MINUTES

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Chairman Jim Sykes called this Lazy Mountain Community Council general meeting at Lazy Mountain Bible Church to order at 6:30 pm. Community Council Board Members Jim Sykes, Celeste Moore, Paul Morley and Shannon Rochelle and 7 general members and guests were present. As 10 Community Council Members constitute a quorum, a quorum was present. By the end of the meeting a total of 18 people present.

The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance. The agenda approved with no objections. Next, we considered the minutes from the July meeting. Pat Larrabee moved that we approve the minutes. Helen Munoz seconded the motion which passed with a 9-0 vote. 

Since Treasurer Michael Miller was absent, Jim Sykes gave the financial report. We have approximately $200 in the bank. Jim thanked everyone for donating generously at the last few meetings.

RSA Supervisor Pat Larrabee reported that we spent $3526.65 on roads in July, and no road complaints were logged this month.

The next order of business was discussion of the SpUD process. Initiation of a SpUD for Lazy Mountain was approved by the Planning Commission at their August 4 meeting. The next step is for the borough to do a mailing to all Lazy Mountain property owners informing us of the SpUD and calling for volunteers to serve on the committee. The committee will be a group of 6-15 community members from a diverse set of backgrounds, interests and perspectives chosen by the borough from among all the volunteers.

Jim Sykes reported that Bea Adler from the Firewise Program is still interested in working with the Lazy Mountain community. Lynn Fuller stated that she and Celeste Moore and Greg Jetter have worked some with Bea, but they got very busy during the summer. Now that summer is ending. Lynn has time again to follow up with Bea to organize people and meetings to move forward with the Firewise Program. Lynn will get back in touch with Bea.

Our next order of business was the the right-of-way involved in building a road to access Wolverine Lake and the Chickaloon Village property in the area. Jim Sykes invited the DNR to send a representative to this meeting, but they were all busy this evening. They plan to send someone to our September meeting. Jim introduced a resolution stating that community members, Chickaloon Village representatives and other interested parties agreed at our July meeting that Alternative 4, the section line easement route, was preferred by many and acceptable to all as an access route, therefore this is the route the Lazy Mountain Community Council prefers.  Jim Powell moved that we pass the resolution. Celeste Moore seconded the motion, which passed 14-0. This resolution will be submitted to the borough with the approved July minutes.

Jim Sykes gave a status report on the towers in the area. Questions about the cell tower on Mark van Diest’s property on Huntley and have been resolved to the satisfaction of all but one concerned party and that one individual accepts the resolution because it is satisfactory to everyone else. Tom Harmon reported that a surveyor was working on the location for the new van Diest tower this week. Morris Communications has received another extension on their appeal of the denial of their tower on Doug and Jill Warner’s property on Helmaur Road. That extension expires September 11.

Jim Sykes shared three informational items: (1) Alaska housing energy rebates are still available, (2) Senator Huggins continues to host regular energy forums and we should all feel welcome to attend (3) August 26 is the primary election, (4) next month is the end of Lazy Mountain Community Council board terms for Shannon Rochelle, Celeste Moore and one other board member, so we will be need new board members, and (5) that would also be a good time to change our bylaws to include regular meetings during summer months.

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 7:20 pm.