Lake Maspenock Preservation Association

Executive Board Meeting Minutes

September 10, 2014

 

Attend­ing:  Mal­colm, Pat­ty, Tina, Rick, Dave, Paul, Drew, Mike

Start time:  7:10 pm

1.    Review, dis­cuss changes and vote to accept min­utes from August 12th  Exec­u­tive Board meet­ing.  Post meet­ing min­utes to web­site after board approval.

Make the fol­low­ing change:  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.

Motion:  Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Patty

Unan­i­mous

2.    Trea­sur­ers report – New members…

Bal­ance:  $2,742.37

Insur­ance annu­al pre­mi­um paid — $850

Tina received a few new memberships

3.    Sunken Boats – Lakeshore Road, Woody Island

Mike to call police to knock on doors.  Drew will go to neigh­bor on Lakeshore.  Dave Gibbs sug­gest­ed bal­last bags to resur­face boat on Lakeshore.  No oil or gas leak as of now.

4.    Request for sup­port of a Thanks­giv­ing Day char­i­ty 5K

We can use our con­nec­tions to sup­port it.  Dave will check to make sure it is a legit­i­mate charity.

Motion:  Agree to send out pro­mo­tion for 5K race once verified

Sec­ond: Patty

5 of 8 mem­bers vot­ed yes

5.    Let­ter to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion con­cern­ing the require­ment to do a bio­log­i­cal sur­vey after last winter’s draw down.

Mal­colm spoke with Con Comm on Mon­day, Don McAdams said they are fine with not doing sur­vey this time.

Ques­tion was raised, why didn’t it go all the way down, gate was not opened enough

Con Comm is in sup­port of extend­ed draw downs, we need solu­tions for Spin­dle Island

6.    Weed Con­trol – chem­i­cal treat­ment, draw down…

Full notice of intent would need to be drafted

LMPA would bear full brunt of cost

Aquat­ic con­tact per­son – Domenic —  did the sur­vey.  Should con­duct anoth­er sur­vey to use to inter­act with oth­er Lake boards.

Chem­i­cals may be required if full draw down can­not con­trol weeds at an accept­able level.

Fund­ing is exter­nal, Domenic to find out and let Rick know.

Min­i­mum cost — $150,000

Dave to make a list of local lakes and cre­ate a list of ques­tions for us to ask.  Each board mem­ber to take 2 asso­ci­a­tions and con­tact them.

Drew to draft an email to get inter­est of lake asso­ci­a­tion mem­bers to form a Weed Subcommittee.

7.    Flood Insurance

Mal­colm respond­ed to an email regard­ing flood insur­ance.  He con­tact­ed Elaine Lazarath.  The maps have changed.  No prop­er­ties on the lake are con­sid­ered in a flood zone.

8.    Notice of Nor­mal draw down being sent out

Tina sent out a mes­sage to all mem­bers today.  It was draft­ed by Malcolm.

9.    New Business

Mark­ing rocks – Paul asked if this could be done.  Mal­colm explained it can be done per­son­al­ly, but not by the LMPA

Hike on Pep­per­corn Hill for the Fall.  Tina will con­tact Eagle Scout that marked the trails to con­duct a hike.

10.Next meet­ing?

Tues­day, Octo­ber 7th, 7:00 pm – Patty’s house

11.Motion for adjourn­ment:  Malcolm

Sec­ond: Tina

Unan­i­mous

End time:  8:23 pm