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Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Greensboro Association August 6, 2009
President Niall Kirkwood called the meeting to order at about 5 p.m. Trustees present: Broad, Crawford, Dales, Harvey, Johnston, Kirkwood, Lovett, Osterhout, Porrazzo, Reynolds, Schweizer, Stone, Twiss and Wheeler attended. A special meeting was required to nominate the Greensboro Association secretary, Stephanie Osterhout. It was moved and seconded to accept.
Minutes from July 9, 2009 Board of Trustees meeting were reviewed. Celia Crawford acted as interim secretary. Fireworks were increased from $5000 to $5500 (Greensboro paid $2500, GA paid $2000) general agreement that having fireworks on Sowles field was a good idea scheduled next year for Saturday 7/3/10 with a rain date of Monday 7/5/10 Website-approximately $700 of $2000 budget has been spent
It was moved and seconded to accept minutes from July 9, 2009 Board of Trustees meeting.
Treasurer’s report: Fiscal Year 2009 New expense - web services we accumulate $3-4k per year there was a small decrease in extra money that people contribute over their annual dues lake budget- increase of approximately $3k new maps were an expense this year, but will be an income item in FY2010 Proposed budget for 2010 expenses are mostly the same with 2 new ones $500 - swim program $1000 - website Fireworks is becoming a higher expense - GA is subsidizing about $1000 per year Lake protection - received $3060 in contributions suggested that $1000 expense be moved from lake protection to the cost of printing the new lake pamphlets Auditors Report for FY 2009 numbers have been audited
Discussion of Greensboro lake frontage taxes How can GA take action to influence town government? issues how to allow non-resident property owners to have a vote since it’s been declared a state issue since Act 60 possibility of forming an Ad Hoc committee to collaborate effort of GA and local residents and possibly other towns. budget of $1000 to be added
John Stone made a motion to have the GA sponsor a position paper on the current tax situation and it’s impact on the community, to understand the facts and offer a point of view. Motion was seconded by John Schweizer. Nominating Committee Report Celia Crawford read members and board
Ad Hoc Committee Report Ad Hoc committee will remain on books whether active or not
Nominating Committee Reports Lake Annie Paumgarten instigated production of new lake pamphlets. People are starting to distribute them. They’re available around town and on the website. new rental guidelines/area info now available public beach - fish and wildlife department/state owns the lake and launch and has been trying to get canoes and kayaks to register Federation of Lakes Eligo gets $100-150k each year to fight spread of milfoil. Caspian gets $15k. 50 out of 80 VT lakes have milfoil public knowledge will help stop spread Greeters at Caspian are very organized - doing a great job at preventing spread of milfoil individuals need to be sure their personal boats are clean mostly a problem on motors and propellers. Kayaks usually aren’t a problem. question raised - is algae becoming a problem? We have some on inlets but it’s not getting worse
Grants current list of allocations was read discussion on reason why we continue with same grants each year - is there a strategic reason? 2 years ago we decided not to fund new groups and to continue funding current groups a committee was formed (Tara Reynolds and Janet Johnston) to review grants and avoid rubber stamping approvals Moved and seconded to give groups advance notice of changes in grants
Membership more of an effort is being made to have everyone pay their dues
Swim Program 57 kids this year with 2 scholarships - $25 fee - $1300 in revenue Red Cross fee is $1500 swim program has been self supporting for the past 3 years we should have had 1 more Red Cross instructor we should add a registration form on the GA website
Website discussion to put 2 new maps (lake and area) on site but to encrypt it so you can’t get it for free the directory is available on website to registered users question of security issues - John Stone sees everyone who registers and can block anyone who looks suspicious Hold off on more discussion until annual meeting so we can hear from general members on website issues
Annual Meeting Niall went over general agenda we’re cutting number and length of reports from last year from 14 to 3 at about 10 minutes each we’re not ignoring other reports - they will be available in hard copy at meeting main focus will be membership and website Publicity - Lorelei will put posters in public areas Set up-volunteers to set up chairs, set out lake pamphlets and newsletters, and bring refreshments Andy Dales will invite Willey’s to sell maps John Stone will present new website Michael Porrazzo suggested getting a volunteer from the audience to try out site to illustrate how easy it is to navigate
Discussion of board meeting time -agreed to keep at 5pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Stephanie Osterhout, Secretary |
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