Lake Maspenock Preservation Association

Executive Board Meeting Minutes

August 12, 2014

Attend­ing:  Mal­colm, Pat­ty, Tina, Rick, Dave, Paul, Mark

Start time:  7:10 pm

1.    Review, dis­cuss changes and vote to accept min­utes from June 25th Annu­al meet­ing.  Post meet­ing min­utes to web­site after board approval.

Motion:  Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Tina

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2.    Trea­sur­ers report – New members…

Bal­ance:  $3,540.50

Insur­ance bill is com­ing due

Some new mem­bers, Tina will put a let­ter out to new house­holds.  Tina and Pat­ty will work on a mailing.

3.    Dineen/Austin Pow­der con­ser­va­tion restric­tion — David Gold­man, Pres­i­dent of the Hop­kin­ton Area Land Trust indi­cat­ed that the trail was cut on 8/2/14 to con­nect to Pep­per­corn Hill trails as part of an Eagle Scout project.

Ask Eagle Scout to lead a trail walk, pos­si­bly in the Fall.

4.    Web­site-Domain name, Dave Cormi­er, Jen Cas­sidy… — Pat­ty to facil­i­tate.  Web­site for Glen Echo Lake in Charl­ton, MA, Tina sent a link to their site.

Tina will reach out to Jen.  Pat­ty, Tina, Jen to get togeth­er and invite Dave Cormi­er.  Rick will research some web designs

5.    Let­ter to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion con­cern­ing the require­ment to do a bio­log­i­cal sur­vey after last winter’s draw down.  Dis­cuss whether to request to do a larg­er draw down again this fall.

Cost to chem­i­cal­ly treat 10 acres — $4K to $6K

$500/acre on aver­age (we have 240–250 acres)

The native weed we have is a chal­lenge, Draw Down will knock down the den­si­ty of the plants, and it will not kill the seeds, its migrat­ing into deep­er water

Mark went to COLAP sem­i­nar, they talked about dif­fer­ent weeds and how to kill them, some have had success

Need to raise funds, per­haps we can ask for $250 invest­ment from mem­ber­ship or oth­ers around the lake, CPA fund­ing may be an avenue

Rick to talk to Don McAdams for steps to move for­ward with weed con­trol and fund­ing.  Board of Health should be involved as well.  Mal­colm will get sur­vey engi­neer name for Rick.

Fund­ing avenues to inves­ti­gate:  CPA Funds, Town, Pri­vate, State.  Put togeth­er a cam­paign, A.C.T. may have data we need.

Need to sub­mit a let­ter to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mit­tee to not do the bio­log­i­cal study

Email mem­bers (and Face­book) with link to Weed Facts, large leaf pond weed, Aquat­ic Con­trols may have info.

Rick will gath­er the infor­ma­tion and bring to LMPA meet­ing for review

Motion:  Send let­ter to Con Comm (Mal­colm)

Sec­ond: Rick

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6.    Dam Advi­so­ry committee

No updates

7.    New Business

No new business

8.    Next meeting?

Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 10 – Tina’s 7:00 pm

9.    Motion for adjourn­ment  — Malcolm

Sec­ond: Rick

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End time 8:20 pm