The TLA Board has adopted the following goals for 2014:
- Continue project-specific partnerships with The Watershed Center, Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, and other lake associations.
- ERCOL-WPIT Group
- Annual Local Officials Meeting
- Macroinvertebrate sampling partnership w/GRNA
- Work with TOTM Mitt to prepare package for UM Grad students to write 2015 Elk River Chain of Lakes Watershed Plan
- Work with TOTM, TWC, ACD, GRNA and CRA to begin preparing sub-watershed plans for Maury, Shanty, Cold, and Finch Creeks, with 2014 focus on Maury Creek
- Enhance environmental education activities.
- Joint Education Events
- Antrim County Fair
- Summer Intern Program
- Continue Quarterly Newsletter
- Implement single issue evening “topic” events
- Implement monthly email Information pieces
- Continue to support funding for SEOP program.
- Encourage additional funding opportunities through membership appeals
- Outreach to Family Foundations for funding
- Outreach to participating school districts for funding opportunities
- Continue building working relationships with local units of government and universities.
- LWD Project
- Extend GIS support from County
- Annual Local Officials Meeting
- ACUTE – TCE Plume
- Prepare and present 10 minute presentation of TLA to local units of government
- Exceed a membership base of 500, with focus directed at retention.
- Target non-member riparian’s in recruitment
- Promote upgraded memberships
- In cooperation with law enforcement and the other lakes associations in our watershed, Three Lakes Association will respond to water safety issues as the opportunities arise.
- Develop new fundraising opportunities.
- Implement Environmental Awareness Day
- Explore and implement memorials and legacies
- Actively advocate for mission-matching issues.
- Expand working relationship with GRNA
- Improve internal and external communication.
- Implement monthly email Information pieces
- Improve communication and participation using technological advancements such as Skype
- Increase visibility in newspapers – Antrim Review, Record Eagle, Elk Rapids News and Leader
- Publish an Annual Report