FINANCIAL REPORT 2011 AT A GLANCE NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION, INC. AND HVA FOUNDATION, INC. The Housatonic Valley Association’s mission is to save the PAID PERMIT NO. 19 natural character and environmental health of our communities by CORNWALL BRIDGE HVA CONNECTICUT 2011 ANNUAL REPORT protecting land and water in the Housatonic River valley. Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754-0028 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2011 OF FINANCIAL POSITION JUNE 30, 2011 How we spent our THE HOUSATONIC WATERSHED TEMPORARILY PERMANENTLY ASSETS resources UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL Current Assets Cash and Cash Equivalents $ 237,257 SUPPORT AND REVENUE Accounts Receivable 94,345 Membership Dues $ 52,294 $ - $ - $ 52,294 Prepaid Expenses 7,050 Massachusetts Contributions Above Dues 247,138 - - 247,138 ______Grants 266,936 44,900 - 311,836 22% Total Current Assets ______338,652 HVA STAFF Events 191,462 - - 191,462 LAND PROTECTION

Fees 21,169 - - 21,169 Lynn Werner BARON DAVID Executive Director Rent 10,292 - - 10,292 30% Investment Income 4,523 20,701 - 25,224 Property and Equipment MASSACHUSETTS Dennis Regan Donated Goods and Services 8,736 - - 8,736 Land 216,206 WATER Buildings and Renovations 306,414 Berkshire Program Director Unrealized Gains on Investments 51,718 99,294 - 151,012 PROTECTION Northern Furnishings and Equipment 166,848 ADMINISTRATIVE/ Alison Dixon Net Assets Release From Restrictions ______78,646 ______(78,646) ______- ______- Connecticut Outreach Program Manager* Less Accumulated Depreciation (373,923) FUNDRAISING ______22% CONNECTICUT LAND PROTECTION Total Support & Revenue ______932,914 ______86,249 ______- ______1,019,163_____ 46% Elaine LaBella Net Property and Equipment 315,545 ______13% Land Protection Director Tim Abbott OUTREACH/ Greenprint Director EXPENSES EDUCATION Program Services Other Assets Sam Dzieken New York GIS Manager* Watch 115,908 - - 115,908 Investments, at Market 905,048

Geographic Information Systems 29,933 - - 29,933 Deferred Land Sale Costs ______6,342 35% 13% CONNECTICUT/NEW YORK Environmental Education 311,795 - - 311,795 Total Other Assets ______911,390 WATER PROTECTION Southern Meghan Ruta Land Protection 245,564 - - 245,564 TOTAL ASSETS ______$1,565,587 Connecticut Water Protection Manager ______Connecticut Celebrating 70 Water Protection ______80,535 ______- ______- ______80,535_____ Ron Skurat 19% Southern Housatonic Watershed Coordinator* years of working Total Program Services ______783,735 ______- ______- ______783,735_____ LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Tonia Shoumatoff Current Liabilities New York Watershed Manager* together for the COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND OUTREACH Supporting Services Accounts Payable $ 786 Accrued Salaries and Wages 7,034 Richard Sears Housatonic Membership 47,751 - - 47,751 Development Director Tenant’s Security Deposit 551 Events 88,884 - - 88,884 Jane Bakker River Valley! Management and General 33,754 - - 33,754 Equity Line ______25,000 Development/Marketing Associate* Fundraising ______34,302 ______- ______- _____34,302_____ TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES ______33,371 Brenda Singer Membership/Volunteer Coordinator* Total Supporting Services 204,691 - - 204,691 ______Where we spent our resources FINANCIAL Net Assets Total Expenses 988,426 - - 988,426 Patience Lindholm ______Unrestricted 488,120 Finance Director* Change in Net Assets ______(55,512) ______86,249 ______- ______30,737 Temporarily Restricted 144,205 Carol Powers Permanently Restricted ______899,891 Grants Consultant* Tony Mitchell TOTAL NET ASSETS ______1,532,216 www.hvatoday.org IT Specialist* Net Assets at Beginning of Year 543,632 57,956 899,891 1,501,479 ______CT: P.O. Box 28, Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754 860-672-6678 E-mail: [email protected] *PARTTIME TOTAL LIABILITIES MA: P.O. Box 251, South Lee, MA 01260 413-394-9796 E-mail: [email protected] Net Assets at End of Year $______488,120 $______144,205 ______$ 899,891 _____ $1,532,216______AND NET ASSETS ______$1,565,587 ______HVA NY: P.O. Box 315, Wassaic, NY 12592 845-879-1381 E-mail: [email protected]. STEVE HDC TO MEMBERS AND FRIENDS Special Thanks to our FOCUS ON WATER Special Thanks to our FOCUS ON LAND THANKS TO YOU AND OUR PARTNERS Project Sponsors Corporate Associates

Board of Directors Aton Forest, Inc. A.E. Olsen Co., Inc. Alternative Support Program, Pittsfi eld Kent Bicycle Tours Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition Berkshire Life 1,600+ Service America School System King’s Mark RC&D Council Pootatuck Watershed Association President he Housatonic River fl exed its considerable muscle Berkshire Bank people celebrating the Advanced Alarms and Aquarion Water Company Kozuchowski Environmental Consultants Republican-American Robert P. Houlihan Berkshire Taconic Community The Asen Foundation Lake Housatonic Authority River Network Housatonic and HVA’s 70th Communications, Inc. Berkshire Environmental Action Team Lake Lillinonah Authority Rivers Alliance of Connecticut in 2011. Spring ice fl ows of historic proportions jammed Foundation Vice Presidents Aqua Environmental Lab Berkshire Natural Resources Council Lake Zoar Authority Rotary Club of New Milford Route 7 in South Kent, followed by record fl oods from The Bok Family Foundation birthday. Stephen Paul Booth Aquarion Company/BHC Borough of Naugatuck Laurel Hill Association Roxbury Conservation Commission snow melt and late summer storms Irene and Lee. Earth, Dennis and Pamela Collins Arch Street Communications, Inc. Branson Ultrasonics Litchfi eld High School Sharon Audubon Ellen M. Rosenberg Colebrook Land Bull’s Bridge Inn Legacy Banks Foundation Sharon Center School trees, roads and buildings were washed away with dispatch. The Becton-Dickinson Co. F. Anthony Zunino T Conservancy, Inc. Bennett Sullivan Associates Canaan Inland Wetlands Commission Litchfi eld Hills Council of Elected Offi cials Shelton Economic Development Corp. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire Enviro-Lab, Inc. Candlewood Lake Authority Littleville Power Co., Glendale Dam Shelton Land Trust Secretary lesson to be learned is to give rivers respect – and plenty of room! Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Massachusetts Audubon Society Shepaug River Association Community Foundation of Greater Bicron Electronic Company Leendert T. DeJong Sharon Casdin Massachusetts Environmental Trust Sierra Club New Haven Borden Realtors Kevin Case Massachusetts Executive Offi ce of Energy Sikorsky Aircraft, Div. UTC Treasurer Yet almost on cue in late spring she allowed a tenacious group The Community Foundation of Bouvier Insurance City of Danbury and Environmental Affairs Ellerly Woods Sinclair Michael M. Nesbitt of paddlers to run from her source in Hinsdale, Massachusetts to Northwest Connecticut Brookside Inn City of Derby Massachusetts Fisheries and Wildlife Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation Connecticut Community Fnd. Bulls Bridge Body Shop City of Pittsfi eld National Oceanic Atmospheric Admin. Sound School Milford Point on Long Island Sound. In May we celebrated 70 Cornwall Conservation Trust Cornwall Foundation Southbury Land Trust Linda Allard Charter Business years of collaborative watershed stewardship. For 10 days we David L. Klein Jr. Foundation CLY-DEL Manufacturing Co. Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department Still River Alliance 98 Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center SPECIAL THANKS TO … Still River Cleanup Robert Bailey Dover Knolls Development Co. You protect miles of river and create four new river access sites. Con Serv, Inc. You conserve 170 riverfront acres and protect wildlife habitat and scenic views. guided people down river, stopping along the way for riverfront tributary miles surveyed or Connecticut BASS Federation Nation Marc and Jan Taylor William T. Baker Education Connection Cramer & Anderson Law Offi ce restored. Special Thanks to our Connecticut Chapter, AMC Auction guests, donors, bidders The Nature Conservancy Christine Baranski celebrations with more than 50 partners – environmental EPA/Water Quality Crane & Co., Inc. Connecticut Community Foundation and chairs: Christine Baranski, Thomaston Greenway Committee Joseph Ellis organizations and conservation groups, government leaders, ESS Group, Inc. Crystal Rock LLC Blue Herons Connecticut Department of Energy and Diane von Furstenberg, Annette and Thule, Inc. Protecting rivers Helping to organize the Naugatuck River Conserving riverfront land and trails Assisting Flanders Nature Center to create Shepley Evans Fairfi eld County D & P Floor Covering Environmental Protection Oscar de la Renta, Hamilton South, Town of Cornwall businesses and residents. What an amazing tribute to our collective Community Foundation Conserving 20 acres of undeveloped Housa- new conservation management plans. Connecticut Fund for the Environment Town of Lee Einar Lindholm Assessing/restoring 98 miles of Blackberry, Convocation – the fi rst watershed-wide David E. Lanque, Inc. Robert Couturier, Nancy Novogrod, achievements and to this magnifi cent river valley! This extra- Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation DSA Companies Conn. Department of Transportation Town of Lenox Far Mill, Naugatuck, Shepaug, Still and gathering on economic and environmental tonic riverfront land including more than Assisting Sharon Audubon to conserve Connecticut Farmland Trust Julianna Margulies, E. Graydon Town of New Milford James H. Maloney Goshen Land Trust Ferguson Waterworks ordinary experience showed us that our cause and our passion one-half mile along riverfront in Sharon. nesting bird habitat. Conn. Forest and Park Association Carter, Pam Baker, Dorothy Cann Town of Sheffi eld Ecton Manning Hartland Land Trust Swamp rivers, and Furnace and Mill brooks. concerns in the Naugatuck River Valley. FirstLight Power Resources Connecticut Light and Power Co. Hamilton and Anne Swift. Town of Shelton James S. McInerney, Jr. are truly and deeply shared. We are thankful for all of our Highstead Foundation, Inc. Leading the revitalization of the Still River Building four new boating access sites Ford’s Auto Service Protecting Housatonic riverfront habitat of Conn. Land Conservation Council Town of Stratford Barclay Prindle partners, for the Republican American and their fearless Katharine Matthies Foundation Alliance to restore this urban gem. (Pittsfi eld, Lenox, Lee and Sheffi eld) and Greylock Federal Credit Union the endangered Wood Turtle by incorporat- Protecting fragile natural areas Conn. League of Conservation Voters Tournament golfers and Town of Watertown IAT Reinsurance Harney & Sons Fine Teas Cornwall Conservation Trust Trout Unlimited Marc Taylor Restoring fi sh and wildlife habitat by working with the Federal Energy Regulatory ing a fence and an easement along the river Restoring a sensitive wetland ecosystem and Tucker and Karen Andersen sponsors: Crystal Rock, reporters and bloggers, and for Nic Osborn, Schuyler Thomson Barton and Debby Jones Heritage Deli & Cafe Council of Governments of the Greater The Trust for Public Land John Veague Scott Asen Charter Business, Heritage and Bill “Ting” Tingley who triumphantly led us all from Kent Land Trust targeting more than 120 road culvert Commission to provide river access sites at Heritge Development Group, Inc. for a proposed truck-stop renovation and protecting 75 acres along the Swamp River Naugatuck Valley Union Savings Bank

LAURA GOOCH LAURA Robert and Juliane Bailey Crane & Co. United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Steven J. Whitman Land Trust Alliance crossings for replacement in the Berkshires. the Glendale dam in Stockbridge. The Interlaken Resort & supermarket construction in Lee, Mass. in Dover by working with area leaders and Development Corp., FirstLight Muddy Pond to Long Island Sound. Jack & Pam Baker Crystal Rock LLC Power Resources, Northeast U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Robert and Catherine Lansing Conference Center Facilitating an additional $100,000 grant Cricket Valley Energy on project site design Helping organize the fi rst Connecticut-based Publishing a new Berkshire Paddle Guide Marj and Bill Coleman Danbury Public School System Utilities System, O’Connor Davies United States Fish and Wildlife Service Honorary Member Litchfi eld Land Trust, Inc. Iroquois Gas Transmission System Education Connection United States Geologic Survey 200+ Zebra Mussel Task Force to work with for the public and the fi rst Berkshire for Amenia to design the extension of the that also includes water recycling, stream Robert Couturier and Munns & Dobbins, People’s United Allan L. Frew This year the journey continues as we reach out to thank each Massachusetts Audubon Society Kimberly Clark Corp. ESS Engineering Group Upper Housatonic Valley National MITS, Inc. volunteers cleaning up the the Massachusetts Task Force to stop the Curriculum School Guide for teachers. Lee Bank Harlem Valley Rail Trail into Wassaic. fl ow monitoring and air quality studies. Jeffrey Morgan Fife ‘n Drum Restaurant and Inn Bank, O&G Industries, Zuberry Heritage Area Diane von Furstenberg and every one of you and to fi nd new river friends, too. You Morris Land Trust river, assessing culvert spread of zebra mussels in the Housatonic. Introducing 160 people to the Housatonic The Legacy Banks Foundation Working with New Milford recreationalists Incorporating environmentally protective Joseph and Barbara Ellis First Light Power Resources Associates, Heritage Village Golf U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Linda Allard Gallen Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust Valley Council of Governments make so much good possible. You are HVA. Happy Birthday! Naromi Land Trust, Inc. replacement to help wildlife Removing four tons of garbage from the in the Berkshires through workshops, trail Litchfi eld Bancorp to create a bike trail from Gaylordsville to measures into the Dover Knolls site design Course and Hospitality, Hole-in-one Advisory Council National Audubon Society, Inc. Northeast Utilities Roger and Fa Liddell Frank Delaney and Diane Meier and Tee and Green sponsors. Valley United Way movement, monitoring Naugatuck, Still and Housatonic Rivers. walks and paddle trips; 300 students from Sega Meadows Park in New Milford. – Dutchess County’s largest development. Peter and Billie Mullen Friends of the Great Swamp Veolia Water North America – Northeast David Dolinsky National Fish and Wildlife Fnd. O & G Industries, Inc. Friends of the Lake Wamogo High School The Norcross Wildlife Foundation water quality and shoreline Completing the fi rst scientifi c study of North Canaan Elementary, Sharon Center, O’Connor Davies Munns & Identifying and responding to illegal clear- Kirsten Peckerman W. Paul Dooley Friends of the Great Swamp National Park Service Washington Environmental Council Norfolk Land Trust conditions and building trails. the Swamp River in Pawling and Dover; Danbury’s Park Avenue School and Berkshire Dobbins, LLP Greenprinting the Litchfi eld Hills cutting in the Housatonic State Forest. Marguerite Purnell Great Barrington Trails & Greenways Naugatuck River Revival Group Washington Montessori School Mary Flynn Anne Swift John and Nancy Novogrod elevated salt and nutrient levels call for schools to river wonders; 170 students and Oddo Print Shop This partnership of 23 member land trusts Exploring ways to reduce polluted runoff Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce Naugatuck River Watershed Assoc. Waterbury Greenway Committee Charles Fredette Barbara Page and John Liu People’s United Bank William N. and Jean Vitalis Greylock Federal Credit Union New Hartford Land Trust WCSU Biology and Environmental Christopher Kukk, Ph.d Rivers Alliance of Connecticut more work with community leaders to teachers from Litchfi eld High, Pomperaug Phoenix Realty Management across 28 northwest Connecticut towns worked into the Housatonic and Long Island Sound Diane von Furstenberg Healthy Valley Committee/Valley Health & New Haven Rowing Club Science Department Human Services Council New Milford Recreation Association Wild Birds Unlimited David Platt Salisbury Assoc. & Land Trust protect this unique, fragile river system. High, Wamogo, Housatonic Valley Race Mt. Tree Services, Inc. together this year on: with land use leaders in Fairfi eld and New and Barry Diller F. Anthony and Sally Zunino Jenny Hersch New York Dept. of Environmental Cons. Harmon Smith Salisbury Bank Restoring fresh water to the Housatonic Regional High and New Haven’s Sound Salisbury Bank Saving 150 acres and 4,000 feet of riverfront Haven counties; and also in Amenia and Housatonic Fly Fisherman’s Assoc. New York Partners Bruce Schnitzer Sharon Land Trust William N. Vitalis River by working with the state and School to develop the fi rst regional high in Salisbury. Millerton for Webatuck and Wassaic creeks. Housatonic River Commission NOAA Milford Laboratory Steep Rock Association, Inc. Sharon Optical Housatonic River Initiative North Canaan Elementary School Union Savings Bank Foundation engineers on a sediment study – the fi rst step school program to analyze river algae as an Smith & Company Pursuing conservation of regionally signifi - Housatonic Riverwalk Northwest Connecticut Council of The Valley Community Fnd. to removing the Columbia Mill Dam in Lee. indicator of climate change in Connecticut. Timpane Construction, Inc. cant parcels in Norfolk, 321 acres; Salisbury, By year’s end, we were well into the Land Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Governments Eliot and Anick Wadsworth Ward’s Nursery Offi cials NRD Trustees 935; Litchfi eld, 50; Goshen, 150; Hartland, Trust Alliance process to seek accreditation as an Housatonic Valley Paddle Club Warren Land Trust, Inc. Webster Bank Oblong Land Conservancy Photos Celebrating rivers At year’s end, we were negotiating stream 32; Sharon, 21; and several acres in Morris. exemplary land conservation group and organ- Housatonic Valley Regional High School Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Watertown Land Trust Westage Companies IBM Park Avenue School All photos from HVA fi les Weantinoge Heritage, Inc. Leading the amazing 10-day Housatonic fl ow protection regulations in Connecticut and White Hollow Farms, Inc. Designing a Web site to share Greenprint izing tours of the Naugatuck River Valley to help Iroquois Gas Transmission System Pawling Engineered Products, Inc.

except where noted. Robert P. Houlihan, President Lynn Werner, Executive Director White Memorial Foundation River Source-to-Sound Adventure! pushing for common-sense PCB cleanup. Zuberry Associates maps, data and conservation strategies. the 14-town region gain National Heritage status. The Joint Chiefs Pomperaug High School S. DZIEKAN III HENRY