• Meeting attendees: Mike Boulland, Ronald Horii, Kitty Monahan, Lynne Paulson, John Klimaszewski, Holly Davis, Lynne Paulson, John Patterson, Hazen Anderson, Mario Blaum, Gina Tuner, Elaine Drake, John Dorrance
• Park report (John Patterson):
• The Bear Tree Lot will have a walk-through in the fence. The Pyzak house will be a park residence. A maintenance person will be staying there. It will be a private residence, so it needs to be secured. There will be a fence put up at the right side of the driveway to distinguish the Bear Tree Lot from the residence.
• They're looking at making a rock swale at the muddy bend in the Mine Trail by the old corral, near the Rocky Ridge Trail junction. 
• They will be putting in a rock swale at the creek crossing on the Fortini Trail. Fish & Game doesn't like culverts.
• They will be losing 3 maintenance people who were working at Santa Teresa. There will only 2 left, covering Santa Teresa, Calero, and Almaden Quicksilver. They will try to keep the trails open and keep the culverts clear. Volunteer trail crews can help. They can check the culverts.
• On the PGE easements: people can walk on them. It is PGE's responsibility to maintain them.
• Someone is living in a truck at the Pyzak Ranch. He's been parked there at least a week on the street side.
• Deer have been coming out into the neighborhood at De Sault. There is no deer crossing sign. This is a city issue.
• Cross-country teams have not been running at Santa Teresa. They don't like the soil because of safety issues. The hard ground has cracks, and the ground stays wet and unrunnable in the rainy season. Teams have been going to Alum Rock, but it is getting over-crowded. 
• The old barn will be restored. It will be used as a real barn. The 4H can have larger animals there. 
• Mike would like to see a small office area in the old barn after it's restored. We need a community room. One possibility is to clear out the tools from the new barn.
• They are trying to get rid of the trees over the Buck Norred house. They cleared out the bees. There is asbestos insulation inside. No one can go in until that's taken care of. Historic Heritage re-evaluated the house and said it is not historically valuable. 
• Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch activities
• John Dorrance had a moon viewing night and ghost night at the ranch. 30-40 people came. They had to turn people away. 
• John wants to have a Zorro night. No date yet.
• John is getting about 2 classrooms tours per week.
• Mike will lead a class at the ranch. Glider Elementary will walk to the ranch. They will see displays and the springs. 
• John wants to have a Christmas program at the ranch, with caroling. He can show a movie. A volunteer may read from a Dickens Tale. 
• John wants to rebuild an old 1890's wagon that he picked up. A friend of his donated it to the park. It has wooden wheels. The Boy Scouts can help put it together. They can attach it behind a truck and give wagon rides.
• There is a virtual tour of the Joice-Bernal House on the park website. John Fialkowski did it.
• Rick Leonard is doing stargazing interpretive programs.
• Mike wants to help build a fence behind the caretaker's house.
• John met with paranormal investigators who came by the ranch house and found ghosts in the house. 
• They want to do a haunted hike every few months.
• The fire marshall will not allow meetings in the barn. They need a sprinkler system in the barn to use it for meetings. 
• Wash days will return in the spring.
• Someone comes to the Bernal Road entrance to the park and pick up trash along Bernal each morning around 8 am.
• Park permit: Mike is working with the park's department on this. We want to make sure that our activities in the park are covered by the park department's insurance.
• Mark Frederick said that the following areas are closed to the public: the Bonetti Ranch, Buck Norred's, the Bear Tree Lot, the Pyzak Ranch. (Buck Norred's is not an official entrance.)
• Lynne Paulson reporting on the STFNA:
• The Open Space District is talking to the owner's of the Nakashima property. 
• The Board of Supervisors are meeting on 11/25, but they may not talk about it.
• The Gustavsons own land in the Santa Teresa Hills. They want to sell some land to the Open Space Authority, but the OSA is not interested in buying it.
• Volunteer Hours. 
• Holly Davis: 6
• Kitty Monahan: 3
• Ronald Horii: 40 (10 Santa Teresa, 30 Almaden Quicksilver)
• Mike Boulland: 20
• John Klimaszewski: 5
• Lynne Paulson: 5
• Hazen Anderson: 3, Hazen's son: 3
• Mario Blaum: 10
• Gina Turner: 2
• Elaine Drake: 3
• 4H, Holly: 
• Kitty had some chickens, which she gave to 4H. Now they have 13 total.
• New Creations Church is letting the 4H use a room for sketching classes.
• The Coyote Grange Hall is interested in taking in 4H. They have 9 members, 6 of whom are in old folks' homes. They need new members or the city will tear down the hall. Families will join to keep the building and use it.
• Hazen wants to donate money to put up a plaque by Santa Teresa Springs. 
• Activities:
• Trail Days: 11/18 at Rocky Ridge, 11/15 at Stiles, meet at the Pueblo Area at 8:00.
• Website and Pictures: Ron
• Ron has been updating the Website: http://www.stpfriends.org
• The events calendar has been updated.
• Ron showed slideshows of the moon viewing night, the Volunteers BBQ at the New Almaden Community Center, and the Bay Area Ridge Trail Dedication at the Woods Trail on Hicks Road.
• Showed slideshow showing deer at the Pueblo Area and along the Coyote Peak Trail, the new parking ticket machine, the Hidden Springs Trail, the Ridge Trail and the "sleeping bear" rock formation, the Coyote Peak Trail, Coyote Peak, the service road to Coyote Peak, and the water tank on top of the peak.
• There will be no meeting in December. The next meeting will be a dinner meeting at Mike and Dorene's house at 6 pm on January 8.

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