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Draft Minutes for Karth Lake Improvement District Board <br />Regular Meeting 6:30 PM, Tuesday, January 28, 2025 <br />CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL <br />The meeting convened at: 6:30 PM. <br />Present: <br />Board Members: Susan Johnson, Chair, Linda Hansohn, Secretary; Kent <br />Stennes; Gary Gerding; Andrew Elmquist; Joel Gerich; Melissa Jannakos <br />Staff Liaison: David Swearingen, Public Works Director <br />Visitors and Karth Lake Improvement District members: Renee Marino, Jim <br />Elliot <br />Absent: <br /> None <br />1.APPROVAL OF AGENDA: The agenda was approved <br />2.APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The minutes of the previous meeting on October <br />8,2024, were approved with a correction to the spelling of Secchi in section 5.2.2 <br />3.PUBLIC INQUIRIES: None. <br />4.OLD BUSINESS <br />4.1. Lakeshore owner outreach and education. Kent Stennes. <br />4.1.1. Background: The KLIDB has reached out to KLID members in the past <br />with flyers, events and door-knocking to increase awareness of what the <br />KLIDB does, provide information to assist members in managing their <br />shoreline and to recruit new board members. The Board agreed to consider <br />another Ice Cream Social for Summer 2025. <br />4.1.2. Discussion: Discussion of the Cummings Park Ice Cream Social timing. <br />Set the definitive date in June. With the upcoming election, add contact <br />information to website for folks to contact if there is an issue. <br />4.2. Karth Lake water level modeling and management process progress report. <br />Renée Marino <br />4.2.1. Background: Hypothesis: a revision to the pump management policy can <br />reduce water level bounce (i.e., range of high and low levels), which can <br />improve lake quality and its environment while appropriately mitigating risk <br />of damage to shoreline properties. <br />4.2.2. Discussion: Renée provided information for the task force. The task force <br />met to discuss the various options. The option they settled on was on 935.5 <br />and off 935. This would be about 8 days of pumping (the level goes down <br />about .8” per day) if there is no rain. Could just plan to turn it on at 935.5 <br />and leave it for a week without checking. We will need to present this to the <br />city council to give us authority to talk to the DNR or the city needs to make <br />the recommendation to the DNR. David talked to Shoreview about how they <br />monitor the water level for Snail lake. David would include the automatic <br />monitoring system as part of the PMP feasibility study for 2026. We would <br />need this approved by the City Council. This could be included with the