•Annual Boat Parade

•Clean up Work

•Meeting Day Changed

•Draw Down Schedule

•Board Meeting Minutes

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You'll not only see the FOCL Board Members volunteering their time to
organize and run the Friends of Claytor Lake, but you'll find them out
getting their hands dirty striving to keep the lake the way we all want to
see it: clean and safe...

Jackson tosses debris into the bucket of the front end loader.

Dean on the Machine (thanks to HT Bowling for the use of the Front-End Loader).

Even FOCL's Executive Director, Darla Jennings, was out in the mud!

•Start: November 3rd, 2008 to be drawn down 1' per day
•Drawdown: 5' below full-pond from November 8th - 22nd
•Refill: Starts Saturday, November 22nd

Friends of Claytor Lake Meeting of the Board, May 13, 2008

Present:  Ronnie Powers, Darla Jennings, Bill Cunningham, Dave Stevenson, Dean Jackson, Mike Spraker, John Toothaker, Laura Walters, Jeff Arnold, Jackson, Beamer, Bob and Sherry Strenz, Dave Collett and Wes Billings

Ronnie Powers called the meeting to order and congratulated Darla for her 10^th year anniversary with FOCL.

The April Minutes were approved unanimously.

Alan and Bill are working to review the Bi-Laws.  We also are looking at the list of Board members and need to decide what to do about inactive members.  We have 17 active members and can have 25-30.  Alan will report next meeting on this for us to make a decision and take action.  WE will also have elections next meeting. 

Ronnie encouraged everyone to think of who they know that might be good active members.

Dean and Laura updated everyone on the Fourth Boat Parade.  It will be on Sunday the 6^th of July at 2:00 pm and begin at the state park.  The parade will be the same route as last year.  Laura noted that participation has dwindled and suggested that we send postcards to our mailing list to encourage participation.  Laura will donate the postcards.  This motion to send postcards to those on our mailing list was approved.  Laura will email advertising flyer for everyone to post.  Sponsors need to be turned in to Laura by the end of the week.

Darla presented the income and expense report.  The largest expense was $1790 for new maps.  This report was approved unanimously.

Ronnie noted that with Mary Rhodes leaving, the Environmental Resources Enhancement Committee needs a new Chairperson.

We have sent AEP a letter requesting that they fund half of clean up.  The county is funding the other half.  AEP suggested that we present clean up as a program for them to fund as their budget has already been set.  We are in the process of doing this.  We also requested part-time funding for the Executive Director position.  Clean up will begin June 14^th on the upper end of the lake in the Peak Creek and Harry DeHaven areas.  Ads are out for employees and the county has been notified.  The annual labor cost of clean up is approximately $30,000.00

We will receive bi-monthly reports on labor costs this year from the county so as to monitor and not overspend.  We will be burning this Thursday at Carol Metz’s and then Big Hole Hollow.  There is approximately 1170 tons to be burned.

Darla has a sign up sheet for the June 7^th Festival at the State Park.  Sign up to help, please.

Friday June 14^th will be the American Heritage Paddle Run, which will float the entire New River.  John Copeland is working on this and there will be more info to come.

Laura Bullard noted that our meeting time was the same as the County Planning Commission.  If we were interested in changing our meeting time, perhaps more of the county officials could attend.  Discussion ensued and Ronnie was asked to check with some of the county officials to see if they would in fact attend if we changed our meeting time.  We will discuss again next month.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:15.

The next meeting will be at the New Boy Scout Aquatic Center.