Green Lake Association Meeting Minutes – March 10, 2014 Attendance – Don Shug, Bob Milam, Bruce Meyer, Connie Mayfield, Dan Standish, Arnold Nelson, john Thornberg, John Unruh, Kevin Murphy, Kari and Ryan Lynch
- Memberships – only about a 1/3 of the membership has paid year to date. Connie will send out another reminder.
- Spring Newsletter will be out in 4-6 weeks
- Spraying
- LID has approved up to $6000 per lake to lake associations for reimbursement for spraying for milfoil and curly leaf.
- DNR offered permits to spray the south bay for native weeds as it is so thick back there. Hydrothal will be used. GLA will submit request to LID for reimbursement for this spraying.
- Don and Bob discussed using 35 gallon jugs rather than the gallon jugs of chemical to spray making it easier to load the chemical onto the pontoon.
- Finances – $11,507 operational for spraying, maintenance of pontoon, and operational costs
- Carp Festival is slated for July 12 & 13 – Frankie’s will be running it.
- Carp – Lake Improvement District is seeking to have a commercial fishing company remove carp from Linn Lake which has a large quantity of carp.
- Little Green Lake ramp will be closed from June – September
- Aquatics Invasive Species Monitor Training program will be held in April.
- Lakes Coalition is being created, which will have the three lakes associations (Green Lake, Chisago-Lindstrom Lake, and Center Lake associations) meeting 2-3 times a year to discuss common concerns, share information and resources.
- Dan Standish reminded the board of the in-kind donation from Chisago Warehouse liquor. They have never charged GLA for letting us place the can recycling bin on their property.