Coon Lake Improvement District (CLID)

                                                                                                           Board Meeting

                                                                                      August 11, 2010

Call to Order

Chair Mike Bury called the meeting to order at 7:10 PM.

ü       Members present:

ü       Chair                              Mike Bury

ü       First vice Chair                Al Beck

ü       Second vice Chair            Arlan Mercil

ü       Treasurer                         Lowell Efterield

ü       Secretary                        Keith VonDeLinde

 Guests:                                   Mike Gaynor

Open Forum for Public Comments

None     

Approval of July 14, 2010, 3^rd Annual Meeting, and July 28, 2010 Business Board Meeting Minutes

A motion was made by Lowell Efterfield to approve the July 14, 2010, 3^rd annual meeting, and July 28, 2010 business meeting minuets as amended, seconded by Al Beck.  Motion passed.

Treasurer’s Report

a)       Mike B. presented the treasurer’s report with changes.  Lowell Efterfield made the motion and Al Beck seconded.  Motion passed.

b)      Received notice of dividend for $251.00 from Minnesota Counties Intergovernmental Trust (MCIT).

Old Business

The group reviewed the 3^rd annual meeting; there were many positive comments from those that attended the meeting.  Al Beck thought that next year we should split the presentation duties between members so that one person doesn’t have to do all of the speaking.  Mike Gaynor asked if we should get the annual presentation out to the members and local governments earlier.

Committee Reports

1)       Administration

a)       Discussed assessments of Dosedel property on 3738 Interlachen.  It is two properties and is deeded each of their names and thus have been paying double the assessment. 

Al Beck made a motion to classify one of the properties a multi pin property Lowell Efterfield seconded.  Motion passed. 

Al Beck made a second motion to refund the owners of the property $300.00 for the tax year 2009 Keith VonDeLinde seconded.  Motion passed. 

Al Beck made a third motion to reimburse the property owners an additional $300.00 after verification that they have paid their 2010 property taxes of $600.00 Mike Bury seconded.  Motion passed.

b)      Invasive Plant Forum will be held in October at St. Cloud.  Mike Bury will attend and asked that others also attend if available.

c)       Mike B. gave a handout of the CLID’s “Annual Timelines for Notices and Required Reports” that he wanted each of the board members have.

2)       Lake Vegetation Plan

a)     Discussed our fall Lake Transect Survey options.  Brittney Hummel of the DNR has offered to do the survey of the west bay when she does the east bay if there is enough time to do so.  The East Lake is surveyed by the DNR as part of the pilot program for Curly Leaf Pond Weed.  Al Beck wanted to make sure that we use the correct waypoint data for the survey.  Mike will keep us posted.  The question was asked if members could become certified to do the surveys ourselves.

b)    The LVMP requires the CLID to report on secci disk data and water quality data information each year.  Currently there is a team of property owners that do the secci disk readings and the water quality data is provided by the Anoka Conservation District.  Arlan Mercil, Lowell Efterfield, and Mike Gaynor volunteered to train and do the monthly water quality readings so we don’t have to pay to do it.

c)     Mike Gaynor asked what we should be doing now and talked about the need for more training on the GPS for the volunteers.  Jason Hohenstein is ready to load the GPS’s with the points that we want the teams to check, but needs to know what data to load.  Mike Bury thought we should load both sets of data so we can check for what we treated and what was denied by the DNR. 

3)       Finance / Fundraising

Mike is going to send an Email to Wendy Crowell to inquire about the status of the grant money.

4)       Communication / Publications

 None

New Business

None

Adjourn

A motion was made to by Al Beck, seconded by Arlan Mercil that the meeting be adjourned at 8:25 PM.  Motion passed.

Future Meeting Dates

2^nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm

September 8^th, October 13^th, November 10^th, December 8^th, January 12^th,

February 9^th, March 9^th, April 13^th, May 11^th, June 8^th, July 13th

4th Annual Meeting July 27^th (Fourth Wed of the month)

Meeting minutes submitted by Keith VonDeLinde