Board of Directors
MEETING
KAWKAWLIN RIVER WATERSHED PROPERTY OWNERS
ASSOCIATION
Meeting Minutes, October 12, 2011
1. President Tim Banaszak called the meeting to order at 7:01 pm.
2. Roll Call: Tim Banaszak, Jeff Staudacher, Joe Vogl, Julie Kleinau, Jerome Bartkowiak, Dave Bledsoe,
Kevin Eickmeyer, Chris Fernandez, John Roszatycki, and Darryl Steiner were present. Mike Darbee, Tim Mark,
Ben Ramsay, Bob Rau, and Glenn Rowley were excused.
3. Secretary’s Report: Approval of Minutes 9-14-2011. Jerome requested that a spelling error be corrected
for Meagher Marine. Darryl moved that the minutes be approved as corrected, Dave seconded the motion. The
minutes were approved as corrected.
4. Treasurer’s Report: YTD 2011 Review and Discuss: There was a deposit of one membership dues for
$25. Under expenditures the last 4 expenditures were approved at the last meeting. John moved to approve the
Treasurer’s Report as submitted, Darryl seconded the motion. The Treasurer’s Report was approved as
submitted.
5. Bills before the Board: Dave submitted a bill for the used pontoon boat ($500). Since the board had only
approved $450 for the purchase at the August board meeting, Darryl moved to approve the expenditure of the
extra $50. Jeff seconded the motion to add $50 to the approved cost of the pontoon boat. The motion was
approved by the board.
6. Old Business - Review and Discus
a. River Restoration Grant: Darryl attended the recent BASWA meeting. Joe Rivet reported that the
Watershed Plan has been approved!! It can now be used to pursue grants. (for water quality, testing,
restoration, etc). Dave reported that Russ Beaubien requested a letter of support for multiple grants from our
association. Joe Rivet requested a similar letter from Darryl. (these letters would be similar to the Department of
Agriculture grant we’ve supported recently for the purpose of encouraging agricultural best practices, etc).
Darryl brought a copy of the letter he intends to send for board members to review. The board would like to
ensure we know exactly what grants we are supporting if we provide letters of support. Darryl met with the
director of GLISTEN and an SVSU professor and gave them an overview of our organization and our plans to use
the data being collected. The GLISTEN representative would like to encourage our participation with the Indian
tribe.
b. KRWPOA Debit Card – Joe has received the card but hasn’t activated it yet. He will keep it – board
members should contact him if they need to use it.
c. Channel Markers – Tim was looking for our old invoice/shipping receipt for the defective channel markers.
The channel marker supplier will ship out the new markers and we will ship back the old. The Channel markers to
will be removed at the end of October – Julie will notify the Bay City Times to publish a notification.
d. Pontoon – the boat is parked at Morley’s on Patterson Road where it can be worked on. The board is
currently looking for a used motor in the 25 HP range – either through purchase or donation.
7. New Business (None brought forward)
8. Committee Chairperson’s Reports
a. Memberships – Glenn sent a report with his latest membership list. There are 129 members. Tim said the
ISD has offered to staple the newsletters, place the address stickers, stamp, and mail the next issue of the
newsletter (Tim will get a price for this service for the board to discuss at the next meeting).
b. Weed Control – Jerome had a meeting with Terry Watson and the weed contractor Ray of Aquatic
Nuisance Control regarding resident complaints from this year. Residents would like weed treatment done
significantly sooner than it was performed this year. Jerome, Terry, and Ray will put together some information
explaining the issues from this past season for area residents to review at the beginning of the next boating
season.
c. River Restoration - John & Dave
d. Water Quality/ E-Coli – Darryl
e. Safety Issues - Tim M. & Kevin, channel markers will come out the last week of October.
f. Fun Activities - Jeff, Ben, Mike & Chris. Next event is the Ice Fire in February.
g. River Clean Up - Bob & Tim B., we may get extra high school kids looking for community service hours next
year.
h. History - Carl R.
i. Newsletter, The River Journal - Becky S., mid-November is the next publication date.
j. Website (www.kawkalinriver.net) - Updates – Carol, Dave has a colleague that lives upriver from Beson’s
and has skill in web site development. Dave is trying to get him to join the association and perhaps help Carol
with the web site in our initiatives to update the site due to increased visibility due to our involvement with the
restoration grants and university projects, etc.
k. Face Book, Carol still needs more members in order to get our association page.
9. Next Board Meeting: November 9 at 7 pm in the Bangor Township Hall Meeting Room.
Joe moved to adjourn the meeting, Dave seconded the motion. The meeting was adjourned at 7:50 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Julie A. Kleinau
Secretary, KRWPOA
Board of Directors
MEETING
KAWKAWLIN RIVER WATERSHED PROPERTY OWNERS
ASSOCIATION
Meeting Minutes, November 09, 2011
1. President Tim Banaszak called the meeting to order at 7:05 pm.
2. Roll Call: Tim Banaszak, Jeff Staudacher, Joe Vogl, Julie Kleinau, Chris Fernandez, Tim Mark, and
Glenn Rowley were present. Jerome Bartkowiak, Dave Bledsoe, Mike Darbee, Kevin Eickmeyer, Ben Ramsay,
Bob Rau, John Roszatycki, and Darryl Steiner were excused.
3. Secretary’s report: The October board minutes were forwarded to the board members in advance of
tonight’s meeting. Due to no quorum of board members, a vote on approval will wait until next month. There
were no modifications proposed by those present.
4. Treasurer’s Report – Report notes under Expenditures the used pontoon boat purchase for $500. This
month’s statement on association investments indicates an approximate $30 gain on the Pimco fund. The
$1130 balance from the KRWPOA SVSU Agency account will be closed out and the funds will be transferred to
our checking account. On the budget sheet the pontoon purchase was entered under the Safety Committee
budget. Due to no quorum of board members, a vote on approval will wait until next month.
5. Bills before the board: None.
6. Old Business
a. None
7. New Business
a. None
8. Committee
a. Memberships: Glenn is just about out of the old membership mailing envelopes. He would like to modify
the look of our envelopes and include three different membership levels, plus an “other” category to allow for
extra donations. There was discussion of whether to include sponsorship/advertiser memberships on same
envelope. For now, the board advised to start with envelopes the same as we’ve had in the past, and not try to
combine sponsorship/advertiser donations on the same envelope.
b. Safety: Tim Mark – the group went out with John Korpal last week and recovered all of the channel
marker buoys. No more had fallen apart, a few had moved. Tim sent pictures to the buoy supplier of the
damage. Several solar powered lights will need to be replaced – Tim will test them over the winter. The
markers took quite a beating in the recent storm/high winds. Some had water in them. They were most likely
submerged while being moved by the waves. Discussing with Larry Houthoofd of Houthoofd Builders to
potentially put foam in markers. This was the first year removing the new buoys – they were quite difficult to
remove – we may look into a winch of some kind for the pontoon to aid in removal. Once the boat is in storage
we can work on the boat plus work on the channel markers. Jeff asked about whether we should insure the
pontoon or markers/lights. All we have now is organization liability. There is a question as to whether this also
covers the pontoon boat. This will be discussed more at the next meeting. Tim has the 45 mph signs ready to
put out once we have some ice.
c. Fun: next activity Ice Fire (drop off firewood at Darbee’s if you have some)
d. Newsletter: upcoming issue – Dave Karpovich, SVSU professor working on the SVSU water quality
project will write some articles for the newsletter. The articles are due Nov. 21st. The goal is to publish by Dec
10th. There will be articles about the Spray Park donation, our group mission, etc.
e. Facebook – needs more friends, some board members are having trouble finding it to add it on their
“friend” list.
9. Next meeting – January budget meeting (no Dec meeting) Jan 11th, 2012.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:42 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Julie A. Kleinau
Secretary - KRWPOA