Weed Advi­so­ry Board min­utes 3–24-16

Please click on the link below to view a very infor­ma­tive, well writ­ten brochure about how to keep our lake healthy!

Lake Brochure

Bald Eagle Nesting

There are now more eagles nest­ing in Mass­a­chu­setts than any time in the recent past, and we need your help keep­ing track of them! Please report eagle sight­ings to Andrew Vitz (MassWildlife’s State Ornithol­o­gist,andrew.vitz@state.ma.us). Many of our nest­ing eagles are band­ed with cod­ed-col­or bands that iden­ti­fy the indi­vid­ual, so make sure to look for these leg bands when­ev­er you see or pho­to­graph an eagle. We are par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in get­ting reports of birds car­ry­ing sticks. When there is evi­dence of a new breed­ing ter­ri­to­ry, our staff ver­i­fies the report as they mon­i­tor known nests. Mass­Wildlife will con­duct its Spring Eagle Sur­vey on Fri­day, April 8. The Sur­vey con­sists of coor­di­nat­ed teams of staff and vol­un­teers who spread out across the state to check on his­toric nest sites and look for new nests.

 http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dfg/dfw/education-events/masswildlife-news/masswildlife-monthly-march-2016.html

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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

Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

Exec­u­tive Board Meet­ing Minutes

Jan­u­ary 11, 2016

Start time:  7:05 pm

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

1. Treasurer’s report-

Reg­u­lar account:  $2,006.40

Weed fund:  $5,008.13

Both checks were cashed from Spin­del Island

2. Draw down –Re-fill to nor­mal win­ter draw down lev­els should start this week

Should start 1/15, wait­ing for deep freeze.  John W. try­ing to get exten­sion from Con. Comm.

3. LMPA weed committee

It was decid­ed that we would not pur­sue an LMPA Weed Com­mit­tee at this time, due to the Town Spon­sored com­mit­tee work­ing on the issues.

4. Town weed advi­so­ry committee – 

The com­mit­tee met Thurs­day, 1/7.  Good meet­ing.  Sched­ul­ing two pub­lic meet­ing for town input

            One at town hall – Feb­ru­ary 9^th proposed

            One at Senior Cen­ter – Feb­ru­ary 27^th proposed

All meth­ods will be discussed.

There was a speak­er from Dud­ley Pond, talked about what they did (stud­ies, her­bi­cides, mechan­i­cal har­vest­ing, etc)

Need to vet all alter­na­tives and get feedback

The com­mit­tee will put togeth­er a sur­vey and pub­lish on Town Website

We can pub­li­cize on our Web­site and FB page as well

Mass­Dep water qual­i­ty Sum­mit Feb­ru­ary 5th

5. Arti­cle in Metrow­est paper, Novem­ber 15^th con­cern­ing Com­mu­ni­ty Preser­va­tion Com­mit­tee fund­ing – Mon­ey to install boat ramp at Sandy Beach?

Boat ramp was dam­aged by some­one tak­ing out their boat, a truck got stuck and had to be towed.  Dam­ages some of the con­crete blocks.

Mal­colm to con­tact Eric Son­net about why this is necessary.

6. Boat­ing safe­ty course – Need to find a location

Tina to check with Rick O’Dell about Rod & Gun Club space

Jaime to check with FCCC church for space

7. Win­ter Social – Sat­ur­day, 1/23

Food so far (meat­balls, buf­fa­lo chick­en dip, asparagus/prochuitto/shrimp/calzones) 

Pat­ty to adver­tise on web­site and FB

Bring sweat­shirts, etc to par­ty to sell

8. New Busi­ness

Be aware of bur­glary off of Dineen Road

Keep your eyes open for your neighbors.

9. Next meet­ing?

Time:  Tues­day, FEBRUARY 2^nd

Place:  Tina’s

10. Motion for adjournment –
    1. Mal­colm
    2. Sec­ond – Patty

End time:  8:30 pm

The next LMPA Exec­u­tive Board meet­ing will be held on Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 11, 2016 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).