Cloverland Town Lakes Committee This page was last updated on February 5, 2011 The Committee’s next meeting will be held Wednesday, February 9, 2011. All meetings are held at the Cloverland Town Hall, 5860 Perch Lake Road. That’s north of Hwy 70 between Zeman and Sunset roads. Agenda for the Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, meeting Call meeting to order. Approve agenda in any order. Approve minutes of Nov. 17, 2010 Introductions. Town Wide Management Plan Discussion/Action. 2011 Planning. Education Plan “Year of the Volunteer” Job descriptions for 2011 goals CB-CW interns Boot Lake AIS Update. Coordinator’s report. Newsletter and/or mailing. Communications/Public Comments. Next meeting date mm/dd/yy. Adjourn M. Ketterer, Chair Minutes of the Saturday, Nov. 17, 2010, meeting Check the Archives for minutes of the Cloverland Town Lakes Committee meetings up to Saturday, October 16, 2010. Attendance – Voting members present - Marty Ketterer (chair) and Noel Junkunc – Snipe Lake; Chuck Spitz (vice-chair) – Pickerel Lake; Justine White-Richards (CLASS coordinator) - Muskellunge Lake; Tom Rulseh - McDonald Lake; Ann Currie (database coordinator) and Jim Lynn (AIS liaison) - Nelson Lake; Connie Turner - Perch Lake Voting members absent: Roger Gerds - Boot Lake; Howard Sauerman - McDonald Lake; Dick Turner - Perch Lake; Barb and George Zima - Sunset Lake; Tom Cerull – Muskellunge Lake; and Mike Vinovich - Finley Lake. Others present: Ron Richards – Muskellunge Lake, Jeff Currie (secretary and media coordinator) - Nelson Lake Meeting – Marty Ketterer called the meeting to order at 9:07 a.m. Jim Lynn moved that the agenda for the meeting be approved in any order and that the minutes be approved, and Chuck Spitz seconded the motion. The motion passed. The minutes of the Oct. 16, 2010, meeting were approved as corrected. Regarding insurance for their lake association, the Muskellunge Lake Association has not decided to get it, but is looking into it. Marty reported that there is no certain date for Onterra to have the Townwide Management Plan done. The firm is presently working hard on a report for the AIS treatments for ULERCOL. Onterra will also be working with people from Boot Lake to get their lake management plan and DNR grant application ready for February 1. Pieces of the townwide plan are being done by various Onterra individuals, reported Justine White-Richards. Part of the townwide plan will include water quality monitoring, and discussion ensued on this topic. Regarding water chemistry it seemed wise to offer a how-to session on that topic in 2011 and invite all Cloverland lakes to reserve a spot for interested residents. We know that various lakes like Pickerel, Muskellunge, Sunset, Finley and Lotus are interested. Noel Junkunc (Snipe), Roger Johnston (Muskellunge) and Tom Rulseh (McDonald) already do this for their lakes. Training for Secchi disk monitoring and for aquatic plant monitoring also seem useful to offer in 2011. Marty has two-sided rakes that Chuck made for this purpose, and we could offer training for both the casual observer and the more dedicated monitor who would record GPS points and input data on the SWIMS web site Jim suggested that a session also be held on the use of the SWIMS site, and Noel spoke of the value of offering people help to get started on using the system. Jeff Currie suggested that a small group or groups of people could start planning to develop these session ideas. Those groups would need to know what goals the TLC wanted them to work to achieve. Such goals would also be important to recruiting and directing the work of coordinators for things like water quality and plant monitoring, as well as CBCW. This led to a discussion on improving the CBCW effort, particularly in terms of checking boatswhen they leave Boot Lake. This led to a discussion of how best to target volunteer efforts and how to boost volunteerism in general. Also discussed was whether to use the intern program that Ted Ritter has set up. Justine also asked about adding a power washer to our CBCW efforts, particularly at the Boot Lake landing. Tom, Marty, Chuck and Noel were skeptical about its overall value, though Noel said it might be useful. He also reported that Ted Ritter definitely recommended focusing CBCW efforts on the landings of lakes like Boot that have EWM. It was suggested that perhaps a power washer-intern combo might make sense. ACTION: Chuck and Jim will meet this month with Ted to get more information on the program, including cost to Cloverland, what happens if the intern doesn’t work out, the range of duties an intern might handle, and whether grant money might be available for paying an intern and also to purchase a power washer. Marty brought up the “Year of the Volunteer” idea Ann Currie had suggested for 2011. Ann said her ideas need more thought but involve developing ways to motivate and value volunteers “ No guilt!” she said. Jim suggested using rewards like t-shirts, raffle chances, special recognition and celebratory gatherings like a picnic. Marty asked Ann to pursue planning on these ideas and be ready to report her work at the next meeting. ACTION: Ann will develop her ideas and be ready to report at the next (Feb 9, 2011) meeting. During Justine’s CLASS Coordinator’s update, Jeff reported that Justine and he would be doing a 40-minute presentation at the April 2011 Wisconsin Lakes conference in Green Bay. ACTION: Jeff and Justine will meet in the new year to plan the Wisconsin Lakes presentation and be ready to give a preview of it to the TLC at its March meeting. Justine asked that everyone record their volunteer hours and get those to her by the end of December. She said we can count hours as long as the project continues, up to the end of 2011. However, she and Mary agreed, we might want to wrap up the CLASS project before then. ACTION: All TLC members are to get volunteer hour reports to Justine by the end of December. Jeff went over plans for the fall-winter newsletter to be mailed out with tax bills in early December. It will be one sheet, double-sided and will aim to get all Cloverland property owners to think about their stake in and enjoyment of the lakes and streams in the town. Contents will include the benefits of CLASS and the way the cost was handled – including the way citizen participation helped offset cost through in-kind hours and led to personal gains for the participants in training, workshops, and CBCW monitoring. Other content will include what is being set up on Boot Lake to address the EWM infestation there, and useful and accessible roles for each newsletter recipient to help with our mutual efforts to value and be good stewards for town waterbodies. The finished newsletter is due to Gay Ketterer, Town treasurer, by Nov. 23. ACTION: Jeff will prepare the newsletter to meet that deadline. He’ll get help from Justine and welcomes input from any other committee members. He will also seek information and images from Roger Gerds, Boot Lake’s TCL representative. Jim reported that the Town Board passed its 2011 budget last night and that the County Land Use Committee is considering new types of zoning districts. The first hearing on this was held recently in Land O’ Lakes. Chuck moved for adjournment and Noel seconded the motion. The meeting was adjourned at 11:13 a.m. Next meeting - The Town Lakes Committee will meet next at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. Respectfully submitted, Jeff Currie, secretaryminutes.2010.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0

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