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| Minutes from September 22nd 2004 |
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Minutes of the meeting - Neighborhood Watch - 9/22/04
Place of meeting - Thorpewood
Meeting commenced after social hour and "pot luck" dinner.
Attendance - 13 neighbors.
Order of Business:
1. Firewise Program
Last meeting we decided to pursue the first program in Maryland incorporating community members in a forest fire prevention program. Moving force behind this program is Mr. David Robbins, Wildfire Mitigation Specialist, Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The web site, gambrillparkwildfire.com, provides a snapshot of our community as assessed by Mr. Robbins.
Neighborhood Firewise Officers are:
Board President - Steve Chambers
Directors - Robert McCutcheon
Joanna Wheeler
Larry and Daisy Hood
The local fire department is pleased about our willingness to participate in the Firewise program.
Suggestion was made and discussed regarding a Firewise bulletin board to be located across from the Gambrill Park maintenance building where the original neighborhood mailboxes were located.
A clean-up day under the Firewise program was decided and will take place October 16, 2004. Community members participating in the program will record their time on a log sheet for reporting under the terms of the program.
2. Reflective stickers for automobiles.
A source for obtaining these stickers has yet to be found. Regina Trump was aware of a source from some years ago. John Lind volunteered to contact her in this regard.
3. Miscellaneous subjects and items of interest:
· Trespassers could be thwarted by installation of motion sensitive yard lights.
· New lines on the road are greatly appreciated by all. They are the difference in safe travel on rainy and snowy nights.
· Speed traps have occasionally been seen on Gambrill Park Road.
· The obnoxious side of the fall deer hunt is beginning to be noticed. Some deer have been butchered at road-side. Only choice cuts are taken leaving the rest of the carcass to rot.
· Some community residents and the Sheriff's Dept. would like to see the DNR regulation changed to eliminate use of high powered rifles in the watershed. Incidents of illegal use of firearms near homes have occurred. Changing the law would require a formal submission through appropriate channels to get the law changed.
4. Next Neighborhood Watch meeting - December 15, 2004.
--Respectfully submitted: John M. Lind