Fall Executive Meeting 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Cottage of Steve Churchill
Call to order: 9:30 am,
Executive members present: Steve Churchill, Marlene Pollard, Anthony
Genovese, Glenda Opshal, Dave Golem, Carolyn Dobson, Judy Platt
Events for 2011 season
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Regatta will be Saturday, July
11, 2011
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Social committee is going to
meet to discuss some new ways of doing the event to change it up a bit, make it
more fun and exciting for the participants
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Will try some things that
include families as a whole and some events for small children
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Road Clean-up on Sunday, July
12, 2011, hand out garbage bags at the regatta and assign areas for people
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Anthony’s movie night to be
Saturday, August 1, 2011, no mention of a rain date
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AGM will be Sunday, August 2,
2011 with barbeque lunch right after the meeting
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Fun Run will be Saturday,
August 15, 2011
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“Have a Dock Jamboree” - 7pm on Saturday, August 15, 2011
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Upper Canada Marine approached
the association about holding a catch and release fishing derby on the lake
with a $500 prize
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They would handle the whole
event, setting up a pontoon boat in the lake
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Executive were all in
agreement that we don’t want to encourage outside boaters on the lake in an
attempt to avoid further contamination of the lake
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A request is to be made to
Mike at the marina to determine how many boat launchers are cottage owners or
outside visitors.
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Mike is not power washing
because people are illegally launching at the beach, they are moving the
boulders to make room, Limerick township is looking into additional boulders to
prevent this from happening
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OPP & MNR launch at Mike’s
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Anthony is still trying to
organize how the winner of the photo contest will be chosen
Executive Positions to expire
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no positions are expiring this
year
Membership
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167 members paid up at this
date
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15 used Paypal for payments
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Only one section needs a
canvasser
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Suggest an email be sent out
in early spring reminding people that they can pay be Paypal
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Consider ways of minimizing
the work of the canvassers, less trips back to each cottager
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There is a potential of 200
cottages to become members
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Steve will visit the non
members next year, to discuss why it is beneficial to become a member of the
association
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The following is a list of
member concerns collected by canvassers on their rounds
-garbage collection
-snowplowing on the south road
-use
only the fire route #s to minimize confusion on location of cottages
-lake
markers are white and are difficult to see in bad weather, can another colour
be considered
-Dave
Golem as reeve of Limerick represents only a part of the lake
-boats
being illegally launched at the beach by moving the boulders
-what
are the chances of SLCA buying the headland, this is not a possibility as the
taxes and insurance would be extremely high in addition to the purchase price
-some
cottagers expressed disappointment about the “white boathouse” jokes in the
newsletter, felt there were more important issues to deal with on the lake
Financial Report
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Inventory of t-shirts need to
be added to the report, t-shirt profit is around $500
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Advertising and memberships
are up so we are in a profitable position
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New signs have had a good
response, the money was well spent
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Fun run expenses and income
must be added to the report, Carolyn will provide to Glenda
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Dave Langman will have a
receipt for expenses for zebra mussel testing
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Zebra mussel test results show
2 larvae in a water sample of 1 litre which indicates that there is infestation
at this stage
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Testing will be ongoing as we
now have a benchmark
Internet
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Brad Hoard is not proceeding
with towers as there is now more evidence of a major company planning internet
service in the very near future
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However, there is still no
word on who will be putting the towers and service into the area, Bell or
Rogers
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There appears to be a clearing
south of Jordan lake in preparation for a tower
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It would be the latest
technology so cell phones would be able to work up at the lake
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Fiber optic is to be laid
along highway 62, this project is handled by the Eastern Ontario Warden’s
Caucus, which is funded by gov’t and private investors
New Business
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FOCA provided a information
disc, some of which could be used on the website
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Newsletter should continue to
have colour on the front and back covers
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Dave to prepare an election
coverage article to put on the website and in the newsletter
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This should also go as a
separate email to all members in order that they can be informed in time for
the election
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Need to determine ways of
reinforcing the benefits of members providing their email addresses to Anthony
for our listing
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Currently we have 142
addresses
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There are two cameras on the
lake, only one is operational at this time, Anthony’s is down for the winter
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Mike at the marina will be
moving up full time next year
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When marina is open full time,
they may consider a camera
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There are to be no revisions
to the newsletter once the executive have signed off on it
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Anthony to send an email
listing of the executive addresses to be used as a template for communication,
to ensure most up to date email addresses
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Tudor Cashel has agreed to
snowplow 1st 300 M of the south road, Limerick will likely be pushed
to plow their portion, but it is unlikely Tudor would then continue with the
balance of the road
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Tudor Cashel has created a
road committee, Gord Chad is on this
committee
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There is a possibility of a
new doctor coming to North Hasting Health Centre; her husband is a sports
marketing person who may have ideas how to organize associations in area to
jointly discuss and create events
Meeting adjourned 10:50 am