March Minutes 2007

ROCK LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION

Board Meeting Minutes, March 21, 2007

Lake Mills Municipal Building

Present: Jim Colegrove, Stan Smoniewski, Tom Pezzi, Milt Strauss, Russ Wagner and Patricia Cicero

In the absence of President, Karl Vonderohe, the meeting was called to order by Treasurer, Jim Colgrove at 7:00 p. m.

Secretary’s Report: Minutes of the February 21, 2007 meeting were reviewed and approved with two corrections: under New Business, 2nd paragraph, spelling of 3rd word was changed from “Lowered” to “Lower” and in 3rd paragraph, end of second line “help control” was replaced with “monitor”.

Treasurers Report: Jim reported that he had reserved the pavilion in Lower Rock Lake Park from 9:00 a.m. until noon for the RLIA Annual Meeting scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on August 25th, 2007, at a cost of $42.50 He also reported account balances as of 2/28/07--Lake Management Account --$2344.94, RLIA checking account--$4145.11, and RLIA savings account--$4129.81 for a total of $10,619.86.

Committee Reports:

Publicity/PR Committee: Milt said that he will be setting up the RLIA display at the middle school’s Environmental Awareness Day on Saturday, April 21, from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. He also said lists for the spring watershed, city and RLIA member mailings need to be updated and coordinated and that the brochure and newsletter and membership response card need to be reviewed and drafted.

Joint Rock Lake Committee: Stan reported that the committee is trying to get the city to align a shoreland ordinance with the town but for the present, the city has dropped the draft ordinance. He said that the city is reviewing it’s participation in the committee. He suggested that there needs to be an effort to encourage the city to pass an ordinance that would regulate shoreland cutting and vision access and to develop support for such an ordinance. He also reported that a grant is being written as the next step in developing the parking lot adjacent to Lower Rock Lake Park. The Town of Lake Mills has already paid for the development plan.

Long Range Plan: Patricia discussed distribution of the Long Range Plan and that an executive summary could be sent to area homes. It was moved and seconded that 2 mailings be sent: 1) a mailing of the executive summary along with a cover letter (provided by Patricia) to the watershed and to the part of the city not within the watershed and, 2) the RLIA brochure and newsletter (which will include a reference to the executive summary) to the watershed, to city homes not within the watershed and to the RLIA membership taking care not to duplicate the addresses. Patricia also described the water quality sampling process that she and Paul Garrison of DNR plan to conduct at a site near Cedar Lane and at Rock Creek.

Adopt-a-Lake: Stan said that the annual Rock Lake Cleanup will take place either May 12 or 19. Sites include the millpond and all public lake shore parks as well as garlic mustard locations such as Korth Park.

Old Business: A priority item in the Long Range Plan is control of the lake level. It was suggested that public education of the situation would be useful and that it be an item on the RLIA meeting agenda at some point.

New Business: Patricia requested that RLIA consider purchase of additional water quality sampling equipment. She already has a meter to measure temperature and dissolved oxygen that was purchased with L.R. Plan grant money but needs a couple of accessories. It was moved by Tom, second by Russ, that RLIA purchase a HACH probe for $95 and a 6-pack of desiccants for $12 for a total of $107. Motion carried.

Members were reminded of the WAL convention in Green Bay April 26-28. Registration is available on-line at www.uwsp.edu/cnr/uwexlakes/conventions and room reservations may be made at the convention center at 1-800-236-3330.

Meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m.

Next Meeting: Wednesday, April 18, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. at the Municipal Building

Minutes submitted by: Milt Strauss, Sec. pro tem