At 9:00 a.m. Jean Medway called the meeting to order. Present were Jean, John Hedstrom, Fred Koch and Sharon Rossebo. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved on motion of John, seconded by Jean. John presented the treasurer’s report. He said he deposited $10,000 into a new CD paying 1.75%. He had paid the bill from Identity Stores but has not received any monies from their sales. He will check the bill to see whether they had a credit on it for the sales. Wisconsin Lakes is requesting $100 for membership, and Jean made a motion to pay this, which was seconded by Fred and approved. John said the only bill he had received relating to the picnic was for the corn, and he paid Siwulas for that. Since we have approximately $11,000 to $12,000.00 in liquid assets, Sharon suggested we make a donation to a worthy cause as we had done in the past when we purchased equipment for the fire departments. The other members agreed, and this will be discussed in the future. At the meeting John did not have the exact number of members in the association since letters were sent to former members and those who had never been members, and $360 in dues was received. He also received $580 for the invasive species fund. Sharon made a motion to accept the treasurer’s report, and this was seconded by Fred.
OLD BUSINESS:
Newsletter: First, the board would like to commend Julie Verhaalen for the excellent work she has done on the newsletter. The newsletters which were returned with incorrect addresses were re-mailed with addresses Chris Hedstrom had looked up on the tax rolls. John has a membership list which shows the owners who received the letter reminding them to renew their dues or join the association, as well as people other than the listed property owner who want to receive a copy of the newsletter. After much discussion, Fred made a motion as follows: “The board will send a hard copy of the newsletter to each paid member of the association. Extra copies of the newsletter will be sent by email to those requesting it providing the association has the current email address for the recipients of the extra copies.” This was seconded by Jean and approved by the board.
NEW BUSINESS:
Lake Management Plan: Jean asked whether there may be grant money available to review/update our lake management plan since there will be expenses involved with making copies and arranging a meeting place. It is required that this review be done every ten years. We will plan for a meeting sometime in August so more members are available to attend.
Jean noted she read something about the DNR relaxing restrictions on riprap and wondered if this is fact and whether there is any grant money available to help with this.
Township meetings: Bill Powell attended some of these and made notes, and O’Neills posted one. In spring we need to be vigilant about attending these meetings and posting updates on our website.
Annual meeting: We need to determine what our position will be regarding NoWake restrictions.
The meeting for March will be rescheduled to March 14, 2020.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:15 a.m.
Respectfully,
Sharon Rossebo, Secretary