Lake Lorman Minutes

At 6:05 President Antoon called the meeting to order; all 6 Board Members were present, along with 23 Lot Owners. The Board thanked the Lot Owners for their interest and participation.

The first order of business was the matter of the house plans for Van Jones. He and his architect had revised the plans so as to meet Covenants as to maximum height of 30 feet, along complying with all setbacks on all sides of the house, front, back and sides, and the plans were therefore unanimously approved as amended.

As part of this approval the Board announced that in implementing the Covenants, Section III page 7 Item H, the Board will require each Lot Owner who has a construction project of any kind to sign and submit with the plans, a document relating to Covenant truck weights. The document will also have his Contractor sign in order to protect our Lot Owners, our roads and streets, and to help insure compliance with all Covenants. The matter was approved and adopted by a vote of 4-1 by the Board.

The next item on the agenda was a presentation by our Southwest Fire Department, Fire Chief Curtis Wilkerson and one of his Lieutenants. Chief Wilkerson announced that their Volunteer Fire Department had 22 firefighters on the roster, is growing, provides medical response, dive team, trained medical personnel with a defibrillator, a water tank truck, ambulance and fire truck. He announced that to call you dial 911 which goes to the Sheriff, then is sent along from him to our Southwest Station, Lake Lorman’s first responder. The phone number at the Station is [601] 856-4114. The email is swmfire@bellsouth.net. On May 20 the Fire Department is sponsoring a relay for cancer drive and he asked us for our support. They offered to give free CPR lessons. They announced that from time to time they would check our fire plugs for pressure and correct operation, but that they needed permission from the Lake Lorman Utility to do this. Permission was given by Don Seagrove who was in attendance who asked only to be advised by the Firemen when testing would occur. The Board recommends our cooperation and help and support to these firefighters who are so valuable to protecting us and our families and property. They want to do some dive training in Lake Lorman and plan to map the bottom of the lake which will give GPS locations for drownings or valuables lost overboard in the lake for instance..

Don Seagrove then announced that the Utility group tests our fire plugs two times each year for each fire plug, we have 38 fire plugs.

The next item of business was a carry over from January and the approval of the Ben Bailey seawall, which approval was unanimous.

Larry Foote then reported on the dam of the Big Lake. He met with Bill Coulson who is retained for this by the Lake in regard to DEQ requirements for inspection each 3 years. Little or no erosion was noted in their inspection, and that erosion present was small and not significant. The small amount of work to comply with DEQ standards will cost about $1,750 for the work and $200 for repairs.

The cutting of the trees on the water side of the Little Lake has been done and Betty Marsh reported to the Board that it looks "fine" now.

The revised plan for the piers and boathouse of Tom and Mary Dunbar were next reviewed, with changes in design since last month’s meeting, and after careful review the Board unanimously approved this project.

Mike Olivier and Larry Foote reported on the culvert between the Little Lake and the Big Lake. The video inspection had shown the culvert to be in good condition itself, but the soil around the outside of the culvert throughout had eroded away, and needs filling to support and protect the culvert. The first estimate was $225 per hour plus materials with $4,000-$5,000 as a budgeted price estimate. To fail to so fill and do this work could endanger the culvert because it would be unsupported, and fixing that would cost much more later, adversely affecting the roadway and the culvert itself. Also the ends of the culvert need to be finished over and covered for safety and to prevent future erosion around the culvert. Further reports will be made.

Mike Olivier reported that he had made a contract with Trotti Construction to repair certain roads inside Gates 3 and 4 for $59,000. The exact description and location of the work is1] Lakeshore Drive will be re-surfaced from Lorman Lane to the intersection of Lakeshore Court.

2] Lakeshore court will also be re-paved.

3] The road between gates 3 and 4 will also be re-paved.(Cedar Ridge Drive)

4] Pot holes will be repaired on Western Line drive, and on Lakeshore Court up to Lorman Lane, since the remaining portion of Lakeshore Drive will be re-paved.

The Board voted 4-1 in favor of this paving contract.

The next order of business related to the terms of service of the Board Members. It was announced that Lucky, Larry and Asper will serve out the remainder of this year as they were one year Board members . Remaining for another year will be Judy, Bill and Mike. Our By-Laws have Board terms "staggered" so that all of the Board does not rotate on or off in any single year, but that we have hold over terms for continuity of service.

Judy Lyons thanked Kelley, Bill and Glen for their work on the Newsletter. She asked for input as to how we as a Board and we as Lot Owners can communicate better. Judy announced that we are still working on assembling information, names and numbers on our new Lake Lorman Directory.

Questions and issues of discussion from the Lot Owners followed, the first discussion relating to our Covenants and the 30 foot height restriction of houses. The Lot Owners under our Covenants have the right to propose any amendments by following the procedure set out in the Covenants. Bill Cox [speaking as a Lot Owner not as a Board Member], stated that he did not think that the Board should sponsor the change of height covenant from 30 to 40 feet, but that the Lot Owners should propose this if it would be proposed or approved by Lot Owners, as it was obvious that at this meeting and at the January meeting, differing views were presented for and against such height change in the Covenants. The Board will cooperate with and coordinate with any Lot Owner sponsored Covenant change and provide a time for discussion of any such matters.

It was announced that recycling had been restarted at the Lake but we need 50% participation. Support for recycling was expressed by those present.

At 7:25 pm there being no further business, it was voted to adjorn.

Bill Cox

February 24, 2011

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