TETC Meeting 8.15pm Tuesday October 6, 2009

Kinsmen Centre

 

 

Present: Ralph Tapper, Madeleine Florent, Sylvia Warkentin, Evan Edinger, Terry Sanford, Helen Spencer (chair and minute taker)

 

  1. No minutes of last meeting available yet.
  2. SAM meeting Torbay Oct 23/24: 16 registered so far. Expect more to register. Meeting to plan the event and TETCs 20th anniversary will be held Friday morning? Ralph is looking for a speaker for Friday night – may ask Suzanne Dooling of CPaws. Madeleine will look into  photos for later participants. A lsit of potential invitees is being drawn up.
  3. TETC budget: will be asked for a proposed budget soon. Will need more than last year for newsletter as costs have risen. Some items could be same and some deleted.
  4. Website: We are currently paying for a website which no-one has updated for a long time. Sylvia has agreed to look at it and become webmaster. Madeleine will try to find out how to access the site to change it
  5. Gully Gazebo: Helen will pass along to Madeleine the file # and person in charge of this. Madeleine will follow up.
  6. Green Documentaries. Madeleine wanted to draw attention to several good ones being shown over the next few weeks – see NLEN eupdate for details.
  7. Trail Mapping Project: Rodlophe has got some more funding to hire a student to complete this. Helen and Sylvia will meet with her on Tjursday to go over what needs to be done. Sylvia offers her and Myra to walk some of the trails to check the descriptions. Does anyone else have time to do this?
  8. Jones Pond trail Status? Ralph says no progress, but Mayor Codner has written to Crown Land department for advice. Terry suggests an English style stile across the trail at the barrier could help solve problem.
  9. Letter to NEAT offering congrats to new and returning councilors – decided not to as in poor taste for some.
  10. Status of Ground water study: clarified that 2 studies are underway – a checking of some wells and also a study of the river from Western Island Pond has been proposed. There was much discussion over water – both drinking and waste with the following suggestions to discuss more:

larger lots for properties with well and septic to minimize contamination of wells.

New town water supplies from local ponds (council looking into this)

A committee of council and TETC members to look at various options of a sewage treatment plant

  1.  Madeleine suggested we draw up a motion to council that will add stricter guidelines for development of subdivisions. These might include

Incorporating existing trails into the plan’

Creating more green zones,

Insisting on ‘conservation subdivisions.