Minutes of the Board of Directors of the

Patterson Lake Association of Lanark Highlands

Gilliland Cottage, 5^th Concession B Lanark Highlands, ON

June 15, 2007 at 7:00 PM

Present: Lorne Bowerman, Ted Manning, Patrick Gilliland, and Howard Stanley, Rhodena Bell

Regrets: Jack Hobbs.

1. Lorne opened the meeting at 7.00 PM. Howard moved seconded by Rhodena that the distributed agenda be accepted. Carried.

2. Approval of the minutes of the last meeting: Patrick moved seconded by Howard the minutes of the last Board meeting on April 19, 2006 be approved. Carried.

3. Financial Report: As of May 31, 2007, 52 paid members and a $70 donation from Hardwood Ridge Road Association. Our bank balance is $713.94. We have current expenses of $64.95 for water test kits, and $27.95 for our newsletter costs and mail out cost of $55.12. It was moved by Howard and seconded by Ted that we pay current expenses. Carried.

4. Members water testing results: Howard, Ted, and Lorne discussed results thus far. There was nothing out of the ordinary. A discussion was held of possible sampling of lake bottom springs. It was decided that Lorne will put together a spread sheet with the data in each category sampled. It was agreed that this was a good exercise that gave us some idea of where we were.

5. A report by was made by Lorne on coordinated septic tank cleaning. Lorne will make information available on septic specs and publish in our next newsletter.

6. Lake level, lake temperature, secchi readings (water clarity), and culvert cleaning action, if needed: Culverts: Ted reported that the culverts levels are low and that some one down stream had blown out the dam. No action required on our part. The Board is firm that we should continue monitoring the culverts. The meeting asked Rhodena to talk to the Township saying that we want to be kept informed about Township staff cleaning the culverts, and that we want to be consulted if they are going to clean out any debris from culverts.

7. Lost owners follow-up: Lorne noted the our last mail out of our newsletter. We had a few returned mail of our newsletter. Lorne will pass the returned envelopes to each area. Suggestions for the next newsletter in August, included septic tank facts and info, lake sampling reporting and loon nesting and Agm reminder and that we will collection of fees at AGM.

8. September 2, 2007 AGM planning - sign-in, voting, right to speak, reports, other. Please note Lorne has booked the hall at Watson’s Corners for AGM and we had a discussion on voting it was determined that voting would be done by cards and registration would be carried out prior to voting.

It was noted that Howard’s financial report will be due for the AGM and our end of the year is next month.

Thanks to Lorne and Connie Bowerman for the embosser that they donated to the Patterson Lake Association

9. Meetings: The next meeting was set for 1:00 to 3:00 PM, August 12 at Howard’s place on Patterson Lake, The AGM is from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM on Sunday September 2, 2007 at Watson’s Corners. Jack will probably host the October meeting in Ottawa at a time and date to be determined.

10. Adjournment: Rhodena moved seconded by Patrick that the meeting adjourn at 8:00 PM. Carried.

Contact List

In the listing below, "(H)" means "home" and "(L)" means "Lake".

Rhodena Bell, Box 32, McDonalds Corners, ON K0G 1M0

(H)613-267-5291 (L)613-278-2562 purdonbell@sympatico.ca

Jack Hobbs, (L) 293 Porcupine Way, (H)170 Glenora St, Ottawa, ON K1S 1J7

(Cell)613-860-0605 jack@people1st.ca

Lorne Bowerman, (L) 151 Lakeside Road, (H) 6 Lipstan Ave, Nepean, ON K2E 5Z3

(H)613-225-7904 (L)613-278-2813 lorne@bowerman.ca

Ted Manning, (L) 407 Hardwood Ridge Rd, (H) 1980 Saunderson Dr, Ottawa, ON K1G 2E2 (H)613-521-0594 (Cell)613-866-0594 tmanning@rogers.com

Howard Stanley, (L)632 Fairs Way (H) 313 Hinchey Ave, Ottawa, ON K1Y 1M1

(H)613-722-6846 (L)613-278-1064 howard.stanley@statcan.ca

Patrick Gilliland, (L)5th Concession B (H)33 Garrison St, Ottawa, ON K1Y 2V1

(H)613-722-1439 pgilliland@rogers.com