Livestock & Equine Heritage Committee

Town of Woodside 2955 Woodside Road Woodside, CA 94062 Woodside Livestock and Equine Heritage Committee April 24, 2024 5:30 pm Final Minutes Call to Order 5:31 pm Roll Call: John Matheny, Lexi Bartlo, Nancy Atkinson, Fentress Hall, Meredith Wiedeman, Susan Dorsey, Kristina Chancholo, Philip Bellamy Absent: Melinda Stoker, Sharon Butler Online: Dick Brown, Fire Marshal Kim Giuliacci Town: Melissa Cardinale Public Communications: None Approval of Minutes from March 27, 2024. Nancy moved to approve the minutes, Susan second. All in favor. Old Business: 1. Health and Safety– Report from Subcommittee. Continuing discussion on existing issues and town operations such as improper parking on trails, stabling, environmental impact on livestock. a. Meeting with town on guidelines for parking on trails, pending new staff. Yaz on board, delay meeting until up to speed. Consider joint project with Trails Committee. Nothing new to report b. Review of barn permit inspection process and LEHC role in guiding staff, committees, and residents. Sage’s proposal for LEHC, HSSC and ASRB adopted but publication, education, next steps to be defined. We would like to take what Sage provided and put it into action. Perhaps a dry run would be useful to ensure everything is submitted correctly and any feedback can be given. Staff will let us know when it is finalized by Sage and staff and submit it to LEHC members.  2. Public Outreach – Report from Subcommittee. Continuing discussion on existing issues related to educational projects such as signage, website, publications, accomplishments of local equestrians. Subcommittee is meeting 4/25/24 for the below action items. Dick Brown mentioned that when he was at the Trails Club meeting they talked about the number of horses in woodside and how we can potentially disperse services, barns, etc. for those who want to be involved with horses. We have a number of horses moving to Woodside over the next few years and he asked about providing them equestrian lists. Fentress will find a way to address that with the Public Outreach. They will add WHOA!’s contact information to the Keeping Horses in Woodside booklet. a. Status of revisions to booklet – Keeping Horses in Woodside. Heat, temperatures in the barn is something they will put in as a footnote where people can find additional information. b. Status of FAQ booklet on navigating building process, update c. Status of review of new website. John mentioned it was easy to navigate. New Business: 1. Election of Chair and Vice Chair. Susan moved that John Matheny is Chair and Lexi Bartlo is Vice Chair. All in favor. 2. Staffing and recruiting 3. Review WFPD Ordinance 24-01 regarding defensible space and how that impacts stabling. Fire Department ordinance is not a Town ordinance. Fire Marshal Kim Giuliacci will have a table from 4-6 at Ladera shopping center on Thursday 4/25/2024. Kim said this ordinance does not need to go through any approval but they are still reaching out to the residents of Woodside and Portola Valley for their feedback. In the May Fire Board meeting this will be adopted. The ordinance is on their website under “prevention” and it can be read there. www.Woodsidefire.org. Public Outreach and Health & Safety Subcommittee will review the ordinance. Member Communications 1. Report from Trails Committee meeting. Lexi Bartlo provided a brief update. Next Meeting: May 22, 2024 Lexi moved to adjourn. John second. All in favor. Meeting adjourned at 6:47 pm. Minutes respectively submitted by Kristina Chancholo