April 2022 Minutes – Kingston Lake Association

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Board of Directors Meeting

Kingston Lake (Great Pond) Association

April 27, 2022 @ 7:00PM

Held at the Library

Minutes

Call to Order at 7:08 PM – Muriel Ingalls

 Secretary’s Report – Susan Palmeter – Holly mentioned that her discussion about

the Owl presentation was not in the minutes. It was mentioned in the Feb. minutes

that it was too expensive/accepted as printed

 Treasurer’s Report – Ben Bixby – accepted as printed/no change from last month

Members present: Muriel Ingalls, John Halloran, Bill Bixby, David Buehler, Betsey

Bixby, Jim Edwards, Betty Wright, Larry Smith, Holly Ouellette, Mark Thom

(Ridgewood Representative), Reid Van Heulen and Susan Palmeter.

New Business

 Lake Host Grant awarded for $2650 to KLA plus $2500 from KCC budget.

Betty Wright. Need to reach out to Rich St. Hilaire to remind him about weekly

emptying of port a potty. Muriel brought in the Carry In Carry Out signs for the

boat launch/ramp. Jim Edwards has volunteered to put them out. One will also go

at the State Park near the dog waste receptacle.

 Aquifer Protection signage- view sample. There were no samples available at this

time. Jim asked if there were currently signs posted that we could copy instead of

trying to come up with a new design. Muriel trails division is designing a sign.

 Reid – Camp Lincoln working with Forrest Bell. Hope KLA can be included.

Idea – involve Solitude Lake Management with Peter Beisler for a comprehensive

lake study with goal setting at the end. Grant money to pay for assessment. Grant

money has to come through the town not individuals and not the Lake

Association. Forest could represent the town to submit the grant application and

would work with the town. Reid, Muriel and Forest will go before the Selectmen

at the meeting Monday, May 2nd at 7:00pm. The grant money is loan forgiveness.

A warrant article would need to created and approved.

 Newsletter complete and attached. Betsey and Muriel worked on getting the

newsletter out to everyone via mailing. Muriel passed around the issue in black

and white for the group to see. The color version went out to all members.

 June 29 speaker from NH Lakes for the LakeSmart program. Ties in well with

the letter from Rich St. Hilaire. (information packet sent to all residents) Dave

Buehler was also working on getting someone to speak about Storm water

conservation (?).

Feb. – Lake Host Grant writing, March 8 – DONE. Election, May 14; State Park

Clean Up. Muriel will put up lawn signs and an article in the Carriage Towne

paper. Muriel will speak with John Whittier for assistance in getting the leaf

blower to the park for that day. May 16, water sampling ??? June 20 water

sampling. June 29th Membership meeting – see above. July 18 water sampling.

Regatta July 31. August 15 Water Sampling. September 19 water sampling. Jim

Edwards will head to Concord to pick up the bottles we use for sampling for us.

Must be done by May 16th. Thanks again Jim for volunteering! Bill will check

with Steve White about helping again this year. Biologist from DES came last

year. They may or may not come this year, hit or miss.

 We talked about a table at Kingston Days from 10-4 and doing it both days. We

will sell raffle tickets for the bird prints.

 No word on Truck Stop in the Aquifer Protection Area this is in the court.

Larry Smith apologized for missing the meetings. Thank you Larry!

Adjourned at 7:50 pm

Next Meeting will be on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at the library at 7:00 PM