MINUTES ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY BOARD REGULAR MEETING January 16, 2008

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1 REGULAR MEETING January 16, 2008 Chairman Byrd called a regular meeting of the Town of Melbourne Beach Environmental Advisory Board to order at the Old Town Hall at 7:05pm. II. ROLL CALL Members present: Judith Brooke, Alt Member Theresa Goldenberg, Alt Member Leticia Langford, Citizen Members Absent: Phillip Venanzi, Member Scott Herber, Member Rita Karpie, Member III. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: No minutes to approve. IV. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Welcomed new members, Judith Brooke and Theresa Goldenberg B. Goals for MBEAB were discussed. C. General discussion on: Fertilizers, pet wastes, IRL stormwater control, working with MRL, Beach Cleanup, KBB supplying bags for beach cleanup at accesses, Kiosks at LHPP and 6 th Ave, Sea Oats planting, Beach Gardeners, LPP Annual Plan, Recycling in MB, Energy Conservation by using CFL lamps, Web page, and Water conservation A. Theresa will be looking into making a brochure for the 10 points Env Improvements in Mel Bch B. Judith will be looking into how we can make LPP a stop on the Geocashing.com site. C. Curtis will check into KBB putting trash bags at out beach accesses. VI. ADJOURNMENT MEMBER Brooke MOVED, SECOND CHAIRMAN BYRD, TO ADJOURN THE REGULAR MEETING. VOTE: ALL AYES. MOTION CARRIED. ALL BUSINESS WAS CONCLUDED AT 8:45 PM.

2 REGULAR MEETING MARCH 26, 2008 Chairman Byrd called a regular meeting of the Town of Melbourne Beach Environmental Advisory Board to order at the Town Hall at 7:00 pm. II. ROLL CALL Members present: Rita Karpie member Frank D. Kelley member Theresa Goldenberg Alt Member Bill Whitelock Building Official Jim Bursick, Town Manager Chad Tennant, Town Commissioner Latitia Langord, Resident Members Absent: Scott Herber, Member Phillip Venanzi, Member Judy Brooke, Alt Member III. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: Frank Kelley moved to approve minutes from January 16, 2008 meeting. Rita Karpie second. IV. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Progress on goals for MBEAB were disscused: Loggerhead park management, boy scout eagle scout project. Geocache to be placed at Loggerhead Park by Theresa and Larry. Curtis and Larry will check into placing KBB dispensers and bags at beach crossovers to encourage people to pick up trash. B. Theresa and Letitia will work with the Beachside gardeners in the fall to establish Melbourne Beach as a certified wildlife habitiat. A. Rita will schedule her students for exotic plant removal at LP. She will also be in charge of displaying educational information at the three kiosk in town. She will give a rotation schedule to Curtis for LP annual report. She will also distrubute information about stormwater run-off. B. Discussion on Best Outlets for Education 1.Beachcomber 2 Kiosks 3.Gemini Elementary 4.Founder s Day info table 5.Website 6.Town sponsored events pancake breakfast/potluck 7.Library display

3 C. Jim discussed Master Plan of Storm water Projects for Melbourne Beach. Larry was concerned about where MRC does it s water quality testing. Curtis will find out the location. D. Get word out for Household waste collection April 5 th and KBB Trash Bash April 19 th. E. Chad Tennenant would like Melbourne Beach to be a model community for renewable energy. He suggested that we 1. Advertise for applicants and Appoint Board and Chairman for Renewable Energy. 2. Town Energy by location. KW and annual cost 3. Technology review. Off the shelf equipment. Solar vs. wind. 4. Zoning and permitting. 5. Contacts with FP&L 6. Contacts with Brevard County regarding land use. 7. Contacts with US Congressman and Senators. 8. Cost and finance. 9. Current grant for emergency power diesel generator. 10. Program Administrator. 11. Citizen communication and input. Include Gemini. 12. Equipment maintenance and ownership. 13. Coordination with FIT. F. Curtis asked for a motion. Rita moved to create a renewable resource sub-committee for Melbourne Beach. Discussion followed. The sub-committee would be asked to report to the MBEAB on a monthly basis. Second Theresa. H. Curtis asked Bill if he would find out more about the Brevard Green Coalition that is being formed and if Melbourne Beach could participate. I. Discussion on if we are going to have a table at Founder s day. Curtis will coordinate with the Park Board. VI. AGENDA Founder s Day Renewable Energy Sub-Committee Storm water Run-off Educational Information distribution Follow-up Kiosk info Follow-up geocache Development of Environmental Policies for Melbourne Beach VII. ADJOURNMENT Chairman Byrd moved. Second member Frank Kelley, to adjourn the regular meeting. Vote all ayes. Motion carried. All business was concluded at 8:48pm

4 REGULAR METTING September 24, 2008 Chairman Byrd called a regular meeting of the Town of Melbourne Beach Environmental Advisory Board to order at the Town Hall at 7:05pm. II ROLL CALL Members present; Rita Karpie, Member Theresa Goldenberg, Member III IV. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: No minutes to approve. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Loggerhead Park update: Rita and Lisa removed exotic plants. More work is needed. Theresa will place a new cache in park for geocaching. B. Keep Brevard Beautiful: Coastal clean-up was Sept 20 th there were 75 volunteers and they picked up 38 bags of trash for a total of 570 pounds of trash. The next clean-up is in April C. Backyard habitat community: Theresa will get the specifics on workshops focusing on how to stop storm water drain off. A. Storm water initiative meeting will be September 25 at 6:30. B. Renewable Energy Sub-committee met and discussed ways to use solar panels on the public buildings. C. Web-page VI. ADJOURNMENT Member Karpie moved, second Chairman Byrd, to adjourn the regular meeting. Vote all ayes. Motion carried. All Business was concluded at 8:05pm

5 REGULAR MEETING October 22, 2008 Rita Karpie called a regular meeting of the Town of Melbourne Beach Environmental Advisory Board to order at the Town Hall at 7:02pm. II ROLL CALL Members present; Rita Karpie, Member Judy Brooke, Member Frank Kelley, Member Theresa Goldenberg, Member III IV. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: Frank Kelley moved to approved the minutes of September 24, Judy Brooke second. Vote all ayes. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Loggerhead Park update: Rita gave the dates that she and Lisa removed exotic plants. More work is needed. Theresa placed a new cache in park for geocaching. B. Backyard habitat community: Theresa will get the specifics on workshops focusing on how to stop storm water drain off. She will bring the guidelines required to achieve Community Wildlife Habitat Certification so we can discuss it at the next meeting. C. Web page; Rita will ask Curtis to find out how to update web page. A. Judy and Theresa will pass out Storm water initiative information at Iceman s Ball and the community Potluck. Other discussion was tabled until after the election on November 4. B. Rita asked if we could get the minutes from the Renewable Energy Subcommittee meetings so we can stay current with their progress. C. Rita also said she would ask Curtis for a copy of the annual report for Loggerhead Park. VI. ADJOURNMENT Member Kelley moved, second member Brooke, to adjourn the regular meeting. Vote all ayes. Motion carried. All Business was concluded at 8:13pm

6 REGULAR METTING November 19, 2008 Chairman Curtis Byrd called a regular meeting of the Town of Melbourne Beach Environmental Advisory Board to order at the Town Hall at 7:07pm. II III IV. ROLL CALL Members present; Theresa Goldenberg, Member Frank Kelley, Member Neil Tompkins, Renewable Energy Sub-Committe APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: Frank Kelley moved to approved the minutes of October 22, Theresa Goldenberg second. Vote all ayes. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Annual report for Loggerhead Park information due at end of November. B. Backyard habitat community: Have members look at web site to familiarize themselves with the specifics to getting certified. C. Web page; members should look over web site to see if they have suggestions. It was suggested to put the renewable sub-committee presentation on web-site. D. Larry Hosmer shared with us that the storm water initiative passed. Twothirds storm drain and one half of resurfacing will be matched by grants that the town will apply for. E. Larry stated that the garden club donated the left over plants from their election sale to the town and he planted them at Bicentennial Park. A. Neil Tompkins from the renewable energy sub-committee gave a presentation on solar energy and the possible use of it on the town hall complex. B. Twenty-five long leaf pine seedlings were donated to the MBEAB. Larry stated that there was no room on the public land to plant them. Theresa suggested that we give them to private citizen to plant in their own yards. She will distribute them at the town community night. C. Curtis asked if we wanted to donate $300 to the sponsorship of the trash bash. Frank stated that was more than half of our budget. He moved not to support the funding. Theresa second. Vote all ayes.

7 VI. ADJOURNMENT Member Kelley moved, second member Goldenberg, to adjourn the regular meeting. Vote all ayes. Motion carried. All Business was concluded at 8:46pm

8 REGULAR METTING December 17, 2008 Curtis Byrd called a regular meeting of the Town of Melbourne Beach Environmental Advisory Board to order at the Town Hall at 7:05pm. II ROLL CALL Members present; Scott Herber, Member Judy Brooke, Member Theresa Goldenberg, Member III IV. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: Judy Brooke moved to approved the minutes of December 17, Scott Herber second. Vote all ayes. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Loggerhead Park update: The report was submitted on time. It was suggested by Scott that we need to set up a day to remove exotic. He also suggested that we use the number of people that came to the park to find the geocache and where they are from in the Loggerhead Park report next year. B. Backyard habitat community: Theresa asked for list of community contact names of people who would be interested in giving workshops and helping with the community wildlife certification. Theresa will fill out the application and bring it to the next meeting for approval. C. Web page; Curtis asked everyone to look at power points that could be added to the web-page links D. Theresa reported that the longleaf pine seedlings were passed out to community member at the potluck. A. Scott will look for posters for Loggerhead Park. Larry will put up Right Whale posters at Loggerhead. Larry reported that the river kiosk posters were still in good condition. B. Roselyn Byrd will be removing exotic plants at Loggerhead Park over winter break. C. Curtis will talk to the town manager to see if they want to see Neil Tompkins power point presentation on solar panels for the town. D. Judy informed the board that sea oats were ready for purchase. Scott moved that the board purchased $100 worth of sea oats to plant in front of Loggerhead Park on February 7, Judy second, all ayes. E. Judy and Scott will round up some students to help with planting on that day. F. Curtis informed us that the minutes would be ed from now on.

9 G. Judy asked if it is possible for people to subscribe to the town newsletter. It would cut down on paper and expense. She will discuss this with Tina at town hall. VI. ADJOURNMENT Member Brooke moved, second member Herber, to adjourn the regular meeting. Vote all ayes. Motion carried. All Business was concluded at 8:10pm