May 26, 2015, Rainy spring, 60 degrees and raining as usual, tomorrow 85.

Bob Milam, Christine Milam, Connie Mayfield, Dong Schug, Bruce Meyer, Brett Evers

No gully washers, the runoff is not too bad so far, just light rain. There was one instance when it was a bit brown from the farm runoff.

Weeds in the South Bay has become really bad. Back by the cemetery is almost impassable. Time to call Lake Management. For now and mid-July. We have enough money to treat both. Bob will call Mike at Lake Management to treat it asap.

DNR is coming out to check for lake violations this week. Chris, from the DNR, is coming out to check for weed treatment. Hopefully she will give us the permit so we can get after it in the next 2 weeks. Lake Management treated for curly leaf pondweed.

We have a price to have Lake Management treat for milfoil however we save $2000 or so using our volunteers. We want to keep our volunteer base. We will shoot for June 9th or 11th for treatment depending on the state of the milfoil. Bob and Don haven’t seen it this bad in a long time probably because of lack of snow cover on the lake. Bruce will get ahold of Kevin Haugie to let him know when we are spraying.

We have the requests in for reimbursement with the LID and DNR. We have $17k from DNR and $12k from LID.

We need to call to get the Little Green Boat Landing fix.

GLA is going to help staff the LID booth at Ki Chi Saga Days. Karl Oscar days with the Coalition needs volunteers to man a booth.

Minnesota Waters is nonprofit organization that manages websites for Lake Associations. They lobby the government for lake issues.

Green Lake Association Meeting March 22, 2015. Bob Milam, Christine Milam, Connie Mayfield, Dong Schug, Bruce Meyer

Lake levels are ok so far. Little rain projected until June.

DNR got back to Bob on the permits for spraying. We won’t get the Milfoil until later. Curly Leaf is harder to get because the DNR comes and inspects the area for spraying. Bob went out on his snowmobile to check the area with homes to map out the amount needed. DNR is giving $17,500. The Back Bay is from our money, no grant money is used. Beth from DNR has us down for the spraying. It’s a special permit because it is natural vegetation.

LID wants the maps of the treatment. They want to view the treatment area and then they award the grant money. LID will give us $6,000 per lake.

Door Knockers – we are just going to put it in the newsletter.

Tony Haverneck was on a show on TV about Clam Lake and the carp harvesting.

The Swedish Inn is reopened.

Coalition meeting is at the golf course. In the fall they want to have an all lake association meeting. One speaker and breakout into smaller association meeting. Late September, early October on an evening during the week. Coalition wants volunteers for the Water Festival at Harmony at the park.

DNR is considering dredging the boat landing on Big Green. It is in rough shape, there is a rock pile out there.

Swans and Sand Hill Cranes are out flying. Trying to find open water.

Lake Clean up went very well. There were families out there cleaning up.

We need to keep 2 groups of volunteer sprayers when we spray for weeds, 4 hour stints are good, then they don’t too tired. We need to get younger people involved.

Grants are available, Casey Theil, Soil and Water will work with homeowners for rain gardens.

Minnesota has a program to pay the farmers to plant a buffer to stop rain runoff into the lakes. It is going through the legislature. Governor Dayton is pushing for this.

We have someone who may want to work on the website.

Quicken can generate invoices to the businesses for yearly business membership.

I think GLA’s status for non-profit is 501c3.

Green Lake Association Meeting Minutes – March 10, 2014 Attendance – Don Shug, Bob Milam, Bruce Meyer, Connie Mayfield, Dan Standish, Arnold Nelson, john Thornberg, John Unruh, Kevin Murphy, Kari and Ryan Lynch

• Memberships – only about a 1/3 of the membership has paid year to date. Connie will send out another reminder.
• Spring Newsletter will be out in 4-6 weeks
• Spraying
  • LID has approved up to $6000 per lake to lake associations for reimbursement for spraying for milfoil and curly leaf.
  • DNR offered permits to spray the south bay for native weeds as it is so thick back there. Hydrothal will be used. GLA will submit request to LID for reimbursement for this spraying.
  • Don and Bob discussed using 35 gallon jugs rather than the gallon jugs of chemical to spray making it easier to load the chemical onto the pontoon.
• Finances – $11,507 operational for spraying, maintenance of pontoon, and operational costs
• Carp Festival is slated for July 12 & 13 – Frankie’s will be running it.
• Carp – Lake Improvement District is seeking to have a commercial fishing company remove carp from Linn Lake which has a large quantity of carp.
• Little Green Lake ramp will be closed from June – September
• Aquatics Invasive Species Monitor Training program will be held in April.
• Lakes Coalition is being created, which will have the three lakes associations (Green Lake, Chisago-Lindstrom Lake, and Center Lake associations) meeting 2-3 times a year to discuss common concerns, share information and resources.
• Dan Standish reminded the board of the in-kind donation from Chisago Warehouse liquor. They have never charged GLA for letting us place the can recycling bin on their property.