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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11032009NRBPresent: Robin Graves Chair Ken Grudens Scott Nelson Barbara Salmon 6. PUBLIC INPUT: No public input. 7. OLD BUSINESS: CITYCf HOME OF PELICAN ISLAND NATURAL RESOURCES BOARD MINUTES TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 2009 6:00 P.M. City Council Chamber, 1225 Main Street, Sebastian 1. Chairperson Graves called the meeting to order at 6:02 p.m. 2. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 3. ROLL CALL: Excused Absence: Eric Spokas Vice Chair Un- Excused Absence: Albert Alvarez Staff Present: Margie Reynolds, Board Liaison and Donna Cyr, Recording Secretary 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: October 3, 2009 and October 24, 2009 Field Trip Minutes MOTION by Mr. Grudens and SECOND by Mr. Nelson to approve both the October 3rd and October 24th, 2009 minutes as written, passed with unanimous voice votes. 5. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ms. Salmon gave her condolences regarding the passing of Jim Slattery and asked the board to sign a card that she brought. The board secretary will mail the card to Mrs. Slattery. Mr. Slattery built and donated the bat house that was placed at Periwinkle Park. A. Pepper Busting Field Trip on Saturday October 24th at Stonecrop Park Mr. Grudens thanked everyone that came out. The project went very well but there is still a lot more that needs to be done. The board worked hard to get volunteers by contacting the local school. Mr. Spokas was offering extra credit points to his students for volunteering (four students did show up). It was suggest that the board needs to start thinking "outside the box" to get more volunteers. Ms Reynolds did find an organization, the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council, they offer volunteer support services. This group also helped on the 512 corridor project. Ms. Reynolds will contact them before the next meeting so we can set up phase 3 of the Stonecrop Park project. Mr. Nelson asked about fines or penalties for not keeping properties clean of Pepper trees and other exotic plants. Both the board liaison and board secretary stated that it is very hard for the City of enforce any rules and recoup any fines. The suggestion of educating the public on the problems with pepper trees and other non native plants at Earth Day would be helpful. Ms. Reynolds will bring educational literature that she has to the next meeting. Natural Resources Board Meeting November 3, 2009 Page Two B. 512 Beautification Project (area behind Public Works compound) The tentative date of Saturday, February 6th at 8:OOam will be set for the beautification project. The board will be clearing out Melaleuca trees and Brazilian Pepper trees from the wet swampy area behind the Public Works compound. Ms. Reynolds has a volunteer that may help mulch the Melaleuca that day. City employees with trucks will take the mulch to another location for City use. C. Earth Day 2010 Saturday, April 17th 2010 Chairperson Graves, Ms. Reynolds and the board secretary will work on an article for the Sebastian Pelican Brief news letter promoting Earth Day and the contests. The board secretary will let them know when the article must be submitted. There was discussion about calling the vendors that didn't have email addresses but nothing was finalized. The members were invited to suggest other possible vendors. A schedule of events and activities will be generated and printed for the day of the event. Ms. Reynolds suggested using websites such as Earth Action (www.earthaction.org); US EPA (www.epa.org); national wildlife (www.nwf.orq) and any Earth Day website. Mr. Grudens will contact Holly Dill of the ELC (Environmental Learning Center) regarding involvement in children's activities at Earth Day. The board secretary informed the board that Kayaks Etc. and the Spiritual Pathfinders were interested and requested booths. The activity of kids making their own stamps for Ietterboxing was discussed. It was decided that unless the board could find someone to donate their time to do the cutting of the stamp (eraser) it wouldn't work well. The activity was too dangerous for children to do on their own. Members should work on getting some volunteers such as an arts craft club to do the cutting. No one had a chance to review the powerpoint presentation about Letterboxing, so Chairperson Graves is going to work on it some more. There was some discussion about having some skydivers drop in on the event to bring some more excitement, then that idea was nixed. Ms. Salmon mentioned having a contest for the best use of recycled material. The board liked the idea. This will be one of the contests. It was also mentioned to go to Home Depot to see if they would donate birdhouses or wood for the houses for the Birdhouse Decorating Contest. Contests will be: Adult Birdhouse Decorating Contest; Best Use of Recycled Materials; and the Best Florida Yard (using before after photographs). Have Earth Day attendees judge contests. Mr. Spokas sent an email to the board secretary explaining the information that he had gathered on the possibility of an Earth Day calendar (see attached). There was discussion and everyone liked the idea but the board doesn't have any money to buy them. Ms. Salmon brought up an activity of decorating small clay flower pots with sea shells etc. She will contact Home Depot to see if they will donate the pots. The shells are attached with adhesive grout. Maybe we could get some seeds to give with the pots. Natural Resources Board Meeting November 3, 2009 Page Three 8. NEW BUSINESS: No new business. 9. MEMBER MATTERS: No member matters 10. STAFF MATTERS: A. "Adopt -A -Spoil Island" program Ms. Reynolds explained the program which is run through FDEP. We have two Spoil Islands within the city limits. See attached for more details. We can do this with other agencies for a larger clean up, such as Friends of the St. Sebastian River, KIRB and Kayaks Etc. B. Set agenda for December meeting. The only item for agenda will be Earth Day 2010. 11. Being no further business, Ms. Graves adjourned the meeting at 7:33 p.m. 6olakea. Nat I Resources Chairperson Signature 1 Q Date Secretary Sig ure Donna Cyr From: Eric Spokas [espokas @irsc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:38 AM To: Donna Cyr Subject: Earth Day calendar possibility Hi Donna: Regarding tonight's NRB meeting: I think it may be feasible to put together an inexpensive "Local Wildlife" calendar as diuscussed at the last Board meeting. As I recall, we considered having a picture contest at Earth day, to gather color photos for the "NRB calendar I tried to get 3 cost estimates on the calendars. Still waiting for one of them. I received the names of these "print /design" businesses from the Sebastian Chamber of Commerce. They are all businesses based in Sebastian. Please see quotes below: 1. "Total Print Contacted them on 10- 23 -09. Estimated cost would be 10. per calendar for a minimum lot of 100 calendars. We would have to provide the artwork of uniform size. (one photo per month) 2. Just phoned "Donghia Design" today. It sounds like it is something they can do. I am waiting on the price quote. 3. "Skyline Design Contacted them on 10- 23 -09. Estimated cost is 6.25 per calendar for a minimum lot of 100 calendars. The price would go down to 3.80 per calendar for 200 calendars and for 300 calendars, the calendars would be 2.85 each. Please relay this info as appropriate. Thanks, Eric 1 Spoil Island Project -Indian River Lagoon Schedule of Events I Volunteer Pages Spoil Island News Forum Enhancement Days Adopt- A -Spoil Island Bird Monitoring Eagle Scouts Volunteer Forms Links Home Inter Active Maps Brevard County Indian River County St. Lucie County Volunteer Information 1 Contact I About Us Adopt -A -Spoil Island 1 The Adopt -A -Spoil Island project gives groups in the community the ability to initiate and maintain projects on one or more adopted islands of their choice. The maintenance would consist of removing debris and litter four times a year, one of which would coincide with the annual Florida Coastal Cleanup held in September. A Cleanup Report form must be filled out for each cleanup event and retuned to the DEP Southeast Aquatic Preserve Field Office address listed on the form. As an Adopt -A -Spoil Island participant, you and your group will be placed on our Spoil Island Project "Volunteer Days" mailing list. Your group will receive updates on the spoil islands, keeping you informed of cleanup activities and other enhancement projects being implemented on the islands throughout the tri- county area. If you or your group would like to perform enhancement activities outside the scope of litter control, such as blazing trails or exotic vegetation removal, please contact our office for assistance with the logistics and implementation of these projects. Your adopted island would receive a sign with the name of your group or organization. If you are interested please download and fill out the Adopt -A -Spoil Island Marine Debris /Litter Removal Agreement and email it to: Mark.McGee@dep.state.fl.us with the title "Adopt -A -Spoil Island" in the subject line of the message. If you have any questions or would like to know more how you or your group can become involved in the Adopt -A- Spoil Island project, please call Mark McGee at (772) 429- 2995.or please send an email with your contact information to either the NIBL or SIRL Spoil Island Coordinator and you will be added to the Enhancement Days distribution list. You will be asked to fill out a Volunteer Application Agreement prior showing up at the Dock. History Page 1 of 1 I Typical Enhancement I Spoil Island Work Group FI. Dept. of Environmental Protection O 2008 Spoil Island Project All rights reserved. Designed by TCWhosting.com file: /C:\Documents and Settings \dcyr\Local Settings \Temporary Internet Files \OLK17\Spoil Island Proj... 10/27/2009 1. CALL TO ORDER: 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: 3. ROLL CALL: 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: October 6, 2009 Regular Meeting October 24, 2009 Pepper Busting Field Trip 5. ANNOUNCEMENTS: 6 PUBLIC INPUT: 7. OLD BUSINESS: A. Wrap -Up of Pepper Busting Project at Stonecrop St. B. 512 Beautification Project area behind Public Works Compound Ms. Reynolds C. Earth Day 2010 Saturday, April 17, 2010. 1. Letterboxing 8. NEW BUSINESS: 9. MEMBER MATTERS: 10. STAFF MATTERS: A. "Adopt -A -Spoil Island" program Ms. Reynolds B. Set agenda for December meeting Recording Secretary 11. ADJOURNMENT: HOME OF PELICAN ISLAND 1225 Main Street, Sebastian, FL 32958 (772) 589-5330 Phone (772) 589-5570 Fax AGENDA NATURAL RESOURCES BOARD REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 2009 6:00 P.M. "To improve the quality of life in Sebastian by nurturing the balanced relationship between our citizens and our environment by protecting, preserving and promoting our natural resources" ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE ON THE ABOVE MATTERS, WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH APPEAL IS TO BE HEARD. SAID APPEAL MUST BE FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE WITHIN TEN DAYS OF THE DATE OF ACTION. (286.0105 F.S). IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA), ANYONE WHO NEEDS SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THIS MEETING SHOULD CONTACT THE CITY'S ADA COORDINATOR AT (407)- 589 -5330 AT LEAST 48 HOURS PRIOR TO THIS MEETING. TWO OR MORE ELECTED OFFICIALS MAYBE IN ATTENDANCE.