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6.5. Lakeshore owner outreach and education. Kathy Johnson and Board. 6.5.1 Background: The KLIDB has reached out to KLID members in the past with flyers, events and door-knocking to increase awareness of what the KLIDB does, provide information to assist members in managing their shoreline and to recruit new board members. Several lakeshore properties have or are soon expected to have new owners that have not benefited from past communications and an update on the lake’s current status to continuing owners would be helpful. Discussion: Kathy Johnson was absent so some of this discussion was tabled. David suggested the board could plan an event to discuss rain garden maintenance - see new business topic on rain gardens. David Swearingen also said a new full time communications director, Luke, would be starting within a week. Luke can update the website and post communications to social media. 7. NEW BUSINESS 7.1 Report of water quality results for 2022 and volunteer sampling plan for 2023. Gary Gerding. 7.1.1 Background: The Metropolitan Council has released their summary water quality report for 2022 and detailed report for 2021. Both are available at this link: https://metrocouncil.org/Wastewater-Water/Services/Water-Quality- Management/Lake-Monitoring-Analysis.aspx. Karth Lake’s overall health grade dropped from B in 2021 to C in 2022. It was a B from 2011 to 2021 with the exception of C in 2016 and 2020. Discussion: The Karth Lake specific report is not yet available so that portion of this topic is tabled until the next meeting. The volunteers for water sampling this year will be Andrew Elmquist, Renée Marino and Jim Elliott. 7.2 Maintenance of Nursery Hill rain gardens: David Swearingen. 7.2.1 Background: According to the city’s rain garden agreement with KLID, the KLID had agreed to maintain the gardens including weeding and replacing dead plants. Discussion: Linda Hansohn and Gary Gerding acknowledged that agreement, however rain garden maintenance is not currently an active board project. Susan Johnson does and plans to continue to do weeding in the rain gardens, as well as in the Art Larson Memorial Garden in Cummings Park. David suggested that the Arden Hills Foundation (contact Arlene Mitchell) could be a source of funding to replace dead plants. David also said the Arden Hills Park Trails and Recreation Committee (PTRC) (contact Marie Hinton, chair) is willing to organize volunteers to maintain rain gardens so that the board could reach out to them and that Kerri Seemann of the PTRC is a good resource for this. David also suggested that rain garden maintenance could be an organized event under the communications plan discussed previously. 7.2 Buckthorn and diseased tree removal in Cummings Park: David Swearingen. Discussion: David announced that the city will be removing buckthorn in Cummings Park this summer. He will let us know when that will happen in the hopes we could organize volunteers to assist. The city will also be removing