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EXTENDED DRAW DOWN OF THE LAKE HAS BEGUN

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.

Please be aware of the draw down process and arrange for the removal of boats and docks accordingly.

Have a great autumn,

The Offi­cers and Exec­u­tive Board
Lake Maspenock Preser­va­tion Association

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LAKE CLEANUP — SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17th

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!!!

Please join us and bring lots of helpers on Octo­ber 17th!!!!

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NEXT LMPA Executive Board Meeting, Tuesday, October 6th

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).

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Executive Board Meeting Minutes from July 20, 2015

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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

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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

  

  1. New Busi­ness

Noth­ing to report at this meeting

 

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

 

Motion to adjourn:           Malcolm

Sec­ond: Drew

Unan­i­mous

 

Meet­ing end:  8:50 pm

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NEXT LMPA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING — Tuesday, September 1, 2015

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).

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NEXT LMPA Executive Board Meeting — Monday, August 10th

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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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