There is a Community Cleanup Activity on Saturday, June 6, starting at 9 am. We invite all owners to participate. Meet at the Timber Lakes office for supplies and assignments. Bring your own gloves. We will primarily focus on picking up trash around the office, dumpsters, mailhouse, gate and the road out to Lake Creek Drive. A lunch of sloppy-joes, chips and drinks will be available to all participants around 11 am. This is a great service activity for families, couples, singles – EVERYONE! Please join us for a few hours and help beautify the entrance to our mountain community.
Questions? Call Bill or Karla Kepsel at 435.654.9394.

I would like to make one additional invitation for property owners to step up and become candidates for election to the Timber Lakes Board of Directors. We have our annual election in July. We have openings on our board and it will be a better entity if the directors are elected by the owners than if the Board appoints directors. Please consider giving something back to our mountain community and run for the Board. If you are willing to become a candidate, please complete the Board Candidate Application Form and return it to the office ASAP. Thank you.

We are holding our next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors of the Timber Lakes Property Owners Association on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at the Wasatch County Sr. Citizens Center in Heber City at 7:00 p.m. We appreciate input from our property owners and invite your attendance and participation.

With regret, we announce the resignation of Rob Roueche’ from our Board of Directors. His situation at work has changed, which necessitated his departure from the Board. Rob has done an outstanding job with building plan reviews and keeping us straight on the CC&Rs. He put in many hours working with owners on their building plans and we appreciate his contribution to the Timber Lakes community.

Accordingly, we now have an opening on our Board. Inasmuch as we are getting close to our annual meeting, we would like to give the property owners the opportunity to elect someone to complete Rob’s term on the Board. We encourage you to consider filing an application to become a candidate. We have four positions open and welcome your participation in the process. We need owners to get involved on the Board and help us continue our efforts to improve life on the mountain.

Please complete the Board Candidate Application Form and send to the office by Friday, May 15, 2009.

We are holding our next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 (no, this is not an April Fools joke) at the East Millcreek Library in Salt Lake City at 7:00 p.m. We appreciate input from our property owners and invite your attendance and participation.

We have printed the latest edition of our newsletter and are in the process of mailing one to each of our property owners. It should arrive in your mailbox next week. If you do not receive a newsletter by the end of March, will you please contact the office and make sure we have your correct address and telephone number. We have recently had to rebuild our address database. In the process we discovered that many address changes made in the last few months are not valid addresses (according to the Post Office).

We are holding our next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at the Wasatch County Sr. Citizens Center in Heber City at 7:00 p.m. We appreciate input from our property owners and invite your attendance and participation.

We are pleased to announce that after working with the Association members since September 2008, we have received sufficient approval forms from our owners to authorize the Association to deed land to Wasatch County upon which a fire station can be built. We reported to the Wasatch County Fire Board last week that we have the approval of our members to move the project forward. The next step is for the Fire Chief to ascertain the cost to build the fire station. The Fire Board has stated their intention to comply with the Timber Lakes CC&Rs in the external appearance of the building. Our Board would like to thank each of the more than 1,000 property owners that responded with an approval form for the fire station. We also express appreciation to the County Fire Board for their support in working to have a fire station in Timber Lakes. We will keep you informed of our progress.

One of our board members, Charlie Richards, is in the process of selling his cabin and is going to resign from the board. Charlie has been serving as our Treasurer and we appreciate his service to the property owners in Timber Lakes. We wish him well. We are now accepting applications from property owners to fill the vacancy on the board. Obviously, we need a Treasurer. We outsource the Association’s accounting functions; the Treasurer oversees the accounting outsourcing and helps us with our budgeting and finance issues. The ideal candidate for this board position will have a finance, accounting or bookkeeping background. We invite and encourage you to get involved with our board. The primary requirement is that you be a Timber Lakes lot owner. If you are interested in talking to us about this board opening, please contact Connie in the office and obtain our very short candidate application form. Please feel free to contact any member of the board if you have questions.

Our neighbors at Heber Valley Camp opened the snowmobile gate today. Please stay between the trail markers when you ride through their property. They allow us to access the National Forest through their property, conditional on our not trespassing outside the trail markers. Also, you must have a current year Timber Lakes snowmobile sticker for each machine you are using. The office will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s Day so get your stickers now. We have approximately 15 inches of snow on the ground up on top and our road crew is doing an outstanding job of plowing the roads. If you come to snowmobile, please remember these things:

1. You must have a current Timber Lakes snowmobile sticker
2. Do NOT try to pull a trailer up or down Blue Spruce. It is too slick and you will endanger other drivers.
3. The only parking in Timber Lakes is in your own driveway, in the parking lot by the office, and at Duck Lake. If you are parked anywhere else, your vehicle will be towed. We have towed vehicles every weekend since the snow came. Do yourself a favor and don’t park on the road.
4. Once the parking areas are full, you must park somewhere legal in Heber Valley.
5. Please do not try to drive in Timber Lakes in a 2-wheel drive vehicle when the roads are snow packed or icy.

I know this may sound like the Grinch is running the show here. Let me take this opportunity to thank the vast majority of owners who follow the rules and never cause a problem. This is a great place to live and/or recreate. Thanks for making it fun to be here, sharing the mountain.

John Blickenstaff