MINUTES
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Chairman Jim Sykes called this Lazy Mountain Community Council general meeting at Lazy Mountain Bible Church to order at 6:44pm. 19 members were present and a quorum was established.

The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance. Followed by the approval of the agenda. Pat suggested amending the agenda to reflect that no minutes were available to approve and he moved to add this item to the February meeting agenda. This was approved without objection

Treasurer Michael Miller reported that we have $258.30 and $118.07 in savings. Jim Sykes suggested the expenditure of $10 per meeting to the Lazy Mountain Bible Church to cover last year’s meetings be approved, there were no objections.

Road Service Area Report and Construction Update:
Pat Larrabee reported that contracts in December were $8, 816.00(? not sure exact amt.) due to snow removal and sanding. RSA met in November and proposed matrix to score roads for assembly CIP list not approved yet. A second RSA representative from the LMCC board is still needed.

Jim Sykes opened nominations for the vacant board position, as Willy Peabody resigned from the LMCC board at the November meeting. The board nominated Mimi Peabody to replace his term that expires in October 2009. Tom Harmon moved that nominations be closed with Mimi Peabody as the only nomination, Pat Larrabee seconded, motion passed without objection. Pat moved to approve Mimi Peabody to the LMCC board and Pam seconded to approve the motion by acclimation. The motion passed without objection.

MSB natural gas drilling ordinance: Jim Sykes opened discussion and asked the LMCC to consider providing comments on the document. Mimi provided a brief overview of the ordinance. Celeste Moore discussed requesting asking the MSB to extend deadline. Jim asked if a subcommittee wanted to form to work on comments for LMCC. Gary suggested a general consensus whether the industry should be regulated or not. Lynn Fuller moved to have Jim request the MSB to extend comment deadline so LMCC can discuss and provide comments during the February 12 meeting, Celeste seconded for extension of comment deadline until Feb 13, 2009. The motion passed without objection.

Neighborhood Watch: Jim Sykes asked if LMCC still wants to hear from Neighborhood Watch and there were no objections to inviting the presenter back.

SPUD committee status report: About 18 people signed up to participate. Nothing has happened yet formally with the borough. Gary Lorusso offered to find out the status of the SPUD committee and meetings.

Firewise Committee Update: Celeste Moore and Lynn Fuller had a meeting lasting 2 hours with borough employees and Palmer fire dept. They are still in beginning of getting fire protection program developed. They would like a community in town hall meeting to get more input from the community, perhaps in March. They are looking at access, education, and water resources. LMCC could apply for funding for water resources to help in a fire situation.

Morris Tower update: no updates.

Jim updated LMCC about community development funds of $20, 200, the priority was using the funds for a bike trail, discussed at previous meeting.

Jim provided overview of communications with LMCC.

Jim reopened discussion about community development and the idea of a community Hall was brought up. Celeste thinks is a good idea. Bike path will be very expensive and $20,000 probably would not get very far. A play park was also suggested. LMCC would be responsible for maintaining a community hall and other facilities that we might build. Jim suggested that we consider a school someday.

Jim asked if anyone else had anything they wanted to discuss. Karen Lopez mentioned a grant for the development of new commercial crops that might be interesting.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:47 pm without objection.