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Lamoine Conservation CommissionMinutes - February 11, 2015 (Draft, Subject to Correction) |
Members present:
Larry Libby, Chair; Anne LaBossiere, David Legere, Linda Penkalski,
Doug Stewart
Alternate Present:
Larissa Thomas
Absent Alternate:
Nancy Pochan
Meeting was
convened at the Lamoine Town Hall by chairman Libby at 7:10 PM.
Planning
Board/Select Board Concerns:
There was no member of the select board in attendance.
David Legere voiced no concerns for the planning board.
Topics Discussed:
1.
Public
Meeting- March 25, 2015:
Linda Welch, Wildlife Biologist,
US Fish & Wildlife Service,
Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge,
will give a talk entitled
“Climate Change and Gulf of Maine Birds”.
It will take place in the “whale room”
at Lamoine Consolidated School at 7 PM
on March 25, 2015. Larissa
will develop a poster we can post at various places-
Lamoine Town Hall, Lamoine
Store, Lamoine Consolidated School,
the transfer station,
Ellsworth Chamber of Commerce,
Ellsworth Library and the Maine Grind.
Linda will send a publicity write up to the local newspapers- the
Ellsworth American and the Mt. Desert Islander. Linda will send the poster
electronically to the town managers of Ellsworth,
Blue Hill, Hancock,
Sullivan, Gouldsboro, Winter
Harbor, Trenton and Bar Harbor so
they can post it on their website and print it to hang in their town halls. It
was suggested that we have a short intermission so our guests have time to eat
refreshments. We will all contribute
to the refreshments.
2.
Digitizing
the LCC Archives: Larry and
Larissa have made progress on
scanning the archives for back up and public use.
3.
New procedures for the Conservation
Award: Anne typed up and
distributed copies for all. They
were approved during the January 14, 2015 LCC meeting.
A few corrections were made and they will be redistributed at the April
meeting.
4.
GET WET!:
Get Wet! information session and testing on January 21st and 22nd at
Lamoine Consolidated School went well.
Students were enthusiastic.
Linda contacted the chemistry teacher who we worked with last year and he has
forwarded her e-mail to the new Principles of Chemistry teacher.
It works best for John Peckenham for the sessions to be April 8th and 9th
or April 9th and 10th. When Linda
hears from the teacher about the dates and time she will e-mail LCC members for
volunteers to help with the testing.
5.
Eel Grass:
There was an eel grass meeting on January 22, 2015.
6.
Ocean
Acidification: A bill, HP 1174,
LD 1602, item 1,
will be coming up before the Maine State Legislature.
Larry will ask Stu if it is appropriate for LCC to draft a letter in
support of this legislation.
It was suggested by Larissa that we send the letter to our local
representatives, Brian Langley and Brian Hubbell,
to show our support. She also
suggested that the letter be sent to Michael Devin of Newcastle who is the
sponsor of the bill. Larry will give
a copy of the letter to Stu to pass
on to the Select Board.
7.
Brownfields: Larry attended the
Hancock County Planning Commission meeting about Brownfields.
An assessment grant from the DEP was awarded to identify potential sites.
Rich Campbell is the local consultant.
They are in the evaluation stage.
Larry asked us to think if there are any Brownfield places in Lamoine.
8.
Big Trees:
This is put on hold for now and we will invite Bob Lachance to a meeting
in the Spring.
9.
Simon
Trail: This Sunday,
February 15, 2015 is the Great Maine Outdoor Weekend.
From noon-2 PM there will be an opportunity for everyone to use the Simon
Trail as part of the weekend celebration.
McMullen is plowing the parking lot.
10.
Tom Sidar:
Tom has retired from Frenchmen Bay Conservancy and it was suggested
that LCC send him a good luck/thank you card.
Larry will take care of it.
11.
Returnables:
A reminder that the money from the March returnables at the transfer
station will go to LCC.
12.
Lamoine snowmobile trail map:
We would like the Lamoine Snowmobile
Trail Map put online for all to see.
Motions and
Outcomes: The minutes of the
January 14, 2015 meeting were approved.
Follow-up Actions
and Who will do them:
l.
March 25th Public Meeting:
Larissa will develop a
poster so we can distribute it to the Lamoine Town Hall,
Lamoine Grocery Store,
Lamoine Consolidated School, the
transfer station, Ellsworth Chamber
of Commerce, Ellsworth Library and
the Maine Grind. Linda will
send a publicity write up to the local newspapers- the Ellsworth American and
the Mt. Desert Islander. Linda will
send a note and the poster electronically to local town managers so they can
post the information in their town halls and online.
Doug
will bring coffee and a coffee pot,
sugar and creamer.
Larissa will bring a kettle with hot water for tea.
Larry
will bring the cups and a snack.
Anne
will bring cookies.
Linda
will bring spice cake.
David
and Nancy will bring snacks.
2.
Archives:
Larry and Larissa will continue to work on digitizing the archives.
3.
New
procedures for the conservation award:
Anne will make the document corrections,
send them electronically to Linda and she will print out copies for the
April meeting.
4.
GET WET!
When Linda hears back from the Ellsworth High School teacher about a
confirmation on the dates, she will
e-mail LCC members to see who can volunteer to help with the testing.
5.
Ocean
Acidification: Larry will draft
a letter from LCC in support of HP1174, LD 1602, item 1 to be sent to our local
representatives.
The meeting was
adjourned at 8:24 PM.
Minutes were taken
by ____________________ and approved on ____________.