Dutchess County/Putnam County AT Management Committee
New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
Announcement & Agenda for 173rd Meeting
Monday, September 23, 2002 7:00 PM East Fishkill Library Cross Conference Room

0. FYI and FYA items will circulate (see below)

1. Review and approval of minutes of the 171st meeting, June 17, 2002 and 172nd meeting, July 29, 2002. The minutes of the last two meetings can be found on the web at http://www.nynjtc.org/committees/trailscouncil/at-committees/DP/index.html 

2. Meeting Centerpiece: To be determined.

3. Other business, short updates, etc.:

A. Acquisitions and Survey update: Parcel near Nuclear Lake along Route 55 (Town of Beekman interest)

B. DOT project update (Jim Haggett)

C. Water Testing & Water Project Update

D. Telephone Line at Dover Oak Tree update

E. Public Lands Corps Summer Results and YRDC Fall 2002 plansBSee Note 2

F. Alvarez encroachment (Hosner Mtn.) Follow-up

G. Other items?

4. Reports (please keep them short! or skip if nothing new to report!)

A. Area Supervisors Summaries: Jane Geisler (written), Frank Dogil, Mike Arthur, Jim Haggett, Walt Daniels

B. Other reports

5. Other communications & announcements as time remains

6. Adjourn (shoot for 9:30 PM)

Information, Comments, & Notes

1. All Committee members, please attend this meeting; or please call the Chairman (Ron Rosen: 845/454-4936 or 454-1721 (leave a message if not in) if you CANNOT attend.

2. We received the final results of the Public Lands Corps project from this Summer=s crew, in the form of two Excel spreadsheets in the format used by ATC to track boundary status, showing work done in Segments 270 and 269. The Summer Crew AND its Americorps leaderships have now disbanded, and YRDC realized that their original grant request included more hours (2000 in all) than completed by the Summer PLC crew. YRDC is proposing that they use other crews to complete the work this fall, using YRDC advisors as crew leaders. They plan to continue the boundary ANo Hunting@ sign posting and, as a second priority, to build new bulletin boards for us to our specification. Please bring your opinions concerning their priorities for the fall to this meeting.

FYA items: as they arrive!

FYI items:

• Packet of results and follow-up from ATC Presidents= Retreat (June)

• Scenic Hudson Community Events calendar, September 2002

• Mountaineers Books partner offer

• Hudson River Valley Ramble Trails Festival brochure (September 21-22)

• Letter from Gerry Richardson thanking us for Group Workcamp participation

• August 2002 water testing results (Messerschmitt and Morgan Stewart negative, no results for Wiley [not functioning correctly] and RPH [not clear why not tested])

• NYSDOT Maybrook MultiModal Corridor Study Public Meeting

• Hiking article from Times Herald-Record 7/16/2002

ADDITIONAL REMINDERS:

Is anyone available to [once again] fix the Wiley well? If so, please let Ron Rosen know, and we will try to schedule a work trip!