Members in attendance – Hank Earle, Pat Ploeger, Laura Russo, Marguerite Shortt, Tom Douglas, Mike Ercole, Rich Filippelli

Salute to the Flag
Minutes from 7/2/15 - pending
Lake Management:

Algaecide treatments of Cultrine Plus on the lake by airboat on July 21st. Posted on the website, Posted on Town Sign at VFW, Posted on sign at Fire House. The life guards to be notified. Hank will send an email. We will post signs at the beach, boat launch, and the boat house.
Carp: once Dec approves, the town has the plans for the gate.
Grant: What are we going to use it for? We can’t buy anything and then get reimbursed for it. But we need to plan what the grant is going to be used for. DASNY wants a list of what we want to use the grant money for: We need to give Rich a list of all items. We need prices on each item. We need to brake down the walking path prices.

Fire Dept Community Board - Pending

Out of District memberships: Have to live in Patterson or Brewster – this is a trial year for 10 families. It will be voted on each year.
Doug Looney: Let him contact the town and let the town know what he wants to do

Doggie posts: We ordered more signs and they are here. They will be put up possibly Sunday the 19th of July. All dogs within the park district have to be picked up after.

Walking Path – We are in the process of how should we do it. Let’s pick a day in the fall – we need volunteers. Maybe we can get a girl/boy scout to work on a project.

Garbage Pails: Should arrive soon. Everything has been approved.


Beaches and Parklands:

We need a scope of work for the lifeguards. One in the chair for max one hour must scan the water. They must be in the chair when the first person comes on the beach. The life guard not in the chair: can check bracelets. No cell phones, if caught with a cell phone – you will be fired. Only ONE aluminum chair on the beach. Rotate guards each hour. Walk the beach. The log book needs to be completed each day. Wrist bands and signing in the book are mandatory. We need to train the lifeguards properly. Dr Pia – let’s set up a date.

Basketball courts: Survey $2000+, get it on the town board meeting.

Walkout and rafts – Tom got 2 quotes (stationary). Hank got quotes (floating) Let’s see if there is someone local to go see them.

911 signs: are in the process for the beaches and boat house

Neighborhood Signs: Ready to be put up.

Beach party – Warren Beach August 1 – adults only, DJ, drinks and food, dancing

Fishing tournament July 18th: 13 + older. Then later in the afternoon – the kids can fish for $5 each kid

Glass bulletin board case is always updated; check out the website.

Email List: Working on updating the list

Vandalism at Boat storage: We did have some trees and brush cleared up for better visability.

Speeding and vandalism are issues that we need help from the sheriff to enforce.

Land for donation – The Town wants it. We want it. We need to tell her to contact the town.

Budget: We reviewed the budget for 2016

Lake Management: We did Algaecides. We may need another treatment.  There is no blue/green algae. Let’s ask for approval just in case we need another treatment ASAP.

Carp – pending

Sluice gate has arrived at the Town. RFP are being sent for installation. If it gets completed then we would then put in the Carp Gate if approved .Should be done is September after the beaches are closed. The lake will be lowered.

Grant: still pending - Pat got a call from Rich Williams stating he got paperwork for 3 grants. One for the town, one for CARP, and another grant is for clearing of the property for the walking path, retaining walls at the beach; shoreline remediation; drainage on Jackson beach. Tell them what we want and the work can’t be done until the grant is approved. Then we can proceed. How do we get it going and what do we need to do?

Fire Dept Sign – Pending – needs approval

Out of District Membership – Hank will re-write the letter and send it to the town. If they have a receipt for swim team they can get a membership for this year.

US Communities: Our request was to set up a meeting – but the town said it would take a lot of money to re-write the town law.

Emails – keep trying to update the email list.

We need a handyman – Hank will call a few people.

Garbage cans – we need to find out where they are – Marguerite and Pat to make sure they were ordered and when they will be delivered?

Docks & Rafts: Tom provided new pricing and needs to follow up on a few questions that are pending. They fold out of the water. Need to be durable for the swim team (kick offs) Maximum people on the raft? We need a quote. $37k

911 address: There are no one 911 addresses for the beaches or the ball field. Check to see if the boat house has an address. Then we need to request an address.

Tree removal: Ask Bill Henry for an estimate.

Land to be donated: Do we want it? Parking? 

Members in attendance – Hank Earle, Pat Ploeger, Laura Russo, Mike Ercole, Marguerite Shortt, Tom Douglas and Rich Filippelli

Pledge of Allegiance
Minutes approved


We Did Algaecide treatments 2 weeks ago – water a little green/brown but starting to look clear

Carp: once Dec approves, the town has the plans for the gate. Lower the lake a little to fix the sluice gate and install the carp gate if approved
Out of District memberships: Have to live in Patterson or Brewster – this is a trial year for 10 families. It will be voted on each year.
Basketball courts: Pat contacted Terry Bergendorff Collins Land Surveying about the tax maps but they have the wrong map – Pat needs to get the correct tax map.
Walking Path – in the process of how to do it. In the fall we will need volunteers to clear brush
Doggie posts: We ordered more signs. They will be put up soon. All dogs within the park district have to be picked up after.
Walkout and rafts – We got a price but it is out of our budget. We have another place to look at and get prices. Walkouts need to have some updates. If we get new next year, the good one from Warren Beach can be moved over to Jackson beach. Hank knows of some possible grants available.

Beaches are open for the season

Fishing tournament July 18th: 13 + older. Then later in the afternoon – the kids can fish for $5 each kid

Beach party – Warren Beach August 1 – adults only, DJ, drinks and food, dancing

Neighborhood Signs: Ready to be put up. We need to get permission from the county to add them to the county signs - Next meeting in September

We need to talk about stop signs and speeding with the Town/ Sherriff.

Glass bulletin board case is always updated; check out the website.
Fire Dept Sign - pending