"BATTLING BITTERSWEET"
WORK DAY TO-DO LIST
Day Before Event: Reminder E-Mail to
Volunteers
Who Will Bring What
on Work Day:
- Combination for lock on access gate:
- Canopy 1 (break area):
- Canopy 2 (sign in area):
- Method of identifying signed in volunteers (buttons):
- First Aid Items:
- Sign-In Sheet:
- Clipboards:
- Pens:
- Copies of Waiver:
- Sign-In Table:
- Chairs (At sign-in table and for break area):
- Drinking Water:
- PI Wash Water:
- Cups for water:
- Paper Towels:
- List of Pre-Registered Volunteers & Team Assignments:
- Vests for Team Leaders:
- Sun Block:
- Insect Spray:
- Tecnu:
- Air Horn:
- Bittersweet and Poison Ivy Display:
- Poison Ivy Fact Sheet:
- Trash Bin:
- Sandwiches for lunch:
- Large UCONN display panels:
- Stand(s) display panels:
- "Loaner" tools:
- "Loaner" tool sign-out sheet:
Day Before Work Day:
- Finalize Work Team volunteer assignments.
- Collect large work day items in truck.
On Work Day: (note that for 2014 there is only one shift from 9 to noon; all volunteers must be out of the work site by 1:30 PM).
- 8:00 to 9:00 Set-up canopies, tables, sign-in,
etc.
- 9:00 Start signal
- 8:55 to 9:00 Gather Shift One volunteers at
their work areas.
- 9:00 to 9:10 Shift One Team Leaders cover the
basic training with their team.
- 9:15 to 12:00 Shift One teams work.
- 12:00 End shift signal
- 12:00 Shift One volunteers sign out.
- 12:00 to 1:00 Lunch break.
- 1:00 Town crew begins treatment of AM work
areas.
- 12:55 to 1:00 Gather Shift Two volunteers at
their work areas.
- 1:00 Start signal
- 1:00 to 1:10 Shift Two Team Leaders cover the
basic training with their team.
- 1:15 to 4:00 Shift Two teams work.
- 4:00 End shift signal.
- 4:00 Shift Two volunteers sign out.
- 4:00 Clear site of all volunteers.
- 4:00 to 5:00 Break camp.
- 4:00 to ?? Check on how town crew is doing.
