Westwoods Trails Meeting
September 16, 2002
Guilford Community Center
Chair: Paul Proulx.
Meeting began: 7:35 PM
Attendance: Bill Blaha, Rich DiNardo, Bob Handschumacher, Peter Johnson, Joe Ortoleva, Sandra Porter, Paul Proulx, Fred Richards, Dia Robinson, Liz Scholl, George Richerson, Mary Richerson

Approval/Corrections of Minutes: Attendance of June's meeting was Karen Klugman, Joe Ortoleva, Sally Richards, Fred Richards, Paul Proulx, Sandra Porter, Bill Blaha, Susan Kukle.

Resignations/New Members/Member News: Two guests attended: George & Mary Richerson. Karen Klugman has requested to resign from her secretary position because of other responsibilities. She'll still keep in contact with the committee and is willing to volunteer for occasional work parties. Sandra Porter will assume the position of secretary, along with Joe Ortoleva.

Correspondance: None

GLCT Report: Sally Richard's position of GLCT representative for the Westwoods Committee is going to expire soon. Paul will ask Shelley Green (current GLCT member) if she would like to join the WWTC and sit in our meetings every month, representing the GLCT.

Trail Reports:
-Susan Kukle reports she did some cutting and clearing near the sign board so it would be more visible from Route 146. 1 hr total.
-Susan also reports Mary Richerson and Susan walked the Red Square trail. They moved branches and painted on the Red Square trail. 6 hours total.
-Rich DiNardo reports the empty/broken bottles situation on Cable Rock is getting out of hand. It's becoming a large task for one person to handle. Him and Susan Busch put in 4 hours each during August cleaning everything. Rich will talk with Police for possible ideas on how to monitor the situation. One barrel is damaged. Dia Robinson offered to use her ATV vehicle to help Rich carry out the garbage next time. It was agreed that a work party would be scheduled after the fall time. Apparently the fall time gets a lot of usage and then clams down over the winter time.

Old Business:
-Status of Summer Trail Clearing - Paul reports that blue rectangle, nature trail, violet trail are open. Yellow square trail (lower/southern) is open also. Green rectangle trail needs to be officially open. Sandra Porter & Peter Johnson cut down several difficult trees on the green rectangle trail. Green rectangle trail is now 100% cleared.
-In total, Paul Proulx, Sandra Porter, and David Scarpace cut down 253 trees during the summer (172 on orange circle trail and 81 on white circle trail). Paul estimates 2-3 trees fell per hour, on average. 70.5 hours total.
-To be done: Small section near Lost Lake on white circle. White circle south of power lines needs to be done also. Also targeted next will be yellow circle & violet circle trails. After that, the red diamond will be targeted so it will eventually connect with orange circle.
-Peter Johnson reports a large home-made bar set up on the Paul Trail. He will dismantle it.

New Business:
-Website - Paul will talk with Bill Johnson for ideas about having a Westwoods website that keeps the status of our trail clearing progress. The thought is we can post which trails are open and which trails are closed online.
-Guilford Parade - Bill Blaha has already registered the committee for the parade. Everyone interested in walking is to meet at 9:00 AM Sept 21 Saturday at the starting point. Parade officially starts off 10:00 AM.
- Schedule of Meetings for Year - It was agreed upon that June meeting will be June 9. All other dates listed by Paul are OK with Committee.
-Dia Robinson distributed Connecticut Hunting Season Schedules just as F.Y.I. Next Meeting: Oct 21, is next meeting

Adjournment - The meeting was adjourned approximately 8:35 pm
Recording Secretary - Joseph Ortoleva