Steering minutes: 2013-05-05

Minutes:

Follow-up to 5/5/13 Steering Minutes

Attended: Helen, Becky H, Hermann, Debbi, Gayle. Didn’t attend: Sari, Michael P
Facilitator/Convener: Helen
Minutes: Gayle

Agenda:
Outdoor fire issue, among others

The Steering committee, which decided at its 3/3/13 meeting that it
would only meet when a community issue comes up for discussion, did meet
on May 5 to discuss the outdoor fire issue. These are the results of the
tasks assigned at that meeting regarding the resolution of the outdoor
fire issue:

The plan from this Steering meeting was to check the archives for
documentation about a G.O. outdoor fire policy as well as with
knowledgeable sources within the community. It had been reported at the
meeting that the June 2010 Steering minutes documented a policy of no
outdoor fires. It was found later after checking these minutes in the
archives, that we have never had such a policy. Institutional memory has
also been checked and the answer continued to be: no policy has ever
been made. Previous discussions were related to issues about smoke,
communication with TS, type and location of the fire pit (which was
dismantled), and safety--especially related to the Swim Club property.

It was also found following the meeting, after two members of the
Grounds committee checked with Scio Township individually, that
campfires are not illegal and that the only cases where a permit is
needed is for open burning.