FOBHL

Board meeting minutes

March 13, 2007

Lovell Town Hall meeting room at 7pm

 

Welcome – Bob C

            Bart Grant new Lovell town manager was welcomed as our guest tonight.

            We appreciate the Town of Lovell allowing us to use their meeting room.

 

BHCNRA  advisors were not able to attend this meeting. We missed their insightful comments. We are looking forward to having them here next month.

 

Directors items

 

View MORE show DVD – an 8 minute DVD show for the MORE show booth. We feel it will be a nice addition for our visitors.

MORE Show final plans – reviewed checklist of assignments and made needed adjustments. All are ready to carry out assignments.

 

Driftwood project results were discussed; we will do a tour of the area soon with BHCNRA staffers.

 

Bighorn County REA was again checked with about getting electricity at the Kane boat ramp areas. They have given us some tentative costs for such a project. We will continue to move forward on this in our discussions with the BHCNRA.

 

It’s A New Day At Bighorn Lake Celebration on June 23 was discussed briefly. When the MORE show is over our main focus will be this event.

Fish derby will not require a permit according to WGF office in Cody. Also they have given us 24 new Zebco fishing pole sets as prices for the youth.

Boat registration can not be waived for this event. We feel we must encourage all boaters to get registrations done early to avoid any problems later.

 

Ken has contacted many of our potential venders coming to this event and they are very excited to participate. He will visit them as well as new ones at the MORE show.

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Reviewed recent meetings – Keith  - met with MFWP, Friends of the Bighorn River, Senator Baucus

Office staffers in Billings. It was a very productive exchange of ideas and joint support.

 

The MTAO of USBR held a meeting at  NWC in Powell; Directors Ken, Keith, Bob C plus several FOBHL members attended. There was again a good exchange of information and concerns

 

HSB concessions and marina projects are moving forward as planned.

 

FOBHL web site has been updated and new info gets posted each week.

 

Keith has been visiting with the various governmental agencies about the present highway signs on Bighorn Mtns  that give tourists some miss direction.

 

We are working on several Grants for money to improve our recreational opportunity at BHLake.

 

 

The currant MTAO reservoir water operations plan for March was reviewed. They seem to be staying on task.

Also the present snow water report was discussed. We are about 10% lower than 2006 data for the 3 reservoirs watersheds. The next 2 months provide the wettest snow however.

 

A list of the 40 businesses that are members was reviewed. We appreciate their support to FOBHL!!

 

2006 taxes – are being done by FOBHL member James Seckman CPA in Powell.

 

Items for discussion with BHCNRA

Wind/temp gauges at Crook creek station

Webcam at marina to check weather and etc interests

Restroom at Jim Ck area

VIPs for summer on the lake for driftwood removal, we have members who are interested

            Dayboards for south end of lake (to be used with common names)

            Put June 23 date on NPS web calendar

 

Water Management meetings this month:

March USBR water meetings:  MTAO Mar21 – Billings, WYAO Mar 23 – Worland and Mar 27 – Powell

 

FOBHL members meeting will be Apr 14 at 7pm in Lovell ( hopefully at BHCNRA.)

 

Next board meeting will be Tuesday April 10, 2007 at 7pm at BHCNRA meeting room.

 

We rescheduled the missed Mar 14 NPS/FOBHL directors meeting to March 28 at 1:30 at BHCNRA.

 

We were all reminded to: Please keep up on our emails and respond accordingly by phone or email.

 

We excused Bart Grant then went into executive session to discuss potential new Board members. We hope to have them onboard soon.