Wallingford
Conservation Commission Minutes*
*These are
unofficial Minutes subject to the approval at the next regular meeting.
January 25, 2010
In Attendance: Tim
Chila and Ralph Nimtz (co-chairs), Dave Klock, Peter Upton, Carol Macleod,
Debbie Scranton
The meeting was called to order at 7:05 PM, followed by a
roll call, approval of the draft minutes of our November 23, 2009 meeting, and
approval of the Agenda for this meeting.
Old Business
(1)
Wallingford
House Recycling:
The Wallingford
house does recycle. The residents do
segregate their waste stream, but the problem is bringing the segregated
material to the transfer station. Hubbard picks up the trash, but it is Elsie
and Bill Badamo who have volunteered to pick up the recyclables and who need
assistance. They also claim that
they have educated the residents, but that there are still sorting issues, which
is left to them to do.
Tim has called Jack Heaton who manages the property, with no call-back.
Sixth grade students at WES have a service program with the Key Club at
the high school. This group, or
church or other civic groups, could be enlisted to help pick up the recyclables.
* Ralph will call Hubbard to find out what the problem is with recycling
at Wallingford House.
(2) Strategic
Plan We decided not to
proceed with developing a strategic plan for the WCC as key members Shannon and
Kim were not at this meeting. We
will postpone.
* We all will make up a list of priorities for our next meeting.
(3) Kiosks
There should be three kiosks, two of which are in our submitted
grant(s) and planned for the beach and recreation areas, which falls in the
domain of the Recreation Development Committee.
The grant is requesting $1000 for each of the two kiosks.
The proto-type is 5.5’ high, with a 5’ x 5’ slanting roof, and a
4’ x 3’ tablet display. The
kiosk at the library will be done by the WCC.
Information to be considered on display at the kiosks:
a) Maps (close-up of beach and rec area at the beach and recreation
areas, and close-up of Main Street
at the library location)
b) coming events (flyers and
calendar)
c) brochure displays in slips
New Business
1) Natural
Resources portion of Town Plan We
offered to help write this component of the new Town Plan being written by the
Planning Commission, with the help of Jens Hilke.
In their absence at this meeting, we did nominate Kim and Shannon to help
from WCC due to their expertise. The
Energy Commission chaired by Tim offered to write that portion of the Town Plan.
The Planning Commission responded that they would be interested in help
from both of these commissions.
Peter
has available the Regional Plan up-dated in 2009.
Jay White, Ken Welch, and Ralph were three of 11 people in Wallingford, and Tim will be training, to work under the auspices of Efficiency Vermont for
volunteer work to explain about the energy assessments.
2) Spring
WCC Presentations Following our
programs previously offered free and open to the public, both in the Klock Room
at the library, and in outside locations, we discussed programs that we might
present this coming spring that would be of interest, including vegetable
gardening, gardening to attract birds and bees, natural fertilizers.
3) Green
Up Day Green Up day is the
first Saturday in May, and the WCC will continue to run this state-wide program
for the town. In previous years, we
have set up a table in front of the Wallingford Rotary, with a banner, and
distributed bags to cover routes as designated on town maps, and been
accountable to the state Green Up organization.
In the past we have tried different ways to encourage greater
participation, including refreshments, distribution of seedlings, and sales of
re-cycling bins, none of which seemed to significantly affect participation.
So we will continue to just distribute bags and track areas covered.
WES significantly cleans up the village prior to Green Up day.
4) Content
for March Newsletter The
February newsletter had an article submitted by Tim in regard to the
Baker/Badamo recycling efforts at Wallingford house and need for help from
others. Green Up was considered.
5) Other
There is a Tree Steward program under the UVM Extension Service.
The Tree Warden position in town remains open and should be filled. **Position
was filled on 12/21/09**
* Debbie will bring the poster for display at Town Meeting of the
activities of the WCC to increase awareness.
Our next meeting will be Monday, February 22, 2010, 7:00 PM
at the Town Hall.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Debbie Scranton
*Items needing action prior to next meeting. |