Camp Meeker Recreation and Park District

Post Office Box 461

Camp Meeker, CA 95419

 

Regular Meeting Minutes

DATE:             July 10, 2001

TIME:              7:00 PM

LOCATION    5240 BOHEMIAN HWY, CAMP MEEKER CA, 95419

 

I.                   CALL TO ORDER – ROLL CALL

Called to order at 7:00 PM

Present: Gary Helfrich, Cathie Anderson, Cheryl Martinsen, Fred Meyer,

Absent: Lori Ford

II.                APPROVAL OF AGENDA

Motion by Cheryl and 2nd by Cathie to approve agenda – Ayes 4  Noes 0

III.             PUBLIC DISCUSSION

1.                    Erica Floric  Stated that she objected to the law suite brought against the District by Henry Baker. It is  frivolous and will cost the tax payers of the district to spend funds on legal costs instead of Recreation projects.

2.                    Gene Koch asked if the board had made a resolution to not build a sewer pipeline to Guerneville.

3.                    Pat Aho asked Gary about comments that were printed in the news paper. Gary stated that he was miss quoted and would write letter to correct the comments.

4.                    Dan Neilson asked if Occidental was going to to get emergency water from Camo Meeker. Gary stated that there has been no equest from Occidental at this time. He also asked what the balance of the loan on the water project were. Gary stated that that information will be available in the annual audit report.

5.                    Pat Hearst  wanted to know why the summing pond is not in. Gary explained that the National Marine Fisheries will not allow the dam to be put in any more. He stated that if she wanted an in depth explanation that he would stay after the meeting and explain the whole story.

6.                    David Beck is with the Dutch Bill Creek restoration water shed group and is working on the creek restoration project.

7.                    Tara Cantua is in full support of the Dutch Bill Creek restoration Project.

8.                     

IV.              CONSENT AGENDA

1.                  Approval of minutes for meetings of May 8, 2001 Special meeting May 19,2001 and June 12, 2001

Motion to approve the minutes of May 8, 2001 made by Cheryl and 2nd by Cathie Ayes 4 Noes 0

Motion to approve minutes on May 19, 2001 made by Cathie and 2nd by Cheryl Ayes 4 Noes 0

Motion to approve minutes of June 12 made by Cathie and 2nd by Cathie Ayes 4  Noes 0

2.                  Payment of Claims

Motion to make payment of claims presented by Fred and 2nd by Cheryl Ayes 4

Noes 0

3.                  Financial Report

Cheryl Girard had draft financial statement for audit. New audit in November. Flat charge is posted in the office of Russian River Utility in Forestville. 

 

The Board will discuss and may take action on the following items

V.                 ACTION AGENDA

1.                  Read Letter from District’s legal counsel to Henry Baker.

Gary read letter from the districts legal counsel about the law suite from Henry Baker SR.  

2.                  CLOSED SESSION – CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – EXISTING LITIGATION Pursuant to Subdivision (a) of Government Code Section 54956.9

Name of case: Henry C. Baker, Sr., Petitioner, Camp Meeker Recreation and Park District, Gary Helfrich, et. al., Respondents Sonoma County Superior Court  Case Number 227250.

The Board went into closed session at 7:35 PM.  Action Taken: The board instructed counsel to recover the legal costs from the writ of mandamus filed by Henry Baker Sr.

 Returned to regular meeting at 7:55 PM.

3.                  Report of progress on the sewer project by Brelje and Race.

Sue Nelson stated that the draft EIR is almost complete. The board should have an ad hoc committee  of  two  board members to review the draft document.

4.                  Consider a request from community to take a position against mandatory spraying of synthetic chemicals .

Tara Cantua presented a draft letter for the board to consider to   send to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to oppose mandatory spraying  of chemicals. Gary will prepair the final draft for the next meeting.

5.                  Occidental Community Services District will present a declaration of water emergency. Board will decide whether to supply water to Occidental on an emergency basis.

This item was tabled. There was no one present from the Occidental Community Services District present.  

6.                  Report from water system operator Russian River utility.

Hal Wood gave his report. There is an new billing format. The bill now shows the service charge of $40.00 per month and the usage charge as separate items on the bill. The district has now installed time of use electric meters on the pumps. We will now pump water on off peak time so the district will save some money on electric costs.

7.                  Board will discuss sponsoring summer events for the community.

There was a motion by Cheryl and 2nd by Cathie to spend no more than $1000.00 to fund a summer event. Ayes 4 Noes 0.  

 

VI.              Directors Report 

Cheryl stated that we need to have a special meeting  and public hearing on the Flat Charge Report. It was decided to have the meeting on July 28, 2001 at 10:00 AM

VII.           Adjournment

Motion to adjourn by Cheryl and 2nd by Fred. 

Meeting adjourned at 8:05 PM 

Submitter By: Fred Meyer, Director