These minutes are made available pending

Approval by the Board of Director’s

 

EAGLE LAKE-PAW PAW ASSOCIATION

BOARD OF DIRECTOR’S MEETING

VAN BUREN CONFERENCE CENTER

TUESDAY April 15, 2008

 

Call to Order:  President Chuck Cubbage called the meeting to order at 7:02 PM

 

Members Present:  President Chuck Cubbage; Vice President Skip Youngblood; Treasurer Pat Cubbage; Secretary Doug Dorgan; Keepsake Shores Rep Jerry King; Collins Cove Rep Ruth Wilkinson; Eagle Lake Campers Rep Skip Youngblood; Eagle Lake Park Rep Chuck Cubbage; Palmer Beach Rep David Baker; Eagle Lake South Shore Rep Brian Hansen; Trails End Rep Tony Herd; Hoodrije Shores Rep Ken Nielsen; At-Large Member Gary Sargent.

 

Members Absent: Webmaster Harold Gravatt.

 

Minutes: Minutes of the October 9, 2007 Board meetings were reviewed, a motion was made and seconded to approved the minutes as presented, motion carried. 

 

Treasurer’s Report: Treasurer advised a balance of $2,858.52 with all bills paid.  A motion was made and seconded to approve the Treasurers report as presented, motion was approved.

 

Committee reports:

 

Government:  No report.

 

Finance:  No report.

 

Health and Safety:  No report.

 

Water Quality: 

·         Most property owners received a letter from the Van Buren County Drain Commission regarding work to be performed on the Gates Drain.  Chuck Cubbage had inquired as to how this would impact our members and learned the Gates Drain is the last man-made drain before the waters that flow from Eagle Lake enter the Paw Paw river system.  Drain cleaning costs about $2,500 per mile.  All upland property owners that benefit from this drain will be assessed for the cost of this drain work and there are approximately 2,000 beneficial properties upstream from the gates drain.  Because the least the assessment can be is $4, each of our property owners should expect an assessment of that amount.  There is meeting at 10:00 AM April 30th if anyone is interested in attending.

 

·         Due to the recent inquiry from Lake Brownwood to our Board members regarding their thoughts on the success of the weevil treatment for Eurasian Water Milfoil in Eagle Lake; it was suggested that there may be some benefit to asking our members their own opinion of the success of this effort.  While Board members seemed supportive of the effort and general success, it was recognized that some property owners may feel differently.  Solicitation of property owner input using some of the questions from Lake Brownwood and other questions to be provided by Board members will be done through a newsletter solicitation later this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newsletter: 

Chuck suggested a post card mailing asking the property owners to not clean their beach area until the weevils have had an opportunity to return to the lake and also to solicit their membership for 2008.  Pat Cubbage had prepared something for the dues solicitation and Chuck would provide something for the beach cleaning.  Doug would see what would fit on a computer generated post card.

 

Nominating:  No report was necessary.

 

Web Site:  No report.

 

Old Business: 

 

As follow-up to the Compost Tea process that was presented at the September 2007 meeting, two board members are planning to use the treatment two others are considering use this year and several others will be watching the results.

 

New Business: 

 

·         The Michigan Waterfront Alliance, a lobbying group that deals directly with the Michigan State Legislature on issues has solicited our membership to support their efforts.  Membership costs $100 per year and would include email and newsletter updates of their activities that Chuck Cubbage could share with other lake association members.  A motion was made, seconded and approved to join for one year.

 

·         Chuck Cubbage advised the Michigan Lake and Stream Associations annual conference will be held in Grayling, MI April 25, 26 and 27.  Chuck has attended this meeting in the past but will not able to attend this year.  Rooms at the Ramada Inn are $115 per night and the conference registration fee is $65.  Chuck suggested that if another Board member would like to attend perhaps the lake association could pay for the cost of their attendance.  In that no Board member volunteered the possibility of the association paying the cost was not put to a vote.

 

·         Ken Nielsen advised he had been approached by Allied Waste offering a special rate if they could get the business of everyone around the lake.  Ken was to check further regarding how they would handle seasonal property owners, start and stop fees, and minimum number of properties required to get the special rate expecting only about one third of the properties to be year-round.  A newsletter item may be necessary to explain the benefits to the property owners if such an offer is to be pursued.

                  

 

 

Next Meeting Date:  The next meeting of the Board is scheduled for May 6, 2008 at the Conference Center.  Further meetings will be scheduled at that meeting.

 

Adjournment:  A motion was made, seconded and approved to adjourn the meeting at 8:03 PM.

 

 

 

Doug Dorgan, Secretary