Friday May 9th, 2008 - 5:07PM

To: Judge Lacey Collier
Chair, Board of Trustees
Community Maritime Park Associates, Inc.

From: Kenneth E. Lamb
Member, Board of Trustees
Friends of the Community Maritime Park, Inc.

1) Friends treasury now at $6,200.00

Friends received $6,000 for its treasury on May 5, 2008. The money will be allocated among the various projects enumerated below.

2) Friends' Board of Trustees approves 17-item project list

Authorization to proceed with Friends' projects; voted to allow Mr. Lamb to negotiate as agent for Friends' for prices and to setup preliminary agreements for the following, pending a final, formal vote of the Board that may be conducted via email approval:

A) Get signs up on the CMP property;

B) Organize the complex volunteer clean-up projects that are already planned;

C) Come up with the $1-million insurance policy to indemnify the city and the CMPA in case of an onsite injury;

D) Create and distribute yard signs, car magnets, and in-store window signs proclaiming "We Want Our CMP!";

E) Open, equip, staff, and cover all overhead expenses for a headquarters to do the distribution of those items and organize even more ongoing volunteer projects;

F) Create and maintain a park supporters' email database;

G) Create and distribute email newsletters;

H) Create and administer a web site focused solely on the park that is under constant revision in-step with the increasingly faster pace of park events;

I) Set up an open-books checking account and financial records available for public inspection to replace those accounts that already exist;

J) Create and maintain a Sunshine Act compliant email system to protect the entire Board of Trustees with an email architecture that guarantees that you will never be publically humiliated or legally threatened over full compliance with the law;

K) Create and manage a logo contest for all middle- and high school students in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties with $5,500 in face value prizes - that includes a $1,000 cash award for the winner's teacher to spend furthering the teacher's educational goals for his or her students, and another $1,000 cash award to the winner's school to be used for the same purposes as the teacher's award;

L) Make public speaking appearances to civic groups, associations, and other organized groups, to get out the facts about the park and why it is a "must be built"; priority for our area;

M) Create and produce a series of "Coffee, Tea, the CMP, and Me!"; cable TV programs where park supporters invite their friends and family to join them at their home to watch the program and call in their questions about the park;

N) Setup and maintain an online store to sell CMP-related merchandise such as coffee mugs, t-shirts, windbreakers, and other such "We Want Our CMP! Gear"; that will come into demand;

O) Setup and maintain all accounting records, tax records, bank accounts, inventory orders, and shipping for "We Want Our CMP! Gear"; orders;

P) Setup and pay for all local, state, and federal fees, assessments, licenses, income tax filings, sales tax filings, unemployment fund costs, workman's compensation costs, accounting expenses, and legal expenses?

Q) Produce a series of Community Music Mini-Festivals over the summer in cooperation with Arlene Williams' Barbeque - a black-owned business on Mobile Highway across from Brownsville Army Navy - cooperating with a predominantly Black church for staging and sound equipment - and three Miami Dolphins players coming up to sign autographs because they know Arlene and how she supports the CMP, and so want to help us reinforce ties between the park and the Black community - all while Arlene is going to donate 50 cents on every item sold to put towards cleaning up the park and raising prize money for the kids entering the logo contest.

3) Friends' web site gets more than 48,034 hits the first 9 days in May

Demand for information about the CMP continues to climb. In all of April, the site tallied 87,221 hits. So far, in May, the site is at 48,034 hits. That means the site is at 55% of the April numbers while only 29% into the month of May.

For growth perspective, the hits in January hovered at about 30,000.

4) E-PAD for Public Officials™ email program for the CMPA activated

The E-PAD for Public Officials™ email system is fully activated. All Board members were sent written instructions for using the system as both a fax, and as an Adobe Reader PDF file.

The only steps left to complete are setting up training for the Legal Custodian, and having the Legal Custodian tell the previous email provider to forward all records still on their server to Webfoot Enterprises for merging into the new E-PAD for Public Officials™
email system.