[0:03] I like to call the Dairy Conservation Commission

[0:05] meeting to order.

[0:07] We're gonna start off with Pledge of Allegiance.

[0:15] Alright. Pledge of all the flag

[0:18] of the United States of America

[0:21] and to the Republic, which which stands,

[0:24] one Nation under God, invisible of liberty and justice.

[0:33] Ask everybody, please silence their cell phones

[0:35] for the remainder of the meeting.

[0:38] The emergency exits are located in the back of the room

[0:41] and to my right, if there's an emergency in the building,

[0:43] please use the stairs, not the elevators.

[0:45] If you need help, please get assistance from

[0:48] one of the commissioners here.

[0:51] We will start things off with Indu, introduction

[0:53] of commissioners, starting to my right.

[0:56] Christopher Morlock, Jay Hildreth,

[0:59] Rick Metz, Eileen Chabot, Pam Lap Piero,

[1:02] Linda Comy, Elizabeth Carver, land manager,

[1:06] And our council liaison to my right,

[1:09] Charlie Foot.

[1:11] And I'm the chair Ricardo bga.

[1:14] We, we do have some absences tonight.

[1:16] Bob, Val and Cheryl, who are all members are absent.

[1:21] So I am gonna ask, let's see, we'll do,

[1:25] Chris, can you sit for Bob?

[1:28] Yes. And

[1:33] Pam is gonna sit for Val

[1:37] and you're gonna sit for Cheryl. Sounds

[1:39] Good.

[1:42] You got that, Tammy? Okay. Thank you.

[1:50] Okay. First over business.

[1:51] The approval of minutes for our meeting of April 20th.

[2:05] I'll entertain a motion to that effect.

[2:06] Move to approve minutes of April 20th, 2026.

[2:10] Is there a second?

[2:13] I second All.

[2:15] So we have a first and a second on the approval

[2:17] of minutes of four 20.

[2:19] All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposition?

[2:23] Okay, hold on. So, anyone opposed? No.

[2:28] And we have anyone Abs abstaining. Abstain. Just one.

[2:33] So Eileen is abstaining.

[2:39] Okay. Next we have the chair's report.

[2:41] Fairly busy week, busy couple of weeks.

[2:45] We, we executed the agricultural land lease agreement

[2:50] with the help of the town administrator.

[2:52] That's the first of its kind.

[2:55] And I'm excited that we're gonna stop papering all the deals

[2:58] that we have on the commission

[3:00] and no more just kind of general agreements.

[3:02] So we did that. It's been signed by myself, by the,

[3:07] the gentleman that's gonna be doing work in the cornfield

[3:10] over next to Broadview and the town administrator.

[3:15] So that's done. We also

[3:18] got the draft conservation easement deed

[3:21] for the Ashley Drive property.

[3:24] This is not the conservation

[3:30] management plan.

[3:31] We'll call that.

[3:32] We have a number that we added a number of amendments to

[3:36] that, that we have a year to develop that.

[3:38] So this is the conservation easement deed that DES

[3:43] wildlife and the the town have signed off on.

[3:46] And it looked, it looked fine.

[3:48] It was reviewed by the town attorney. So that's all done.

[3:50] And now, now we have a year to develop that next part.

[3:55] That's the one that has the compensation package in it

[3:57] and the, the who's responsible for what.

[4:00] So we're probably in a position now

[4:03] to start talking about the signage, Beth, on,

[4:06] on posting the property.

[4:08] So we'll probably bring that up at the next meeting.

[4:10] We're gonna order some signs

[4:11] and get some signs posted on that property.

[4:16] We had, I had my phone call with Beth

[4:19] and went through our priority list.

[4:23] We're moving forward on a pro. A lot of projects.

[4:26] The Cwpp is kind of on the,

[4:27] on the back, on the home stretch.

[4:30] We'll be wrapped up. I'm sure Beth will

[4:32] talk about it in her presentation.

[4:34] And we are continuing to have our meetings with Owen.

[4:36] We had one prior to this meeting today

[4:39] to integrate Dairy cam into everything that we do

[4:43] as a commission and let the people know

[4:46] about what we're doing.

[4:48] And Beth is also gonna go over that stuff.

[4:53] As far as correspondence, there was none.

[4:57] So we will move right into community gardens. And Jay?

[5:02] Yes. Well, we've had a, a somewhat aggressive plan to try

[5:06] to be able to open up the gardens by May, Saturday, May 9th,

[5:10] where that would be a, an event for the

[5:14] our gardeners, and which includes a demonstration of

[5:19] building a bed, staking the, staking out the, the plots,

[5:25] and having a plant exchange and light refreshments.

[5:31] I've worked really hard to get to that.

[5:33] There's a lot of factors

[5:35] and hurdles in purchasing the fertilizers.

[5:40] I have the, the potassium source in my

[5:45] garage and home success there.

[5:48] The manure is on, on the bed and been on the garden plot.

[5:53] And it's somewhat spread out.

[5:56] Beth had told me that the, the person doing the,

[6:01] the tractor, he probably can spread out

[6:05] what's there more than, you know, what human hands can do

[6:10] with a, a shovel and a wheelbarrow.

[6:14] So we're probably good for the manure

[6:18] and tilling on Thursday.

[6:21] The last thing that stands out is the blood meal was

[6:27] challenging, looking for sources online

[6:31] and telling me that it's free shipping.

[6:33] And then it wasn't, it was a mistake on their website.

[6:37] They called me and told me they,

[6:39] they've never had no free any free shipping, huh?

[6:42] So I've been pursuing the actual manufacturer source.

[6:47] I, this, this place was out in New York, so now I'm going

[6:51] to Vermont where the actual North north country

[6:57] fertilizer company exists.

[6:58] And they, they had the blood meal there for me

[7:01] and it was more expensive than the other website

[7:04] I intended to purchase from.

[7:06] So I'm reducing the amount I want to stick with the, the

[7:12] proposed and approved budget.

[7:14] I don't wanna, what I'm gonna ask our gardeners

[7:17] to do once we have everything together, the full picture,

[7:20] the full story Beth will put out, you know, an alert

[7:25] to the gardeners about the event.

[7:28] And many of them don't.

[7:31] I don't think even know that we're doing all this for them.

[7:35] And if there's new gardeners, they may not

[7:37] yet even appreciate that yet.

[7:39] So we have yet to

[7:41] educate them why this is a good thing for them.

[7:45] And so we'll

[7:50] have our event go to Vermont.

[7:52] I'll get the bags of blood meal

[7:54] and get that in spread to the garden.

[7:58] Then we'll have the, the

[8:03] tractor doing the tilling on Thursday.

[8:06] And then Friday we'll have Saturday we'll have the event.

[8:10] I also did soil testing.

[8:13] I did a compost, the compost of manure testing,

[8:18] something we wanted to get.

[8:20] And I sent that in today.

[8:22] I also wanted to sample the garden of the,

[8:27] of the farmer that provided this.

[8:30] My next door neighbor, his name's Manuel Cardoza.

[8:33] Thank, I wanna thank him for all his hard work.

[8:37] And I wanted to submit the tests plus shipping

[8:41] in this packet right here.

[8:46] So you need a motion for reimbursement on that?

[8:50] Is there a reimbursement on that one or no?

[8:51] Yeah. Yes, that would be a reimbursement.

[8:53] Okay. Move to approve $97 for reimbursement

[8:58] for soil testing at Broadview Farms.

[9:00] Taken outta the administrative budget.

[9:03] Is there a second? Second?

[9:06] How many seconds? I was gonna second it, but

[9:10] She did We have a first and the second.

[9:13] All is in favor, say aye.

[9:15] Aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstentions. Motion carries.

[9:24] Thank You sir. Anything else, Jay?

[9:26] That's it. Okay. Thank you Jay.

[9:31] Next we have personnel, Mr. Metz and Mr. Metz.

[9:33] I do have a task we need to look at when

[9:38] our two employees are up for their an annual review.

[9:41] So maybe I figure that myself. Investigate that. Yep.

[9:44] Figure that out. Anything else on personnel? Nope.

[9:47] I,

[9:51] They're still showing up. So

[9:53] Still here.

[9:55] Public outreach. Cheryl is absent tonight.

[9:57] So we're, we're gonna skip that report

[9:58] unless you wanna chime in.

[9:59] Beth,

[10:01] Linda actually is prepared

[10:02] to get that report. Linda? Yeah.

[10:03] Alright, Linda, go ahead. Thank you. Sure,

[10:05] Sure.

[10:06] So we met, or we can, half ago, it was really great, Cheryl

[10:09] and myself were able to have a really great conversation,

[10:14] really engaging the community.

[10:16] We now have double the followers on our

[10:19] social media, which is great.

[10:20] And we're getting between, I would say 1,002,

[10:24] 1500 views on each post that we're putting out there,

[10:27] which just means that people are truly looking at

[10:29] what we're posting out there.

[10:31] And hopefully with any look, they're gonna show up here

[10:34] and, you know, for the iNaturalist.

[10:36] And we're gonna post that.

[10:37] And we have our excellent viewer here already.

[10:42] But I think we wanna engage more

[10:43] and bring more people in so

[10:45] that they can participate in the

[10:47] iNaturalist training, which is free to them.

[10:49] And now I know that we have a Zoom that's always the same.

[10:51] I'm gonna make sure I post that.

[10:53] And 24 hours before our meetings, I'm going

[10:57] to post a trailhead and make a little snippet.

[11:00] Little, little, I guess a little fun fact about that

[11:03] and encourage them to join us as well.

[11:06] That's Great. And

[11:07] That sounds fantastic. Just

[11:08] Continuing to encourage people

[11:10] to participate in all these great trainings we have coming

[11:12] up to BioBlitz and so on.

[11:15] That's fantastic. Thank you, Linda.

[11:17] I didn't know you were prepared to do that.

[11:18] That's fantastic. We talked with Owen prior

[11:22] to this meeting in our, in our monthly.

[11:24] And we're gonna on the grand opening

[11:28] for the public gardens.

[11:30] We're gonna do that. We're gonna publish that.

[11:32] But we're also going to invite, is it Beth, you're gonna,

[11:35] you're gonna act actually run the, the kind

[11:38] of workshop on planting.

[11:40] Yep. Yeah. So we're gonna invite people even

[11:42] that aren't part of the public garden group,

[11:45] just the public in general,

[11:46] if they wanna attend the workshop on planting

[11:48] that Beth is gonna run at that event.

[11:52] So we're gonna do that. So maybe

[11:54] th they, they can connect on that. We're gonna have to

[11:57] Coordinate.

[11:58] Yeah, we'll coordinate. Coordinate. That's

[11:59] Fine.

[12:00] Thank you, Linda. You're welcome. Mr. Metz, TRC.

[12:02] Nothing to report on TRC.

[12:06] Next we have Eileen Shabo with state compliance.

[12:09] If there's anything. Eileen?

[12:10] Yes. I wanted

[12:12] to announce there's some trainings coming up.

[12:15] N-H-A-C-C is having a series called Protecting Wetlands.

[12:19] It's a two part series.

[12:20] The first part will be GIS tools for wetland identification.

[12:25] And the second part will be a wetlands

[12:29] identification field study.

[12:31] The field study will be the, I'm sorry, backtrack here.

[12:35] The GIS tools will be on May 27th, 2026.

[12:39] And that will be on Zoom from 12 to one 30.

[12:42] It will be presented on Zoom,

[12:44] so you could watch it from, from your home.

[12:47] The wetlands ID field study will be an in-person

[12:51] workshop on Saturday, June 6th from nine to 12 noon.

[12:55] And it's gonna be held at Bow High School,

[12:57] 55 Falcon Way in Bow, New Hampshire.

[13:00] And you can register now for either workshop

[13:03] on the N-H-A-C-C website.

[13:05] That's New Hampshire Association

[13:07] of Conservation Commissions.

[13:09] Also another training's coming up for Trail Maintenance

[13:13] and Design on June 19th.

[13:15] And it's to sharpen your skills, trail skills with N-H-A-C-C

[13:20] and the Appalachian Mountain Club.

[13:22] And that's gonna be held on Friday, June 19th from 10

[13:25] to four at the A MC Camp Dodge in Gorham, New Hampshire.

[13:31] And again, you could also, if you're interested, sign up

[13:34] and register on the N-H-A-C-C website.

[13:38] And the other thing I have is for people not familiar,

[13:43] the DES puts out a,

[13:45] a newsletter called the DES Municipal Eco Link.

[13:49] And I caught in the April, 2026 newsletter

[13:52] that I received recently.

[13:54] It was kind of interesting.

[13:58] You know, we, we all know that there's, you know, there's,

[14:02] you know, shrinking landfill space

[14:05] and, you know, there's issues sometimes

[14:07] with transfer stations.

[14:08] You know, so much is brought

[14:10] and they're looking for new ways to recycle

[14:14] and, and such like that.

[14:16] And there's a public information session coming up

[14:18] that people may be interested in.

[14:21] There's a public session

[14:22] and hearing that's gonna be held up in Concord for

[14:28] some proposed construction

[14:31] and operation of solid waste facilities in London Dairy.

[14:35] There's two companies that submitted proposals,

[14:38] purpose Energy from London Dairy

[14:40] and Recycle Works from London Dairy.

[14:44] And that session is May 11th from 5 45 to 10:00 PM

[14:48] and you can find out more information

[14:50] and how to, to submit comments on the DES website.

[14:54] I thought that would be of interest.

[14:57] There's a lot in this newsletter.

[14:59] I'm not gonna cover everything,

[15:00] but if you're, if you're interested at all, you can go

[15:02] to the DES website

[15:03] and look for the Municipal Eco Link newsletter.

[15:07] Okay. And that's, that's all I have.

[15:12] Thank you Eileen. We, we need to change the name

[15:17] of the state compliance subcommittee to reflect

[15:22] all the information that Eileen provides at the meeting.

[15:24] So can, can you and Beth get together

[15:28] and add to the name of that?

[15:29] I think it should be state compliance and maybe,

[15:31] and training, maybe resources like, I don't know,

[15:36] educational Resources, subcommittee, something like that.

[15:39] Because she comes with, she comes with such

[15:41] so much information that only she's privy to

[15:45] or, or hard to get. So let's, well,

[15:47] I'm trying to make sure everyone knows about

[15:49] It.

[15:50] Yeah, let's, let's make sure that we, that

[15:51] that subcommittee reflects, you know, the, the information.

[15:55] So you guys come up with a cool

[15:56] name and let me know what it is.

[15:59] And as far as the attending these workshops,

[16:03] if there's ever a cost involved in that, I just wanna know,

[16:06] want the commissioners to know that the,

[16:08] the commission will reimburse you for the cost associated,

[16:11] whether you're an alternate or regular member.

[16:14] If you want to attend one of those seminars,

[16:17] we'll reimburse you for the cost associated with that.

[16:23] Thank you Eileen. Yep.

[16:28] Property management. We executed the, the tree

[16:32] hazard tree tree removal at one

[16:36] of our conservation properties with the supervision of Beth.

[16:40] And she'll tell you more about that at her report.

[16:42] That's the only thing I have on property maintenance.

[16:45] Property management. Next we had land maintenance.

[16:49] Bob Sperl. I don't know if anyone

[16:51] else wants to bring that up.

[16:52] Yeah, I can chime in on that.

[16:54] Okay, so we have, our next meeting is scheduled

[16:58] for May 14th, where we're gonna do our due diligence in

[17:04] looking into the backgrounds

[17:06] and all of the, you know, legal deeds

[17:10] and all of those sorts of things with the properties

[17:13] that we have targeted to do some work on this year.

[17:17] So the, that's the ball property, the Margaret Ives property

[17:22] and coal marsh.

[17:24] So we'll be looking at those properties on May 14th.

[17:31] Thank you Beth? Yeah,

[17:34] Land acquisition.

[17:35] We are currently pursuing two conservation properties.

[17:38] We'll, we're gonna discuss them briefly at a

[17:40] non-public after this meeting.

[17:45] We are also developing one of the, one of the bullet items

[17:49] that had high priority that Beth

[17:52] and I flagged recently is we're developing a, a mailer

[17:58] that we would, that it's gonna be a boilerplate

[18:00] that we would send to a per a landowner

[18:05] describing the benefits of conservation

[18:07] and donating property to conservation.

[18:10] We're gonna try to cite the actual

[18:14] advantages from a tax perspective in that letter.

[18:17] And Beth is working with the New Hampshire Association

[18:21] of Conservation Commissions on putting that letter together.

[18:23] So once we have that developed, we'll probably bring it,

[18:27] bring it to the body

[18:28] and we, we'll, we'll, we'll use some boilerplate from them

[18:32] and we'll, we'll change it up a little bit for ourself.

[18:34] And once that happens, I want to, I want to

[18:37] set up a pretty aggressive solicitation campaign

[18:42] on targeting some of the larger properties in Derry,

[18:46] notifying the landowners that we're,

[18:48] we're interested in presuming as much properties as we can.

[18:55] The next two reporting compliance

[18:57] and net zero task force is Val

[19:00] and Val couldn't make it tonight.

[19:01] So no one's,

[19:02] I don't think anyone has anything for either of those.

[19:05] No, then we have

[19:09] counselor foot for a liaison report.

[19:15] Thank you Mr. Chairman. As you stated at the beginning

[19:17] of the meeting, the council last meeting accepted the

[19:20] easement at Ashley Drive.

[19:22] There was one no vote and that was full disclosure.

[19:25] That was me. I voted against it

[19:28] and there was the, the contract approval.

[19:31] And tomorrow night is a big night in town.

[19:33] We have the adoption of the 27 budget.

[19:38] It's roughly $78 million, 77 million is in change.

[19:41] There'll be a couple public hearings of people interested

[19:43] and that's in the water rate usage fees

[19:46] and the sewer usage fees.

[19:49] And that will be tomorrow night.

[19:50] And that's all I have. Thank you.

[19:52] Great, thank you. Alright, next up we have

[19:56] land manage report, Beth?

[19:58] Yep. So the carpets are being replaced

[20:04] in the second floor of the municipal center here,

[20:07] including the carpeting in the area where we have all

[20:11] of the Conservation Commission files.

[20:12] So we're taking this as a chance to kind of tidy that area

[20:16] and clean house a bit.

[20:20] And then let's see the N-H-A-C-C BioBlitz at Broadview,

[20:25] I met with Barbara Richter with the N-H-A-C-C

[20:28] and Steven Lamond with Moose Wood Ecological.

[20:32] And we ironed out the final details of the BioBlitz.

[20:36] So the schedule for the day, it's gonna be an eight to four

[20:42] event, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

[20:43] and there will be four different sections.

[20:45] So there will be a bird walk from eight 30 to nine

[20:48] and then a walk focused on trees, shrubs,

[20:51] and plants from 10 30 to 12 a walk focused on wetlands

[20:55] and vernal pools from one to two.

[20:57] And then a walk focused on butterflies, bugs,

[21:00] and bees from two 30 to three.

[21:02] So that was just an exciting thing to get all

[21:04] of those details hammered out for the bio blitz. And the

[21:08] Date, again, Beth, that is June 27th, Saturday,

[21:12] June 27th we did send letters.

[21:17] So Val put together a list

[21:20] of the Abutters for Broadview.

[21:24] So the people who lived near Broadview

[21:26] and I sent a letter to all of them

[21:32] that was mailed out LA the Friday before last.

[21:36] And then we've also reached out to the Boys

[21:38] and Girls Club, the local scout troops, the Red Star twirler

[21:43] and the school board about this initiative to try

[21:46] to drum up some involvement in that way.

[21:49] And you are all encouraged to download the iNaturalist app

[21:53] before our June 1st workshop.

[21:55] So on June 1st we're gonna have a training on how

[21:58] to use iNaturalist, which is the main app that

[22:02] we'll use during the BioBlitz

[22:05] to gather all the information about the different

[22:07] species that we find.

[22:11] And then Owen, would you mind bringing up those?

[22:18] We have just some

[22:21] advertisements for those.

[22:25] Some

[22:31] This one's, yeah.

[22:32] Perfect. So this will post at Broad view,

[22:38] you know, in the kiosk there, so to,

[22:41] to get people to sign up.

[22:42] And there is a QR code sign up there.

[22:45] So there's a page, there's Nature Groupie is the website

[22:50] where it was recommended by Steven Lamont to

[22:55] sign, you know, create an event on Nature Groupie.

[22:58] And that is run by the UNH extension.

[23:02] And so there's a place where you can sign up

[23:05] and if you scan the QR code, you can sign up there.

[23:08] And so that will be posted at Broadview.

[23:10] And then if any commissioners have any local places

[23:13] that they frequent and would like some color copies

[23:18] to post, you know, at whatever your favorite coffee shop is

[23:21] or any place around town, just let me know

[23:24] and I can provide you copies.

[23:25] And then the other one we wanna get, you know, we,

[23:30] we do want the public to attend the June 1st training

[23:36] and that will be during our regular commission meeting.

[23:40] So it's 7:00 PM And

[23:44] so hopefully we can get some, some public involvement there.

[23:47] 'cause the more they know about using iNaturalist,

[23:50] the more they'll be able to to help us in the BioBlitz.

[23:54] All right. Thank you on. And you know what, since you have

[23:56] that up, I might as well.

[23:58] So we are gonna send this letter to Jay's

[24:03] neighbor for thanking him for the,

[24:09] the gift of fertilizer.

[24:11] And I will get his, you know, this is a draft clearly,

[24:16] but I'll get his his name

[24:18] and address from you and we'll send that out.

[24:21] Thank you. That is all. Appreciate it.

[24:24] Nicely written and yeah, sorry, that is all for, for

[24:27] that stuff on the screen and there's more.

[24:30] So as Rick mentioned, the tree,

[24:33] the dead tree at Cornelius in that was problematic,

[24:36] has been felled and that was done this morning.

[24:39] I did take some photos on site and then also the week

[24:44] before last, I spread grass seed, a conservation

[24:48] grass seed mix at the, on the path that

[24:53] of the disturbed soil from the work that we had done

[24:55] that DPW did for us at Cornelius.

[24:58] And last year, I'm not seeing any germination so far

[25:03] as of like this morning, but,

[25:05] but there's grass down so hopefully that'll help, you know,

[25:09] fill in so that there won't be any invasives coming up.

[25:12] And that disturbed soil.

[25:14] And I sent a second communication

[25:20] to the broadview of butter about that,

[25:24] about the no trespassing signs

[25:25] that were brought to our attention.

[25:27] And the lease for the corn fill is

[25:29] ready for the farmer to sign.

[25:31] The farm hasn't signed it though.

[25:32] I just wanted to note that.

[25:33] So I do need that and we are going

[25:36] to meet tomorrow to do that.

[25:40] And Jay mentioned everything about the community garden.

[25:43] And I wanna just commend, Jay has done a ton of work

[25:46] to make this happen and thank you for all your work,

[25:50] figuring out what we needed and then procuring the things.

[25:52] So all the gardeners are gonna be very excited,

[25:55] myself included the

[25:59] community wildfire protection plan.

[26:01] We have a meeting scheduled for this Thursday

[26:04] and our goal is to have that draft ready to send

[26:07] to the fire chief so that he can review it

[26:09] before it's sent on to the town

[26:10] administrator and the town council.

[26:12] So that is wrapping up.

[26:15] And then for land acquisition, Rick already mentioned the,

[26:20] the process that we're starting with the, the letter

[26:22] that we'll be sending to, to landowners.

[26:26] And then we also we're contacted by the town

[26:32] tax collector's office.

[26:34] They were, they had some properties that the town owns

[26:40] and someone was asking if they were available for sale.

[26:43] So they checked with us to see if those, you know,

[26:46] if we were interested in those properties.

[26:48] They're at Warner, they're on Warner Hill Road

[26:52] and Eileen Ave, the one on Eileen Ave is near Rainbow Lake

[26:57] and the one on Warner Hill Road is, is close to the,

[27:00] the Rockingham a TV trail.

[27:04] So, you know, they reached out to see if we were interested

[27:07] and, and we responded back that we,

[27:10] we may be interested in pursuing those

[27:12] properties to conserve them.

[27:15] There is wetland,

[27:18] a prime wetland on the ones on on Eileen Ave

[27:23] and the ones on Warner Hill Road are

[27:25] they abut another larger property that

[27:28] could potentially be good conservation land.

[27:32] And so they were trying to, just to chime in, Beth,

[27:34] so the town from time to time puts together of lists

[27:39] that they, they sent to auction.

[27:41] Usually the are apostles that are taken through,

[27:43] through texts and they publish that list

[27:47] and historically they've, they've, they've published a list

[27:51] and then we found something on the

[27:53] list that we might be interested in.

[27:55] So this time it was nice that they emailed me

[27:57] and said, Hey, here's the list,

[27:58] is there anything on here that is appealing?

[28:01] And we identified those pro those particular properties.

[28:04] So we're gonna figure out what it's gonna take to pursue

[28:07] making them conservation properties.

[28:10] That's all I got. Sounds good.

[28:13] Beth, on the lease.

[28:14] Get, get a clean copy from Sheila to bring to the,

[28:19] Sheila has a, Sheila will have a copy

[28:21] that has my signature on it and Mike's signature.

[28:24] Did you say you needed a, a copy of the lease to have the

[28:27] I do.

[28:28] She said that she was leaving it here for me to pick up

[28:30] and take for him.

[28:32] Is there, is there something there Tammy?

[28:34] There is a yellow. Yeah, it's probably on Tammy's desk.

[28:37] Okay. Yeah. 'cause I have one here

[28:38] but I wanna keep mine. So that's probably the one.

[28:40] Yep. Perfect. There we Go. There it's, thank you.

[28:43] Magic. Sheila is the

[28:45] most efficient person in the building.

[28:46] She is. Okay.

[28:51] Next meeting date is June 1st

[28:54] and that is the date of our training.

[28:59] And it's the only meeting that we have in June, right?

[29:03] Oh no, we have one.

[29:04] No, we have one in the fifth. This is the only May

[29:05] Meeting. Yeah, we only have one in May.

[29:06] Yeah. Yeah. So I'm gonna guess that that meeting's gonna

[29:09] probably be fairly busy 'cause I think we have some stuff in

[29:12] TRC that's gonna show up for that meeting.

[29:16] And just everybody take a peek at those

[29:17] pro proposed meeting dates.

[29:19] I wanna, I wanna make sure that we definitely have a quorum

[29:22] at a minimum for all of those dates.

[29:25] 'cause it's an abbreviated schedule

[29:27] and I don't want to have to kick anything down,

[29:29] kick the can down the road if we don't have

[29:31] to on that stuff.

[29:36] So put those in your calendars and come if you can.

[29:43] Beth, how are we on der fest?

[29:47] We'll discuss that at the public outreach

[29:50] at the next public outreach committee

[29:51] Meeting.

[29:52] Okay. But we're signed up and all that stuff.

[29:53] We are not signed up. No.

[29:55] Have they, do they have the sign up yet? What's that?

[29:57] Do assistance With that?

[30:01] I can, I haven't seen anything yet.

[30:02] Yeah, I can just add that to my list

[30:04] and sign us up this week.

[30:05] Does it cost money?

[30:08] We're a nonprofit. I think it might be three,

[30:10] four. This kind of

[30:14] Nonprofits are no cost, right?

[30:16] We're not a nonprofit. No.

[30:19] We meeting on Yeah, we Thursday paid

[30:21] before. Yeah. We paid public

[30:23] Outreach.

[30:24] I have not, we don't have a a date.

[30:25] We don't have a date. We're not meeting this

[30:27] Thursday.

[30:28] Okay. I just wanna make sure

[30:28] it's on everyone's right off screen.

[30:29] I want, I wanna make sure that we're, we're on that.

[30:31] It's on my, it's on my hit list. Yep.

[30:34] And and did we have a presence at Derby Derby

[30:37] day or was that just the market?

[30:38] No, we did not have a presence at Derby day.

[30:41] We talked about it, but we, we, we, we decided it wasn't

[30:44] Not our target demographic.

[30:45] Yeah, yeah.

[30:52] Okay. Other business. I have none.

[30:56] Does anyone, any of the commissioners have anything

[30:58] that they need to talk about at the meeting?

[31:00] At this meeting, Jay?

[31:01] I do. Yes. Yeah. What do You got?

[31:04] I liked, I was thinking about bulletin boards.

[31:06] It was great to know that you're gonna post the BioBlitz on

[31:09] the existing kiosk

[31:12] and it would be great to see us using

[31:14] that more in the future.

[31:15] Some of the ideas I've had as like a QR code for our dairy

[31:22] to the dairy websites and Facebook.

[31:25] And I've been concerned about ticks

[31:29] and Lyme disease in, in the broad,

[31:34] broad view that open field

[31:39] and dogs, et cetera, and plenty of deer population.

[31:42] There's plenty of deer ticks I'm sure.

[31:44] But to get more of an understanding maybe of what,

[31:47] what is the dan the particular population

[31:50] and are in that area.

[31:53] You know, this is just thinking out loud,

[31:56] but we can give warnings right away for people.

[32:01] I, I just see so many people who are oblivious to

[32:05] taking precautions to add repellants

[32:09] to their lower extremities, if not above two,

[32:13] because they'll drop from trees.

[32:15] I've had the Lyme disease twice,

[32:17] so I have a real stake in the game.

[32:20] Wow. And, you know, thank God I'm,

[32:24] I'm just fine from that.

[32:26] But I wasn't always. And also the,

[32:31] the things I would like

[32:32] to see another bulletin board eventually for our,

[32:34] our gardeners

[32:36] and including a, a log,

[32:38] a communications log for our gardeners.

[32:42] Oh, we are trying to reach 'em online,

[32:44] but this is a way to actually have them

[32:49] be a little more organic on, on site.

[32:52] I've seen it when I've hiked, when I've gone to, you know,

[32:57] lodges and all that in the middle of the mountains.

[33:00] Those communications logs are really awesome way

[33:04] to communicate with the, the same population

[33:08] of, you know, hikers well, the same population of gardeners.

[33:13] The equivalent. The other thing

[33:19] I wanted to report about broad broadview annex, the

[33:24] been monitoring the, the amount of water since

[33:28] snow melt and for about the last two weeks, the

[33:33] potential vernal pool, number one,

[33:37] which is right up against young road in the northern

[33:40] border is, has been dried up there.

[33:43] There's no water running,

[33:45] there's no water running in the rivulets that

[33:47] to the culvert.

[33:50] When I think about the structure there that

[33:54] this has existed for quite a long time.

[33:57] Seeing that the road are incorporated

[34:03] drainage and a culvert

[34:07] and drainage along the road going

[34:12] to the west towards whatever bodies of water are, you know,

[34:17] near Beaver Lake, kind

[34:19] of disappears at at the Chester road.

[34:24] So I think

[34:29] we're in good position.

[34:31] The knowing that we are in a continued drought, we,

[34:36] the variations of water in, in a particular place could,

[34:40] could change a lot from year to year.

[34:44] You know, especially with the rainfall variations.

[34:48] And we, the plan in place is to observe.

[34:52] But I really do recommend that we consider mowing a,

[34:57] a loop trail in the fall.

[35:01] And, and work on over the wintertime developing

[35:05] more signage.

[35:07] How we're gonna, how we would let people have access to it.

[35:11] You know, we have a, a solid gate with a lock kind

[35:15] of tells people don't go over there.

[35:17] They're used, they're not used

[35:19] to even thinking about that area.

[35:21] So I think over the winter we could,

[35:23] or even sooner, perhaps in the fall, we could think about

[35:27] how we would wanna get some education

[35:30] and signage for that area.

[35:36] And that's it.

[35:41] Thanks Jay. I think we probably need to consider,

[35:45] actually I don't think we should probably, 'cause I think we

[35:47] we're going to consider having a subcommittee

[35:51] for the Broadview annex.

[35:53] 'cause Jay, you've taken it up kind of on your own so far.

[35:57] So I think once you are, you're,

[35:59] you're pretty close to wrapped up.

[36:00] You, you got a couple of things you gotta button

[36:02] up left on that.

[36:03] So once you're, once you have that buttoned up,

[36:05] I think we should get a subcommittee together with the chair

[36:10] and develop a plan for, for that annex.

[36:13] Okay. Hopefully you can share it Jay,

[36:15] as I know you're passionate about that property.

[36:17] But just to get you some help

[36:19] and get some, get some more regular meetings on

[36:23] developing that property,

[36:25] getting some access on it and stuff like that.

[36:28] Yeah, I was going to mention, I see so many birders coming

[36:32] through and they, they're a little lost.

[36:37] There's a lot of them and they don't know each other.

[36:41] I don't know how to do it.

[36:43] But it'd be great to be able to

[36:45] link these people together as a community.

[36:50] They, you know, birders love to report what they see

[36:53] and, you know, share, share their

[36:58] places where they've seen

[36:59] different birds at different times.

[37:02] So this is just a thought, just

[37:03] 'cause I keep seeing birders come across

[37:05] and walk across the,

[37:08] So why don't we, Yeah, I think, I think your idea

[37:10] of a community log is a great idea.

[37:13] You know, if it could be weatherized, you know, like a sort

[37:16] of a book that would Yeah.

[37:17] You know, it has a metal cover so that you can open it,

[37:20] you can, you know, you have something dangling down a pen

[37:23] or something so people can write, I was here on this date

[37:25] and this is what I saw.

[37:27] You know, so a new birder comes along

[37:30] and he is like, wow, you

[37:31] know, I'm gonna be looking for that.

[37:32] You know, I think that's a great idea to have that.

[37:35] And that would, that would definitely start linking up

[37:38] people and getting them communicating.

[37:40] And the other thing I wanted to mention along those lines is

[37:44] the course that I'm involved with,

[37:46] with New Hampshire Audubon right now, they are going

[37:49] to be going out on a field trip at Broadview in June.

[37:53] So that's coming up.

[37:55] So that'll get a lot of birders our property

[37:59] and hopefully we're gonna see something exciting that day.

[38:02] I signed up for that one. I think it,

[38:04] I think it might be June 21st.

[38:06] I didn't bring the date with me.

[38:07] I should have, but yeah, I signed up to be there that day.

[38:11] So it's probably gonna be about 20

[38:14] to 25 people on that trip.

[38:17] Nice. Maybe you can bring the, have the date

[38:19] for our, for our next meeting.

[38:20] It's June 1st. Yes. We'll some

[38:21] Time I'll, yep, I will.

[38:23] So, so Beth, why don't we add to our, our, our list

[38:28] establishing a, a broad view farm annex.

[38:33] And two of the things we should put on that, on that,

[38:38] on the list to do would be, first we have

[38:40] to call it something other than the Broadview Farm

[38:42] annex now.

[38:44] So let's come up with a, with a proper name for it.

[38:47] And secondly, to have a kiosk

[38:49] and to have that kiosk have some sort of a linkage where,

[38:53] where birders could communicate their findings,

[38:57] whether it be a, a group

[38:59] or, I'm not sure if we could do a paper thing.

[39:01] Eileen. I I feel like, I feel like having a log

[39:03] with paper might be a little bit troublesome, but definitely

[39:06] Well if you had, what they have

[39:07] that they use frequently is like, it's a metal, sort

[39:11] of a metal notebook if you will.

[39:13] And it, you know, it, it stays, the paper stays covered

[39:17] by the, the metal.

[39:19] Right, okay. 'cause it's kind of encased in metal.

[39:21] So, so you can open it, you can write something,

[39:23] but then you can cover it back up again.

[39:26] So it, you know, it's pretty adaptable. Yeah,

[39:29] I think, I bet Steven Lamont would have some ideas of

[39:32] how we could incorporate that in the kiosk.

[39:34] 'cause that is hopefully gonna be part of the, the follow up

[39:38] to the, to the BioBlitz is, you know, re-imagining

[39:41] and the, the kiosk

[39:43] and setting up the kiosk with all of our findings from

[39:46] that day and that kind of thing.

[39:47] So that sounds like it's right

[39:49] In there.

[39:50] There's notebooks called Write as Rain, which are

[39:54] deliberately weatherized paper

[39:56] that no matter if it's raining, you're still able

[39:58] to write on it and it, it stays as a permanent log.

[40:01] So that's something we could look at too.

[40:04] It's, you know, it experiencing life.

[40:08] We have our online presence and,

[40:10] and you know, the, a solution

[40:12] for the birding log online is, is fine,

[40:17] but there's still the place for paper.

[40:20] Right. You know, paper and writing and Yep.

[40:23] Communicating with your hand write writing. Yep.

[40:26] It's an experience and it's a way to share with other people

[40:30] that have, you know, come your way and now are gone.

[40:35] That what they saw. It's,

[40:36] It's definitely, 'cause not everybody uses eBird

[40:39] or iNaturalist, you know, it's, those are great tools,

[40:42] but not everybody uses them.

[40:44] There's some of us who are old fashioned

[40:46] and wanna be able to write right into a log.

[40:49] So yeah. I'm not part of the birding community,

[40:51] but I'm sure they, they, they have a way

[40:53] of, of communicating.

[40:55] So just to tie it back up, we're gonna do a

[40:58] subcommittee on that list.

[41:01] We're gonna name it, put a kiosk up

[41:04] and put whatever information

[41:05] or method of communication birders want to use

[41:09] as part of that kiosk.

[41:11] Does that sound good? Sounds like

[41:13] we're heading in the right direction.

[41:15] And Jay has volunteered to be chairing chair of

[41:17] that, that subcommittee

[41:21] And see if we can get a scout troop to

[41:23] or Eagle scout to build the kiosk

[41:25] An Eagle Scout once we have it planned

[41:27] to do what with the kiosk? To build, build

[41:28] The kiosk.

[41:29] Yeah, that would be a wonderful project. The

[41:31] Scouts, well we have the kiosk is built,

[41:33] so we do have a kiosk. Yeah,

[41:35] No, I'm talking about for the

[41:36] annex, the other side. The annex though.

[41:37] Oh, oh I one for the other side. Yeah, yeah,

[41:40] Because because it's gonna be called something else.

[41:41] We're gonna, we're gonna have, that's gonna become its own

[41:44] conservation property.

[41:45] Yeah.

[41:46] The Bs A So I have a possible resource for that.

[41:49] Oh good. Eagle Scouts.

[41:51] So I'm gonna reach out to my contact

[41:54] and see if they'd be willing to be part

[41:56] of, that's a great idea.

[41:58] Add that to my list, but also have them join the BioBlitz.

[42:02] Perfect. As well.

[42:05] We have, don't we have some scouts doing

[42:06] some work for us coming up?

[42:07] Or is is that, did that already happen?

[42:11] We have some scouts that we can call upon

[42:13] because they have, they owe us, right?

[42:16] Yes, exactly. Money the bank. Yeah,

[42:21] That's all I have.

[42:22] And we do have a non-public Ricky you have something here?

[42:25] I have one item. Jay needs to drive to Bradford, Vermont.

[42:30] Oh that's right. Some of the materials for the garden.

[42:34] So I would move to approve up to $40 for his

[42:39] gas money to get to Bradford

[42:41] and back taken outta the administrative account.

[42:43] I'll second that. Okay.

[42:46] We have a first and a second for up to $40

[42:49] fuel reimbursement for Jay for going up to Vermont

[42:54] and picking up that stuff and bringing it back.

[42:56] All is in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstentions.

[43:01] All right. So I passes. I give that over to Eileen.

[43:04] Any last items before we go into non-public?

[43:09] Seeing none move

[43:11] To go into non-public per RSA 91 a

[43:16] Paragraph three, section two for the purpose

[43:18] of land acquisition.

[43:22] Okay. Mr. Metz has made a motion. We need a second.

[43:26] I'll second that Second by Councilor Chabot. I'm sorry.

[43:31] Commissioner Chabot.

[43:33] And we need a, a roll call vote on this.

[43:36] We're gonna start to my right with Chris? Yes,

[43:41] Yes, Yes,

[43:43] Yes, yes.

[43:45] And the chair votes. Yes.

[43:47] We need a second motion to invite.

[43:49] Does the land manager wanna attend? Sure.

[43:52] So we can Do we have

[43:53] to do 'em separately? Can we do 'em together?

[43:55] Together, Charlie too. Yeah. So a second motion

[43:57] for the land manager and the council liaison

[44:01] Move to allow Beth Carver

[44:03] and Charlie Foote to attend the non-public.

[44:05] Second, We have a first

[44:07] and a second to invite our land manager

[44:11] and council liaison to the non-public meeting.

[44:13] It requires a roll call. I'll start to my right. Yes. Yes,

[44:17] Yes, yes, Yes,

[44:19] Yes.

[44:20] And the chair votes. Yes. Alright,

[44:21] so we are in non-public.

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