February 12 2024 General Meeting Minutes

Date: February 12, 2024

The General Meeting of the Butte des Morts Conservation Club was called to order on Monday, February 12, 2024 at Winklers Westward Ho at 6:31pm by Bruce Loberg.

 

  1. Property/Trail Update
    1. Spring Clean Up to be done when we can
    2. Breakwall Project – will need to revisit grant due weather for 2025
    3. Rock Removal project – Andrew Sabi was here to present a proposal for the club using fishing line to eliminate the use of the rock wall by birds. An estimate of $6k to begin in June 2024. However, we are needing to obtain funds for this project.
    4. Duck Houses – On January 27th, 34 were checked and cleaned. 24 of them had feathers, broken eggs, intact eggs.  On January 29th, Landon completed an eagle scout project and replaced 10 houses.
  2. Parking Lot Cameras – Money is secured. Application sent into Electrical. This will be a Spring project.
  3. Fundraising
    1. Spring Raffle – Tickets are here to be disbursed and start selling
    2. Battle on Bago – Bruce will be attending the Battle on Bago banquet on Thursday and turn our 500 tickets in
  4. Memberships – Membership renewal letter will be going out in the next week.

 

Meeting was adjourned by Art Techlow seconded by Ken Meier at 7:11pm. Next General Meeting will be Monday, March 11, 2024 at The Westward Ho.