Highland
Lake Education and Outreach Committee
Minutes of March 22, 2018, 1:00 p.m. -
2:30 p.m. Falmouth Town Hall
Members present: Heather
True, John Maclaine, Kimberly Darling, Gretchen Anderson, Rosie Hartzler, Donna
Chapman, Chantal Scott, Nancy Lightbody, and Dennis Brown (by phone)
·
The minutes
for February 14, 2018, were unanimously accepted as written.
·
Feedback from
the Public Forum on March 21, 2018
o Great
questions from the audience
o Good
crowd attendance, especially since it had been postponed: just under 100
o 3
town council members were present
o The
Facebook filming was difficult to hear
o Kudos
to Craig on his facilitation skills and how he kept the people on track
o Possibility
of a second forum to be organized later in the year
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Development
of timeline for the next six months
The discussion focused on setting up educational opportunities with road
associations.
April: Meetings
with road associations
Dennis to
reach out to the leaders, ask for their concerns, and with our help develop a 15-minute
presentation
May through September:
Technical assistance
John
to conduct private road workshops and extend technical assistance with specific
issues that the road associations have written down
Late May/June:
Focus on residential topics in meetings with road associations
Chantal
to get a group together to formulate an action plan
July/August: Second round of meetings
with road associations
September/October: Educational workshops
with trainings on different topics
o How
to form a road association
o Legal
issues (i.e., going over the regulations about what the town can and cannot do
in regards to private roads)
o Q
and A: What issues do the road associations have?
Potential topics for road association
meetings
o Engaging
people in the project of upgrading the road
o Finding
ways for improving how road associations interact
o Introducing
the need for road associations to have insurance
o Importance
of road associations becoming statutory road associations
o Establishing
a point of contact for each road association
Questions that came up
o
Can the town mandate that a road association be
required to meet certain standards because of the lake issues?
o
What about the possibility of the town(s)
helping with road upgrade?
o
Can the DEP step in when the property is
infringing on lake health?
Possible resources for road
association meetings
o
CCSWCD has held road association workshops to
educate and give legal advice
o
Maine Alliance for Road Associations
o
Lakes Environmental Association
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Other
topics discussed
o Youth Conservation Corps: Chantal
talked about a possible resurgence of a YCC-type organization for a projected
focus on buffer projects after the Watershed Survey.
o
Limnology
class: The possibility of a community limnology
class with Karen Wilson was also mentioned, but this will
be discussed later.
§
Watershed Survey: May 19
§
Highland Lake Association annual meeting: July
19
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Upcoming HLLT
meetings
§
April 5 from 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. in Falmouth:
Next EOS meeting
§
April 12 from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon in Windham
Town Hall: Full HLLT meeting
