TO MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION
OF GRAND LAC ROND (RODDICK LAKE)
Hello,
It is an honour for me to address
you today as the new president of the Association. To begin, I wish to inform
you of the composition of our new Executive Committee : beside myself as
president, we have Mr. Jacques Lépine as Treasurer, and Messrs. Richard
Ducharme, Michael Lukyniuk and Bruno Paul as directors.
I would like to correct some
information found in the minutes of the last annual meeting held on August 28,
2011. On page 3, the text leads us to
believe that I think English-speaking people don’t have the right to get
services in English; this is simply
false. This has never been my opinion.
During the meeting, I asked a question about an amount of $366 which was paid
to translate a document ‘Our lake, at a
vital turning point’ which represented the personal opinion of the former
president and not the opinion of the majority of the members of the
Association. In future, we will have an
interpreter at all our meetings and we will continue to present all
publications to our members in both languages.
We want harmony within our team and want to operate in consultation with
all our members. It’s not the president or the Executive Committee that constitutes
the Association, but all its members.
The Association is each and everyone of you working together for a
common goal: the preservation of our
lake.
The main objectives of the new Executive are, first and foremost, to
preserve the collective interests of the shoreline property owners, to be their
spokesperson before different authorities, to promote a lifestyle which respects
the environment, to ensure that the nautical safety rules are respected as well
as the fishing regulations, to stock the lake with fish, to stabilize the water
level, to plan an annual social activity so that we can meet with one another,
and to organize subscription campaigns. But
our main objective is, and will always be, to preserve the optimal quality
of water for our lake – water being a priceless collective resource. That’s the reason why we will continue to
perform annual water tests and also to support the tests made by the Réseau de surveillance volontaire des lacs
(RSVL). In a few months, we should receive the first results of those
tests.
Interim Control Bylaw 2009-206
(ICB) : The members of the Executive Committee met recently and have
decided to send a copy of the resolution presented at the annual meeting on
August 28, 2011 to the President of the Regional Municipal Council asking that
a bylaw be adopted to target the most serious polluters : the
municipalities, publics lands and farmlands.
We also propose to check with the municipalities of Bouchette and
Ste-Thérèse on the status of the septic tanks around the lake, those being the
most important source of pollution of our lake. We will closely follow the
progress of this item.
Many thanks to those who renewed
their membership in the Association for 2011. I want to mention the great
generosity of some donors: we’ve
received individual donations up to $120 for the stocking of fish – a special
thanks to those members. For those who
did not renew their membership, I invite you to do so to ensure that the
Association will stay alive and active. Please do not forget to provide us with
your telephone number, postal address and email address so that we can easily
communicate with you. I want to also bring up the importance of your presence
at annual meetings; it’s the best way to
be heard and to transmit your opinions and suggestions. It would be a good
thing for everyone to try to recrute new members so that our Association
becomes stronger and more representative.
The personal abilities and the skills of each member are an asset for
the Association, therefore I invite you to volunteer in any domain that interests you, for example: informatics, translation, research, etc.
As far as the fish stocking is
concerned, the Association is still trying to get some grants to help reach our
objective. We will continue to sollicit contributions from the municipalities
of Bouchette and Ste-Thérèse and also from local merchants.
In conclusion, I want to assure
you of our will to respond to all preoccupations of our members and our wish to
listen and to convey the opinion of the majority and all actions that will be
taken in the future. In that perspective, I invite you to send me your comments
concerning all subjects that are within the competence of the Association.
Hoping to see you soon,
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