ADAMS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION BOARD  Minutes of Regular Meeting October 2, 2024 at 7:00 pm  Attendance:  Members -Attending In-person: Members Attending by phone: George Weikert and George Taughinbaugh Chad Collie, Dave Wenk, and David Boyer Staff-Attending In-person: Staff-Attending by phone: None Staff-Absent: None Guest: None  Craig Yingling, Doyle Waybright, Ben Mearns and Sidney Kuhn (arrived 7:17 pm)  Absent:  Ellen Dayhoff, Mark Clowney, Kelly Koch, and LeighAnn Abraham  The October 2, 2024n meetingofthe) Adams County. Agricultural Land Preservation Board commenced at7:03 pm int the Planning Conference Room at the. Adams County Agricultural &  Natural Resources Center., Board Business  I.  A. Approval ofSeptember 4, 2024, Meeting Minutes  Mr. Waybright made a motion to approve the September 4, 2024, ACALPB minutes; Mr. Mearns seconded the motion. Motion was  approved unanimously. B. Public Comments - none. C. Board Appointments  1. Contractor Position - In an effort to reach a different audience, Mr. Mearns offered to share the Contractor position advertisement on social media.  1    D. New Business  1. November Board Meeting Conflict  Mark and Ellen were invited to attend a regional Farmland Preservation Roundtable located in Lambertville. This is the same date as the November Board meeting. Ellen suggested cancelling the November Board meeting. The Board was in agreement. Ellen will reach out via email ifthere are any events/news that needs attention prior to the  December ACALPB meeting. 2. 25,000. Acre Celebration  Mark is suggesting having this celebration in the spring as Mr. Maring is not feeling well. (The Maring farm put preseryation: in the County over the 25,000 acre threshold.) Ellenasked: the Board about-having the celebration on October 18, November 22 dates or possibly on an undetermined date in the spring. After further discussion, it was agreed that we will attempt to haye the celebration onNovember 22 pending Secretary ofAgriculture and County Commissioners' availability. Cumberland Township, neighboring townships, state representatives, commissioners, local preservation people will be  invited.  E. Legislative Updates/Issues  1. PA Farm Bureau Updâtes (Mark and Dave W) - no updates HB1713 - Stambaugh - Additional house for each 80 acres. Letter was sent from the Board opposing HB 1713. No further updates. HB 1777-Brennan - Unencumbered funds to go toward Land Trusts. Ellen reminded the Board of their review and input from March 2021, March 2022and. January 2024. The Board did not support the bill, but did support raising the amount for reimbursement of expenses incurred in acquiring and transferring agricultural conservation easements from $5,000 Mr. Weikert made a motion to approve raising the amount for reimbursement of expenses incurred in acquiring and transferring agricultural conservation easements from $5,000 to $10,000 per easement; Ms. Kuhn second the motion; motion passed.  2. 3.  to $10,000 per easement.  4. 5.  SB798 -N Mastriano - solar not permitted on Class Ia and II soils. No further SB288 - Mastriano - regarding small subdivisions if adding to another  updates.  preserved farm. No further updates.  2    II. Updates  A. Township Updates  1. Ellen attended Cumberland Township meeting last week. They asked Ellen for her suggestion on an amount toj put in their budget for farmland preservation. Ellen feels confident $30,000 will be puti ini their 2025 budget. 2. Mt. Joy - Mr. Yingling and Ellen will be attending Mt-Joy township meeting on October 17th. Ellen and Mr. Yingling outlined the history ofthe Mt. Joy program and stated that they expect to have a more: in-depth conversation.with the Supervisors and possibly their ASA Committee, at a later date. Discussion regarding assisting them with inspections;however, our staffs simplydoes not have time. Mark suggested they contact theLand Conservancy and possibly hire 3. Straban - Ellen will be attending township.meeting on October 7h They seem to be very interested inj partneringwith us on al Round 16 appliçation. 4. Union- - Township has decided they do not wish to take advantage oft the Unique Purchase Situation with theone farm in Union from Round 15. They would like to complete the current projects with. us before committing to anything new.  them to do the inspections.  B. LCACUpdates - no update  C.  Parks, Recreation: and Green Space Grant Program -  Kelly statéd that the Commissioners' approved the following projects today.  Parks  Abbottstown! Borough- - 9-hole.disc golf course to an existing walking trail Hamiltonban Community Park - installation of water foundation, materials, etc.  Oxford-Township Pavilion Green Space Land Preservation Boyer Nurseries - $20,000.00 Boyer-Nurseries-S $46,000.00 Brad & Kim Waybright-s12,976.00 Waybright Main- - $39,740.00 Chris & Jenna Waybright-59,086.00 Sara Tatman - $87,250.00  D. Eisenhower Drive. Extension Project - No update. E. PA. Ag Discovery Center-I No update.  3    Executive Session Opened  II. Round 15- Please refer to. Round 15 Financial/Status Report  A. XIV-43/Wolf-: a letter sent setting an October 31, 2024 deadline for the landowner to either obtain as subordination from Rocket Mortgage or otherwise refinance in order to XV-59/Ridinger Appraisal review: 175.91 acres, 90% is $3,087, 8746s53,00lere.  clear their title on the farm.  B.  IV. Round 16 - Please refer to Round 16 Ranking Report  A.  Discuss any issues Ranking and cutoff for Phase /Stewardship: pScoring Mark reviewed Final Scores - Round 16- - Adams County Farmland' Preservation There was an error in PPA map that was not.connecting with the LESA scoring. Sarah Weigle rescored applicants with the most current PPAI map. Only two farms were affected by this correction. A total ofs seven applications had their scores changed after Three farms illustrated in gray were pulled out of ranking, as they are now being Mr. Weikert askedifapplicants had the ability to offer to take a large Bargain Sale, such as accepting 50% of theeasement value. This is not in our Program Guidelines at thist time; however,there are other County Programs who offer this (Lancaster). Further discussion regarding 100% donations to the County. It was mentioned that we discuss this during our publicmeetings; and we will include this in the letters we send the Ellen suggested moving the number of farms to be visited for the Stewardship score to the top 21 to include XVI-56 (as Straban may be interested in budgeted money). Application XVI-34 is the remaining portion oft the Frey farm which ranked 41, and wasa specific farm Tim Brown wanted preserved. Since it is receiving 100% funding from the Tim and Marcia Brown estate, we can pull it out of ranking order and not worry about it being in the top 50%. Ellen will send an email vote to begin the appraisal process on this farm. Such vote will need tol be ratified at the December  Program document.  further review. All scores were.changed for the positive.  preserved in Round15.  applicants when we send: them their final rankings.  meeting.  Close Executive Session and Call for Action as. Needed  V. Executive Session Action Items  A. Round 15  4    1. XV-59/Ridinger  Ms. Kuhn made a motion to make an offer of $3,000, 87.64%of easement  value; Mr. Waybrightseconde.d, Motion carried.  B. Round 16  1. Final Status Report andl Map- ACTONDagpoemng a and take action to conduct Ms. Kuhn made a motion to approve ranking and stewardship scores on the top  Stewardship visits on. Phaselofapplications  21 applications; Mr. Mearns seconded. Motion carried.  VI. Inspections, Transfer, Subdivision, Rural Enterprise Applications, Other Issues Clowney subdivision is finalized and: recorded. Ellen attended the closing.  Inspections - no issues. VII. Program Guideline Changes  A. Dscusionclarifications regarding Unique Purchase Situations- - On Hold  VIII. Adjournment  Mr. Waybright made a motion to: adjourn the October4 4,2024ACALPB meeting at 8:43  pm; Ms. Kuhns seconded. Motion was approved unanimously.  Respectfully submitted, LighAm4braham L Secretary  48S  5