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Mcleese Lake Recreation Commission
Regular Board Meeting Minutes

NOV 8, 2022

1

Call to Order at _6:35_ PM

Members Present:

  • Dana Crowley (Treasurer)
  • Malyna Apple Senger (Secretary)
  • Judy Boyetchko (Director & Events Committee Chair)
  • Ian Hicks (Vice President)
  • Eva Loewen (Director)
 

Members Absent and Reason:

  • Andrew Walker (President) – Work
  • Dan (Director) – Work
  • Kate MacAlister (Director) – illness

 
Guests: Tana, Kathrine

Area Director: Steve Forseth (absent)

2

Additions or Deletions to the Agenda?

Additions to new business:

None at this time.

 

Motion to adopt agenda as amended:

First: Ian

Seconded: Dan

Motion is  _Carried_.

3

Adoption of Meeting Minutes from November 8 Regular Board Meeting

Any errors or omissions?

Motion to accept minutes: 

Accepted.

 

4

Correspondence (Mail or Email)

Secretary’s Correspondence: none at this time

Treasurer’s Correspondence: 

  • Following up on rental agreement
  • 400 instead of 600 has been upated 
  • Final will be sent to Apple to post online
  • Bingo license received
  • add to agenda vote on what the percentage take will be for the hall. Recommended 10%.
  • Gaming grant application deadline missed on November 30th. 

5

Treasurer’s Report

(Available upon request)

Summary of Accounts:

  • Bank Balance $ _55267.94
  • Beautification $ _100.10
  • Capital Accounts Balance $ _39,611.18
  • Hall Rental Balance $ _15,147.26
  • Credit Union Equity Shares $ _299.00
 
Recent spending and cheques received discussed: 
Cheque written to RL7 for sump pump, halloween expenditures, website fees, cameras, land transparency report fee
 

Motion to accept treasurer’s report. 
First: Judy
Seconded: Clint
Motion is carried.

6

Monthly Reporting

a. Cariboo Regional District – presented by CRD Director, Steve Forseth

– Steve has been re-elected as Area Director

– CMH project looking to be 2028 deadline. Budget review in 2023. We are looking at a hospital tax.  

– Mcleese Lake Recreation commission $25,000 from the CRD. 

– Early February a Zoom town hall – public consultation 

– Property assessments might rise as much as 15%

   — urge to appeal your BC assessment if you are not happy with it. The deadline is January 31st, 2023.

– Recycle BC has served noticed that some of the depots will be cut. Mcleese Lake will likely be okay, but not Wildwood’s.

  • Spring freshet – sandbags will be out in February.
  • Thank you to all the volunteers who help make this a vibrant community
 

b. Mcleese Lake Fire Department  

Last two hall meetings went well. Some remarks from meetings:

  1. 911 Calls – ambulance came from Quesnel for the sunny road one vehicle accident. But it pinged the wrong location. About 4 KM. 
  2. Share with the community is there a need for 911 (For example, is the car in the ditch empty? Does anyone need help or did they already receive help?)
  3. Ambulance will be used as tool hauling
 

c. Community Watch 

Talked about cameras, and more to be put up.

d. Hall Grounds Keeping / Maintenance

Nothing to report from Dennis until spring. 

Ian has been plowing the Mcleese lake driveway.

Motion to award an honorarium of $300 for Ian for winter snow removal for the season. 

First: Dana

Seconded: Judy, Eva, Clint, et al. 

Motion is carried. 

7

Old Business

a. Status of the MCLR Facility Rental agreement to be reviewed by MLRC Board for December

b. Mcleese Lake Recreation Commission Events Planning

Christmas Potluck (December 10) planning for this year 

– The 27th Christmas Potluck. Two turkeys and three hams is provided by the hall. The rest is Potuck from the community. 

– Silent auction items to be requested and collected. 

  • Silent Auction Items

  • Titan Builders

  • RL7 – save on food gift cards

  • Dustin Lodge

  • Dealership in Quesnel – box, gift basket

  • Freshco – snowman

  • Save-on Foods 

  • Red Tomato Pie

  • Starbucks

  • Shoppers

  • Nail

  • Donair

  • Cariboo Propane

  • Fox Mountain Brewery

  • Septic

  • MnM Meats

  • Gibraltar Mine

  • Jim and Cindy Swaan

  • Hair

  • CJ’s Western Grill

  • Mcleese Lake Garlic

  • Stay Well Health and Wellness

  • Mr. Mike’s

  • Boston Pizza ????

  • Bellroom and Culdron – pickup tomorrow

  • Grassland Equipment ???

  • Cariboo Candle

  • Oasis Resort Package

  • Kim – Sud Works – need to follow up

    We can do cash or e-transfer for payment.

 

– Expected to have 100 people

Timeline

4:30 PM Start Silent Auction

5:00 Dinner – Christmas Choir

6:00 Santa and Mrs.Clause

7:00 PM done

Volunteers need for:

– Cooking Turkeys and Ham – Judy, Dana, Eva

– Goody Bags (about 30) – Judy

– Two people to host the silent auction. – Malyna Apple and Ryan Senger

– Trees and hall need to be decorated on Friday the 9th – Everyone?

– MC’s: Dan and Ian

Clean-up some on the night and then the day afterwards. Sunday December 11th, at 11:00 AM.

 

 

8

New Business

 None. Focusing on Christmas Potluck.
 

9

Discussions from the Floor / Community

Questions or concerns / announcements: none

 

 

10

Next meeting

Date of next meeting to be decided. We will likely not have a meeting in January as per tradition. 
 

Meeting Adjourned at __7:20__ PM.

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6184 Forglen Road,
Mcleese Lake, BC
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