Pelican Group of Lakes Improvement District

12th Annual Membership Meeting

Cormorant Town Hall Aug. 20, 2005

9:00am

Directors Present: Robinson, Stueness, Poolman, Meidinger, Majkrzak, Duemeland, Engkjer

Directors Absent: Ostbye, Crothers

Voting Polls opened at 8:00am

Literature Distributed: 2005 Annual meeting agenda, PLPOA letter to Minnesota Legislature regarding Bill #0496, Property Meeting notification, Annual Meeting Rules, 2004 Annual Meeting Minutes, 2004 Financial Statements, Attorney Gen. Mike Hatch's response letter, Candidate statements

Special thanks to Linda Ostbye for donuts, Adrian Dawson for technical skills and providing the equipment, and Fair Hills for the use of their projector screen.

Guest speakers: Bob Borash and Jordan Ornquist, RMB Labs.

The meeting was called to Order at 8:00 am by Robinson who is presiding in place of Ostbye's absence. Meeting was recessed until 9:00 am.

9:01 Meeting was called to order by Robinson, and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited by the body present.

The first order of business was the election of the Chair for the 12th Annual Meeting. Duemeland made a motion to accept Robinson as the Chair for the 2005 Annual Meeting, seconded by Jenkins. On a vote, motion passed.

Robinson appointed Lori Beck as Parliamentarian and Engkjer as Secretary for the meeting. Duemeland was appointed to the Election Board.

Agenda Item #6. Sherry Trepp requested to be added to Agenda Item #13. B under New Business.

Agenda Item #7. Annual Meeting Rules were declared part of the agenda and approved.

Agenda Item #8. Preliminary Report of Election Board: Duemeland reported that their were 47 absentee ballots.

Agenda Item #9. Election of Directors- Robinson stated that their were 3 board positions available/open. No nominations were given from the floor. Candidate statements were made by Fred Manuel, Brent Jenkins, and Jeff Peltier.

Agenda Item # 10. The 2004 Annual Meeting Minutes were presented. Whitman moved to accept the minutes, seconded by Mike Benson, and were approved.

Agenda Item #11. Treasurers Report- Meidinger presented the financial report. After discussion, the report was accepted and filed for audit.

Agenda Item #12. Old Business:

a. 2005 Annual PGOLID Report- No verbal report was presented in Crothers absence. Crothers has given resignation June 28, 2005 of his board position upon acceptance of appointment to the North Dakota Supreme Court. A written report was submitted to Gene Merriam, Commissioner, DNR, Tim James, MPCA, and Bill Kalar, Land Res. Management on July 7th, 2005 by Crothers.

b. Lake Resource Coordinator- Bob Borash and Jordan Ornquist, RMB Labs. gave a full report on monitoring the water resources. Additional information in detail for questions and concerns will follow after the meeting.

c. Mosq. Abatement- Stueness reported that 3 bids were obtained for the 2005 mosquito spraying. PMC from Clearwater, Minn. was accepted for the bid. All issues pertaining to the professional spraying services can be addressed to Brian Musech, Professional Mosquito Control. Stueness noted what an excellent job this company was doing.

d. PGOLID Rules of Governance- Robinson addressed the letter sent to Attorney Gen. Mike Hatch’s office on behalf of the PGOLID voting eligibility. A response letter was received Nov. 29, 2004 that in the opinion of the Attn. Gen. the PGOLID was correct on current voting procedures.

Agenda Item #13. New Business

Agenda addition Sherry Trepp read a statement on behalf of Vic Horne regarding the support of the Walleye Foundation. Trepp stated that Vic Horne has been in contact with the County Commissioners and in order to approve support of the Walleye Foundation, the organization would have to get a letter from the DNR to prove that fish are not harmful to the lake.

a. Ground Truthing project- Majkrzak and RMD Labs., reported that data is being collected by this means and problem area’s have been identified.

b. Lakeshore “Best Practices”- Steve McComas’s report is on the official website for public view at: www.pgolid.org

A copy will also be submitted to the Pelican Library soon. Majkrzak reported that Minnesota Shoreline Restoration has identified 4 areas of curlyleafpondweed which is about 24.46 acres in total. This would be a 5 year commitment from the lake owners. The PGOLID has adopted the DNR’s shoreline “nearshore and offshore” practices. ( see previous meeting minutes) Property owner Mark Schneider of Toussaint Heights asked what can be done about a recycling location. Suggestions were made to contact Dunn Township.

Agenda Item #14. 2006 Budget

Meidinger presented the proposed budget for 2006. Motion was made by Anderson, seconded by Swanson to approve the budget for discussion. Motion made by Whitman, seconded by Trepp, for the PGOLID to set aside, and directly pay $2000.00 for the private company/contractor for support of walleye habitat. Motion amended by Whitman, seconded by Trepp, to approve $1000.00 supporting walleye habitat. On a vote, motion passed unanimously.

Discussion and concerns were made regarding a compost site at a closer location to the lake.

Motion made by D. Eliason, seconded by V. Smith, to move $25, 500.00 from the surplus of reserves. On a vote, motion passed unanimously.

Motion was again made to carry $35,500 from surplus reserves. On a vote, motion failed. Motion was made by Jenkins, seconded by McCloud, to accept the budget as presented with the $25,500.00 from surplus reserves. On a vote, motion passed unanimously.

Robinson acknowledged Don Meidinger, Dave Majkrzak, and Dan Crothers for their years of service with the board.

Agenda Item #15. Election Results- Duemeland reported the election results as follows: Jenkins 98 votes Manuel 98 votes

Peltier 105 votes

Agenda Item #16. Other Business

a. Board Organizational Meeting- Robinson stated that the meeting will take place immediately following the Annual meeting adjournment.

Motion made by Majkrzak, seconded by Stueness to adjourn.

Meeting adjourned 11:53 am.

Respectfully submitted,

M. Faye Spitzley-Engkjer

Secretary PGOLID