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KSM Partners with KIB to Provide a "Green Makeover" at Broad Ripple Magnet High School
On Friday, November 6, 215 employees of Indianapolis-based certified public accounting firm Katz, Sapper & Miller, LLP, participated with KIB's Project Green Schools and NeighborWoods programs. They rolled up their sleeves and donated their time as part of KSM Community Day, the firm’s first-ever day of community service. Check out the videos of the project and its impact.
The event took place at Broad Ripple Magnet High School for the Arts & Humanities. Katz, Sapper & Miller employees spent the day working together alongside students to provide a “green makeover” of the school grounds. Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. coordinated the project.
KSM volunteers planted ornamental grasses and over 100 perennials in 28 planters around the school grounds, along with weeding existing grass and concrete beds and planting over 100 daffodil bulbs and native plants in those areas. Volunteers helped construct a stone wall and pathway while others built and installed five planter benches, including a planter bench shade structure made from materials that once comprised the roof of the former RCA Dome. The planting of perennials and mulching rounded out the outdoor activities while inside the school, volunteers painted a mural.
As part of the beautification project, KSM employees planted 50 trees around the school. That activity is part of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful’s NeighborWoods program, which has a goal of planting 100,000 trees in the city of Indianapolis between 2007 and 2017.
In the video below, KIB President David Forsell discusses the importance of trees to the KSM volunteers.
