Instructions for Invasive Plant Coordinators:
1. Help identify sites with Japanese Knotweed and other invasive plants, improve public awareness, encourage donations
2. Determine the property owner, then contact them and discuss the importance of controlling invasive plants, that their permission is needed to treat plants on their propery, that no payment is required, and that treatment is not guaranteed.
3. Then obtain signed permission(s) from the property owner
- Give property owners a copy of the RIIPP sheet, which includes where donations could be sent (Inlet Invasive Plant Program).
- Property owners should be given/shown/or referred to www.noknotweed.org to see the first page of the Accord label. You need have a written copy of the first page of the label in case the property owner wants to see those.
- Property owners need sign the appropriate Permission/Indemnity Form depending upon who is most likely to do the treatments.
- Indemnity form (Menz) - Chestertown, Garnet Lake, Inlet/Town of Webb, Minerva, North Creek, North River, Warrensburg
- Indemnity form (Burkum) - Blue Mt Lake, Indian Lake, Lake Placid, Long Lake, Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake
- HCSWCD form (Croote) - Lower Hamilton County (Benson/Hope/Lake Piseco/Lake Pleasant/Morehouse/Speculator/Wells)
- For sites which might be treated by the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) also sign the TNC Permission Form.
- For sites within 100 feet of wetlands (e.g. marsh/bog) property owners also need sign the last page (6) of the APA form, and fill in the second section of page 2 with their town/village/county/nearby waterbody/property tax number.
4. Make two copies of the signed forms.
- Send the original to Patty Wittmeyer, the Inlet Town Clerk (Town of Inlet PO Box 179, Inlet, NY 13360).
- Keep one copy for yourself.
- Keep the other copy to give to the pesticide applicator
5. Arrange with the pesticide applicator (e.g. Douglas Johnson, Ryan Burkum, D. Avery Menz or Brendan Quirion) when you can show the applicator where the sites are located, make sure the applicator has copies of all the permission forms, and let the applicator know if there were any special requests by the property owner.
Instructions for Patty Wittmeyer (Inlet Town Clerk) -- Continue your excellent, much appreciated, support! including:
1. Save copies of permission forms.
2. FAX copies of APA forms to Brendan Quirion at the APIPP for him or Hilary Smith to sign and send to the APA (Dan Spada) to sign and fax back to Patty Wittmeyer.
3. Let invasive plant coordinators know when permissions have been received back from the APA.
4. Do accounting for donations received, sending thank-you letter or email.
5. Order pesticide/supplies as needed; coordinate payments to pesticide applicators.
6. Keep the training CD disks and copies of manuals, loaning out as needed.
Please make tax-deductible donations payable to: Town of Inlet, Invasive Plant Control Fund; and mail to: Town of Inlet PO Box 179, Inlet, NY 13360 with your name, phone, address, and e-mail. Contact clerk@inletny.com (315) 357-5771 with questions.
1. Help identify sites with Japanese Knotweed and other invasive plants, improve public awareness, encourage donations
2. Determine the property owner, then contact them and discuss the importance of controlling invasive plants, that their permission is needed to treat plants on their propery, that no payment is required, and that treatment is not guaranteed.
3. Then obtain signed permission(s) from the property owner
- Give property owners a copy of the RIIPP sheet, which includes where donations could be sent (Inlet Invasive Plant Program).
- Property owners should be given/shown/or referred to www.noknotweed.org to see the first page of the Accord label. You need have a written copy of the first page of the label in case the property owner wants to see those.
- Property owners need sign the appropriate Permission/Indemnity Form depending upon who is most likely to do the treatments.
- Indemnity form (Menz) - Chestertown, Garnet Lake, Inlet/Town of Webb, Minerva, North Creek, North River, Warrensburg
- Indemnity form (Burkum) - Blue Mt Lake, Indian Lake, Lake Placid, Long Lake, Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake
- HCSWCD form (Croote) - Lower Hamilton County (Benson/Hope/Lake Piseco/Lake Pleasant/Morehouse/Speculator/Wells)
- For sites which might be treated by the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) also sign the TNC Permission Form.
- For sites within 100 feet of wetlands (e.g. marsh/bog) property owners also need sign the last page (6) of the APA form, and fill in the second section of page 2 with their town/village/county/nearby waterbody/property tax number.
4. Make two copies of the signed forms.
- Send the original to Patty Wittmeyer, the Inlet Town Clerk (Town of Inlet PO Box 179, Inlet, NY 13360).
- Keep one copy for yourself.
- Keep the other copy to give to the pesticide applicator
5. Arrange with the pesticide applicator (e.g. Douglas Johnson, Ryan Burkum, D. Avery Menz or Brendan Quirion) when you can show the applicator where the sites are located, make sure the applicator has copies of all the permission forms, and let the applicator know if there were any special requests by the property owner.
Instructions for Patty Wittmeyer (Inlet Town Clerk) -- Continue your excellent, much appreciated, support! including:
1. Save copies of permission forms.
2. FAX copies of APA forms to Brendan Quirion at the APIPP for him or Hilary Smith to sign and send to the APA (Dan Spada) to sign and fax back to Patty Wittmeyer.
3. Let invasive plant coordinators know when permissions have been received back from the APA.
4. Do accounting for donations received, sending thank-you letter or email.
5. Order pesticide/supplies as needed; coordinate payments to pesticide applicators.
6. Keep the training CD disks and copies of manuals, loaning out as needed.
Please make tax-deductible donations payable to: Town of Inlet, Invasive Plant Control Fund; and mail to: Town of Inlet PO Box 179, Inlet, NY 13360 with your name, phone, address, and e-mail. Contact clerk@inletny.com (315) 357-5771 with questions.