Exec. bd meet­ing min­utes ‑090115

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

Sep­tem­ber 1, 2015

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

Start time:     7:15 pm

1. Treasurer’s Report – no changes from last meeting

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 August 10^th Bd. Meet­ing.  Vote to accept the min­utes, post meet­ing min­utes to the web­site after board approval

Min­utes not avail­able, Pat­ty to send to E‑Board at a lat­er date for approval.  Will vote to accept at next meeting.

3. Extend­ed Draw Down

Dave Gibbs called Spin­del Island fam­i­ly, they have agreed to $1,000 to move and allow Extend­ed Draw Down with no issues

Mike put togeth­er a hous­ing agree­ment for them to sign.

Pay­ment will be made 10/1 out of reg­u­lar funds, with the inten­tion to ask Board of Select­men to reim­burse LMPA from the Weed Funds approved by Town Meet­ing.  This should be turned over to the Town in the future.

4. Bio­log­i­cal Survey

            Bio­log­i­cal sur­vey was com­plet­ed by ACT on 8/31/15.  AB Aquat­ics (DASH com­pa­ny) to do com­pre­hen­sive sur­vey of the lake in Sep­tem­ber to deter­mine worst areas to be focused on.  They will give results once com­plet­ed to LMPA and the Town.

5. Dis­solved Oxy­gen Testing

2 addi­tion­al tests will be per­formed in addi­tion to our nor­mal Water Test­ing.  Test­ing to be done in Sep­tem­ber in the North Basin

Mal­colm to send noti­fi­ca­tion out to mem­ber­ship and update on weed control.

6. Ropes and Mark­ers – Park & Rec

Ropes are mark­ers were removed from Sandy Beach, even though Lau­ra had asked at the Park & Rec meet­ing to have them remain until after Labor Day.  Sabine talked with Lau­ra, Lau­ra will look into why they were removed.  Pos­si­bly a sign in the bath house should be put up regard­ing this.

7. Web­site and Facebook

Pat­ty has been doing the updates and adding infor­ma­tion and photos.

Put a fold­er up on Safe­ty on the web­site (Boat­ing Safety)

Start a Fun Fact Fri­day on Face­book,  one per­son each week to send a fun fact to Pat­ty to post on Face­book (this week, Drew will send “Did you know” about PWC safety.

8. Lake Clean Up

Octo­ber 17^th, 9:00 am

As usu­al, cof­fee and donuts at 9:00 am

Piz­za for vol­un­teers at 12:00 pm

Pat­ty to post on Face­book, Tina to send email to membership.

9. New Busi­ness

Talked about new fun activ­i­ties that can be planned for members:

            Lake Corn Hole Tour­na­ment, go from home to home on the lake and play

            Vol­ley­ball Tournament

Sabine to talk with Lau­ra to try to get some­thing set up, if not this year, next year.

Update brochure and send to Sabine so she can dis­trib­ute to Wel­come Wag­on when new neigh­bors move to the lake.

Next meet­ing:  Tues­day, Octo­ber 6th, 7:00 pm, Tina’s house

            Motion to adjourn:           Malcolm

            Sec­ond: Mike

            Unanimous

End time:  8:45 pm

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

Lake Area Residents:

After a beau­ti­ful sum­mer, it is now approach­ing the time that the annu­al draw down of the lake begins. The tim­ing of the draw down is man­dat­ed by a per­mit received from the Hop­kin­ton Con­ser­va­tion Com­mis­sion and must begin no ear­li­er than Sep­tem­ber 15th and no lat­er than Octo­ber 1st. The exact date can vary from year to year based upon the lev­el of the lake com­ing out of the sum­mer. This year it is antic­i­pat­ed that the draw down will com­mence on or close to the Sep­tem­ber 15th date. A more exten­sive draw down of the lake will be con­duct­ed this year. Instead of the nor­mal 4–5 foot reduc­tion, the lake lev­el will be reduced by 7–8 feet in an effort to con­trol the inva­sive weeds. It is hoped that the full draw down lev­el will be reached approx­i­mate­ly Decem­ber 15th. The peri­od of time that the lake will be at the low­est lev­el will be as short as pos­si­ble. If the weath­er coop­er­ates, and we have suf­fi­cient freez­ing of the weed roots, the lake lev­el will be allowed to rise to the nor­mal win­ter draw down lev­els, which is the 4–5 foot reduc­tion. The lake will be allowed to begin return­ing to nor­mal win­ter draw down lev­els no lat­er than Jan­u­ary 15th. Re-fill of the lake to spring lev­els will begin with “ice out” or around March 1st as usual.

The LMPA will be host­ing a LAKE CLEANUP on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 17th. Please meet at Sandy Beach park­ing lot to pick up trash bags at 9:00 am (cof­fee, hot choco­late and donuts pro­vid­ed to workers!).

There will be a dump­ster in Sandy Beach park­ing lot for you to bring your trash bags back to dur­ing the clean up.

We will meet back at Sandy Beach park­ing lot at 12:00 pm, and the LMPA will pro­vide piz­za, soda/water for those who worked hard clean­ing our beau­ti­ful resource!!!

The next LMPA Exec­u­tive Board meet­ing will be held on Tues­day, Octo­ber 6th at 7:00 pm.

Please let Mal­colm Page know if you are plan­ning to attend (malcolmepage@gmail.com)

This is a reg­u­lar Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing, not a spe­cial Gen­eral Meeting.

We will be post­ing these month­ly  meet­ing dates, so that if any Lake Mem­bers have some­thing they would like to dis­cuss with the E‑Board, they are wel­come to attend.

The meet­ing will be held at 6 Downey Street (home of Tina and Jon MacConnell).

Exec. bd meet­ing min­utes ‑072015

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

July 20, 2015

Atten­dance:  Mal­colm, Pat­ty, Tina, Sabine, Drew, Matt, Mark

Start time:     7:05 pm

1. Treasurer’s Report – as of 6/30/15

$4,313.78 in reg­u­lar account

$4,826.87 in Weed Fund

Mem­ber­ship is up, get­ting more activity

2. Town of Hop­kin­ton Weed Man­age­ment Advi­so­ry Board

Three peo­ple have been approved to serve on the advisory:

            Cyn­thia Estheimer

            Drew Logan

            Jaime Gonzalves

            A rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Park & Rev and Con­serv. Comm. need to be appoint­ed by the Board of Select­men.  Next Board of Select­men meet­ing is 8/11, they should have selec­tions by then and then will sched­ule their first meeting.

3. Extend­ed Draw Down

Want to draw down to 7–8 feet

Check with the town about Spin­del Island – some­one will need to meet with them to dis­cuss (John Westerling???)

Per­mit states we have to noti­fy mem­ber­ship by 8/15

Opti­mal draw lev­els would be 2” per day (cur­rent­ly 1”)

Mal­colm will get a let­ter togeth­er to present to Con­serv. Comm.

We will need a new weed study, good idea to use as a baseline

Need to doc­u­ment cur­rent con­di­tions with photos.

LMPA will pay for the weed study (approx. $1,000) and try to get reim­bursed through the town from the funds available.

Motion:  Expend the mon­ey need­ed for Bio­log­i­cal Sur­vey by ACT

            Motion:  Malcolm

            Sec­ond: Patty

            Unanimous

4. Boat Parade

Win­ner:  Chris Caldwell

Hon­or­able Men­tion:  Dan Logan

Tina had asked Chris­tine Snow (lake res­i­dent) to take pic­tures of the lake and the Boat Parade and to update Face­book regularly.

For thank­ing her for her efforts, we will adver­tise her busi­ness on Face­book and the Website.

5. Exec­u­tive Board Space

Paul Szulews­ki would like to be replaced on the Board.  He is plan­ning to move out of state soon and will not be able to serve.

Look­ing at replace­ments for Paul, will dis­cuss at the next board meeting.

6. Grand Open­ing – Sandy Beach party

Big suc­cess, over 300 peo­ple attend­ed.  Good expo­sure for LMPA, excel­lent com­mu­ni­ty event.  Rein­forces rela­tion­ship with town mem­bers who do not live on the lake.  Need to reim­burse Sabine $180 for sup­plies for party.

Talk to Lau­ra (Park & Rec lia­son) about putting some infor­ma­tion on our web­site about beach pass­es, etc (“Check out Sandy Beach” Pass­es avail­able) with a link to Park & Rec site.

7. Insur­ance

If we co-spon­sor with the town on an event, does the town insur­ance cov­er any cat­a­stro­phe?  Do we need so much insurance?

      Mark will check with oth­er lake asso­ci­a­tions to see what their cov­er­ages are

      EBoard vs. Event Insur­ance – Matt to check our pol­i­cy, what does it cover

8. New Busi­ness

Noth­ing to report at this meeting

Next meet­ing:  Mon­day, August 10^th – 7:00 pm at Tina’s

Motion to adjourn:           Malcolm

Sec­ond: Drew

Unan­i­mous

Meet­ing end:  8:50 pm

The next LMPA Exec­u­tive Board meet­ing will be held on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 1st at 7:00 pm.

Please let Mal­colm Page know if you are plan­ning to attend (malcolmepage@gmail.com)

This is a reg­u­lar Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing, not a spe­cial Gen­er­al Meeting.

We will be post­ing these month­ly  meet­ing dates, so that if any Lake Mem­bers have some­thing they would like to dis­cuss with the E‑Board, they are wel­come to attend.

The meet­ing will be held at 207 West Main Street (home of Frank and Pat­ty Holland).

The next LMPA Exec­u­tive Board meet­ing will be held on Mon­day, August 10th at 7:00 pm.

Please let Mal­colm Page know if you are plan­ning to attend (malcolmepage@gmail.com)

This is a reg­u­lar Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing, not a spe­cial Gen­er­al Meeting.

We will be post­ing these month­ly  meet­ing dates, so that if any Lake Mem­bers have some­thing they would like to dis­cuss with the E‑Board, they are wel­come to attend.

The meet­ing will be held at 6 Downey Street (home of Tina and Jon MacConnell).

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