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shoreline and to recruit new board members. The Board agreed to consider another Ice Cream Social for Summer 2025 on July 29. 4.2.2. Action: The Ice Cream Social was successful and well attended. It was a good opportunity to educate folks about the Board and what we do. No one expressed interest at the Ice Cream Social about joining the Board. Renee mentioned that she talked to Julie Lindmark (new resident on the lake) and she has expressed possible interest in joining the Board. Joel made note of the name. 4.3. Water quality monitoring for Karth Lake for 2025. Gary Gerding 4.3.1. Background: The KLIDB has participated in the Citizen-Assisted Monitoring Program (CAMP) with the Metropolitan Council by coordinating volunteer sampling of Karth Lake’s water quality since 2006. 4.3.2. Action: Renee and Andrew are the people doing the water monitoring throughout the summer. This year the Secchi depth is very shallow (<=1 meter) and the lake temperature is still 70 degrees. The graphs and report usually come back in April. The Met Council generates the report and Rice Creek Watershed uses that data to create a very helpful graphs and summaries. 4.4. 2025 Purple Loosestrife Cleanup 4.4.1. Background: Small quantities of Purple Loosestrife have been found in the lake for the last few years. Any plants out or the water can be pulled, any in the water need a permit from the DNR to cut them and treat them chemically 4.4.2. Action: Kent, Joel and Renee went out the 2nd week in August to treat the Purple loosestrife. • Renee had done a prescreen of the locations of the plants and they were pretty much in the same areas as last year. • It took the three of them 2-3 hours. • There were probably 20-22 sites and probably 5-10 plants in each location. Most were located on the southeast and north sides. • The process is to cut them and use a foam brush to put the chemical on the cut stem. • There was some confusion on the dilution factor for the herbicide so it might not have been strong enough to kill the plants but at least the seeds were cut off to prevent further spread. • Joel will report what was done to the DNR (part of the permit requirement) and submit a renewal for 2026. 4.5. Discuss garden maintenance for the garden bed within Cummings Park as well as the rain garden on Nursery Hill Lane. 4.5.1. Background: The Art Larson memorial garden in Cummings Park needs cleanup as does the rain garden on Nursery Hill Lane. Andrew was planning to look at the memorial garden and Joel was going to look at the rain garden 4.5.2. Action: • Andrew couldn’t even determine where the Cummings park garden was located. He said it was just a bench and woods. The bench is the southeast