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Burke County
Soil Conservation District
PO Box 336 Bowbells ND 58721
Supervisor’s Meeting Minutes
August 14, 2009
Present: Raymond Atwood, Dale Tinjum, Jim Cart, Mark
Crosby, Kenny MacDonald, Dan Folske, and Connie Howell
Absent: Tom Burau and Greg Busch
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Raymond Atwood.
Motion was made by Dale, second by Jim, to approve the minutes of the previous
meeting as printed. Motion carried.
Motion was made by Jim, second by Dale, to approve the bills as presented.
Motion carried.
Correspondence was presented to the board for discussion.
District Technician report: Connie reported all the state grant money was
used. Fabric was completed on June 30. There have been lots of repairs to the
grass drill. Five container conifers were donated to the County Fair for the
4-H. Carbon credits have been completed. Burke County had 6 producers to
verify.
The district will keep the tractor until after the grass seeding at Short Creek
has been completed. Connie had been to August RC&D meeting in Minot, Allan
Pfliger is looking for someone to do the payroll for 5 summer employees for 4
years, they will be working on the four area refuges. The supervisors declined
the offer as one SCD employee is too busy in the summer to take on any more
responsibilities, we will let a neighboring county handle the payroll for RC&D.
Connie asked to take Mondays off for a while, motion was made by Jim, second by
Dale, to authorize Connie to take Mondays off without pay thru October as she
deems necessary.
District Conservationist report: Mark reported Travis
Myklebust, the summer SCEP, was finished on August 7. Billy Clanton, the term
employee, will start on August 31. J.R. Flores will be moving to Missouri. The
office received funding for additional EQIP contracts. Cover crop seed has been
ordered for seven producers, totaling 300 acres. The office has one contract
termination. CP37 has reached the acreage cap, still a few more acres under the
CP23A. Mark and Ed were to CSP training in Bismarck. Mark had handouts on CSP,
and discussed signup criteria and ranking.
Watershed Coordinators report: Kenny had handouts on the Powers Lake watershed
project. He discussed dams and grass seedings. He sent out letters to all
homeowners to cost share septic system replacement. Kenny discussed the water
in the lake, there are blue-green algae in the lake, but there is some
improvement in water quality since the beginning of the project.
County Agent Report: Dan is looking for sites to do herbicide trials on
rangeland. He would like to try four different herbicides, Chaparral,
Forefront, Escort, and Banvel on strip trials. Perspective is a new herbicide
from Dupont, it will be on the market for 2010.
Old Business: Rooms have been reserved for the annual convention.
New Business: The grass drill was discussed, the slow emergence, the seed on
top of the ground, all new disks and bearings are needed, and the producers need
to slow down to 4 mph.
The watershed position interview was discussed. Connie will check with Greg S.
to see if either he or Heather could attend the interview.
The summer picnic was discussed, it is too late to have one this year. The
supervisors will get together with Tim at a later date to present the plaque.
Connie will send a letter to Tim.
It was decided the Christmas Party will be held on the first Friday in December
each year, this year that will be December 4th, at the 109 Club in
Lignite.
The summer picnic will be on the April agenda and will be held the 2nd
or 3rd Thursday in July.
Raymond suggested inviting the Lucy family to our October meeting and taking
them out to lunch and present them with their plaque. One other suggestion was
to take them to supper at the 109 Club one evening.
Chairman Raymond adjourned the meeting.
Next meeting will be: September, depending on harvest
and the weather.
Connie Howell
Burke SCD
District Manager/Technician