Moore's Pond Beach Committee
Meeting @ Town Hall
5:00 PM on July 15, 2011

Present:  Kathy Connelly, Matt Connelly, Fran Prohaska, Gloria Varno, Dave Shepardson (arrived 5:10 PM), Jim McRae (arrived 5:12 PM), Clare Green (arrived 5:13PM).

Meeting called to order at 5:05PM

Notes -

*	Minutes of last meeting accepted as submitted.
*	Discussion of Aug 27/28 Old Home Days
	o	Beach Party on Sunday the 28th from 2-4PM.  
	o	Jim will put some entertainment together for the 2 hours.
	o	Kathy is going to check and see if Kelly Farley had gotten her
	permit and wants to set up her cart at the beach to sell food. 
	Portion of her profits go to the beach.  
	o	If Kelly isn't planning on setting up, the committee will
	provide drinks and snacks such as lemonade, coolaid, etc.  The fire
	department had some coolers at the chicken BBQ that we may be able
	to borrow?
	o	We will have a raffle, selling tickets on Saturday from 10AM to
	2PM and again on Sunday from 2 to 4 PM, with the drawing at 4PM. 
	Kathy has enough items to put together two nice 'beach' baskets;
	Dave has donated a roof rake; Gloria is going to donate a gift
	certificate to someplace.  
	o	Tickets will be $1 each or 7 for $5.  
	o	Saturday we will have a table at the town common to sell the
	tickets, show the slides of the beach and get the support of the
	people in town by telling them what the beach and committee is all
	about.  
	o	We decided against having games at the beach party because that
	could present too many problems.  
	o	Kathy will post signs at the library, Town Hall, online, at the
	Kiosk and the Transfer Station announcing the beach party.  
	o	Gloria will send a signup sheet to all committee members to
	cover the booth on Saturday and sell tickets at the beach party.  
*	Kathy and Matt mentioned that the beach has had more trash than
normal.  Mostly clothing and towels left behind and about 2-3 cans per
day on the beach.  
*	Clare emphasized the signage might be too small and the rules
should be listed per page not all together on one page with a larger
font.  
*	The geese are making quite a mess on beach as people are feeding
them.  We need to put up a sign not to feed the geese.  Kathy said that
2 of them are injured and a petting farm in Turners may take them.  Most
leave by mid October.  
*	We finalized the committee for 2012.  The 1 year renewals this year
were Jim, Clare and Fran.  They renewed for 3 years.  Dave and Kathy
both still have 1 year left.  Gloria and Matt both have 2 years left. 
Mario has been appointed an alternate member.  Kathy is going to see if
the current members need to be sworn in again or just Mario.  The
committee voted to keep the officers the same with Kathy as Chair, Dave
as co-chair and Gloria as Secretary.  
*	Mario and his family have replaced the logs along the bank.  And
raked and weed whacked. 
*	Water testing we have not heard anything so "no news is good news"
and we must be passing otherwise, they would notify us we did not. 
Kathy is keeping a record of the weather so when we get the year-end
report, we can tell what the weather was on certain days if the report
shows increases in bacteria.
*	Dave has been talking to the Historical Committee about having a
combined effort this February 2012 testing the cutting of ice on Moore's
Pond and storing it in sawdust till Old Home Days and then make ice
cream.  This is a method they use to do years ago.  Then it could be a
thing to do for Warwick's 250th Anniversary in 2013.  
*	Mario approached Kathy about the feasibility of having a wharf at
the beach.  Considering the liability involved, it is not allowed.  
*	Next meeting is scheduled for Monday August 15th at 6:30 PM.  The
agenda will be:
o	Finalization of Old Home Day
o	Continuation of policies
Meeting adjourned at 6:22 PM.

Prepared by:
Gloria J. Varno
Secretary, Moore's Pond Beach Committee