[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.