SPRING CREEK REGION COOP. WEED MANAGEMENT AREA

MINUTES

GENERAL MEETING

6:30 P.M. February 7, 2006

Round Table Pizza Spring Creek, Nevada

Minutes

 

 

Present:  Mary Rahn, Jerry Rahn, Jill Wilkinson, Teri Johnson, Tony Dietz, M/M Jay Paxson, Gerry Miller

There was no quorum

Meeting Call to Order

The meeting was called to order a 6:40 pm by President Mary Rahn

 

Approval of Minutes

The minutes from the 12/13/05 meeting were reviewed and will be approved at the next meeting.

 

Financial Report

Karen was out of town and reported to Jill before she left that there is approximately $2000 in the bank account.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• The “Homeowner’s Guide to Healthy Landscapes” has been released.  Jill presented copies to those present.  She will check with Greg to see if a thank you has been sent to Kent and Wayne for their work in producing the outstanding publication.  SC RCWMA paid for the guides with $1000 from a CIPM grant.
• The NDOA 2006 grant recipients have not been announced yet.  It has been reported that applications totaling over $300,000 had been submitted for the $150,000 available funds.  The SCRCWMA submitted an application for $11,050. 
• EC CMWA will have the last planning meeting February 21 before the Summit March 2.  There will be 3 board positions available.  Donations have been requested to sponsor breaks and door prizes.
• EC CWMA has been contacted by Mike Mitchell with the Humboldt River CWMA (HRCWMA) to request that the three local CWMA’s (ECCWMA, SCRCWMA and HRCWMA) get together in March to discuss sharing a coordinator/grant writer.

 

PUBLIC COMMENT:

• Gerry Miller reported that there is an interested party now living at the Big W Ranch that has initiated a conservation plan with the owner/leasee and is interested in working with SCRCWMA with weed control on the property.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

• Jill discussed the proposal for “Bag of Woad’ to substitute for the annual Woad Pull Day this year. We have $2000 from the NDOA grant to fund this project.   The group brainstormed potential fund raiser groups, with parent supervisors, that will be invited to participate (4-H, Girl Scouts, Honor Society, FFA) – with the inmate crews considered as a back-up to help with the digging of Woad.  Jay Paxson volunteered to contact the city Landfill to see if the City would waive the disposal fee and be agreeable to correctly handling the bags of Woad.  Jay also volunteered to write an article for the newspaper.  Gerry Miller will check on a scale that can be used to weigh the bags turned in for $.  Teri will put together a list of the Spring Creek Girl Scout troops and 4-H leaders to contact.  Jill will contact the NvDOT to request a donation of the large orange trash bags.
• Mary and Jerry Rahn have announced that they will be retiring and moving to Montana soon.  Greg Pyatt was elected President to fill the position vacated by retiring President Mary Rahn.