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Meeting Minutes — 19 June 2013

Lake Maspenock Preservation Association

Executive Board Meeting Minutes

JUNE 19, 2013

Start time: 7:27 pm

In atten­dance:

Mal­colm, Frank, Mike, Pat­ty, Bri­an, Drew, Rick

1. Review and vote to accept min­utes from May 20th meeting.

Post meet­ing min­utes to web­site after board approval

Motion: Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Mike

Unan­i­mous

2. Treasurer’s Report – Trea­sur­er (Tina) not present at meet­ing to present figures

3. Fund raising

Mike – no progress, sta­tus quo

Mike wants to talk to Lou about EMC, will talk to Price Chop­per (Cor­po­rate)

Sug­ges­tion to check with Price Chop­per to see if we can sell T‑Shirts/Hats/Sweatshirts/Towels at the store, Mike to look into this

4. Update on Sandy Beach work, Buoys?

Beach open­ing – June

Beach house sched­uled to be con­struct­ed ear­ly July (sub modular)

Scope has not changed but progress is slow

Bri­an has resigned from Park and Rec

5. Dam Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee (Update Mike, Mark, Frank)

Mike has not heard any­thing regard­ing first meet­ing from Nor­man (Town Manager)’s office. Mike to call Jaime Gonzalvez

6. Let­ter to EMC

Dave Gibbs called Dan Fitzger­ald, he got no response

7. Boat Parade, 7/4, 2:00 pm – Notice sent out, send out fol­low-up notice?

Fol­low up notice was sent on June 29th by Tina to membership

8. Dunkin’ Donuts Petition?

Jen sent a note to Mal­colm from a res­i­dent, they want us to spon­sor NOT sup­port­ing the new Dunkin’ Donuts on West Main Street to be built. Not some­thing that the Lake Asso­ci­a­tion would spon­sor or sup­port, we sup­port envi­ron­men­tal and lake issues. The phys­i­cal loca­tion is out­side of our area of inter­est thus not con­sis­tent with our Mission.

9. New Business

Extend­ed Draw Down –

What paper­work needs to be in place for the Lake Asso­ci­a­tion to hold the extend­ed draw down this year, new weeds are ter­ri­ble on North side of the lake

The cur­rent agree­ment is every three years, we would have to go back to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mit­tee with a new Notice of Intent to accel­er­ate the date to this year. Mal­colm will research, talk to Con­ser­va­tion Com­mit­tee and get nec­es­sary paper­work in order.

Fish­ing Tour­na­ment – Sep­tem­ber 14th is pro­posed, every­one seemed to be good with that date, more plan­ning dis­cussed at next meeting

10. Next meeting?

Mon­day, August 5th – 7:00 pm – 6 Downey Street (Tina’s)

11. Motion for adjournment

Motion: Mal­colm

Sec­ond: Patty

Unan­i­mous

End time: 8:24 pm