Friends of the Muscatatuck River Society Monthly Minutes Opening: 5-1-02 Call to order by President Dan Shade at 6:40 PM. Attendance: Dan Shade Ken Huff Tom Moore Kim Lampert Andy Ertel Sherida Moore John Huff Greg and Summer Martin Jack Countryman We were all in the dark after Jack came, but it may have been due to the storm! Minutes: From last meeting read and accepted. Future meeting's minutes will be available upon arrival for private perusal and reading before acceptance. Treasurer's Report: Presented by the president because of treasurer absence. Balance 4-02-02 420.90 Canoe Race Commerce: Registration Fees 165.00 Income from businesses 300.00 T-shirt proceeds 200.00 Benefit auction 361.00 FMRS stickers 86.00 Expenditures -483.59 Net Income 628.41 Hats of to Dan for this successful, one man, fundraiser. Other Income: FMRS stickers 14.00 The treasurer and president are still attempting to transfer the checkbook to the proper office. We need to add HHH to the front of our account. Treasurer Raymond West of the Historic Hoosier Hills passed away recently. Old Business: Tasks for June 15 cleanup: Dan Contact Bestway and County Highway concerning disposal Greg/Sherida Invite public officials and write thank you notes John Student involvement Ken Bags, gloves, gift certificates Dan/Megan Food donations and arrangements Kim Liability papers for signatures, packets with phones #'s, concerns, etc. Sherida Contact Dave Shaw, Larry Jacobs, Ralph Guenthenspberger for Boy Scouts Tom Contact Probation Officer Travis Shepherd Greg Publicity- website, Plain Dealer, trifold brochure, radio Kim presented the next step in the Fish America grant process. Dan displayed the t-shirt and met with approval. Greg passed out copies of the trifold brochure and will try to send them out via e-mail. Any suggestions, additions, corrections, etc. need to be to him by 5-8-02. He is doing a ton of work on this endeavor. Ken distributed four pages of by-laws that he has labored through. They were from the Woodland Committee and Ken converted them to fit our FMRS. We read through them making very few changes. Ken is going back to the grindstone to have them ready for the next meeting and to send to Gary Conant at HHH. Major thanks to Ken for this invaluable service. It saved us many meeting hours. Meetings are being changed to the first THURSDAY at 7:00 PM at the Library. New Business: Andy suggested we go to the next Soil and Water Conservation District meeting on May 28th at 7:00 PM at the field office on Hwy. 7. We will meet at Tripton Mill on 5-28-02 at 11:00 AM for a luncheon to organize the 3 pts to present to the SWCD; 1 tell who we are 2 discuss common ground i.e. buffer zones 3 ask for financial assistance with our brochure publication especially since we are a new organization. Andy mentioned an EPA 319 non-point of pollution grant that HHH qualifies us for. We are doing the things already that the grant requires; we would need to write them up in grant form and add some needs e.g. camera, etc. There is a fellow who can be very helpful on this. Sherida, Andy, Greg, and Kim are going to meet as a committee to pursue this. Next Meeting: June 6, 2002, 7-8:30 PM Agenda: Old Business Map course and coordinates for Cleanup- We need all members so we can make an accurate plan of action while not wasting time or resources. If you don't like meetings, please come to this one so that we get more river cleaned. We can't plan for 40 cleaners when 9 members attend. Finalize all plans for the June 15 Cleanup You are one of the good people. See you there.