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MEETING MINUTES
OF THE
FREDERICK COUNTY CONSERVATION EASEMENT AUTHORITY
Held in the Executive Session Room of the Frederick County Administration Building at 107 North
Kent Street in Winchester, Virginia on July 22, 2010 at 8:00 a.m.
PRESENT: Diane Kearns, Chairman; Todd Lodge; John Marker; Gene Fisher, Board of Supervisors
Liaison; and Charles Triplett, Planning Commission Liaison.
ABSENT: Ritchie Wilkins, Vice - Chairman; Jim Lawrence, Treasurer; Robert Solenberger; and Elaine
Cain.
STAFF PRESENT: Eric R. Lawrence, Secretary; and Bev Dellinger, Secretary 111.
PUBLIC MEETING:
1. May 27, 2010 Meeting Minutes
On a motion made by Mr. Marker and seconded by Mr. Lodge, the May 27, 2010 minutes were
approved as presented.
2. Fundraising Efforts
a. GIFT — G ive $ for F rederick's T omorrow
Chairman Kearns stated that Mr. Alex Gray of the Planning Department acquired
G1FT.org as the GIFT program's domain name, and he also set up a page on the
County's web site, which is shown in the agenda packet. She will have the rack cards
printed and then start contacting businesses, and she stated that whatever works for the
business owner, is what the CEA will support. Chairman Kearns would like to put on the
webpage a way to collect e -mail addresses of people who are interested in conserving
rural land. Mr. Lawrence stated that Mr. Gray has set up a PayPal link and he's working
on the listserve, so people can give us their e -mail address if they want to have updates
and it will be e- mailed automatically to the CEA e -mail account. Chairman Kearns is
working on setting up a Face Book page. Mr. Fisher feels it's time to get the Board of
Supervisors' blessing on this; he'll take the lead and hand out information to the Board
on August I I 1h .
Mr. Lodge feels that people who will be interested in conservation may be business
people between the ages of 35 and 55, and some of them don't necessarily use a
computer on a daily basis. Mr. Fisher suggested contacting the Chamber of Commerce
for business contacts. Chairman Kearns would like to contact eating establishments, like
One Block West, who supported "Buy Fresh, Buy Local ".
Chairman Kearns passed around a Virginia Tech article she cut out titled "Preserving Rural
Character — The Middle Peninsula Land Trust" in which it states new homes equals dollars lost
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® for Frederick. Chairman Kearns received an article from the Shenandoah County Easement
Authority and Virginia Extension talking about easements. Virginia Extension may be an
avenue for the CEA to explore to make people more aware of land preservation.
3. Update on Potomac Conservancy Activities
Chairman Kearns stated that the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) wants to designate special
projects areas and they're soliciting input on where these areas would be. Potomac Conservancy
has been working heavily on Cedar Creek and Passage Creek and may submit these to VOF as
special project areas.
As a reminder, Chairman Kearns brought up the FRPP money which was designated for the
Wright property; it's going to expire in March of 2011. If we could find some money to match,
the Wright easement could go through; otherwise the federal money goes back.
4. Next Meeting Date August 26, 2010
5. Other
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 8:35 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
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Diane Kearns, Chairman
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Eric R. Lawrence, Secretary
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