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ACC Meeting Aug 12 2026

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Okay, thank you.
I will call the Aubrey Conservation Commission meeting of September 1st to order at 648.
Okay, please.
Thank you.
There are no appointments, so we'll just jump into approval of the meeting minutes for June 2nd of 2026.
Do I have a motion to bring that to the table?
I know it's been a while since we've met.
If anyone needs to prove free the minutes, I have some here, or are we all set?
All set? Okay.
And I will make a motion to approve the minutes of June 2nd, 2026 as written.
Mike seconded it.
Who seconded?
Mike did.
Okay.
Okay.
All those in favor, Sigma 5 by saying aye?
Aye.
Okay.
Minutes are approved.
It's been a busy summer for me.
I'm sure it has been for the rest of us.
So here we are September 1st.
I don't have anything pressing except to maybe look ahead to the fall to see if there's anything we want to do out in the trails before winter sets in.
sets in over boundary lines.
So I'm open to discussion there.
Yeah, I think we should do a boundary line day for sure.
Okay.
Best when the leaves are coming down.
Yep.
A lot is the struggle.
Yeah.
Like, put us in.
Late October?
Early November.
Yeah, for me personally, you know,
late October.
Late October.
Yeah.
It's traveling early November.
Okay.
So.
But, yeah, in the ball, sure.
In the ball, okay.
Where would you like to start with the boundary line this time?
Definitely needs attention on a separate block on Ball Hill.
Okay.
That needs a lot of attention.
Yeah, we talked about that.
And a lot because of the clear cut, it makes it very hard to find it.
Okay.
It'll get far worse.
Sure.
So let's, yeah, get up there now while it's.
it up there now while it's...
Do what?
I'm sorry.
Do the boundary line up on the...
Up on Bald Hill Road Hill.
Okay.
Where it was clear cut.
It's, you know, been pretty...
Robin and I got it up to the point where you could park at the landing
on the hill and walk up and find where we ended.
Okay.
Which is on the backside.
So we'd have to continue the remainder of up and build.
Okay.
Okay.
And then come down towards the fault of the road.
Okay.
And it's really thick up there.
It is, okay.
It's much more mature than I anticipated the moment up there.
Is it?
I remember you're saying that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sounds like a good plan.
Dates.
The calendar in front of me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We don't have anything going in October or November.
Well, basically the third weekend, the weekend of the 24th.
Yep.
Sure, whatever.
Whatever.
Okay.
So the weekend on the 24th?
Tenetively pencil that in?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's still a ways away, so.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Should have some leaves down.
Should start to clear it out alone.
Yeah.
Right.
That sounds good to me.
Okay.
When we came in.
came in, we, Mike and Court and I, we stuck our head in the new, smaller room and questioned where our maps were.
So I will email Elisa and ask her about that.
It looks like they're closed tomorrow, but at least it will be in the works.
So I will do that.
Just, you know, get the heads up and fork around.
I'll ask Sandy too, she might know what happened to some of that information.
Okay.
that were up on the hall.
Yeah.
I won't do that.
Was Sean reappointed by the Board of Board of Selectmen no last, since the last meeting?
Was I?
I?
I don't know.
Am I due?
Well, you?
Yes.
I want to make sure he's acting.
He's acting in an official capacity here.
I'll ask that question, too.
Question one, question two.
You went and got sworn in, right?
That was what you did the last time.
I can't keep trying.
we met.
Sandy's here.
I was sure.
But did you go, you did the swearing in.
I think so.
I'm pretty sure you went out there to do that.
I don't think I'd be good to check.
I don't think we need to be reappointed.
As standing members, I don't believe we need to be reappointed.
But it's good to check.
It meets me, yeah.
Check that.
Check up on that as well.
Anything else to discuss?
So the file cabinet is now in that.
little in that little room.
Right.
Okay.
Since our last meeting, Sean, you had communication from
I was just trying to get to.
So the land trust.
Yes.
So yeah, they emailed with Cindy Sellers,
the land steward of the land trust.
We had done proposed changes to the agricultural management plan.
Right.
She just had a few clerical things to...
Okay.
Correct.
And that was it.
So she said, thanks for your updates to the plan.
The proposed changes are appropriate.
The only comment is to update the plan dates and title to amended June, July,
2026.
So that it's correct.
So we just have a date thing.
Okay.
So I guess, I guess,
I guess with that, I could pull it up, make that change, and we could vote tonight.
Or we could review it again.
Right.
Do it next month as well.
Okay.
That's the ag, the agricultural.
She didn't have any additional changes, so there would be nothing really to review.
No, just us to...
We just need to change the dates to show, like a round or whatever.
That's right.
We're very revised on the, yeah, just the title to, so this would be...
Right, we need to change from May 2014 to amended whenever we vote.
June.
Oh.
So it would be now.
September or 2026.
Get her done.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We could sit around and double check or we could just adopt it.
It was just a date.
change.
Yeah, if it's just a date.
I know that you've made it there.
And then the...
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I'll put it on the agenda for next month.
So it's for the next meeting?
Yeah.
So to go to review it, to finish was?
Yes.
Okay.
To go over it one more time, check the dates than any other.
Just the final proof.
Just to clean up our notes.
Yeah.
Okay.
Anything up?
Have anything new?
Right, work has been going on all somewhere long.
I don't know if anybody's had a chance to go up and walk around the loop.
It's pretty obvious now.
Yeah, really? Great.
There's bridges and machine work.
Wow.
Yeah, it's pretty obvious.
How's it digging?
There's about 400 hours of it so far.
Wow.
It's been a lot.
Is the soil good for the machine?
Sorry?
Is the soil good for the machine?
Yeah, he was there for three days.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, he did three days on the biggest hill.
And it's the same as the first
part of uphill both ways.
Yeah.
Both the side hill cuts.
Yeah.
It's that soil that just as soon as it gets wet,
it packs down, and it's permanent.
Oh, good.
Yeah, it's really nice.
Yeah.
Not a lot of erosion problems there.
No, yeah, no gravel.
Like, not a lot of rock.
Yeah.
Just a lot of weeks.
Oh, yeah, I bet.
Yeah.
But, no, it's been, it's, but it's,
you, I went around it with my wife a couple days ago,
just really quickly to see what's going on at the west end,
and you can now easily walk the whole loop, and it's a trail.
Nice.
Yeah.
It's just, there's still work when they go.
Great.
It's great.
That's very exciting.
Yep.
So that's coming off of uphill board.
uphill both ways.
And he robbed the board from right there at that entrance to the first hill, so he made a, you can enter,
you know, because it's certainly coming down the hill and going up the hill.
Yeah.
You made a nice little entrance.
Okay.
Check it out.
And then you go down all the ways and it branches to do the left or right.
Great.
Is it?
Does it have a direction out with you?
direction that would be?
I refuse to ride her on my bike until it's done.
So I don't know which way is going to be better.
I tend to want to come down the way, come down Rob's work,
because he made some really great firm corners and stuff.
It's kind of a little flowy section.
So it seems to me that's going to be a better way to ride it.
So that would be counterclockwise.
Okay.
She definitely checked it out.
But it could be people go on both directions.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
in my direction.
multi-directional multi-year.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nice.
Multi-year is for sure.
Great.
Great.
Yeah.
Nice.
Okay.
How are the site lines?
Very good.
Yeah.
Like I said, I encourage you to take a walk.
Yeah, right.
Check out.
And then you can.
It's just because it gets feedback.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're talking to the guy who's just up there
and digging.
You know, and another guy doing the same thing.
So there's times where it's just like you're just trying to go around and you don't, the feedback is good.
Like, oh, that corner and it was really tricky.
Like, oh, you really noticed that, you know, because I didn't get any sort of input.
Yeah.
So definitely good to walk around it.
Okay.
And we've had an individual continuing to, like I said, the blackbirds going crazy and the other parcel.
He's just going around with meatwack.
back a little of what we had flagged just to keep it from growing up so we don't have to pull trees and stuff.
Yeah.
He's just keeping a corridor over and through the whole thing.
So I feel that for them because it's like that's all the most miserable thing.
Trip it over stumps and trees and that.
So maybe next them all.
I wasn't really bought the whole thing.
It takes about an hour to walk around.
Okay.
That's good one to go.
Yeah.
Nice.
All right.
Thank you for that report.
Yeah.
And I have, based on our meetings way back when, I kept a spreadsheet of everybody's been working in there
and the hours were.
Wow.
So I'll just get that at the end of the season.
Okay.
I remember there were discussions back and Rob was for liability reasons or insurance reasons,
whatever, just to have some sort of documentation.
Okay.
Does not ever do grants for this stuff?
stuff because that's a lot of volunteer hours that you usually put on a grant for any kind of
numbers.
Like a lot of places in New Hampshire, they struggle to find grants in New Hampshire.
Yeah.
And so it turns out a lot of it is volunteer.
Like we, NEMBA struggle, like right now we're doing fundraising
to cap off money for the pump track.
There's a lot of money put aside for a pump track.
almost there.
And so they have to do things like they're in a bike route or whatever.
It's just, it's hard in the state of New Hampshire, apparently, to get big grants.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
For trail work is, you know, like $10,000 a mile or something like that.
Yeah.
It's not, here's a couple hundred dollars in New York where a day.
It's a lot of money.
Right.
Oh, without further ado, there's any other discussion?
Oh, well, the NYU?
Yeah.
Yeah.
came to that.
Not yet.
The MLU.
Yeah, I think it's probably worth having another visit with Jim.
With Jim.
He was totally frazzled.
Right.
You know, because they're really short-handed.
And I didn't want to, didn't want to press too hot.
But, you know.
Must be super busy in the summer too.
Right.
Right.
And that was, didn't want to fall too closely with that gate.
problem that we had.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So.
Motion.
No, you make a motion.
I'll second.
So is it Mike in a second?
Is that what it was?
I had no part of it this.
You didn't do this?
You and you and Sean?
Okay.
Okay.
Meeting adjourned.
Oh, actually, I guess we should vote.
All those in favor.
Aye.
Aye.
All right.
Meeting adjourned.