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Approval by the Board of Director’s
EAGLE LAKE-PAW PAW ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTOR’S MEETING
Call to Order: President Chuck Cubbage called the meeting to order at 7:01 PM
Members Present: President Chuck Cubbage; Vice President Skip Youngblood; Treasurer Pat Cubbage; Secretary Doug Dorgan; Eagle Lake Campers Rep Skip Youngblood; Eagle Lake Park Rep Chuck Cubbage; Palmer Beach Rep David Baker; Trails End Rep Tony Herd; Hoodrije Shores Rep Ken Nielsen, At-Large Member Gary Sargent.
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Members Absent: Collins Cove Rep Ruth Wilkinson; Eagle Lake South Shore Rep Brian Hansen; Keepsake Shores Rep Jerry King.
(Though no formal request had been made the Secretary would commence referring to the former Eagle Lake Subdivision area of the lake as Eagle Lake South Shore)
Minutes: Minutes of the October 11, 2005 meeting were approved on motion by Ken Nielsen second by Tony Herd.
Treasurer’s Report: Treasurer advised a balance of $940.33. Report was approved on motion by Doug Dorgan second by Gary Sargent.
Committee reports:
Government: No report.
Finance: Doug Dorgan reported he had conversation with Kerry Tapper regarding handling the addressing of their Look Sharp Marketing ad flier where they were to return 5% of their sales of clothing with Eagle Lake embroidery. Doug had also provided Kerry wording to be included that acknowledge the Lake Associations participation in issuing the ad flier. Doug had not heard further from Kerry but previously had asked that Look Sharp forward a check to Pat Cubbage for the $41 earned from their previous offer to the lake property owners. Doug was to follow-up further with Kerry but time was running out to accomplish the ad flier.
Health and Safety: No report
Water Quality: Chuck Cubbage shared a blow-up photo of the blue-green algae that was floating in the lake fall and was to prepare an article for inclusion in the newsletter next spring so that the property owners would be aware of the changing population of things living in the lake.
Newsletter: The possibility of holding a special meeting or the annual meeting at an indoor facility was considered. This would allow for various presentations to be made regarding methods of protecting the quality of our lake. It was decided the cost of such a facility would be difficult to handle at this time so we would attempt to present as much as possible in a spring newsletter. The newsletter will be prepared over the winter to be available for initial approval at the March 2006 board meeting for mailing by about April 26, 2006. Considerable discussion followed regarding possible items for inclusion in the newsletter and various board members agreed to prepare the supporting newsletter articles.
Skip and Doug agreed to prepare an article on fertilizers available that are less damaging to the lake, and investigate the possibility for distribution to property owners through bulk purchasing that might generate some revenue to the association.
Skip agreed to prepare an article with some of the results from the sewer study interest survey so those who had been approached would be advised of the overall results.
Tony agreed to prepare two separate articles. One on the Eagle Lake watershed area and those activities that impact the lake from that watershed and further down stream to the overall Paw Paw river watershed and another on the impact of septic of various items that enter the individual systems, such as different soaps used and fabric softeners.
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Pat will prepare a newsletter item regarding dues payments.
Dave proposed and agreed to work on a questionnaire asking Eagle Lake property owners their interest and position of the sewer system concept and possibly other issues. The questionnaire would be in the form of a stamped, self address post card to be included in the April newsletter.
Ken agreed to check with Kalamazoo College for information that may be available on water contamination and prepare an article from any information developed.
Doug agreed to follow-up with the water resource individual who was reported to have a display demonstrating the process of a septic system for a possible newsletter article as well as a display of the demonstration at the annual meeting. Doug will also prepare an item on various meeting dates that are always open to all property owners.
Some of the advertisers from last spring’s newsletter will be approached regarding interest in advertising in the April 2006 newsletter and all board members will seek advertisements from firms that did not advertise in our previous newsletter.
Nominating Committee: No report necessary
Old Business: Chuck provided follow-up to the letter he had received from Van Buren County regarding some drain modification that was to occur; the drain in question is not in our area.
New Business: The date for the annual meeting was set for Saturday June 24, 2006.
Next Meeting Date: Tuesday March 7, 2006. This is the first Tuesday in March. Additional meetings were scheduled for April 11, May 9 and June 13, 2006
Adjournment: Meeting was adjourned at 814 PM on motion by Pat Cubbage and second by Ken Nielsen.
Doug Dorgan, Secretary