Now that the Holiday Season is past, I would like to plead with the certain group of our owners who leave stuff behind for the rest of us to pick up: Please clean up your own trash.

The garbage dumpsters by the mail house are for household garbage only. Every holiday, a few owners get ambitious and do some remodeling or repair work; they then bring their construction project trash to the dumpsters. They read all the dumpster signs that say “Household garbage only” and solve their problem by throwing all their non-complying trash on the ground. Some of them stack it neatly, hoping this will make everybody happy. It doesn’t work.

This year, a thoughtful owner threw an old water heater out there on the ground. Another owner left several boxes and buckets of old metal machine parts. In the past, we have had engine blocks, washing machines, furniture and lots of construction trash left on the ground next to the dumpsters. It appears that some owners believe that a magical trash-eating gnome pops out at night and devours all this stuff.

Do you know how the illegal trash is removed? Your fellow property owners pick it up and take it the Wasatch County Waste Disposal District, where they have to pay to get rid of it for you. This is not fair and we plead with the minority of you that are causing the problem to be considerate of the environment and your neighbors.

You can take large items to the County Waste Transfer Station at 1891 West 3000 South in Heber City. This includes things like washers, dryers, water heaters, couches, refrigerators, tree limbs, construction trash, etc. Generally, the only things they will not take are dirt, rocks, concrete or tree trunks.

Last week, every owner received an invoice that looks like a postcard from the Wasatch County Solid Waste Disposal District. This is the annual bill from the County for taking care of the dumpsters. On this card, in the lower left-hand corner, there are three cleanup punches. If you have this card with you, you can take three (3) loads of trash to the County Transfer Station free of charge, between April 1 and June 30. This is a good bargain and a great way to dispose of items that don’t go in the dumpsters.

Also, as you are well aware, during holiday weekends, we generate more household garbage than can fit in the dumpsters. We try to address this by making sure the dumpsters are empty at the beginning of the weekend, but the fact remains, they fill up before the County can get back here to empty them. When they are full, please DO NOT pile your garbage on the ground. The County does not pay any attention to stuff on the ground. Your fellow property owners have to pick it up and throw it in the dumpsters after you leave. If the dumpsters are full, please take your garbage with you. I know this may seem unfair to the entitled among us, but please be considerate. Your weekend retreat should not require your neighbors to cleanup your garbage because you are too important to bother with it.

Timber Lakes is a great place. Let’s work together to keep it that way.

Because I can’t sleep some nights, I have been playing with my smartphone. I know there are more urgent needs for our owners but I can’t work on those in the middle of the night because they require interaction with other people, who are asleep at the time. If you have a smartphone, I have something for you;  I have added support for smartphones at TimberLakesUtah.com.

If you use one of the following devices, you should be able to view the website in a mobile-optimized format:

1. iPhone
2. iPod Touch
3. Android
4. Storm
5. Pre
6. Certain Blackberry models
7. Q

I have tested this on the iPhone, iPod Touch, Android,  Pre, some Blackberry models, and the Q. If you are using one of the other smartphones, I would appreciate you letting me know if our website is optimized on your device.

There is a pull down menu in the upper right corner allowing you to select website pages. From the pull down you can also select categories if you are looking for a particular post on the board blog.

For you techno geeks the following list identifies the user-agents supported by our website. If your smartphone uses one of these agents, the Timber Lakes website should be optimized for your device:

1. android
2. aspen
3. blackberry9500
4. blackberry9530
5. cupcake
6. dream
7. incognito
8. iphone
9. ipod
10. opera mini
11. webmate
12. webos

Have a great holiday!

John Blickenstaff

Our website (and email system) has been down since last Wednesday evening. We apologize to anyone who has tried to contact us during the past four days. We are back up and running on a new server and hope that our technical troubles are behind us. Thanks for your patience.

We are holding our last meeting of the Timber Lakes Board of Directors for 2009 on Wednesday, November 4, at 7:oo pm in the Wasatch County Senior Citizens’ Center, located at 465 East 1200 South, in Heber City, Utah. We invite our owners to attend. Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 13, 2010. Beginning in January 2010, our meetings are moving to the 2nd Wednesday of each month.

The gigantic pile of dead wood in our office parking lot is now CLOSED, effective immediately. We have scheduled the chipping crew to come in and chip this pile. There is no longer any place inside Timber Lakes where you can dump dead trees and branches. If you are cleaning up your lot, you need to take the wood to the Wasatch County Landfill. Please do not dump wood anywhere in Timber Lakes.

Thank you.

Mike Durr

Last weekend we had a serious accident on the mountain involving an ATV. The driver was taken by emergency helicopter to the hospital. The speed limit on all non-paved roads is 25 mph and you need to be wearing a helmet if you are on an ATV. The water construction project has several intersections on Blue Spruce torn up. Please be careful and courteous to the crews when you drive past them. Slow down and do not cover them with dust. You are driving at your own risk on the mountain, but speeding puts other people at risk too.

Our October Board Meeting will be held at a different location in Salt Lake City. The East Millcreek Library where we have held our previous meetings this year has been closed for a one-year renovation. Our October meeting will be held at the Whitmore Library, located at 2197 East Fort Union Boulevard, Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (approximately 7200 South in Cottonwood Heights). You can click here to see a map of the Salt Lake County Libraries, and then click on the Whitmore Library pin to get directions. Whitmore is located off I-215 in Cottonwood Heights. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7, 2009. We hope you will be able to attend.

Dead Oak Brush & Trees

This is your last chance to have some fire prevention work done on your lot without having to pay someone to do the work.

Next week the state of Utah will be sending another crew of Wildland Fire Personnel to remove dead oak brush and dead trees from Timber Lakes. The crew will be working within the road easements around the development. They will also be doing defensible space work around cabins.

If you would like your lot around your cabin to have some work done please fax permission to Mike Durr.

Include-
1 – Lot Number and Street
2 – Lot Owner’s Name
3 – Lot Owner’s Signature
4 – “I authorize Timber Lakes Property Owners Association and the State of Utah to remove oak brush FFifrom my lot in order to reduce my Wildland Fire Danger.”

The Big Pile in the Parking Lot

The huge pile of dead brush and trees in the parking lot will be chipped soon. The last day you can add to the pile is Sunday, September 20, 2009. After that date, the pile will be closed for chipping. We WILL NOT have another location to pile your dead wood so please use this pile while you can.

Who is paying for the clearing & chipping?

The work is paid for by a State Grant. This is your tax dollars at work !! You do not have to pay anything for this work to be done, but the grant expires this year and this is our last chance to use it to reduce fire danger in Timber Lakes.

Thanks,

Mike Durr

fax 435.785.8237
cell 435.640.1416

The board has approved a change to our Policies, Procedures and Regulations. This change authorizes our security team and/or any member of the Board of Directors, to issue citations for speeding and for children under the age of 16 riding or driving ATVs without wearing a helmet. We are implementing this change immediately, and would appreciate hearing your input before our next board meeting (Wednesday, September 2, 2009 in Heber City).

This change comes in direct response to property owner requests that we do something to address speeding and reckless ATV driving. Please contact any board member to share your input. We prefer to be contacted by email.

Thank you.

Printed below is a copy of a portion of the draft (not official) minutes of the meeting where this change was approved.

Wednesday August 5, 2009

TLPOA monthly meeting in Salt Lake City

Motion by Rondo Fehlberg and second by Ole Smith

Motion carried by 8 in favor and 0 opposed

Add Revision 8 to the Policies, Procedures, and Regulations of the TLPOA:  Modify Sec 5.1.5.1 Add Appendix A on August 5, 2009.

Issuance of citations regarding: Roads, Buildings, Recreational and Disruption of the Peace.

Citations may be issued immediately for the following reasons:

1.       Roads / Recreational

a.       Speeding – speed limits are 35 MPH on paved roads and 25 MPH on all dirt roads

b.      Winter speed limits are 25 MPH on all roads

c.       Children riding a recreational vehicle without a helmet (16 years and younger)

Other fine areas to be enforced will be posted for 30 days on the TLPOA web site prior to implementation.

Fine structure is as follows:

Recreational & Disruption of the Peace

1st offense        $ 100.00

2nd offense       $ 150.00

3rd offense       $ 200.00 plus take away the privilege for one year

Number of offenses is based on a per lot basis (not per person).

All Board members are authorized to issue citations on behalf of the Timber Lakes Property Owners Association. [Note: after the meeting, a majority of the directors voted to also authorize the TLPOA security team to issue citations.]

All fines will be payable to the TLPOA office within 10 days of receipt. Recipient of the citation will have the right to appeal the citation to the Board in writing and appear before the Board in the next Monthly meeting. Fines not paid within the time frame outlined will be attached to the yearly assessments for the lot in question and a lien will be placed against the lot of the owner. If a lien has to filed, the cost of processing and registering the lien will be added to the amount of the fine.

Next week the state of Utah will be sending a crew of Wildland Fire Personnel to remove dead oak brush from Timber Lakes. The crew will be working within the road easements around the development. They will also be doing defensible space work around cabins.

If you would like your lot around your cabin to have some work done please fax permission to Mike Durr.

Include-
1 – Lot Number and Street
2 – Lot Owner’s Name
3 – Lot Owner’s Signature
4 – “I authorize Timber Lakes Property Owners Association and the State of Utah to remove oak brush  from my lot in order to reduce my Wildland Fire Danger.”

The work is paid for by a State Grant.

Your tax dollars at work !!

Thanks,

Mike

fax 435.785.8237
cell 435.640.1416