CVOA Board Meeting February 12, 2011 3:30 PM
Linda & Paul Trueworthy, Stephanie & Chris Rushton, Neal Trask, John McCatherin, Kelly Cotiaux, Peter Weston, Nancy Perry, Sandy Jamison, Don Fowler
Voted and approved Kelly Cotiaux as board member, Paul Trueworthy as VP & Chris Rushton as President.
April 9th - Annual meeting. Nancy & Linda are taking care of the food. Speaker is Bill Pierce. It will be held at the Outdoor Center, 5:00 happy hour, 6:00 dinner and then speaker. Charge $10.00 Stephanie will man both doors.
Website, personal information on the web will be removed from the list of Directors. Use just CVOA secretary email. Leave on Event coordinators and Kelly’s email address.
Web Talking Points discussed.
Discussed the importance of keeping the web up to date.
Have a contact base for logo wear and merchandise.
To be able to put newsletter on the web. Kelly can do it if I send a PDF. Kelly will show us how to access the web. Nancy, Sandy, Linda should have access. Put the sale of merchandise on hold for now. Continue to do it the way we have been.
Membership cards. Important for the range. Reason for it was so people knew what year what they paid for. Change in the by-laws. Used to give out cards at Homecoming. Peter wants to change the membership year October to October.
Will meet with Kelly and Nancy and Sandy to go over web.
Bylaws. General purpose is to help clarify our purpose and more inline with what we do. Will help to clarify to IRS. Don Fowler has reviewed. The first one is changing the description of what we do.
John… 2.1 The phrase “non-profit” should be in there. Can we beef up the educational aspect of it.
Peter… Will add education.
Types of memberships.
Dues – changed to October. Take out membership card. (Range will still receive one).
Annual meeting changed to March.
Notice of meetings – through email.
Number of directors (in the original bylaws). John thought Peter wanted to increase number of directors. Changing to 15. We currently have 11 directors. Directors shall include President, VP, secretary, treasurer, clerk and past president. We had talked about increasing the number of directors.
Neal. Shouldn’t whoever is running the range be included on the board? How long should past president be on the board?
Don felt the clerk should not be on the board.
John proposed to add range chairman to the board.
board members and 6 officers. Cynthia is currently past president.
Certificate of Organization states number of board members. Can’t have any more directors than what is on the certificate. Don thinks he has it in his office. Don will look it up and Chris will touch base with Don.
Article 5 – meetings John asked, Do we want to designate at least 4 times a year? Chris doesn’t want to put anything in there that we then violate the bylaws. Peter feels requiring an annual meeting, by law is enough.
5.2 & 5.5 meetings. Notice may be by email for meetings.
Quarem – requires 6.
Peter will make those corrections and get them out to the board.
Bylaws should be dated with revision.
Treasurer’s report – Peter
Went over balance sheet, P & L statement, balance sheet for end of year 2010, P & L statement for January – December 2010.
Vail trip made us some money and will make at least $1,000 for us.
Job Profitability summary – shows cost and revenue.
John – Patrick Beaureguard – boy scouts has been accepted to West Point. John read the email from Patrick.
Bylaws – Tax status. Peter will file form with IRS and it will costs us some money to apply for tax status. 501C7 Social / hunting club type of association makes the most sense. Peter will send it in prior to the annual meeting. It means that we can’t profit from it personally. We will still need to pay income tax if we make income. Sales tax is a state thing. Cynthia had been working on that. Once Peter gets the IRS file done, Peter will check into sales tax status with the state.
Caribou Pond project. Trust for public land is looking to purchase some land and then turn it over to state for recreation use. In order to do this purchase, they need a grant of about $8 million from the government. They need as much support as possible for this project from local community. Dave Cota had set up a public forum to explain project. Peter is putting it out there if this is something we will support or not. Meant to be multi-purpose. Bigelow preserve is not a model. We are gaining public access, not losing any. Caribou Pond road itself is privately owned with ROW’s. Hopefully will remain open to us to use. Plum Creek will not allow ATVs on their land unless we get permission.
Peter made a motion to support. Nancy & Neal 2nd the motion. Board approved.
Bill Pierce – Proposed Rainbow Trout for the Carrabassett River
Not much growth rate because it’s a spring runoff river. Not a lot of insect population. 8 years ago there was a study for ecotourism. Study said to create tourism, have to have infrastructure. We have this due to alpine skiing. Access exists for the CB river because it is close to the road. To be good, has to be a created fisher. Rainbow trout grow larger than brook trout (thus marketable). Opportunity here because of the river and the infrastructure already available. Rainbow trout are more suitable because it will bite when the temp. is higher. He is a proponent of wild fisheries first. If we are going to have a viable fishery, it needs to be created. Looking for partnership with state, community and investor (like Poland Springs). He feels we will see an economic benefit from this.
Dead River – feels we should petition the state to protect parts of the river.
Chris asked if fish that were stocked were sterile. They are not sterile. It has to be an artificial fishery because they will not maintain. Rainbow will tolerate higher temperature.
John asked does the introduction of Rainbow compete with the native? It will according to Bill.
Bill is saying we have an opportunity but is not saying, this is what we should do!
Don Fowler says a biologists are against having Rainbow trout above the dam in Kingfield because of competition. It would devastate the local brook trout. Rainbow can’t substain themselves but if you put them in there but they ruin the trout we do have.
In the angling community, CB is considered a waste of time. (Bill)
Don: Those of us that fish the CB catch fish but they are not very big. If rainbow disrupt the population and then we stop stocking it, we lose the population of brook trout.
It would be a created fishery.
They are below the Kingfield the dam.
Linda: Does the state raise Rainbow trout? (Yes)
Chris: Why is the Dead River ‘catch & release” connected to stocking the CB?
Late 60’s, early 70’s was when they last stocked the CB with Rainbow.
Linda: How much would it cost to stock this?
Bill: He doesn’t know.
We’ll take it under advisement and get back to him.
Adjourned meeting at 5;05 pm
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