I’m expecting the APPLE Center in Nevada City to remain open with volunteers.
The board meets tonight to reconsider a decision to close the Center later this month for lack of funds.
Last night the Nevada City Council gave its support to keep the Center open as a place for education about water conservation, composting, biomass and sustainability. Nevada City’s water rates have increased twice in the past year.
Two current board members were present at last night’s meeting, as well as Council Member Reinette Seneum. The current plan is to keep the APPLE Center open with volunteers instead of a paid executive director.
The group will be able to pay the monthly rent for the building with donations.
The APPLE board also is expected to get some new board members, while others will resign (some are relocating out of the area).
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I am very pleased to hear about this shift towards a more grass roots effort. For some reason the present APPLE Center had been drifting away from the community instead of becoming more a part of it. This is a diverse community and the APPLE Center must first bring us together as the top priority if we are going to make any headway..
Good observations Greg. The one problem APPLE has is their promotion of reduction. It is hard to maintain or expand when the underlying theme is to reduce our dependency on outside sources of energy/ food. The other problem they have is our community is so involved with a million great grass root advocate organizations it is hard to get sustained long term volunteers.