| Board of Directors MEETING KAWKAWLIN RIVER WATERSHED PROPERTY OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Meeting Minutes, 11-11-2009 1. Vice-President Jeff Staudacher called the meeting to order at 7:07 pm. 2. Roll Call – Jeff Staudacher, Julie Kleinau, Jerome Bartkowiak, Kevin Eickmeyer, Bob Rau, John Roszatycki, Glenn Rowley, and Darryl Steiner were present. Tim Banaszak, Joe Vogl, Dave Bledsoe, Bill Chernenko, Mike Darbee, and Tim Mark were excused. Ben Ramsay was absent. 3. Secretary’s Report – The minutes for the October board meeting were forwarded to the board members before the meeting. There were no additions or corrections proposed. Darryl moved to approve the minutes as submitted, Glenn seconded the motion. The minutes were approved as submitted. 4. Treasurer’s Report: YTD 09. Joe supplied his report prior to the meeting. There were no new revenues since last month. Some funds were transferred from checking to the money market account and to establish the building fund. John moved to approve the report as submitted, Jerome seconded the motion. The Treasurer’s report was approved as submitted. 5. Old Business: Review and Discuss: A. Bangor Township Property – No one has heard anything new about potential parcels. Darryl expressed concerns about purchasing property instead of leasing it. Many board members were in agreement. A storage unit might make more short term sense. The board’s desire is still to find a parcel owned by the township, not currently generating tax revenue & build a storage facility, perhaps to share with another organization. B. River Restoration – John, Darryl, & Glenn were at the last stakeholders meeting. The stakeholders were informed of the outcomes of the various subcommittees. John’s observation was that a lot of the subcommittees overlap in scope. At a second committee meeting (Corridor Assessment) that Tim attended, Dave presented the completed draft of the KRWPOA position paper letter. The letter was well received by the committee – Russ Beaubien (Spicer Engineering) questioned the panel and the panel agreed with our positions. Russ is ready to start writing the watershed plan, with the first version ready to review next summer. The channel markers have been removed (November 1st) – a notice was posted on mlive.com and in the print edition of the Bay City Times. 6. New Business: Discuss – none this evening. 7. Committee Chairperson’s Reports A. Memberships – John R. mentioned that he was approached by a business owner who was interested in serving on the KRWPOA board, but he is not a river resident. Since KRWPOA members need not be river residents, he could join the association and run for a board seat, or potentially take part in a committee. B. Weed Control – The consensus is that the river looks good – the best it has in several years. Not as many river residents called the township on problem lily pads this year, so treatment was applied to areas which were treated last year in addition to the new calls from this year. The township now will keep a record of requests for lily pad control, and Ray will treat those parcels each year, even if a new call is not made. C. River restoration – Discussed earlier. D. Water Quality/ E.coli – Darryl – Darryl discussed a grant of $75K for drain commissioner Joe Rivet (from the Watershed Initiative Network) to get a legal opinion and an operational opinion to see if drain commissioners can require filter strips on farmland. E. Safety Issues – The channel markers came out on Nov. 1. However, the signs not been changed over yet and the welcome sign has not been pulled yet. Darryl has a spare second no wake sign, (4 x 4 sign – need a placement for it). F. Fun Activities – Jeff, Ben and Mike, The committee is considering a winter bonfire. The next mixer at Castaway’s is next week. G. River Clean Up – Bob and Tim, no activity. H. History – Bob reported he had come across some interesting things – Bob is going to get with Glenn’s dad to discuss. I. Newsletter – The November issue has not been published yet – people did get their articles in. J. Website – There was some discussion on how to request updates – Consensus was that people should directly contact Carol if they want something posted on the website. Jeff thought it would be nice to post the Newsletter – he will discuss this with Carol to see if it would be difficult. 8. Next Board Meeting: Wednesday, January 13, 2010. – 7 pm at the Bangor Township Hall meeting room. Meeting Adjournment: John moved to adjourn the meeting; Glenn seconded the motion. The meeting was adjourned at approximately 7:52 pm. |