Agenda, November 17, 2003

Dutchess County/Putnam County AT Management Committee
New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
Announcement & Agenda for 181st Meeting
Monday, November 17, 2003
7:00 PM East Fishkill Library, Alley Conference Room

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

1. Review and approval of minutes of the 180th meeting, September 15, 2003
The minutes of the last meetings can be found on the web at http://www.nynjtc.org/committees/trailscouncil/at-committees/DP/index.html

2. Meeting feature:
This is our last meeting for 2003! We will therefore do some planning for the upcoming year. We will review our progress against goals for this year and set some preliminary goals for 2004 (we will finalize this list at our first subsequent meeting next year). FINALLY, and MOST IMPORTANT, Please bring some small item of refreshment so we can have a small [early!] Holiday celebration.

3. Old Business, short updates, etc.:
A. Acquisitions and Survey update: survey status update from AT Lands Office
B. Trail Assessment project update (Walt Daniels)
C. Water Testing & Water Projects Update
D. Hunting Season “day one” observations (see Note 2)
E. Bulletin Board replacement (Mike Arthur, others)
F. 2004 Meeting Schedule (first pass) (See Note 3)
G. Dover Hunting Preserve proposal (possible noise issue) (See Note 4–Pre-Meeting Opportunity)
H. Regional meeting report
I. 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: Chair’s report

5. Adjourn (shoot for 9:30 PM)

Information, Comments, Announcements, & 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. As you can see (other side), this meeting date will be the first day of hunting season, so we will discuss any calls or observations relating to the start of hunting season at this meeting. If you have a chance to swing by the trail’s usual problem areas the day of the meeting, please do so!

3. We will schedule tentative meeting dates for 2004 at this meeting, so please bring your calendar!

4. Ron Rosen and Jane Geisler have been following an issue appearing before the Dover Planning Board for a Shooting Preserve, called the “Ten Mile River Preserve.” The proposal is for a 2,600 acre preserve about 2 miles northwest of Schaghticoke Mountain, and our concern is noise (the proposal includes rifle and pistol ranges, skeet shooting, and sporting clays course). If you get this notice in time, Ron plans to join the developer, Jim Muncey, for a “test firing” on either Monday morning (November 10) or Wednesday morning (November 12) at the outlooks on Schaghticoke Mountain that face west. Jim will bring a radio and will communicate with someone shooting so we can determine if the noise is a significant issue or not. IF YOU ARE AVAILABLE, and wish to join us, contact Ron ASAP!

FYA items:
* Any proposals for ATC Grants-to-Clubs program? (Deadline extended)
* Others as they arrive.

FYI items:
* AMC/CT Minutes (October 7, 2003)
* Sara Laffin’s Water Testing Results (9/29): Morgan Stewart Negative; Wiley Positive for Total Coliform, Negative for E. Coli; RPH Positive for Total Coliform, Negative for E. Coli; Messerschmitt not tested.
* ATC Opening of Peter’s Mountain Bridge (Central PA), Saturday, November 8, 1:00 P.M.
* Poughkeepsie Journal article on Americorps Program shutdown, featuring Sara Laffin
* Poughkeepsie Journal Article: HVPC Complex sold (we’re trying to determine status of Parcel E... probably wasn’t in sale)
* Postcard from The Mountaineers Books advertising “GPS Made Easy”
* Poughkeepsie Journal article (Dan Shapley) supporting purple loosestrife as a non-invasive
* An ad selling a 215-acre parcel in Dover, just north of the AT lands (asking price $1.2 million), including “the highest peak in the area”... we are trying to determine the status of this parcel–it goes from East Mountain Road all the way to the CT line, and is the remainder of the Lillis property that was sold to the NPS.

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