Cambria Forest Committee
REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
OF
April 22, 2009
LOCATION
Cambria CSD Suite #204
1316Tamson Drive
Cambria, CA 93428
DIRECTORS PRESENT: Rob Trask, Rick Hawley, Pat Bouldin, Brad Seek. Bill
Schassberger, Galen Rathbun, Jo Ellen Butler.
GUESTS PRESENT:Mike Walsh
1.0 Meeting called to order 6:03pm
2.0 Minutes approved with the following correction. Greenspace has not planted the additional 500 Monterey Pines but will in the near future (Bouldin/Trask).
3.0 Treasurer Report. No Change. Balance is a little over $1900. Some additional funds may be needed to cover expenses for training lot clearing contractors. (Trask/Bouldin)
4.0 Sub-Committee Reports
4.1 Cambria Forest Mgt. Plan(FMP). Dir. Hawley will speak to the CCSD on behalf of CFC and Greenspace to include the FMP as it pertains to the property they own such as the Fiscallini Ranch. He will request that CCSD allocate staff time to write a grant or come up with a funding method to hire a consultant to implement the FMP (Hawley/Rathbun). Dir. Butler suggested the need to approach individual CCSD Board members on the need to implement the Plan.
4.2 Annual Lot Clearing.
a. Dir. Hawley observed that the Notice to clear lots only has the APN on the envelope and not the letter. It could confuse property owners as to what the letter relates to. The Fire Chief will be providing APN’s on all pertinent lots to the CFC. Dir. Schassberger stated that this information could be used to verify contractor performance.
Dir. Hawley suggested a CEQA overlay in the process of lot clearing to allow a provision of mitigation if too much native vegetation is removed.
b. A 2009 list of approved contractors will be provided to CFC after this year’s training program is finished.
c. Dirs. Trask, Schassberger, Butler, and Rathbun met with the Fire Chief to edit the Notice to clear the Lots document. The Fire Chief was very receptive to the changes. Dir. Butler will send a Thank You letter to the Chief on behalf of CFC.
4.3 Tree Planting and Education. Dir. Butler will contact Bert Etling to discuss putting a series of articles pertaining to the forest in the Cambrian. Dir Hawley will be teaching certification class on April 23rd and 27th.
A motion was approved to set aside $200 for expenses related to bringing Deborah Rogers (Geneticist/Ecologist) to Cambria. (Rathbun/Butler).
4.4 Membership Outreach. Dir. Bouldin asked all present at the meeting to provide any names of representatives not already on the distribution list. She will contact the remaining board members not present to help complete the distribution list.
5.0 Old Business
5.1- 501-c status. Dir. Trask will pick up all pertinent 501-c information from Dir. Kalshan possibly to be reassigned to another director.
6.0 No public comment.
7.0 Other. Dir. Butler was unable to use the debit cards through FFRP. A motion was approved to allow Dir. Rathbun to use the debit cards for private purchases in exchange for cash. (Schassberger/Seek)
A motion was approved to fund putting together a list of State codes pertaining to the forest. It would be in tabular form with a table of contents: Those related to the fire codes and those applicable to forest protection. (50 copies).
Butler/Bouldin
Meeting Adjourned at 7:15pm. (Schassberber/Hawley)
Next meeting onMay27th, 2009.
Respectfully submitted by Brad Seek.
