Exec. bd meet­ing min­utes ‑081015

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Web­site: www.lmpa.org         Email: lmpa.org@verizon.net

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

August 10, 2015

 

Atten­dance:  Mal­colm, Drew, Pat­ty, Tina, Mark, Mike, Sabine, Matt, Paul, Jaime

Start time:     7:05 pm

 

1. Treasurer’s Report –

Reg­u­lar account:  $4,016.68

Weed Fund:  $4,957.08

Con­stant new mem­ber­ships and dona­tions com­ing in.

 

2. Review and dis­cuss any changes or clar­i­fi­ca­tions to the meet­ing min­utes from July 20th Exec. Bd. Meet­ing. Vote to accept the min­utes, post meet­ing min­utes to the web­site after board approval

Mal­colm had two changes, name of town board is Weed Man­age­ment Advi­so­ry Group and BOS not BOD.  Vote to accept once changes have been made.

Motion:  Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Tina

Unan­i­mous

 

3. Park & Rec – Removal of Buoys at Beach

Lau­ra will check at next meet­ing on 8/12.  Plan is to meet Lau­ra at the beach the week after Labor Day to remove.  Ask P&R about installing on Memo­r­i­al Day next year.  Lau­ra to dis­cuss with Park & Rec board.

Talked about links on LMPA web­site to Park & Rec site, she thought it was a great idea.  Dis­cussed end of sum­mer gath­er­ing (pos­si­bly 8/30), Lau­ra to dis­cuss with Park & Rec.

   4.  Bio­log­i­cal Survey

Adding Dis­solved Oxy­gen lev­els to cur­rent test­ing.  Mark to pick up extra can­is­ters, next water test­ing will be right after Labor Day (Sep­tem­ber).

Vote:  Add for costs of addi­tion­al test­ing for Dis­solved Oxy­gen lev­els ($100)

            Motion:  Malcolm

            Sec­ond: Patty

            Unanimous

 5.  Draw Down

Mal­colm con­tact­ed John West­er­ling at DPW.  They are in sup­port of an extend­ed draw down to con­trol inva­sive weeds.  Mal­colm to send notice to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion by 8/15.  This would be one year soon­er than sched­uled extend­ed draw down.

            Spin­del Island – Mark to ask Dave Gibbs to talk to occu­pants of island

 

Vote:  To spend up to $1,000 of LMPA monies to Spin­del Island occu­pants, and Mal­colm to sub­mit to DPW for reim­burse­ment from Weed Fund approved by Town Meet­ing ($60,000).

            Motion:  Patty

            Sec­ond:  Malcolm

            Unanimous

 

6. Upcom­ing Election

Paul is resign­ing effec­tive 9/1/15.

Vote tonight to appoint replacement.

Motion:  Mike

Sec­ond:  Malcolm

 

            Two mem­bers would like to be considered

            Jaime Goncalves

            Don Kaiser

            Vote tak­en, unan­i­mous votes for Jaime Goncalves for replacement

 

7. Weed Com­mit­tee

            Needs to meet again soon.  Com­mit­tee will need to be reor­ga­nized, email needs to be sent to cur­rent mem­bers to see if they are still inter­est­ing in serv­ing on that committee.

8. Event Insur­ance

Matt called the insur­ance com­pa­ny.  Got a syn­op­sis of what our pol­i­cy covers

$1,000,000 lia­bil­i­ty cov­er­age for E‑board mem­bers, Indem­ni­fies LMPA from dam­ages.  Rec­om­men­da­tion is to con­tin­ue cov­er­age — $900 per year

 

9. Weed Con­trol Signs

Rec­om­mend that signs be col­lect­ed and stored.

 

10. Ter­centen­ni­al Celebration

Sabine to talk to Ron about participation

 

11. New Busi­ness

Noth­ing to report at this meeting

 

Next meet­ing:  Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 1^st, 7:00 pm, Patty’s house

 

Motion to adjourn:           Malcolm

Sec­ond: Patty

Unan­i­mous

 

Meet­ing end:  8:55 pm