September 17, 2024 LPA Board Meeting Community House    5 pm until 7:16 pm

Pledge of Allegiance

Roll Call —  Present: Jen Daly McFadden, Sam Orr, Bill Gibson, Peggy Roberts, Rosanne O’Hara, Curt Brockway, Nancy Walker, Steven Dodd and Bryan Bentz. 

Absent: None

Many members of the LP community attended this meeting.

Jim Krodel moved to change the order of the agenda to accommodate Stonington Planner Clifton Iler, who presented to the board the proposed town zoning changes. Bob Tabor seconded. Motion passed. At issue is whether these proposed changes will affect Lord’s Point property owners’ ability to build on our mostly non-conforming lots.

The town is seeking to create more affordable building opportunities. The LP board point of view is generally that our homes are already very close together and more building on small lots would create such overcrowding challenges as water and sewer issues. 

Another issue up for discussion was the possibility of changing the Lookback rule regarding property improvements back to three years from the current one year. We support leaving it as is.

Much discussion followed. No votes were taken.  It will be at least next spring before the town makes these decisions.  We will stay on top of this.

Minutes — Steven moved to accept the minutes from August 27, 2024. Sam seconded. All in favor. Motion passed without change. 

President’s Report :

The AED is up and running.

The Community House paint project has been pushed to spring.

The tennis court work will begin in June.

We still need a new Recreation Committee chair.

George Smith will be sending us more of the $100,000 major gift so that we have half this year and half in calendar 2025.

The sumac and phragmites on Beach Ave will be taken down.

Clerk Report: No report.

Treasurer Report: We are up to date in our bill payments. 

We will be depositing $100,000 in a CD tomorrow and will have a Venmo account next month.

Standing Committee Reports

Docks: Floating Docks will be out Saturday. One fell apart and will need to replaced. We may need another replaced too.

We need quotes on poles and cables for Boulder Dock. The catwalk may need to be raised. Someone hit the dock and broke some 2X8s.  No one was hurt.

Roads: No report.

Beaches: No report. 

Nominating: No report.

Recreation: No report.

Property: No report.

Community House: We need a roofer to check the leak, or maybe the painter can take a look in the spring.  The leak is very small. We have 2 bids of about $8,000 for an HVAC system in the Community House. The wheelchair ramp needs attention too.

Insurance: No report.  

Fire: No report.

Garden Club: No report.

Website: No report.

Unfinished business:

Hopkins Street. Rosanne said she is awaiting another survey. Discussion followed.

Pollinator Garden:  Discussion about the progress of the garden. Steven moved to appoint a Lord’s Point Pollinator Garden Committee with an initial allocation of $1500 for said committee. Bryan seconded. All in favor. Motion passed.

There will be a Garden walk through on Saturday morning at 10 am.

James/Oak Street wall legal issues: Steven moved to enter into executive session to discuss this issue. Peggy seconded. All in favor. Passed at 7 pm. Executive session ended at 7:15 pm. 

Steven moved to adjourn at 7:16 pm.  Rosanne seconded.. Motion passed.

Respectfully submitted, 

Peggy Roberts