Agenda, January 17, 2005

Dutchess County/Putnam County AT Management Committee
New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
Announcement & Agenda for 188th Meeting, 7:00 pm
Monday, January 17, 2005
New Hackensack Reformed Church Room 14
(Snow date is January 19 at the church – room 15)

NOTE: Change of location --- NOT E.F. Library

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

1. Review and approval of minutes of the 187 th meeting held

November 15, 2004. The minutes for this meeting can be found on the web at http://www.nynjtc.org/committees/trailscouncil/at-committees/DP/index.html

2. Meeting features: Setting 2005 priorities.

3. Old Business, short updates, etc.:

• Acquisitions and Survey update
• Trail Assessment project update ( Walt Daniels) - next steps...
• Water Projects status – RPH, NL, testing
• Bulletin Board replacement (Mike Arthur, others)
• Relocation plans ( Nuclear Lake & Harlem Valley State Hospital) – environmental assessment Trails Day event?
• Update DPATMC priority list
• Dutchess/Putnam AT Management Committee archives
• Mitzvah Day 2005 on May 15 – projects? Response due Jan. 7, 2005
• ATC Regional meeting – meeting is week after this one. Ron and Walt attending
• 2005 meeting schedule – location change for March
• Other items?

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

A. Area Supervisors Summaries: Jane Geisler, 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 (Jim Haggett: 845-462-2893 or 894-8435 or email jthaggett@optonline.net, leave a message if not in) if you CANNOT attend.

FYA items:

• Business cards – corrections from those requesting cards.
• 2005 biennial ATC meeting July 2005 at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.
• National Trails Day event registration

FYI items:

• Dover Knolls development’s first informational meeting January 31at Dover High School
• YRDC final report for 2004 for work done on AT in Dutchess/Putnam
• Article on Benton MacKaye trail designed to take pressure off southern AT
• Special Use Permit for tracts 268-05/27/28/32/33 given to Charlie Dennis
• AT Park Office schedule of environmental reviews
• AMC CT proposal for grassland bird habitat restoration at Bunker Hill
• Highlands Conservation Act
• National Trails Day (June 4 & 5) events
• Others as they arrive

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