New PROPOSED Waterfront Property Milfoil "FEE"

Slickcraft · 11-23-2010, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by shore things

All I'm going to say at this point is that if there was a lake association or some kind of local action group that wanted to approach DES about developing a long term, lake wide, action plan for addressing the milfoil issues on Winnipesaukee in a well thought out and coordinated manner, it would be a wonderful thing...

The Lake Winnipesaukee Watershed Association is a coordinated effort to develop a management plan for long term protection of the quality of the lake. My wife and I have volunteered to collect weekly water quality samples May through Oct, one small part of the overall process.
I don't know if LWWA plans on an active role in coordinating milfoil control but I will try to find out.
http://www.winnipesaukee.org/

Onshore · 11-23-2010, 02:02 PM

Slickcraft, that would be great. Do you need contact info for any of us here at DES?

Winniboater81 · 11-23-2010, 02:53 PM

I own lakefront property in Alton and have since 1948. I pay $9,800 in taxes a year. I bought the property in 1948 for $15,000. The quality of the lake and the times I have on the lake have decreased, and the taxes increase. I say boost the registration fees on all the boats. This will not only effect the lake front property owners, but it will also effect the yahoos from MA who come up Friday night, drive around like they own the lake, and then pack up and leave Sunday. These are the people that are hurting our lake, not the lake front property owners. We already pay enough in taxes, tax the weekend warriors, they are the ones that introduced milfoil to the lake, make them pay to clean it up!!!!!

secondcurve · 11-23-2010, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Winniboater81

I own lakefront property in Alton and have since 1948. I pay $9,800 in taxes a year. I bought the property in 1948 for $15,000. The quality of the lake and the times I have on the lake have decreased, and the taxes increase. I say boost the registration fees on all the boats. This will not only effect the lake front property owners, but it will also effect the yahoos from MA who come up Friday night, drive around like they own the lake, and then pack up and leave Sunday. These are the people that are hurting our lake, not the lake front property owners. We already pay enough in taxes, tax the weekend warriors, they are the ones that introduced milfoil to the lake, make them pay to clean it up!!!!!

You sound like a bitter person. I hope I never find myself in your situation. Happy Thanksgiving!

Rattlesnake Guy · 11-24-2010, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Winniboater81

I own lakefront property in Alton and have since 1948. I pay $9,800 in taxes a year. I bought the property in 1948 for $15,000. The quality of the lake and the times I have on the lake have decreased, and the taxes increase. I say boost the registration fees on all the boats. This will not only effect the lake front property owners, but it will also effect the yahoos from MA who come up Friday night, drive around like they own the lake, and then pack up and leave Sunday. These are the people that are hurting our lake, not the lake front property owners. We already pay enough in taxes, tax the weekend warriors, they are the ones that introduced milfoil to the lake, make them pay to clean it up!!!!!

I am sympathetic to your tax bill. But think of how high it would be if the out of state property owners did not help shoulder the burden without using the schools and most of the other town services. The problem is that spending increases faster than our incomes increase. Then if we are Lucky we get to retire on a fixed income. But the increases continue to go up.

We all have to figure out how to manage our budgets. When the town, state and feds learns to do the same painful process they will have a few dollars left over for milfoil control from the billions we all pay each year.

Slickcraft · 11-23-2010, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by shore things

Slickcraft, that would be great. Do you need contact info for any of us here at DES?

I suppose I should have guessed that you were at DES.

Anyway I'll see what I can find out and if I need any specific contact info will send you a PM.

Merrymeeting · 11-23-2010, 07:39 PM

Many suggestions for different fee increases and uses of the fees.

Here's a novel idea. How about we figure out how to deal with the problem without another fee? I'm sure there is a fee in there somewhere that was originally put in place 20 years ago to deal with a similar issue. The issue was resolved but the fee remains. This is how we keep digging ourselves in deeper and deeper.

I am a waterfront owner and very concerned about milfoil. But I don't want to see yet another fee added to deal with it. The bureaucracy is big enough already. It's time to trim it somewhere else if we want to add another service.

tis · 11-23-2010, 07:56 PM

What a great post, Merrymeeting! My thoughts exactly!

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11-23-2010, 02:02 PM	#2
Onshore Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 503 Thanks: 12 Thanked 425 Times in 146 Posts	Slickcraft, that would be great. Do you need contact info for any of us here at DES?

11-23-2010, 02:53 PM	#3
Winniboater81 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 18 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	I own lakefront property in Alton and have since 1948. I pay $9,800 in taxes a year. I bought the property in 1948 for $15,000. The quality of the lake and the times I have on the lake have decreased, and the taxes increase. I say boost the registration fees on all the boats. This will not only effect the lake front property owners, but it will also effect the yahoos from MA who come up Friday night, drive around like they own the lake, and then pack up and leave Sunday. These are the people that are hurting our lake, not the lake front property owners. We already pay enough in taxes, tax the weekend warriors, they are the ones that introduced milfoil to the lake, make them pay to clean it up!!!!!

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11-23-2010, 07:39 PM	#7
Merrymeeting Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Merrymeeting Lake, New Durham Posts: 2,226 Thanks: 304 Thanked 800 Times in 368 Posts	Many suggestions for different fee increases and uses of the fees. Here's a novel idea. How about we figure out how to deal with the problem without another fee? I'm sure there is a fee in there somewhere that was originally put in place 20 years ago to deal with a similar issue. The issue was resolved but the fee remains. This is how we keep digging ourselves in deeper and deeper. I am a waterfront owner and very concerned about milfoil. But I don't want to see yet another fee added to deal with it. The bureaucracy is big enough already. It's time to trim it somewhere else if we want to add another service.

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11-23-2010, 07:56 PM	#8
tis Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,799 Thanks: 758 Thanked 1,468 Times in 1,024 Posts	What a great post, Merrymeeting! My thoughts exactly!