TETC Meeting 8:15pm, Tuesday November
3, 2009
Kinsmen
Centre
Present: Ralph Tapper, Madeleine Florent, Sylvia
Warkentin,
1.
SAM MEETING - Special thanks to Council for treating us Royally!! Went well
Ralph
- Treasurer of SAM - At Executive Meeting on Sunday morning it was decided to
put emphasis on workshop to encourage the 18 towns that are members of SAM to
attend. Looking at options, such as: membership fee, getting
speakers and the possibility of getting some government funding also for these
events.
Ralph,
as a board member of SAM, will get his travel approved by council as its
representative.
Madeleine
mentioned that we should give a copy of our DVD, on the past 20 years of TETC,
to past members of TETC. Perhaps this
could be done during Environment Week in June.
2.
TRAIL MAPS- Sylvia and Helen attended meeting with Megan, who is Rudolph’s
student at MUN Geography Dept. She suggested the #1 need is to get the bypass road
on the maps, then walk the trails and see what has changed. Megan is waiting to get information from
town, in order to, plot bypass road.
3.
HIKE - 4 people did the hike from the town hall to Gallows Cove. December 6, next hike, from the Flatrock Community Hall to Red Head. A Christmas Social will follow at Sylvia’s
house - POT LUCK and BYOB (Drop off at Sylvia’s before hike).
Pat
Lacey also mentioned that TETC could join ECT hike
when they are hiking in the area. Pat
mentioned that we should get a representative from TETC on the ECT. Madeleine and Sylvia are members of the ECT.
4.
TIME OF TETC MEETING - We are trying to get a better time for holding the
meeting, possibly 7:30 on Thursdays.
5.
BUDGET - Madeleine reported on last year’s budget and this year’s budget - See
attachment.
A. We
must have a link for our web site and also include information on TETC on the
town’s web site. Madeleine will give
Sylvia information from Jason Byrne and Michelle DuRand so she can update our
web site.
Shirley
mentioned that we put some information on the Recreation Department’s
newsletter.
B.
Ralph mentioned that we should have a list of trails that the town needs
to upgrade (which the Town needs to fund).
6.
ROCK GARDEN - Is in hiatus - Tried to contact Dr. Nichols, Botanical Gardens,
but to no avail.
A
suggestion was made to try the Johnson Foundation as we need professional
planning. Other issues: Insurance
concerns regarding volunteers falling, dry spells, watering, cutting, weeding
and planting. Very Big Project... We
need a champion to
Take
over or a focus on a naturalized garden - re native plants as opposed to
non-native plants. Helen will contact
Leila and Howard Clase to see if they can give some ideas on planning for rock
garden.
7. Matt Simms from D.U. would like to do some
sort of restoration project. He would
like to meet with a few of us to get ideas of what projects to include in his
atlas. Town put in 3 new sewer pipes at beach last week. Send Ralph an email with a list of projects
before November 11th, as he will be meeting with Matt Simms at that time.
8. Elections and Nominations for TETC next
meeting
9. We are under Parks and Recreation group of
Council (Tina and Ken Anthony)
Recreation
Master Plan has all kinds of recommendations for environment concerns. We could lobby Council to get more staff to
implement the Recreation plan
Do
we want to invite them (Tina or Ken) to meeting to discuss the things we do as
TETC
Madeleine
wondered what relationship Environment has to Recreation solely
Approved
by Motion of Council
We
have Terms of Reference and original Motion of Council made us a liaison
committee of Council reporting directly to Council. We were always an Advisory Committee to
Council
There
are very distinct mandates re: standing committees, Special Committees and
advisory committees
We
should send info regarding our status and our mandate to Council and ask for a
20 minute meeting. Show them our DVD,
money raised etc.
10. RECYCLING – Ralph, Madeleine, Helen and Ken
Spence are looking after recycling. Trish O’Brien and Pat Lacey
are willing to help sort. Madeleine got
$1190 cheque from recycling recently.
Helen will send email asking for any volunteers to help in an
unstructured way. Sylvia will also put request on Web Site