BIRCH LAKE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
September 20, 2017
Call
to order at 7:05 with the following members present Dale Bacon, Steve
Laliberte, Jim Grisim, Tom Merritt, Deb Vernon
1.
Approval of Agenda.
Motion to approve Steve/Tom.
Motion approved
2.
Approval of Minutes.
Steve passed them out.
Motion to approve Dale/Jim. Motion approved.
3.
Treasurer’s Report.
Tom passed out report.
Motion to approve Jim/Dale.
Motion approved.
4.
Updates:
VLAWMO
An automated sampling has been
installed for next year.
Invasive Species
Research at U of M.
Dale attended a conference.
There is a new mil foil, it is a hybrid and more resistant to chemicals.
City of White Bear Lake
Next
year we will send the Pin # to the city.
Should be 63 members.
5. Action Items
Admin Priorities
1. Member List
2.
Email addresses
Tom
will send the Cloister emails
3.
Standard Operating Procedures
4. Need for a laptop. Dale will check with his son. Deb took all the old files off and put them
on a flash drive because the notebook could not open the documents.
5.
Dale will introduce Deb to the city staff.
6.
Discussion Items
State of Lake
Weeds are still there. Dale talked to the guy from the U of M. It might be good to harvest earlier. Want to make sure we do not cut too
much. Folks are seeing fish and lots of
frogs.
Surveys
2016 Plant was done
2015
Fish
SLMP
Need to look at SLMP plan.
DNR does not recognize lake
management plan because it was done by VLAWMO. Jim will check to see if we
should updated.
Budget hearing
Oct 24 at 7PM. Board members should
attend. Steve will do presentation.
Annual Report
Dale has a draft. Must be in by Oct 15
Piehl Project
Agreed amount was to pay for
electrical and $1500 for shed. Costs were $1698 for electrical, $5000 for shed, $5500 for
landscape. Nic sending invoice, BLID cost is $3198
Aerator
Jim applied for the permit.
7.
Adjourn
Jim/Tom motion at 8:05. Motion approved.
Next meeting is Nov 1,, 2017 at 7 PM
Minutes done by Deb Vernon
