SPRING CREEK REGION COOPERATIVE WEED MANAGEMENT AREA, INC.
Minutes
  March 23, 2009 6:00 p.m.
Nevada Division of Forestry Fire Station, Licht Parkway 

Called to at 6:05
Attendance: Doug Clarke, Kim Steninger, Karen Smith, Ken Wilkinson, Jill Wilkinson, Don Cobern, Ryan Shane

Approval of December 17 and February 18, 2009 minutes. Kim Steninger moved to approve, Doug Clarke seconded. Passed unanimously

Approval of 2/18/09 financial report – 2008 NDOA grant, $6,400.00 is zeroed out. Checking account balance is $3,389.25. Motion made by Doug to approve financial report – seconded by Kim, passed unanimously.

Announcements:

• Spring Creek Association would like us to participate in Elko Pride Day on April 25, we might participate.

• Home and Business Expo – Mother’s Day Weekend May 9 & 10. Please sign up to help.

• SCA June BBQ – we will set up an educational booth. Doug and Jay will look into this.

• Spring Creek Association Journal – Karen will submit an article and check with Adele about submission date.

New Business:

• Election of Directors and Officers to the SCRCWMA, Inc- to serve for two year terms. The Board of Directors consists of five to seven members including president, Vice president, Secretary, Treasurer, and one to three at large positions.
  
  Kim Steninger, Doug Clarke, Jill Wilkinson, Karen Smith, Ken Wilkinson, and Jay Paxson were nominated to the board. Karen made motion to approve nominations, Doug seconded motion. Motion passed unanimously.
  
  Jill nominated Kim as President. – Kim declined nomination
  Jill nominated Doug as President – Doug declined nomination.
  Ken nominated Jill as president – Jill accepted nomination. Jill nominated Kim and Doug as members at large; Karen as treasurer; Jay as vice president; and Ken as secretary.
  Kim motioned to accept the nominations. Ken seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
  
  The Directors for the SCRCWMA, Inc. board of Directors are as follows:
  Doug Clarke & Kim Steninger- Directors at large; Karen Smith – Treasurer; Ken Wilkinson- Secretary; Jill Wilkinson- President; Jay Paxson – Vice President.
  
  Karen mentioned that President, Vice President, and Treasurer have signature power on checking account. Karen will submit paperwork requirements to the bank.
   

• 2009 Draft Work Plan – amendments recommended are:
  
  -Private Property Assistance: Jill draft a 50/50 cost share application. Add a dollar amount not to exceed $400.00 per property on the application
  
  -Education: Remove the Annual Dyer’s Woad Pull. Add Spring Creek Pride Day or Elko County Clean and Green Annual Event.
  
  -Long Term Projects:
  
  Spring Creek Association Properties: Spring Creek Campground - How will we reduce the leafy spurge along Butterfield Creek in the Campground? Will Spring Creek Association help? Don Cobern of Spring Creek Association said he has a crew of two beginning the 1st week of April to spray weeds. We need to let him know where to spray. We told him to work on Association properties – horse palace, marina, and around the association office building, and road right of ways. Don said he will supply the control records that show how many acres of weeds his crew treated and where.
  
  We need to inventory the roads to let SCA know where the weeds are. Discussion to hire someone to GPS the road right of ways. Suggestion was made to pay the person $12.00 per hour. Doug mentioned Mary Winter. She knows how to use GPS and then Ryan Shane of NDF can generate the maps.
  
  Discussion that SCA needs to take over the road right of ways and spray the weeds and reseed them. SCA needs to ask Elko County to require utility contractors to reseed the road right of ways they disturb during construction work.
  It was mentioned that SCA should control the noxious weeds in the green belts and fuel breaks as well.
  
  Add- Reseeding Spring Creek Marina
  Remove – inventory watersheds within SCRCWMA boundaries
  Add Inventory Fuel Breaks
  Elko County Roadsides: Remove weed inventory of all roadsides by end of 2010
  Education: Add – create a brochure of our various programs we offer
  Ask Andrea to put together an educational power point.
  Focus more on our educational campaign.
  Karen suggested adding Ryan Shane to help create virtual mapping on website.
  Add Weed Tours
  
  Doug motioned to accept the annual work plan as amended. Karen 2nd. Motion passed unanimously.

Next meeting TBA.

Meeting adjourned 7:50pm