Island Heights Environmental Committee Meeting Minutes Meeting Date: May 21, 2008 Time: 7: PM Attendees: Marge Laratta, K.C. Baney, Mary Judge, Don Roberts, Marsha Cudworth, George Kotzas, Norman Scheer, Pat Sherwin Absent: Greg Heizler, Peter Lukowiak, James Ryan, Rob Harrington, Karen Hershey, Robert Wilber Visitors: TOPIC DISCUSSION ACTION RESPONSIBLE PARTY COMPLETE BY Minutes Minutes of April meeting were distributed by email. Motion by M. Judge to approve the minutes as submitted. 2nd by M. Cudworth-carried. Master Naturalist Course Norman Scheer shared his experience taking and graduating from the Master Naturalist/Interpretive Guide pilot program given by Stockton College and the Edwin Forsythe Foundation. Congratulations to Norm for completing this course of study! . Subcommittee reports Barnegat Bay Festival: June 1 Sail Fest: no report New subcommittee for Promotion of Events New subcommittee for Grant Writing M. Judge purchased the rain barrel & 4 bags of Ocean Grow to raffle, R. Harrington will print our information sheets on rain barrels, M. Cudworth will make signs, N. Scheer, G. Kotzas, M. Laratta and P. Sherwin will take shifts at our table. Members are M. Judge, D. Roberts, M. Cudworth, P. Sherwin. Members are N. Scheer, K.C. Baney, M. Judge, M. Cudworth, G. Kotzas, Council liaison. Suggestions for future projects A chipper for the town to mulch Christmas Trees Phase in recycling cans in public areas Look into status of post office recycling-consider a volunteer program to help get it started. An EC member to attend the monthly OC Solid Waste meetings with the council member who will be attending to help encourage recycling in town. . M. Judge will ask our Mayor about this once the new council assignments are made. Tree Ordinance Changes discussed at last meeting were made. Ordinance would go to attorney with a note for him to add the wording about the permit review process and appeals. Discussion of points After discussion, motion by D. Roberts to approve the ordinance as written with 1 clerical correction, and sent it to attorney review. 2nd by M. Judge. Roll Call vote (attached): 7 yes, 1 no Oil Tank Removal Marge Laratta presented written information about the costs and process for home under-ground tank removal. Information attached to official copy of minutes. Adjournment Motion by Marsha Cudworth to adjourn. 2nd by Mary Judge. Adjourned at 9:10 PM NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 7:PM Normal Normal Heading 1 Heading 1 Default Paragraph Font Default Paragraph Font Table Normal Table Normal No List No List Header Header Body Text Body Text [Content_Types].xml¬‘ËjÃ0 _rels/.rels„•ÏjÃ0 theme/theme/themeManager.xml theme/theme/theme1.xmlìYOoÛ6 w toc'v li¹V[]Š1M< RÁDÛ«™Ÿ·´qu ¯g‹˜Z°¶´®o~ÙºlAp°lxŠpT0 3Vq%'#q¾ rÎ:\TZaG * y8IÂjæbRÆíc|XÅ»‹ IqbJ#x H…T[XF64 T ,Ñœ¬üËM0ëE)`#ý5¤XY ` HE‚•=(K&úN!V .K e LD• IYÓf­“¶Z¾Y_p§[ð=alY }Nc theme/theme/_rels/themeManager.xml.rels„•M Â0 g‘K(M&$R(.1˜r [Content_Types].xmlPK _rels/.relsPK theme/theme/themeManager.xmlPK theme/theme/theme1.xmlPK theme/theme/_rels/themeManager.xml.relsPK <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <a:clrMap xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main" bg1="lt1" tx1="dk1" bg2="lt2" tx2="dk2" accent1="accent1" accent2="accent2" accent3="accent3" accent4="accent4" accent5="accent5" accent6="accent6" hlink="hlink" folHlink="folHlink"/> *€urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags €PlaceType *€urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags *€urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags €PlaceName +Np@$:)ÿ Unknownÿ! Times New Roman Times New Roman Symbol Symbol Courier New Courier New Wingdings Wingdings Cambria Math Cambria Math &Island Heights Environmental Committee &Island Heights Environmental Committee Sherwin Sherwin Island Heights Environmental Committee Sherwin Normal Microsoft Office Word Island Heights Environmental Committee Root Entry 1Table 1Table WordDocument WordDocument SummaryInformation SummaryInformation DocumentSummaryInformation DocumentSummaryInformation CompObj CompObj Microsoft Office Word 97-2003 Document MSWordDoc Word.Document.8