SPRING CREEK REGION COOP. WEED MANAGEMENT AREA

Minutes

Wednesday, 6:30 P.M.  November 8, 2006

Nevada Division of Forestry Fire Station on Licht Parkway near Spring Creek Elementary School  

Spring Creek, Nevada 

Present:  Karen Smith, Jill Wilkinson, Kim Steninger, Greg Pyatt, Teri Johnson, Tony Dietz, Doug Clarke

Meeting Call to Order

The meeting was called to order at 6:50 pm

Approval of minutes September 13, 2006 

With no additions or corrections, Kim made the motion to approve the minutes as submitted, seconded by Karen, motion passed unanimously.

Financial Report

Karen submitted the treasurer’s report:

 9/13/06 opening balance        $6,367.82

Expenses                                -$4,664.00 (3 checks –see itemized Expense statement)

Deposits                                 +$      2.00 (1 deposit – see itemized Expense statement)

Ending balance (11/08/06)        $1,705.82

The NvDAG grant has $3127.18 to be reimbursed and $3,313.82 remaining to spend by 12/31/06.

There was $2,000 budgeted for the Bag of Woad project and only $800 was paid out to the Boy Scouts.

Discussion on items to be purchased with the remaining grant funds. Kim will contact Boss Tanks for purchase of chemical (Transline, Plateau, Escort, Tordon, surfactant) and supplies (4 backpack sprayers).  Kim was reimbursed for 4-wheeler repairs.

Teri made the motion to accept the treasurer’s report as submitted, seconded by Kim, motion passed unanimously.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

·         Karen reported that she mailed out 139 personal invitations to tonight’s meeting to Spring Creek homeowners.

·         Kim reported that he spoke with Pam Borda in regards to getting on the agenda for the SCA Board meeting next Wednesday 11/15.  He spoke with Job Connect and found that they are not set up with employees for jobs such as we are looking for.  They suggested he go to a temporary agency.  With a temp agency the employee would earn, for example, $10/hr and we pay $15.18/hr - $5/hr going to the agency as commission.  The agency would take care of taxes, worker’s comp etc.  We are proposing 2 options for partnering with weed control efforts with SCA.

o       1 – 50% wages paid by SCA and 50% wages paid by SCRCWMA

o       2 – SCA would hire the employee and SCRCWMA would reimburse SCA for wages paid out.

o       This employee would work 100% of their time with Kim on weed control.  We anticipate paying $12/hr for 2 months (spray April, May, dig July =$3,800).  SCR CWMA would provide the chemical and equipment.

·         SCA has received a $40,000 grant to reinstate the NDF green belt project which has been brushed but not seeded yet. They have asked SCR CWMA for recommendations for how to effectively use the funds from the grant.

PUBLIC COMMENT:

There was no public comment.

NEW BUSINESS: 

Projects to be included in the 2007 NVDAG grant application were discussed:

• Quilici ‘Big W’ – attempted to contact, but no reply.  Jill will check with Heather Steel, NRCS, who has been working with the landowner.  Any project on private land would require $ match for commitment.
• Kim will contact Dr. Jones in Lamoille along Rabbit Creek who has shown interest in assistance with Dyer’s Woad and Leafy Spurge.  Teri suggested a partnership with other landowners upstream and downstream from Dr. Jones with the same problems.
• Continue to work with Jed Bradley – addressing the weed locations sighted in his 2006 survey.
• Continue monitoring and control of ongoing weed projects.

Nominations for the 2007 Board of Directors were made:

            Present:  Doug Clarke, Jill Wilkinson, Greg Pyatt, Kim Steninger, Karen Smith, Teri Johnson

            By Letter:  Jay Paxson

A motion was made by Karen to accept the nominations for the board of Directors, seconded by Kim, motion passed.

OLD BUSINESS: no old business

ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: 

Officer elections

NEXT MEETING DATE AND TIME: February 28, 2007 6:30 pm NDF Fire Station (Teri will schedule the room)

 

ADJOURN  -  8:30 pm  Kim made the motion to adjourn, seconded by Karen, motion passed unanimously.

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