SCOTT COUNTY SOIL & WATER
CONSERVATION DISTRICT
MONTHLY
BOARD MEEETING MINUTES
Thursday, March 20, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Location:
Present: Bill Comer, Jeff Coomes, John Hardin, Matt Oberlies, Lynda
Phillips, Joe Robbins
Guests: Laura Fribley, Brian Kendall, Pat Larr, Robert Miller
Meeting Called to Order by John Hardin.
Minutes from
February 28 meeting and Annual Dinner were approved and signed. Joe made a motion to approve and Jeff
seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Monthly Business
CWI – Brian Kendall from Crop Production Services attended our meeting to
discuss details of the Sediment and Nutrient Reduction grant project. He was placed at the top of our agenda so
that he could leave. The details of the
grant were reviewed. The question had
been raised as to whether the producer was mandated to use CPS or could they go
to another business for soil testing.
The board decided that there was no problem with them going somewhere
else as long as the other business was willing to offer and accept the same
prices and follow-up consultation. We
also discussed how the grants would be awarded.
It was decided that the producer should fill out an application which
would be ranked. We will start taking
applications on May 1st when the grant begins. Lynda will prepare a news article and
brochure detailing the grant. A date of June 21, 7 am to 9 am was decided for
our Pasture Workshop. Lynda will contact
Leroy’s for prices on providing breakfast and possibly also the location for
our workshop. Matt and Jeff will contact
the Lexington Fire Department about possibly using their new fire station as
the location. We are planning on 25-50
people.
Muscatatuck Watershed Project – Robert Miller also attended the meeting and was
allowed to go at the beginning. He
thanked the district for their willingness to purchase a Water Quality Testing
Kit. He stated that we only needed to
pay $200 as that was what other districts were doing. Lynda will cut him a check to be signed at the
April board meeting. He stated the kit
would be the property of Scott County SWCD but would remain in the volunteer’s
possession throughout the grant project for monthly testing from April thru
October. The grant is currently
scheduled to run through August 2009. The
kit will be returned to the district at the conclusion of the grant. Robert also updated the board on the current
status of the Muscatatuck Watershed project.
Business Plan Priority Actions
Wildlife - Lynda reported that she had contacted the Quail
Unlimited person to request our annual Wildlife Food Plot Seed and that it
would be coming to us in April.
Spring Tree
Newsletter – Lynda reported that she had spoken with Bob Backus,
FSA about the next newsletter and it will hopefully be published in May. This will publicize our Workshop Pasture
event and other articles in our business plan.
Soil & Water Stewardship Week – Materials were received and will be distributed the
first of April.
Monthly Business (continued)
‘Entering
Reports
Pat Larr – NRCS Pat reported on
the current status of EQIP and WHIP contracts in
Laura Fribley – ISDA Laura updated
the board on the Indiana Corn Marketing Council $300 grant proposal. There was concern last month that they wanted
us to provide them with addresses of those who attended our events. Upon further research, Laura found out that
the attendee can choose or refuse to be included in their mailings. Since there is no requirement by ICMC for
mandatory addresses, the board agreed to accept their $300 grant proposal. Laura also talked about the CWI Training
Incentive. The dates for receipt
reimbursement will run July 1, 2007 thru April 30, 2008. We are allowed $750 per staff person and up
to $1500 per Supervisor.
Lynda Phillips – SWCD Indian Hills
subdivision had been mentioned in our February meeting as they are building
houses with no ‘Notice of Intent’ filed.
Denise researched this and followed up in a letter to the board. To date the houses have been sold as single
homes as opposed to a development. This
means they were not required to file a NOI.
A decision has now been made to go ahead and develop so they will be
soon filing the NOI through Pettit Surveying.
Lynda contacted Kitty Perkinson about the RC&D
appointee. She is considering.
As discussed at our February meeting, we are going to
support the 4th grade foresters’ project for Arbor Day. The principals were contacted and were
interested.
Lynda requested money to spend on summer flowers for
the front of our building. Bill made a
motion that she could spend $100 on the credit card if needed to purchase
flowers for the Service Agency. Jeff
seconded the motion and the motion carried.
She agreed to water and maintain them.
She presented her monthly Summary of Activities.
Financial District Reports
Approval Checks – Accounts Payable
Voucher Register - All checks 1013 to 1019 were signed and approved. The Accounts Payable register was also
approved. Matt made a motion to approve
these expenditures and Joe seconded, motion carried.
Announcements/Public comments
There were no public comments.
Adjourn
Joe made a motion at 9:00 pm to adjourn the
meeting. Bill seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Respectfully submitted,
Lynda Phillips, SWCD District
Coordinator
Matt D. Oberlies,
Treasurer Bill Comer, Supervisor