The SPuD planning team will be meeting with Eileen Probasco from the borough to review comments on the SPuD draft document. They will be meeting from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Lazy Mountain Bible Church.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend!
Eileen Probasco couldn’t make the May 20th date, so there is rescheduling going on. The planning team will most likely be meeting either the 25th or 26th of May a the Lazy Mountain Bible Church at 6:00 pm. As soon as a concrete date is known, it shall be posted here and on the calendar!
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The Borough released the first public review version of the Lazy Mountain SpUD today.
You can download it as a PDF document (a 2.8 mb PDF) can be downloaded here.
For more information on the SpUD and corresponding process, visit the SpUD page here.
An open house will be held by the Borough on April 21st at the Academy Charter School (click on the name for directions), which is located at 801 E. Arctic in Palmer. Members of the SpUD committee and the Borough will be present for comments or to answer questions, and the planning team will hold another meeting after the open house to incorporate comments.
Board Election Results:
4 top votes:
Lorri Van Diest: 55
Jay Van Diest: 55
Gerald Devilbiss: 43
Mimi Peabody: 38
Remaining votes:
Jim Sykes: 35
Pat Larrabee: 31
Paul Morley: 22
Larry Devilbiss: 12
David Hale: 6
David Hayes: 1
Matt Speckles: 1
Bylaw Amendment results:
1. Article 3. Purpose. Yes votes: 27; No votes:49: Amendment failed
2. Article 5. Voting. Yes votes: 66; No votes: 12: Amendment passed.
Article 5. sec D. shall now read: Voting on other matters considered by the council may be by show of hands if such a vote will permit accurate counting of votes. Secret ballot voting may also be used. Each general member present is entitled to one vote.
3. Article 8. Council Organization. Yes votes: 33; No votes: 42. Amendment failed
4. Incorporation of Lazy Mountain Community Council
Yes votes: 25; No votes 54: The proposal failed.
The LMCC Board will meet on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at the Lazy Mountain Bible Church to prepare for the October 8, 2009 Annual Meeting. The board meeting is open to the public and expected to last 30 to 45 minutes.
The regular Lazy Mountain Community Council meeting September 10, 2009 will have a special informational presentation about a proposal to incorporate LMCC that will enable LMCC to receive direct state revenue sharing funds available to community councils through the Mat-Su Borough.
Discussion and information gathering has been going on since the March LMCC meeting. The results of the information will be presented at the September 10, 2009 meeting and a proposal will be voted on at the Annual Meeting October 8, 2009.
Please visit the following links for more information:
LMCC community-wide notification letter
Project lists from communities now receiving revenue sharing grants:
Contracts:
Meadow Lakes Revenue Sharing Contract with Mat Su Borough
Community Revenue Sharing FAQ (more…)
SPECIAL GUEST
Sutton Community Council President George Rauscher will share Sutton’s experience about brainstorming community projects, incorporating their community council to receive state revenue sharing monies, doing the projects and the reporting requirements.
Also on the agenda will be brainstorming projects for the Lazy Mountain Community.
If you take a gander to the right, you’ll see a link to the Subscribe page.
It is here that you can enter your email address and be added to the Lazy Mountain Community Council mailing list. The tentative use of this list right now is to focus on meeting and event dates. Any feedback or questions are, of course, welcomed and should be emailed to webmaster@lazymountaincc.org.
On March 27th, individuals who had applied to be on the SPUD committee received an email from the borough informing them that the planning commission had approved the list of planning team members. Attached was the following list of names:
Paul Scott
Gregory Jetter
Wayne Bolen
Gary LoRusso
Matthew Speckels
David Holladay
Matthew Morrow
Joseph Hale
David Hale
Michael Miller
Paul Morley
Will Peabody
Michael Post
Chris Whittington-Evans
Lorene Lynn
The Borough sent a letter to everyone who had applied to the SPUD planning team indicating that until the Borough was done restructuring Title 17, which pertains to Zoning, that the Lazy Mountain SPUD would not be moving forward.
However, since the process was already approved prior to this by the Borough, it seems that the plan may go underway after all. A March 16 meeting of the planning commission is supposed to address the issue, and more information will be available at the upcoming community council meeting on March 12.
The letter from the Borough is attached and can be viewed here.