Friends of Willard Brook
Board of Directors
Meeting – MINUTES
1. Attending were Sue Holzberlein,
Deborah Smith, Jeff Dominick, John D’Angelillo, Sherisa
2. Corrections to the minutes - none
3. Treasurer’s report - $3,081.83. Tom has done
a P&L statement for FOWB.
4. Membership report – 63 current, 24 1 year, 22
1-3 years. Renewals coming during Annual
Meeting.
5. Publicity
·
Annual
meeting – Posters and flyers out in several places by Joellyn, Jeff and
Emily. Emily did an email to the news
outlets.
·
Summer
newsletter – articles: annual meeting, list new Board of Directors, invasive
species pictures before and after; DCR
·
forest news; schedule; Photo contest poster and year in
review article.
·
Can
FOWB purchase two portable signs? Jeff will email info later on costs.
·
Let’s
get working on FOWB poster – Deborah will design a poster and Emily will send
pictures for her to work with.
6. Spring programs May/June
·
May
14 – Neat Streets – 4
·
May
28 - Fly-fishing, beaver program, there were 8 at the beaver walk.
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June
5 – Invasives weed pull – 2
7. Upcoming programs
·
June
18 – sunrise hike up Watatic
·
June
24 – annual meeting
8. Invasives committee
·
Partnership
grant – no communication from Conrad this month, Emily will talk to Leslie Gobrilska of Townsend Conservation
·
Commission
for permit help.
·
Next
project? Bittersweet at the old well.
9. Friends of NRRT – Duane is
resigning from being head of the NRRT Committee but will remain
on the board of
directors. Dann
Chamberlain will take over as chairman of the Friends of the
NRRT.
10.
Trails committee – Sussie, Ray
·
A
summer trails work day for our membership? Ray will lead work day on August 20
starting at
·
day
will be planned for second weekend of September, 9/10 at
·
placards. Sussie will let people know where to meet.
11.
Annual meeting
·
Nominating
committee Emily has several new people. John Bilotti will step down but is still willing to do our printing.
·
Are
we set for the meeting? Yes. Supplies;
Jeff will print placemats, Jeff B will bring ice tea
and lemonade in his big containers.
·
Set up time is 5:00 PM. Sussie will run the
membership table. Emily will call the speaker. RSVP’s?? Joellyn has several
12.
Photo contest – ongoing; no news.
13.
Liability insurance prices – John B working on this. So far, costs are much higher than previous
policy and they
provide less coverage.
14.
install the gate
DCR has only one, also asked if
other gate that
is needed.
15.
DCR/Forest news – Pearl Hill Campground has several trees uprooted and down
because of
the recent
thunderstorms. The circuit road is shut down by a downed tree. Tomorrow the
work will be done
to clear all the trees. Both camping
areas are full for the week-end. The
Yurt is rented for every weekend this
summer. All of Willard Brook was full
both days of the
Memorial Day weekend.
The Nashua River Rail trail has been mowed from Sand Hill north.
There are new bullhorns for the staff to
use if people jump from the bridge into Damon Pond. If
jumpers from the
bridge don’t listen, staff will call Ashby police. There are some new maps for
the kiosks. Zep Corp. met with
Bruce for a quote on green cleaning supplies.
Three more staff
are starting a
week from Sunday.
16.
Other business - none
17.
Next meeting – Emily will send email the second week of July to the members of
the board.
The next gathering at the headquarters is September
8?