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

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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

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End time:  8:23 pm

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

Lake Maspenock Preservation Association

Executive Board Meeting Minutes

May 6, 2014

ATTENDING:

Malcolm, Patty, Tina, Mark, Mike, Rick, Frank

Start time:  7:06 pm

1. Review, dis­cuss changes and vote to accept min­utes from April 9th meet­ing.  Post meet­ing min­utes to web­site after board approval.

Mal­colm had changes which he asked Pat­ty to review and change on 4/9 meet­ing min­utes.  Once com­plet­ed, they can be posted.

Motion:  Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Tina

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2. Trea­sur­ers report – New mem­bers…  Account balance?

No update, Tina will update at next meeting

3. David Gold­man, Pres­i­dent of the Hop­kin­ton Area Land Trust and Mal­colm attend­ed the April 14^th Selectmen’s meet­ing.  The Select­men vot­ed to sup­port the con­ser­va­tion restric­tion for land near the lake, locat­ed off Oakhurst Rd. and to allow the LMPA to act as Stewards

Select­men vot­ed to approve, LMPA is now the stew­ard of said land.

4. Web­site-Domain name, Dave Cormi­er, Jen Cas­sidy… — Pat­ty to facilitate.

Pat­ty to work with Jen, she needs Dave Cormier’s con­tact info, Pat­ty to provide

5. Update on Sandy Beach make-over, Bath house, Chris­ten­ing Par­ty, 1^st week­end school is out? Coor­di­nate with Parks and Rec.

Con­trac­tor was award­ed con­tract, no elec­tric­i­ty yet.  Start­ed exca­va­tion of soil and rocks.

We can have the meet­ing and the Fish­ing Derby

6. Annu­al meet­ing, fish­ing derby/family fun day, May 31^st?  Weigh-in for the fish­ing Der­by at 2:00, Annu­al meet­ing and elec­tions at 1:00.

Need infor­ma­tion on which posi­tions are up for election

We will have the Fish­ing Der­by and the Annu­al Meet­ing on

May 31^st.  Fish­ing Der­by reg­is­tra­tion on the beach at 6:30 am,

Tour­na­ment to start at 7:00 am, $40/boat of 2 people

2:00 pm weigh in and prizes to be given

Sand­wich Boards – Frank will put out boards with info

Mike will bring Lake Gear for sale

Time for Annu­al Meet­ing:  1:00 pm

Agen­da to be elec­tions of board mem­bers and COLAP update

7. Bio­log­i­cal study/Lake draw down – Mal­colm to dis­cuss with the Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion as to whether a bio­log­i­cal study of the lake will be nec­es­sary this year

Mal­colm needs to con­tact Don McAdams and Eric Car­ty for actu­al draw­down amount.

8. Dam Advi­so­ry committee

Mark Sex­ton was sworn in, back of dam is leak­ing, need to investigate

9. New Busi­ness

Mark Sex­ton to do the water sam­ples this weekend

4^th of July Parade – 2:00

Pat­ty will cre­ate fly­er for Fish­ing Der­by, Tina to send to mem­ber­ship, Frank to print Sand­wich Boards and put out

Mal­colm to put togeth­er email for Annu­al Meet­ing and Elec­tions to send to membership

1. Next meet­ing? May 31^st- Annu­al Meet­ing,  Place – Sandy Beach,

1:00 PM

1. Motion for adjournment

Motion:        Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Tina

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End time of meet­ing:  8:35 pm

Lake Maspenock Preservation Association

Executive Board Meeting Minutes

April 9, 2014

Start time: 7:06 pm

Atten­dees: Mal­colm, Tina, Pat­ty, Bri­an, Rick, Mike, Frank

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

Under New busi­ness – new sub­ject for CPA Chemicals

Motion to accept min­utes after changes: Malcolm

Sec­ond: Patty

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2. David Gold­man, Pres­i­dent of the Hop­kin­ton Area Land Trust to dis­cuss con­ser­va­tion restric­tion for land near the lake, locat­ed off Oakhurst Rd. LMPA — Stewardship

HALT Estab­lished 18+ years ago, 1,000 acres under pro­tec­tion of Land Trust around the town of Hopkinton

(Jean Scolata/John Deneen) Sub­di­vi­sion – Oakhurst Road – there is a con­ser­va­tion restric­tion on the prop­er­ty, ready to be signed off

LMPA should be the stew­ard of the con­ser­va­tion restric­tion of 13 ‑1/2 acres of prop­er­ty, HALT will be the own­er of the land.

Cre­at­ing a base­line doc­u­ment – pho­to doc­u­ment and GPS, pho­tos in each direc­tion, entire perimeter

look­ing for the Boy Scouts to do the project of improv­ing trails, mark­ing trail and replace signs.

Car­ol Essler is present­ly the stew­ard and has asked to remain.

The con­ser­va­tion restric­tion is a legal doc­u­ment accept­ed by the state. It must to be a 501C3 orga­ni­za­tion with con­ser­va­tion mind­ed goals in the mis­sion state­ment to act as stew­ards of the prop­er­ty. State is sat­is­fied that LMPA is a qual­i­fied orga­ni­za­tion to prop­er­ly act as stew­ards for the restriction.

No motor vehi­cles, can­not build, hunt or fish on prop­er­ty. Pas­sive recre­ation such as hik­ing, nature stud­ies, etc are allowed

Cost — $200 to pro­duce doc­u­ment, cov­ered by Land Trust

Joins Pep­per­corn trails

Need for­mal vote of LMPA and Mal­colm to sign in front of a notary. Hop­kin­ton Select­men must sign off on the documents.

Motion: We, as an asso­ci­a­tion, sup­port this con­ser­va­tion restric­tion and accept stew­ard­ship of the property

Motion by Malcolm

Sec­ond: Brian

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3. Web­site-Domain name, Dave Cormi­er, Jen Cassidy…

Pat­ty to check with Jen

4. Hop­kin­ton Green-Up day, Sat­ur­day, April 12^th

Tina to send reminder

Start time 10:00 am

Pat­ty – bring table and ban­ner to the beach

Will pro­vide Piz­za, water, soda to vol­un­teers at noon

5. Update on Sandy Beach make-over, Bath house, Chris­ten­ing Par­ty, 1^st week­end school is out? Coor­di­nate with Parks and Rec.

Tina sent an email to Amy today, will wait to hear back

6. Annu­al meet­ing, fish­ing derby/family fun day, May 31^st?

Fish­ing Der­by – May 31^st, com­bine with Annu­al Meeting?

Der­by ends at 2:00 pm, Meet­ing at 1:00 pm?

Beach Christening/Family Fun Day

Rick O’Dell to attend Park & Rec meeting

7. Treasurer’s report – Dues received? New memberships/renewals

$3,105.16

New mem­ber­ships com­ing in slow

Tina to send anoth­er email blast

8. Bio­log­i­cal study/Lake draw down

Mal­colm to speak with Don McAdams about not hav­ing to do the Weed Study as we did not get a com­plete extend­ed draw down this year.

9. Dam Advi­so­ry committee

No update

1. New Busi­ness

Boat­ing Safe­ty course – 28 attend­ed – successruf

Research with chem­i­cal con­trols – fol­low up with Mark with email from COLAP

1. Next meet­ing: TUESDAY, MAY 6^th – FRANK & PATTY’S 7:00 pm

2. Motion for adjournment

Motion: Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Brian

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Meet­ing end 8:28 pm