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- Attendees: Mike Boulland, Ronald Horii, Kitty Monahan, Maureen Kluska, Mario Blaum,
Ed Jackson, Woody Collins, Sam Drake.
- Nominations: we voted to keep
the same officers as last year, but add Maureen Kluska
as membership chairman.
- The Santa Teresa Library
Birthday event is on Saturday, February 5. We'll have 3-4 tables. It
starts at 9:00 am for setup. The event starts at 10:00. FOSTP will have
an information table. Ron will be giving a slideshow presentation on
Santa Teresa Park and will display posters with pictures of the park .
Sam will give a presentation and have a display on geocaching.
Mike will read stories to the kids. Maureen and Mike are helping to
plan the event and have been working with the librarian, Ruth Barefoot.
- Ron showed his slideshow
presentation on Santa Teresa Park. It included pictures he took on
the Stile Ranch Trail on 1/29/11
and of rainbows taken from
the Ridge Trail on 1/30/11.
- Our bank balance is $369.62. We
spent $6.70 on postage. Ron Horii donated $21.06 by returning the
reimbursement check for last year’s expenses. Ron’s friends Lucy Ludwig
and Mark Whisler donated $30.
- Mike talked to senior ranger Aniko Millan about
the issue of dog access around the Bernal Ranch. The master plan
indicated which parts of the park are interpretive. Dog and bikes are
not allowed in interpretive areas. The canal was left out of the plan.
- Mike met with the Water
District. They said that the Parks Dept. did not want to take
responsibility for it. The Parks Dept. does have responsibility for
enforcing no trespassing restrictions on the canal.
- Mike
met with acting Parks Director Julie Mark concerning using the
Coyote-Alamitos Canal as a trail that dogs and bikes could use, but
they couldn't agree on it.
- For the Volunteer Recognition
Dinner, Gloria Gill wants us to pick a group to honor. Ron suggested
the DAR, which decorated the Casa Grande. The voting is next Tuesday.
- Someone wanted to adopt the Ohlone Trail. Mike asked them to come to our
meeting. Woody has adopted the Ohlone
Trail, but hasn’t re-filed.
- IBM has adopted the Yellow Kid
Trail at Almaden Quicksilver.
- Kitty filled out the paperwork
for our adoption of the Norred Trail.
- The VCC has not finalized all
the details of the Adopt-a-Trail program, like how to monitor it.
- Ed said there was graffiti on
the canal near the pond. Tan paint was used to cover it up.
- There were kids at Santa Teresa
Spring at 8:30 am.
They had skipped school. Aniko chased
them, caught them, and talked to them. Kids have been caught at the
spring smoking. They are middle school kids.
- Mike and Art Boudreault went to the Saratoga History Club to
give a history talk. They have a speaker series, which they give 3-5
times a year.
- Mike suggested we have a similar
series at the Santa Teresa Library and use it for fundraising. We can
get the library to sponsor the talks and ask for donations.
- The California Native Plant
Society has an activity in April. They go to yards and see native
plants. We can advertise a wildflower hike with them.
- Cait
Hutnik will lead wildflower hikes
on 3/27, 4/17, 5/15 at Rancho San Vicente.
- There will be a wildflower
scavenger hunt at Almaden Quicksilver on
April 9.
- Reconstruction of the old barn
has been put out to bid. They will save the tree in the corner. Roland
wants to move the tree. He thinks it will cost $15K and move it between
the two barns. The firm that can do it has a 98% success rate moving
trees.
- Mike, Kitty, and Lynne Paulson
will meet with Ann Waltonsmith. She is a
County Parks Commissioner and comes to VCC meetings. We should give her
a tour of Santa Teresa Park and point out the issues that concern the
neighbors.
- The CAP Grant application for
next year is due 2/23. We will request the same budget items as this
year: UNSCC membership, website fees, event insurance for the
pre-Mother's Day Hike and recognition event, newsletter expenses, and
entertainment for Fandango, total $1000. Mike turned in the mid-year
CAP report.
- Lynne Paulson said the new
president of the STFNA is Jon Reinke. The
STFNA will be more active in opening the Coyote-Alamitos Canal Trail.
- The Boy Scouts will help repair
the broken fence at the Bonetti Ranch,
along San Ignacio across from Bernal School. Aniko
will set it up.
- Sam will have geocaching hikes at Santa Teresa and Almaden Quicksilver in June and August.
- Ron is leading a photography
hike at Coyote Lake/Harvey Bear on the Mummy Mountain Trail on April 23.
- Kitty talked about creating a
program to get park leads who will help
Park Maintenance clean up park entrance areas monthly. They picked the
second Saturday of each month. They won't need full trail crew
training, just safety training.
- We are planning to put an
interpretive plaque on Coyote Peak. Mike talked to Robin Schaut about the
plaque. It may require going through the CEQA approval process. If it's
a minimum impact on the environment, it's not an expensive process.
- Ron showed a prototype full-size mock-up of
the Coyote Peak interpretive plaque, with a
panorama at the top and labeled telephoto pictures along the bottom,
with a description of Coyote
Peak.
Kitty said the description should mention that the view shows we live
in a valley.
- Sam
showed his panoramic
picture from Bernal Hill, taken on an unusually
clear day, and which shows the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Should we ask for donations on
our website?
- The Pre-Mother's Day Hike will
be at the Stile Ranch Trailhead on May 7.
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