Revised 08Feb12
                                                                                                                    May be amended before next meeting.

            Agenda, 06Mar12 (Tuesday) Friends of Lake Wissota State Park meeting.
                        At Bill and Jan’s.  7:00pm, start meeting.

• Minutes from last meeting.  Corrections?/approval
• Reports:

      Treasurer’s report.  Corrections?/approval

• Correspondences
• Announcements:

                  Next meeting second Tuesday in May.

• Proposals for 2012-2013 Calendar

• Unfinished or continuing business:

    1.  2012 Open House, Lake Fair
            >  Committee help for Mary Jo
            >  Kayak safety, possible age restrictions or more help
            >  Fun patrol

    2.  Beaver Creek programs, allotment for 2012 (similar to 2011)

    3.  Boat purchase

    4.  GPS unit(s) for geocaching 

    5.  T-shirts  

    6.  Other unfinished business. 

    7.    Purchase replacement for Alpine snowmobile used to groom cross country ski trails.

• Urgent new business (items where decision should be made this meeting): 
• Non-urgent new business, items to be discussed and added to next meeting agenda (or possibly take action this meeting):  Park Managers comments are in green.

    1.      Funds for updating park newspaper (cost unknown at present).  Scott
                    Park staff is updating the park newspaper and looking for funds (unknown $ at this time) to complete the task.

    2.      “Camping is in tents” program/purchase of 4 tents.  Scott
                     'Camping is in tents' at Lake Wissota, an idea I have for a program that can be given by staff which includes purchase of 4 tents by Friends Group. - Occasionally we are asked to give a program to a group and this might be a possibility. I thought if we had 3-4 tents we could work that into a program for groups of kids.  They could also be used on other occasions by the friends group when giving a program on camping. We could divide groups up into teams and have the teams race against each other properly setting up a tent. Perhaps offering a prize to the fastest team.

   3.      Upgrading nature center displays (possible new displays).  Scott
                    Taking a good look at interp displays in the Nature Center and upgrading/purchasing some new displays.

    4.      Eco box messages.  Scott 
                    -At Wissota View we have a voice box that you hand crank (which supplies the power) and you listen to a message about the park.  There are spaces for 4 messages that can be chosen/played and we currently are only using 1 of those that gives some history of the park.  Would the friends group like to use one of these spaces for a recorded message about the friends group or becoming a member of the friends group?  I think the message has to be limited to about 30-45 seconds long. If the group is interested, I will need soomething written up so we can forward it on and have the message recorded on the machine. 

• Adjourn