Island St as back-up, food process, walkin cooler and freezer, flash freezing, slaughterhouse or butcher as needed
5. River Sanctuary / Kayak Center – BFHS Riverfront Park
6. Our Place – expansion needs, gardens, preservation and storage, and processing – move to GRAS along with warming/homeless shelter
7. Brad Robinson Sales – ex-Framery, now quilting
Who: Area Wide Plan – BFADC and SVG and Town and All
F. SCHOOL FOR SUSTAINABILITY
1. Support / maintain/ expand Creative Workforce Solutions Program
2. Youth Programs – work with High Schools and School Board – Internships? Job Shadowing?
3. Support / maintain / expand job opportunities for trainees with projects in the pipeline
Who: Deb Wright, Gary Fox, Guy Payne
G. COMMUNITY BIKE RECYCLE PROJECT – Done – BF Bike Project – moved on to own 501(C)3, brownfields CAP and purchased their building 2025
1. SVG agrees to fiscal sponsorship – admin fee, assist business plan development, grant writing and fundraising – from 2013 to 15, then off on their own 2016?
2. Bike sales and rental from train station
Who: Anne Morton, Dan Axtell, Dave Bonta, Bonnie Anderson
H. SUSTAINABLE WOOD PRODUCTS – GRAFTON FOREST
1. Collaborate with Spauldings on Grafton Forest Land
2. Collaborate with Sustainable Furniture-Maker, assist with other business development
Who: Hal Wilkins, Dave Bonta, Mike Spaulding
I. HISTORIC RAIL CAR
1. Explore and identify best sites for historic rail car and initiate appropriate site measures
2. Mothball, weatherize, protect and restore the donated car, clean up other cars as barter opportunity
3. Plan Tourism aspect and with respect to siting and site plans
4. Plan and hold food, transportation and historical based fundraisers
5. Invite local politicians to stump speech/debate from the rail car on their green agenda
6. Include Waypoint, Scenic Waterfront and Bartonsville Bridge salvage publicity – photo ops
Who: Shaun McGinnis, Gary Fox, Betsy Thurston-BFDDA, Aimee Parnell- GFRCC, Stephen McAllister
J. LOCALVORE DEPOT AND RESTAURANT
1. Explore collaboration with youth education, River Valley Tech, Youth Services, Local High Schools, and Food Hub
2. Collaborate with GMRR, develop rehab plan for Depot Restaurant
Who: EGary Fox, Deb Wright, Sarah James
K. FOOD HUB
1. Site Plan – multiple redundancies for food security
– local food aggregation and storage, and distribution and processing/value added
2. Collaboration with Franklin County (Greenfield Site), Cheshire County (Keene True Nut facility) and Westmoreland
(County Jail & Farm Site), Windham County (Windham Farm and Food Network), Bratt has Food Bank warehouse,
Westminster has Harlow Farm and Grn Mtn Orchard Building – add Green Island Facility
Who: Dinanda, Julie Etter, Donna Bascom, Robbie Mahrou, Gary Fox, Deb Wright
CAPACITY BUILDING NEEDS
A. PERSONNEL
1. Assess the extent to which SVG can employ staff
2. Continued feeding and development of volunteer program
B. TRAINING – BDCC – Jennifer Stromsten, Sarah Lang, Meg Staloff – SVEP and SoVT
1. Board development – Orientation / mentoring / training
2. “Greening” the agency
3. Technology – program-specific, agency-wide, updated software, e-communications, etc.