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GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING — JUNE 22, 2015

The Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion will hold a mem­ber­ship meet­ing on Mon­day, June 22, 2015 at 6:30 PM. The loca­tion of the meet­ing is Sandy Beach. In case of rain, the meet­ing will be moved to Tues­day, 6/23, the same time and place. An email will be sent out to noti­fy the mem­ber­ship of any postponement.

Annu­al elec­tions for posi­tions on the Exec­u­tive Board will be held. The fol­low­ing posi­tions are up for election:

* Pres­i­dent Cur­rent­ly held by Mal­colm Page Seek­ing re-election
* Exec­u­tive #1 Cur­rent­ly held by Sabine St. Pierre Seek­ing re-election
* Exec­u­tive #2 Cur­rent­ly held by David Collins Not seek­ing re-election

Any­one inter­est­ed in run­ning for one of the avail­able posi­tions should con­tact Mal­colm Page, (malcolmepage@gmail.com), for addi­tion­al information.

In addi­tion to the elec­tions, there will be an impor­tant dis­cus­sion con­cern­ing Aquat­ic Plant Growth Man­age­ment. The results and impli­ca­tions of the vote tak­en at this year’s town meet­ing will be reviewed. Devel­op­ments since town meet­ing will be dis­cussed. The LMPA will be work­ing with the town to eval­u­ate the avail­able options and to imple­ment, what we hope will be, an effec­tive strat­e­gy. This is the most chal­leng­ing prob­lem that the LMPA is cur­rent­ly fac­ing. This is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for us to come togeth­er as an asso­ci­a­tion to decide which direc­tion to take.

Please make every effort to attend this meet­ing. It is impor­tant that the mem­ber­ship be active­ly involved in our organization.

The Offi­cers and Exec­u­tive Board mem­bers of
Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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Letter to our membership from the President.

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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

April 16, 2015

TO: Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion Members,

Lake area res­i­dents and all con­cerned residents

I am sure most of you are aware that Lake Maspenock is expe­ri­enc­ing a sig­nif­i­cant prob­lem with exces­sive aquat­ic weed growth.  In response to this prob­lem the Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (LMPA) has been mov­ing for­ward with an aquat­ic weed man­age­ment plan.  An orga­nized plan to con­trol inva­sive and prob­lem­at­ic weed growth has been on going for over a decade.  The lat­est phase in the LMPA’s efforts to man­age this prob­lem orig­i­nat­ed from a mem­ber­ship vote tak­en in the fall of 2013.  That vote direct­ed the LMPA Exec­u­tive Board to inves­ti­gate how this prob­lem could be con­trolled, and to present a plan to do so.  An aquat­ic growth man­age­ment com­mit­tee was formed to under­take this man­date in the fall of 2014.  The com­mit­tee con­duct­ed exten­sive research into the con­trol meth­ods avail­able.  On Jan­u­ary 8, 2015 a Gen­er­al meet­ing was held by the LMPA Exec­u­tive Board to present the committee’s find­ings and rec­om­men­da­tions to the Asso­ci­a­tion mem­ber­ship.  The com­mit­tee rec­om­mend­ed the selec­tive use of her­bi­cides to bring the exces­sive weed growth under con­trol.  This rec­om­men­da­tion was unan­i­mous­ly sup­port­ed by the LMPA Exec­u­tive Board, and more impor­tant­ly, an over­whelm­ing major­i­ty of the Lake Asso­ci­a­tion members.

It is com­plete­ly under­stand­able that the thought of intro­duc­ing her­bi­cides into the lake we love is cause for seri­ous con­cern.  This course of action was not entered into with­out care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion of what options were avail­able, the effec­tive­ness of those options, the fea­si­bil­i­ty, and the safe­ty both short and long term of any options select­ed.  I urge every­one to review the infor­ma­tion on the LMPA web­site.  You will see the time line of the LMPA’s efforts in regards to this prob­lem, addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion explain­ing the time line and the con­trol meth­ods con­sid­ered, and not cho­sen, as well as what meth­ods were cho­sen, and why.  In addi­tion, there is a brief slide show avail­able which will answer many ques­tions.  Links to an exten­sive amount of sci­en­tif­ic research are also avail­able.  Again the plan being pro­mot­ed was not cho­sen light­ly.  It was expect­ed and under­stand­able that many of you would have seri­ous con­cerns, and would expect and deserve, answers to your ques­tions before being able to sup­port this plan.

If you look at the logo at the top of this let­ter you will see that it is divid­ed into four quad­rants.  Each sec­tion rep­re­sents dif­fer­ent aspects of what we all enjoy about liv­ing near the won­der­ful resource of Lake Maspenock.  Be it swim­ming, fish­ing, boat­ing, ski­ing or sim­ply enjoy­ing the wide vari­ety of wildlife, we should strive to pre­serve what our logo rep­re­sents.  Each aspect should be respect­ed and pro­tect­ed equal­ly and respon­si­bly.  It is rec­og­nized that there are dif­fer­ing views and opin­ions con­cern­ing this issue, and that we are not all going to agree.  Please review the avail­able infor­ma­tion to edu­cate your­self and to help you to eval­u­ate your posi­tion on the pro­posed plan.  Dif­fer­ing opin­ions should be respect­ed and acknowl­edged, as we are all neigh­bors, and it is hoped that we will con­tin­ue to enjoy Lake Maspenock for many years to come.  There are numer­ous ways that we all can work togeth­er to fur­ther the efforts to con­trol exces­sive plant growth, even if we do not agree on how best to accom­plish that goal.

The Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion urges your sup­port for the approved plan, which will help to pre­serve the lake in a safe and respon­si­ble way.

Thank you,

Mal­colm Page

Pres­i­dent

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

 

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Meeting Minutes — 3 February 2015

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

Feb­ru­ary 3, 2015

Atten­dance:  Mal­colm, Pat­ty, Tina, Paul, Mark, Rick, Mike

Guests:  Dave Gibbs, Don Kaiser

Start time:  7:10 pm

 

  1. Review, dis­cuss any clar­i­fi­ca­tions and vote to accept min­utes from Novem­ber 11th and Decem­ber 17th Exec. Bd. meet­ings. Post meet­ing min­utes to web­site after board approval.  Dis­cuss and review Weed Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee meet­ing min­utes, Post?

Motion to accept min­utes – Malcolm

Sec­ond: Rick

Unan­i­mous

 

  1. Mem­ber Don Keis­er would like to address the Exec. Bd.

Don spoke about his feel­ings and how the Weed Con­trol Meet­ing that was held on Jan­u­ary 8th was run.

 Dave Gibbs, Mal­colm and Mike had dis­cus­sions with all of Don’s points.  The meet­ing was set up in advance that ques­tions could be asked by writ­ing them down and pass­ing for­ward to the speak­ers in order to keep the meet­ing under con­trol and with­in the time­lines allowed, as the LMPA only had the use of the cafe­te­ria for a cer­tain time peri­od.    It was not­ed that this was stat­ed in all of the com­mu­ni­ca­tions that were sent to the mem­ber­ship regard­ing the meet­ing.  Don agreed at the end of the dis­cus­sions that he was not aware in advance of the forum and how ques­tions would be addressed, and he also agreed to work with Dave Gibbs on the issue of home­own­ers using phos­pho­rus fer­til­iz­er on their lawns so close to the lake and the issues that arise from it. 

  1. Gen­er­al mem­ber­ship meet­ing, held Jan­u­ary 8, 2015 — Inva­sive weed con­trol pre­sen­ta­tion and vote by membership. 
  • Con­tract with ACT — signed
  • NOI – work­ing out for­mal­i­ties, mov­ing for­ward, Dave got abut­ters lists
  • Pub­lic hear­ings – Mil­ford Feb. 19th , Hop­kin­ton Feb. 23rd

-    Gen­er­al Update – Tax deduc­tion letters…

Abut­ters will be noti­fied by mail (400 feet from lakefront)

Con­ser­va­tion Comm – check to try to get larg­er meet­ing room, ask for basement

Hop­kin­ton 3rd par­ty con­sul­tant to look at NOI

            Lucas Environmental

            DPW Is applicant

Need to con­tin­ue to fundraise. 

Tax deduc­tion let­ters – Tina sent out let­ters for donations 

A voice vote was tak­en, with an over­whelm­ing major­i­ty, vot­ing to move for­ward on the per­mit­ting process to treat the weed problem.

 

  1. Winter/Spring Social, Boat parade prize winner

Date set – March 21st – Rick to sign contract

            Need ovens

            Tina and Pat­ty to han­dle arrangements

            Get prop from Rick to put Chris’ name on it (Drew)

 

  1. Web Site – Anoth­er volunteer?

Dave Mason has offered to help with web­site.  Tina to get Jen’s phone num­ber and pass along to Dave

 

  1. Trea­sur­ers report – New mem­bers… Account balances?

Reg­u­lar account: $3,722.09

Weed Fund:  $4,525.00

Paid ACT (abut­ters list)

New mem­ber – 10–15 new mem­bers or renewals

 

  1. Event Insur­ance

Indi­vid­ual insur­ance poli­cies for events

Can pre­pare a “hold harmless”

Mike to devel­op a waiv­er to pro­tect volunteers

Rick to get insur­ance com­pa­ny from Woodville to Mike

Tina to sup­ply Mike with our insur­ance co. and find out how oth­er fish­ing der­bys han­dle insurance

 

  1. Fish­ing tour­na­ment, Gen­er­al meet­ing, Fam­i­ly Fun Day

-Key to Bath house for our events?

Look­ing at May 2nd for Fish­ing Tournament

            Have to check with Park and Rec about the key to the bath house, ask Amy

Gen­er­al Meet­ing – Fam­i­ly Fun Day (Joint grand open­ing?) have to check with Park and Rec

Next Weed Man­age­ment Meet­ing 2/11 loca­tion TBD

 

  1. Boat­ing safe­ty class

30 reg­is­tered with Envi­ron­men­tal Police – reg­is­tra­tion now closed

Mark to ask to open to 45 people

Date:  March 7tth 8:00 am to 5:30 pm, bring lunch

 

  1. Ter­centen­ni­al Cel­e­bra­tion – Ron and Sabine attend­ed meet­ing, parade float?

Town to sup­ply flat bed for float. 

Motion to work on float and make a subcommittee

            Motion:  Tina

            Sec­ond: Patty

            Unanimous

 

  1. New Busi­ness

Approach DPW for boat ramp polic­ing – wash­ing boats com­ing in and out.

Wel­come Com­mit­tee – a wel­come com­mit­tee should be formed for when new peo­ple move onto the lake, we can greet them and make them aware of the LMPA.

 

  1. Next meet­ing?

Tues­day, March 3rd at Tina’s

 

 

 

  1. Motion for adjournment 

Motion:  Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Patty

Unan­i­mous

 

End time:  8:54 pm

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Meeting Minutes (Executive Board + Weed Management Committee) — 17 December 2014

AGENDA – DECEMBER 17, 2014

Agenda for 12/17/14 LMPA Executive Board and Weed Management Meeting

In atten­dance:

Eboard: Mal­colm, Pat­ty, Tina, Mark, Paul, Rick

Weed Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee: Dave Gibbs, Ron, Sabine, Bill, Cathy, Tom

  1. Review hand­outs for Jan­u­ary 8th Pub­lic Infor­ma­tion Meet­ing to be held at Hop­kin­ton High Cafe­te­ria regard­ing use of chem­i­cals to con­trol eva­sive weeds in Lake Maspenock.

                  Motion: Malcolm

                  Sec­ond: Patty

                  Unanimous

  1. Review fundrais­ing activities
  2. Pri­vate fund­ing from lake area residents
  3. CPC Feed­back on CPA fund­ing request

Rick to attend meeting

                  Amend­ed appli­ca­tion – dis­cuss final­ized vote

                  Fund­ing requests are pro­jec­tions at this stage, pos­i­tive meet­ing with Park & Rec

Gen­er­al Mem­ber­ship meet­ing on Jan­u­ary 8th. Need vote by mem­ber­ship to move for­ward.   Email to be sent to mem­ber­ship, need to make clear that mem­ber­ship will vote. Weed Com­mit­tee to draft and send to Rick. Sand­wich boards to be post­ed in three prime loca­tions around the lake (207 West Main, Cor­ner of Hay­ward and South Street, Pine Island Road).   Will need the meet­ing to be held in an order­ly fash­ion. Keep a log of all atten­dees, make sure they are cur­rent with dues in order to vote. Ques­tions may be asked by sub­mit­ting ques­tions in writ­ing.   There will only be one vote per mem­ber, not household.

Mal­colm and Mike to talk to Don McAdams. After fur­ther review, get town board to be spon­sor of our appli­ca­tion, Park and Rec makes the most sense.

Reduces costs – would have to pay for consultants

ACT would do all the work for the applications.

Would need a change to the cur­rent order of con­di­tions, con­sid­ered a major change.

Notice of Intent is good until 2018, in first exten­sion this year. 

Need to change the mem­ber­ship renew­al form to add weed fund.

  1. Motion: Accept form with changes to be make (typo PayPal)

                  Motion: Malcolm

                  Sec­ond: Tina

                  Unanimous

  1. Motion for adjournment:

                  Motion: Malcolm

                  Sec­ond: Tina

                  Unanimous

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Weed Management Committee Meeting Minutes — 18 November 2014

Lake Maspenock Weed Management Committee

11/18/2014 Meeting Minutes

  • Dis­cus­sion held around inter­ac­tion between LMPA Exec­u­tive Board 
    • Doc­u­ments and actions to be reviewed and approved by E‑Board
      • Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and approval may be via email
    • Dis­cus­sion held around sub-com­mit­tee roles 
      • Mar­ket­ing & Fund raising-combined
      • Liai­son to ACT
      • Liai­son to Town
    • New Mis­sion Statement/Marketing fly­er to be devel­oped by Mar­ket­ing sub-committee
    • Reviewed Marketing/Fund Rais­ing Plan 
      • Pub­lic Infor­ma­tion­al Ses­sion with Dominique (ACT Con­sul­tant) sched­uled for 1/8 or 1/15 Snow date 
        • At HHS Cafe­te­ria; 7PM 
          • Mate­ri­als-100 of Each 
            • Fly­er & FAQ
            • Mar­ket­ing Pow­er-point Presentation
            • 2012 ACT Survey
            • Ques­tion­naire & Meet­ing Sur­vey to be hand­ed out and retrieved at end of meeting
            • New Mem­ber­ship Flyer/Form
            • Weed Dona­tion Receipt form (hand­out to donors only)
          • Com­mu­ni­ty inter­ac­tion-Media Social & Print 
            • Iden­ti­fy can­di­date to be inter­viewed for sto­ry in Hop­kin­ton Independent 
              • Out­line to be devel­oped by Mar­ket­ing sub-com­mit­tee and reviewed/approved by E‑Board
            • Solu­tion com­mu­ni­ca­tion by 1/31
              • Address­es prob­lem and com­mu­ni­ty con­cerns (dis­cov­ered from Questionnaire/Survey
            • Reviewed fund rais­ing ideas 
              • Signs sup­port­ing the Lake (Con­cept sim­i­lar to 1,000 homes for the library)
              • Polar plunge
              • Scare­crow drop through ice date
              • Ice Fish­ing Derby
            • Reviewed E‑Board Meeting
            • ACT Pro­pos­al for Pilot pro­gram received and reviewed 
              • Fundrais­ing begun with deposits to sep­a­rate bank account-Tax deductible
            • Reviewed next steps with CPC for CPA funding 
              • Appli­ca­tion sub­mit­ted 11/17
              • Pre­sen­ta­tion to be held 11/20-Mike Riley to speak on behalf of Community
              • CPC deci­sion due begin­ning of December
              • Will need to deter­mine next steps 
                • If CPC declines-will need TM Arti­cle for Gen­er­al Account Funding
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Meeting Minutes — 11 November 2014

Lake Maspenock Preservation Association

Executive Board Meeting Minutes

November 11, 2014

Present at meet­ing: Mal­colm, Pat­ty, Tina, Rick, Paul, Mike, Mark

Start time: 7:06 pm

  1. Review, dis­cuss changes and vote to accept min­utes from Octo­ber 7 E‑Board Meet­ing. Post meet­ing min­utes to web­site after board approval.

Motion: Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Tina

Unan­i­mous

  1. Trea­sur­ers report – New mem­bers… Account balance?

$2,853.69 in bank account

Tina sent in annu­al report — $15.00

Tina to check with CPA about addi­tion­al dona­tions and fund­ing for weed committee

  1. Web­site-Domain name, Dave Cormi­er, Jen Cassidy

Novem­ber 18th – Pat­ty and Tina to meet with Dave Cormi­er and Jen Cassidy.

Pat­ty and Tina will meet with Dave Cormi­er and Jen Cas­si­ty on 11/18 to go over turn­ing over web­site domain to LMPA. Has been host­ed by Dave, will now be han­dled by LMPA and Jen.

  1. Winter/Spring Social

Rick check­ing on March 21st date with Rod and Gun Club. Every­one to make per­son­al com­mit­ments to get peo­ple to come.   Good social event for net­work­ing with neighbors.

  1. Boat­ing Safe­ty Course

Need to secure Fire­house and teach­ers and pick date

  1. Water Test­ing

Third test of the year. Mark to do testing.

  1. Weed Committee/Markting/ACT/Fundraising

Mark talked to Domenic. Decom­po­si­tion of weeds will cre­ate more algae if not treat­ed. Mike talked to Don McAdams. He sug­gest­ed that the LMPA make an amend­ment to the Order of Con­di­tions that already exist. Notice of Intent can be cost­ly (appli­ca­tion) . Fol­lows order of con­di­tions. All part of the approval process.

Sug­gest­ed that we con­tin­ue draw down and add on chem­i­cal (dual approach) due to two dif­fer­ent weeds that we are try­ing to work with. Not try­ing to erad­i­cate, try­ing to control.

CPC is hold­ing meet­ing on 11/20, any appli­ca­tion for fund­ing needs to be in by 11/17. Pro­pos­al by Tues­day. Will raise pri­vate funding.

LMPA Board sup­ports going for­ward with pre­sent­ing mis­sion state­ment and dual approach for weed control.

Motion: (Mal­colm) Approval to move for­ward with appli­ca­tion and sub­mit­tal of appli­ca­tion to CPC for funding

Sec­ond: Tina

Unan­i­mous

  1. New Busi­ness:

Need to update brochure with “Weed Fund” box.

Will need to put togeth­er a thank you let­ter for the dona­tions received with Tax ID number

Pho­to con­test on Face­book – win an LMPA sweatshirt

  1. Next meet­ing? Decem­ber 17th – LMPA Hol­i­day Gathering

Invit­ing Weed com­mit­tee to join

  • Motion for adjourn­ment — Mike

Sec­ond: Malcolm

Unan­i­mous

End time: 8:45 pm

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REMINDER — Informational Weed Meeting — 8 January 2015

The Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion would like to invite you to attend an infor­ma­tion­al meet­ing about the cur­rent weed prob­lem that is hin­der­ing the recre­ation­al use of Lake Maspenock. The Meet­ing will be held on Jan­u­ary 8, 2015 at 7:00PM in the Hop­kin­ton High School Cafeteria.

This is a pub­lic meet­ing with the pur­pose of shar­ing infor­ma­tion about the sever­i­ty of the prob­lem of weeds, the research and inves­ti­ga­tion that has been done by the Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion to date, and rec­om­mend­ed actions. While this is a pub­lic meet­ing open to all, we strong­ly encour­age all mem­bers of the LMPA to join us and learn more about this prob­lem. We will be tak­ing a vote on future plans for weed con­trol. In order to vote you MUST BE AN LMPA mem­ber. If you are not sure if you are a cur­rent mem­ber, please email lmpa.org@verizon.net. If you are not a cur­rent mem­ber and you would like to join, you can do so at www.LMPA.org or there will be mem­ber­ship forms at the meeting.

Infor­ma­tion shared will include:

The Cur­rent situation

  • Types of weeds over­tak­ing many areas of the lake
  • Weed man­age­ment con­trol to date

Extend­ed draw-downs

  • Mass­a­chu­setts Lakes with sim­i­lar problems
  • What action has been undertaken

Intro­duc­tion of Aquat­ic Con­trol Tech­nolo­gies-Pond and Lake Man­age­ment Specialists

  • Lake Sur­vey-Assess­ment
  • Rec­om­men­da­tions for Her­bi­cide application
  • Fund Rais­ing
  • Activ­i­ties to date

Please join us and learn more about this prob­lem that is affect­ing us all and to fur­ther under­stand the require­ments nec­es­sary to prop­er­ly pre­serve the recre­ation­al use of the Lake.

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Meeting Minutes — 7 October 2014

Lake Maspenock Preservation Association

Executive Board Meeting Minutes

October 7, 2014

 

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

Also attend­ing:  Bill and Cathy Sweeney, Tom St. Pierre, Dave Gibbs, Karen Szulewski

Start time:  7:15 pm

1.    Review, dis­cuss any clar­i­fi­ca­tions and vote to accept min­utes from Sep­tem­ber 10th Exec. Bd. meet­ing.  Post meet­ing min­utes to web­site after board approval.

Malcolm’s changes:

Take out “west­er­ling”

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

Motion to post after changes made:  Malcolm

Sec­ond: Patty

Unan­i­mous

2.    Wel­come to The Pres­i­dent of the Lake Web­ster Asso­ci­a­tion – Jason Piader

Jason pre­sent­ed the board with a hand out of Web­ster Lake Asso­ci­a­tion Fundrais­ing Overview.   He was accom­pa­nied by the Past Pres­i­dent who also spoke about her involve­ment in the Association.

It was not­ed that Web­ster Lake spends between $48,000 and $60,000 annu­al­ly to treat their inva­sive weeds (Fan­wort and Milfoil).

There is a spe­cial per­mit­ting process required for use of chem­i­cals.  Con­ser­va­tion agent needs to be on board.

Their main focus on fundrais­ing efforts are:

Mem­ber involvement

Bulk Mail­ings

Wine Auc­tion

Spon­sor­ships from Local Busi­ness­es (Ice Out/Golf

Tour­na­ment)

Coop­er­a­tion with town and elect­ed officials

Grant Writ­ing

 

Mem­ber­ship Dues bring in $16,000

Bulk mail­ing (pleas for fund­ing) $4,500

Wine Auc­tion ($1,600)

Ice Out — $4,000 (50/50)

Golf Tour­na­ment — $18,600

Town Offi­cials paid for 1/3 of weed treat­ment in 2013,

Approx­i­mate­ly $16,000

Elect­ed offi­cials — $11,000 from their 2014 budget

Pro­posed $40,000 in matched state aid

There was much dis­cus­sions on spe­cif­ic topics.

Clip­per is the name of the her­bi­cide which they used,

It was just approved for use, and a less expensive

Chem­i­cal treatment

They use A.C.T, they tell them the funds they have,

A.C.T. then pro­vides an assess­ment and makes

rec­om­men­da­tions.

Much dis­cus­sion on the golf tour­na­ment as it raised the

Most funds for the Association.

3.    Inva­sive weed con­trol com­mit­tee – Dave Gibbs, Karen Reed, Bill and Cathy Sweeney.  Spread sheet with lake asso­ci­a­tions to con­tact and ques­tions to ask.  Ques­tions to ask, addi­tion­al lake asso­ci­a­tions? – Paul, Rick and Dave sent out a spread­sheet to the Board with ques­tions and assigned Lake Asso­ci­a­tions to con­tact.  Paul will col­lect the info and com­pile lists to dis­cuss at meet­ings.  Sep­a­rate meet­ing was con­firmed for just the Weed Com­mit­tee, Octo­ber 17th at the Sweeney’s house at 7:00 pm.

4.    Request for sup­port of a Thanks­giv­ing day char­i­ty 5K, Dave to check on back round of the race

Not cov­ered at this meeting

5.    Oil spill from elec­tri­cal transformer

Not cov­ered at this meeting

6.    Review brochure- Add that we are COLAP mem­bers, update Names of offi­cers and exec­u­tive board members…

Not cov­ered at this meeting

7.    Winter/Spring Social – Pos­si­ble dates?

Not cov­ered at this meeting

8.    Trea­sur­ers report – New mem­bers…  Account balance?

Trea­sur­er (Tina), not present at the meet­ing, not covered

9.    New Business

Not cov­ered at this meeting

10.Next meet­ing? Wed., Novem­ber 5th?, Place –

Paul & Karen’s 7:00 pm

11.Motion for adjournment

Motion:  Pat­ty

Sec­ond: Mike

Unan­i­mous

End time 8:45 pm