LTPOA Board Meeting Summary, March 9, 2010
Present: Renee Kittel, Marilyn Meyer, Chris Townsend, Janet Hirsch, Joe Hejnal and nine property owners.
The minutes of the February meeting were approved as posted at the website.
The treasurer’s reports from January and February were presented and approved. Two invoices have been questioned and Chris Townsend will talk to the payees and negotiate reduced payments:
•	LTIA bill for propane fuel. This is the second bill in two months asking for over $400.
•	Stryker Security bill for January and February security services. We were told the company was going out of business as of 12/31/09. The guard talked to Rick Hannick because his gate access was cancelled and said that he had been here every weekend in January. We had no knowledge of his presence – he did not check in with anyone and we have no verification that he was here.
Buildings
No new applications. It has been confirmed that a property owner is putting an addition on his house without applying for a building permit. Matt Schweiss will talk to the owner about it.
Maintenance
Joe Hejnal reported that the chain on the salt spreader was replaced. A new shield will be constructed to protect the bearings.
The maintenance yard improvements should begin this spring. There will be new fencing with new 8-ft openings, new asphalt drive, concrete blocks for mulch, and Kevin Seelbach is coordinating with AmerenUE to get an electric permit.
In the next two or three weeks Joe will get the patrol boat ready for use. We should also try to get a new boat. It would be a wide beam jon boat, 72” across the beam, 16’ long. 
Marilyn reported that beaver have taken out seven trees on her property. 
Website/Newsletter
The newsletters were mailed Monday Mar 1. Contact Janet Hirsch if you did not receive one.  The newsletter is also available at the website.
The website has been updated with the security gate info and applications for all types of gate entry. Hard copies are available tonight for distribution.
Parents Club
The Parents Club is raising money to purchase playground equipment for the lakefront recreation area.
Lakeside Gardeners
Next meeting will be at Hirsch’s house Saturday 10 am. Items to discuss are lakefront development and the plant sale in May.
Sewer Committee
We are still awaiting approval of the plans from USDA-RD. The property owner below the dam began construction of the access road from Regina Rd to the back of the dam.
Gate
Rich Hirsch reported there were two problems:
•	Feb 20/21 the out gate was open overnight (10am Sat to 8 am Sun) because no one reported that it was open. We don’t know why the gate did not close at 2pm the way it was supposed to.
•	Mar 4, 8 pm, the in gate stopped responding to cards and entry codes. That happened because the database was corrupted when the phone disconnected during a database update.
We still need someone to volunteer to be responsible for maintaining and viewing the video cameras. Renee volunteered her husband to help with the video.
Security
A red car ran into the mulch pile at the pump house. A resident’s daughter was driving, the car died, and she lost control. Fortunately no one was hurt and no lake property was damaged.
The night of Feb 21 there were several acts of vandalism. That was the night that the gate was open all night. Flashlights and radios were stolen from some cars. 
A bag of purchases from Kohl’s was taken from a car parked in a resident’s driveway on the south side.
The gate was not working properly Mar 4. Rich Hirsch and Russ Wilner fixed the problem.
The security gate will be down all day every day beginning March 15.
New Business
Clarue Holland submitted a water quality report and requested that water quality testing be expanded to include the inlet stream above the southside bridge.  The board approved the increased testing.
The report also addressed the water pollution problem caused by resident goose population and requested that we begin measures to addle or oil goose eggs and frighten the geese away with trained border collies. The board approved $1000 for beginning the anti-goose campaign. Clarue will contact the agencies involved. John Hindrichs volunteered to help with pontoon boat assistance.
Jan Hunnicutt asked about the development of third tier properties. The agreement between the LTPOA and Sutterer/Silhavy set a precedent for future use of lake lots to access third tier properties.
This agreement serves as a precedent for any use of a lake lot to access land beyond the lake subdivision boundaries. [The essential elements of the agreement are reprinted here from the Dec 2008 meeting minutes.]

•	The third tier is to be used only for single family residential home sites.
•	A home site on the third tier must be at least 40,000 square ft.
•	Each home site owner on third tier must also own a lake lot adjacent to the home site for the purpose of access.
•	The only access to the third tier home site will be through the adjacent lake lot.
•	The home site cannot be further subdivided.
•	By owning a lake lot the home site owner will be entitled to full use of the lake and the lake roads.
•	By owning a lake lot the home site owner will be responsible for payment of all regular and special assessments on that lot.
•	The home site owner will abide by all the rules and regulations of the Lake Tishomingo Subdivision.
•	Construction of a residence will conform to Lake Tish building regs, including purchase of a road bond if that is a part of the existing building regs.

Meeting adjourned at 8:27pm.