6/12/2007 SOUTH CAPE BEACH ADVISORY Minutes

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a 5 TOWN-0-F CAPE.BEACH STATEPARK ADVISORY GOMURTEE.- Minutes of the Meeting of Tuesday, June 12,, 2007 Committee.l embers Present: --n"embe ;Absent: Also Present: Falmouth Rod &Gun club Jeral n Smith Gus Frederick Harry Strout Frank Connelly Berg Lofchie James ea-rdeiro Michael cardeiro Lance Lambros Mice Perkins Robert Lancaster William I arti s l evif! N arbonne Carey Murphy Jinn Young Ke Vin Richardson Chairperson Jeralyn Smith called the meeting to order at 6.-05.PIM. REVIEWof MINUTES The minutes from the October 2 ,,2006 meeting were corrected as.follows: .Com mittee r embers' Warnes Robert Lancaster and Carey Murphy were deleted from the list of members absent and added to the list of members present at the meeting. The minutes as corrected were unanimously approved by the Commiftee, INTRODUCTION ODUCTION of ALLAN MORRIS Jeri Smith introduced Allan llllords to the corn rntee es WBN ERR'ERR's new Supervisor of the.South Cape Beach Mate Parc, following Joe.Souza's rebrement last year. f Allan stated that the gate at the entry to the State Park Beach is now open. The$7.00 entry fee is not being collected as yet becau'se all the ur mer gate staff has not been hired. Fees cannot be collected until the beach staff i on duty. Whether or not the cape will be able to acquire lifeguards is decided out of the Regional Office in Carver. Allan a cpepts to hear any day now the decision"from the Regional Office, and will contact Jeri Smith as soon as he has this information. Allan explained that stidker or parking fees generated from any Mete park do not go to the Dept. of Conservation or Recreation, but,go to something called The General Fund, which is a Mate fund. Allan reported that a Mate Park.Serve Day was held a month ago,with 25 to 35 volunteers participating. Boards for repair of the ramp down to the beach were laid out, and all stock was cut out in preparation for rebuilding the ramp. WILLS WORK ROAD GATE. Jeri Smith stated that the Town is responsible for the opening and closing of the gate at the entry to the beach at th.e end of the road. There hay been a request to move the entry gate closer to the entrance to the road. The road is narrow and rutted making it difficult for cars to navigate safely. It was suggested that Jeri smith contact Joyce Mason to d termoine the status of action on relocation of the entry gate and the parking lot for the beach. Allan Morris also pr�►n to i nve tig ite the' Wills Work road gate situation. DISCUSSION OF HUNTING.IN THE STATE PARK Dike Cardeiro introduced the mem bers,of the Falmouth Food &Gun C I u b wh6 were present. According to -Mil # there were no problems or incidents that were reported this past year as alesult of the hunting privileges. It was moved and.seconded by the Committee that permission for hunting at South Cape Beach Mate Park be continued for the coming year. Th6 motion was unanimously appraved.