THIS IS NOT A PROPOSAL TO LIMIT BOATERS.

This is a proposal to further fund a lake organization and increase their patrol hours by charging an exorbitant additional fee to the boaters. Once established on one lake this fee will be applied to all lakes in the state that have a lake authority or homeowners group with public access. You can go to the CT Federation of lakes to find out which lakes have them.

Most of the additional patrols hours and the exsisting ones would be have to go to check for stickers.

This is a lake patrol that is controlled by a local waterfront homeowner with personal bias against certain users as he has stated many times to many people.

Those on the Lake Authority patrol are not Police officers or DEP CO's. They have no arrest powers. They are hindered and frustrated by the fact that their only real powers are observation, and harassment.

They are not schooled in the DEP's laws. They have not been to a police academy, yet they carry sidearms. The lack of arrest powers put them in personal jeopardy every time they pull over a boat. That is the Logic for carrying a sidearm. Either make them DEP CO's accountable to the DEP or RECRUIT NEW CO's.

I have zero problems with lake patrol hours being increased if it is the DEP that is doing the patrolling.

If the DEP needs more manpower to patrol the lake properly then that is what should be fighting for.
WE need more CO’s!!!!!

The DEP needs to do their job. The State owns the water and they legally make the laws governing it not the CLA.

Let's look at a similar scenario. There are not enough state troopers up on RT 84. Lets all get some gray suits and lights on our cars and go pull over speeders. We can call ourselves the RT 84 Highway Patrol. Find someone that lives in an area that is affected by the noise and traffic jams from accidents and make them the Captain. Lets charge 50 dollars to all the cars that go on the highway. and keep it to further fund the RT84 highway patrol, after all we are doing the state troopers job.

If you cannot see the parallels there take another look at how the Lake Patrol runs.