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In . <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE 1878 <br />Open Space Advisory Board <br />Meeting Minutes <br />Wednesday, April 9th 2014 <br />Louisville Public Library <br />First Floor Meeting Room <br />951 Spruce Street <br />7:OOpm <br />I. Call to Order- Helen called the meeting to order at 7:OOpm. <br />II. Roll Call - <br />Board Members Present: Tom Davinroy, Mike Schantz, Helen Moshak, <br />Christopher Smith, Laura Scott Denton, Spencer Guthrie and Linda Smith <br />Board Members Absent: Missy Davis <br />Staff Members Present: Ember Brignull <br />City Council Member Present: Jeffery Lipton <br />III. Approval of Agenda- Helen moved the 12th item (Capital Improvements) to be <br />9th. Linda moved to approve the agenda with this change. Spencer seconded. The <br />motion was passed unanimously. <br />IV. Approval of Meeting Minutes- Tom moved to approve the minutes from the <br />previous meeting. Christopher seconded. The motion was passed unanimously. The <br />minutes were approved as written with no changes. <br />V. Discussion Item- Leave No Trace, Center for Outdoor Ethics <br />Presented by Ben Lawhon, Education Director for Leave No Trace <br />The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics is a non - profit organization based in <br />Boulder and funded mostly by the private sector. It was founded to help federal land <br />agencies in their effort to promote "leave no trace" land ethics in government -owned wild <br />lands. Their mission is to look at the science of getting people to leave no trace and this <br />presentation had the goal of showing how the City of Louisville could implement the <br />Leave No Trace program. Originally the organization focused on use of wilderness <br />areas, but they have expanded their study to include use of "front country" areas, ie. land <br />primarily impacted by day -use such as urban open space. Though the organization <br />wants to promote people using the outdoors, they also want to minimize impacts on the <br />natural landscape. Reducing impact has many advantages including reducing <br />maintenance needs and law enforcement needs, and increasing visitor satisfaction. <br />Their research shows that visitors to urban open space have similar demographics and <br />perceptions to federal land visitors, so the same principles should apply. <br />City of Louisville <br />Parks & Recreation Department 749 Main Street Louisville CO 80027 <br />303.335.4 735 (phone) 303.335.4 738 (fax) www. ci. Louisville. co. us <br />