6055 24th St NE

214-8217

Members Present: Bill Dale, Kim Baker, Dave Knapper, Tammy Knapper, Darwin Madden, Glen Simons, Dan Tepfer, Norm Westby

Others Present: None

Members Absent: Beth Tepfer

*Note: Snow storm happening this evening, 2-hr late start for school on Wednesday!

Call to Order: President Dave Knapper at 7:20 P. M.

A. Secretary’s Report: Motion by Dan to approve secretary’s report with the following changes: Glen noted that Staff gauge readings will be discontinued for this year. McGrath was spelled wrong. About $500 left from task force for water monitoring. Seconded by Bill. Motion was approved.

Treasurer’s Report:

A. Treasurer’s report was approved.

B. Income from 3 advertising checks ($105) from directory printed last spring. No expenses. Current balance in checking is $4,189 and money market $4,831. Which is a total cash of $9,020.

Committee Reports:

A. Water Quality (Kim, Bill, Darwin) –

1 March 20 a letter was sent to S. Halverson from the DNR. Glen will email a copy to all board members. Halverson has been talking to local legislators (Gimse, Junke).

2 STOR IT's - is a statewide PCA database to store water quality data (lab readings, stream monitoring, secci disks). We can submit data from 2000 until the present. Glen has completed that paper work to get this set up. Data can be found at www.pca.state.mn.us, and then search by lake. We will need to monitor flow and data rate for this.

3 Earth Day flyer - Saturday, April 21 at Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center from 8-1.

4 Water testing - have the containers, need to pick date and time. Should wait for a rain event. Discussed having a meeting and touring the sites to sample, so all board members can see where sampling takes place and see how to do it.

B. Events (Beth) – no report, as Beth was absent

1 Garage Sale will be May 12. Dan will be sure to place the same Ad as last year in the West Central Tribune.

C. Membership (Dan, Darwin) –

1 There are new people in Ruby's old house. Possible new owners at Schwitter's, Vercota's and Nordby's. New member packets need to be made and then given to Welcome Boat volunteers.

D. Newsletter (Tammy) –

1 Review and made changes to proposed newsletter. Needs to be out this week.

2 Updated the information at the Eagle Lake C-Store and may post same information at Sun Ray.

Old Business:

A. Damn Cleanup – Date will be our next meting - Wednesday, May 9 at 5:30. Bring a friend, waders, chain saws, etc.

New Business:

A. Garage Sale Advertising - Dan will take care of

B. Eagle Lake Pit - Dave and Glen attended a meeting at Poss's on April 2. Dave presented information at the Co. Commissioners meeting on April 3. Dunnicks did an EAW, Bolten & Menk did a new EAW (using no new scientific data - to limit the cost to the county). Cost for Bolten & Menk was about $8,000, instead of $40,000 for a cities company.

C. 71/23 Funding Issues - 3 options currently are 1 interchange at Co 9, 2 interchanges or No change.

D. Upcoming Meetings - May 9 - at Tepfer's after cleanup, if needed

June 6 - at Darwin's

July 18 - (Maybe at Westby's)

Meeting Adjourned: There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 9:20.

Next Meeting: May 9 - 5:30 at the Damn – (then at Tepfer's after cleanup, if needed)

Respectfully submitted

Tammy Knapper, Secretary