Schoharie Land Trust
Minutes of Annual Meeting - 30 April 1992
CALL TO ORDER: The annual meeting of the Schoharie
Land Trust was called to order by Ken Hotopp at
7:35 PM at the Cooperative
Extension Office in Cobleskill on 30 April
1992
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:
Elliott Adams
Catherine
Harwood
Ken Hotopp
Eugene McCaffrey
Mary Jo O'Donnell
Dan
Schuppel
Robert Smith
John
Townsend
Karl Westphal
BOARD MEMBERS EXCUSED:
Sandra Scouten-Ford
MEMBERS PRESENT:
John Mauhs
TREASURERS REPORT: Is included in the Annual Report
of the Board of Directors a copy of which is
attached.
A motion to accept the report was made by Robert
Smith, was seconded and passed.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ACQUISITION COMMITTEE, was
presented and accepted by unanimous consent. A
copy is attached.
NOMINATION COMMITTEE reported that it would nominate
all officers and directors to the same seats
they hold.
MOTION TO APPOINT directors died for lack of a
second. MOTION TO INCREASE BOARD of Directors by
one seat, to eleven
members, was made by Robert Smith, was
seconded and carried unanimously.
LETTER OF RESIGNATION from Director Sandra Scouten-
Ford was read. NOMINATIONS WERE OPENED FOR BOARD OF
DIRECTORS; The Nominations
Committee nominated the following for the vacant
seats on the Board;
Catherine
Harwood
Karl Westphal
John Townsend
Robert Smith
John Mauhs
NOMINATIONS WERE CLOSED after a call for further
nominations. VOTE: After Robert Smith moved the
previous question, the above
nominated Directors were elected unanimously each
to a 5 year term.
NOMINATIONS WERE OPENED FOR OFFICERS; The Nominations
Committee nominated the following officers:
President
Ken
Hotopp
Vice President
Mary
Jo O'Donnell
Treasurer
Catherine Harwood
Corresponding Secretary John
Townsend Recording Secretary
Elliott Adams
NOMINATIONS WERE CLOSED after a call for further
nominations. VOTE: After Robert Smith moved the
previous question, the above
nominated Officers were elected unanimously each
to a 1 year term.
ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 pm.
Elliott D. S. Adams
Recording Secretary
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Schoharie Land Trust
Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting - 30 April 1992
CALL TO ORDER: The regular meeting of the Schoharie
Land Trust
Board of Directors was called to order by Ken
Hotopp at 8:11 PM at the Cooperative Extension
Office in Cobleskill on 30 April 1992.
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:
Elliott Adams
Catherine Harwood
Ken Hotopp
John
Mauhs
Eugene McCaffrey
Mary
Jo O'Donnell
Dan Schuppel
Robert Smith
John Townsend
Karl Westphal
BOARD MEMBERS EXCUSED:
none
CALL FOR AGENDA ITEMS was made, all members submitted
items they wanted on the agenda.
MINUTES of the 19 March 1992 meeting were approved by
unanimous consent.
MOTION TO ESTABLISH A POLICY that "It is the policy of
the Schoharie Land Trust that with any donation
of an easement a financial endowment will be
required" was made by Elliott Adams and was
seconded.
John Mauhs moved that this motion be referred to
the Acquisition Committee for working out the
wording for the next meeting of the Board. It
was seconded and carried unanimously.
INFORMATION EXCHANGE: Mary Jo O'Donnell brought up the
question of how we can best share information on
germane topics. It was discussed that we could
have a table on which people could place
information, and it could be read on an informal
basis. The routing of the Exchange was discussed. As
was
the possibility of having specific members being
responsible to report concisely on information
from specific organizations.
SEND LETTER OF THANKS: It was moved by Elliott Adams,
seconded and carried, to send a letter of thanks
to Betty Lou Bailey for bringing information
about recreational river status for the Schoharie
Creek to our March meeting. Karl Westphal
offered to write and send the letter.
FARM LAND TRUST MEMBERSHIP: Mary Jo O'Donnell
contacted the Farmland Trust about a membership
and was told that the Farmland Trust was working
on an organization membership. It was moved by
Karl Westphal, was seconded and carried
unanimously, that we just send the Farmland Trust
a check for $50 as a membership for the Schoharie
Land Trust and let them figure out what to do
with it.
ACQUISITION COMMITTEE circulated a statement of
the responsibilities of lead contacts for
possible land and easement transactions.
INSURANCE: Dan Schuppel reported that a request
for General Liability coverage with Green
Umbrella through Land Trust Alliance has been
sent.
501C3: John Mauhs reported that the application
has been resubmitted. He further suggested
that the erroneous pamphlets be destroyed.
CSA: Chairman of this committee, Sandra Scouten-
Ford, has resigned, but Ken Hotopp has been
in touch with Mike Welch, and plans are
progressing.
VROOMAN'S NOSE FIELD TRIP cosponsored with CCCD
plans are progressing. All members were
urged to try and attend.
MOTION TO ACCEPT RESIGNATION of Sandra Scouten-Ford
with regrets was made Robert Smith, was seconded
and passed unanimously.
EASEMENT ATTORNEY: Dan Schuppel reported that Dan
Ross has agreed to do easement work pro bono.
NEXT MEETING: The next meeting will be on the third
Thursday as usual, 19 May 1992, from 7:30 pm to
9:30 pm at the Cooperative Extension Office in
Cobleskill.
ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned
at 10:00 pm.
Elliott D. S.
Adams
Recording
Secretary
