HI Mark, I work with the City of Seattle's P-patch Community Gardening Program. We have a tool bank available to gardeners for our 80+ gardens across the city. Currently, gardeners can go, pick-up and return tools to a central location. They have to work through P-Patch Staff to make sure tools needed are available and checked out and in through our excel spread sheet. However, our system is not efficient nor is it effective. Tools do not get checked back in, we have no system to track broken tools, tool loss, not tools in need of repairs. Most of our tools are hand tools, but we also have gas trimmers and lawn movers. In the next two years, we hope to have a web based sytem, and now seems like a good time to look at how others are organizing tool banks. We We are looking to learn how others manage their tool banks. I am not quite sure how to continue this conversation, but hope we can find a way to learn fromm your experience, and that of others.
Julie Julie Bryan Garden Coordinator P-Patch Community Gardening Program | Seattle Department of Neighborhoods ph 206 684 0540 | cell 206 257 8257 | fax 206 233 8561 http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/ Public Disclosure/Disclaimer Statement: Consistent with the Public Records Act, Chapter 42.56 RCW, all records within the possession of the City may be subject to a public disclosure request and may be distributed or copied. Records include and are not limited to sign-in sheets, contracts, emails, notes, correspondence, etc. Use of lists of individuals or directory information (including address, phone or E-mail) may not be used for commercial purposes. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110708/a13cff61/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
