Minutes – Surfrider Meeting, Nov. 12, 2005, 3:30pm

Chapter Status Review – Walt received an official letter from Ed, Surfrider Director of Chapters, we are now a Chapter!

Membership –Don’t forget to renew.

Blue Water Task Force – County water testing will not be funded on a regular basis again until April ’06. We need to report problems to Environmental Health in order to pressure them to test water when pollution is apparent. We discussed a plan as follows:

FORM: Create a Surfrider Foundation Chapter Form for reporting problems.

Back up your complaint with statistics as much as possible re. source.

Sign, date and bring form to Environmental Health office in Ft. Bragg.

Offer our labor to test water when problems arise.

As a last resort, allocate funds and test water ourselves, sending to county lab.

Ocean Safety Committee – There will be a fundraiser on March 8, ’06 at MacCallum House for Mendocino Aquatic Safety. Details to be arranged. Next meeting of Committee will be at the Ford House, Dec 7 at 4:00pm.

Coastal Access/Virgin Creek- Status remains the same. A disclosure of public access is included in the real estate listing.

Blues Beach Parking – Bob and Bill proposed that Surfrider request custodianship of Blues parking area (If we can get funding, we would improve parking, road and amenities.)

Lake Cleone Ocean Outlet channel: State parks (Bruce Smith, ranger in charge of maintenance) has set this Monday, Nov. 14, at 9:30am, to dig out the south channel as we requested. Please come and bring shovels.

Burl Wood Fundraiser – This is our second fundraiser and membership drive. The sculpture is now at the Caspar Store.

Annual Party/fundraiser/membership drive for ’06 – Short flicks. A surf movie film festival, to include locally made surf movies. We propose a limit of 10 to 15 minutes each, contributed by 5to6 people. We can prescreen and choose. Rodney and Julie have booked the Senior Center for Jan. 28, ’06. We will preview at our next meeting.

Andy has created us a page on his Website: go-surfer.com. It looks great. Check it out! We will post pertinent information from meetings.

Next Meeting: Saturday, Dec. 10, 3:30. Walt and Jackie’s