Patlifinders Minutes February 21, 2002 Breakroom at Public Works

The meeting was called to order by Chairperson, Karen Borga, at 8:05 pm.

Those in attendance were: Karen Borga, Cindy Tietjen, from the Tri-Town News, Ray
Gong, Tern Somers, Jean Modla, Roger Friend, George Nebel, Bonnie Machr, Elizabeth
Keshecki, Sabrina Aliseo, Ashley Meyerhoff, Sara Khan, Maggie Murlipy, John and
Doris Barbuto, Dana Jacquemont, Jon Dutt, Nicole Valentine, Dawn Rakow, Karen
Waizer, Art Rosky, Tom Stevens, Ronnie Bruchez, Sarah Ralston, Dan Green, Monica
Larue, and Leo Kissling, Manny Lindenbaum.

The January minutes were corrected and approved.

Corresponding Secretary's Report: Sarah Ralston:Thank you went out to Jack & Dolores Macri for helping Jim Doyle mark the Frank Applegate Trail.

Biking: Ron Bruchez will now take over this committee. Uriah moved out of state and has stepped down.

Scrapbook: Lauren & Alison Stevens: A few pictures have been added of Tony Santa Maria and other Pathfinder members together with Forestry Service personnel hanging Owl and Wood Duck houses at the Forestry Center. A story from the Tri-Town news about the new 873 acres acquired by the New Jersey Conservation Foundation was also added.

Website: Madeleine Nist: Pathfinders has been approached by Handy Acres, Bowman Road, asking for a link to their website. Handy Acres has already created a link from their site to ours. Open House is Junel5th. They would like us to set up a booth.

Land Acquisition: Karen Borga- none at this time.

Frank Applegate Road,Nature Trail: Dawn Rakow, Jim Doyle, Leo Kissling- Tom Stevens will assist a group of high school students at l0am on Sunday, February 24, 2002, in cleaning up some debris.

Grants: Dawn Rakow- The Township is hiring a new group for grant writing. We have plenty of grants for the township to review.

Bowman Road/Forestry Center: Karen Walzer-Spring Conservation Day is scheduled for Saturday, April 13, 2002 9am to 1pm (rain or shine).

Membership List: Sharon Molitor, Dawn Rakow- A new list is made up. Eighty-five postcards were mailed with the meeting reminder on them.

Wildlife Preservation:Anthony Santa Maria- absent no report.

Mapping: Tom Stevens-A few new trails in Colliers Mills have been mapped since the last report in January. I would like to start mapping the trails in the Legler section around the Clayton sand pits in a few weeks. The goal is to have all existing trails mapped by the end of this year. If anyone has time and wants to map some trails using the GPS, please let me know and I will give you a map, a GPS, and a trail to do.

Treasurer's report: Tom Stevens-

$4500.00 Tentative Budget JANUARY MEETING

NEW SPENDING APPROVED SINCE LAST MEETING

$201.00 $201.00 Total New Spending

$4500.00 Tentative Budget
$ 101.00 New Spending
$4299.00 Balance

BALANCE February 21. 2002 $4399.00

Hiking: Jim Doyle — On February 7^th_, I attended the semi annual NY NJ Trails Conference at the Sea Farers and International House in NYC. I had the opportunity to speak to the group and present the Pathfinders goals and objectives. I discussed the status of our trails including details on Frank Applegate. I gave the Executive Director, Ed Goodaal one of the green trail maps that Tom did such a god job on. They were impressed and unanimously voted us in. The Trails Conference is dedicated to creating and maintaining trails in NY and NJ and have extensive knowledge and influence. They can be a major resource for the Pathfinders and will help promote us. They liked the idea of the 22 mile trail loop and were mildly amused when I said we wanted one of our trails in the book of the 50 best hikes in NJ. The latest on our membership is, they requested 2002 application which I will fill out and send this week. They asked for payment also. If Tom could send details on how to process the voucher to Kathleen O'Gorman at Kathleen@nynjtc.org that would be a big help.

Millstone Township Guests: The group was very interested in learning how we got started, and how long we have been in existence.

Discussions: Report from Karen Walzer and Dawn Rakow from West Lake booth. There were about 100 people there and it was very informative.

Also discussed was the purchase of postcard paper and supplies from Staples.

Recreation Commission next meeting is March 4, 2002 at 7:30pm.

The next Pathfinder meeting will be April 18,2002 at the Public Works Building.

Some high school students were also present at our meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 9:36pm. Respectfully submitted.

Brenda Gregory, Recording Secretary