December 14, 2010 Minutes
Present: John Dauernheim, Marilynn Meyer, Janet Hirsch, Renee Kittel, and Gerry Arbini.  Absent: Matt Schweiss.

Approval of Minutes
The Minutes for the month of November were approved.

Treasurer’s Report
Treasure Marilynn Meyer presented November’s financial report. The November report has been listed separately. Motion to approve report was made by John Dauernheim, and seconded by Janet Hirsch. Motion passed.

Marilynn submitted the following bills for payment
	*County Personal Property Tax $1421.04
	*Lakeside Gardeners (renovation of guard shack) $326.63
	*Fuel Gage for Truck $132.45
	*Siphon Repair Patch $131.75
	*Speed Signs, Post, Lock and Cable for Dam $95.82
Motion to approve bills was made by John Dauernheim, and seconded by (?). Motion passed.

Gate   
We thank Fred Steinmetz for all his help with the security gate. Fred has been a member of the gate committee for the last five years. His prime responsibility was interacting with property owners and distributing gate cards.  Fred is not able to continue helping with the gate. We want to thank him for all his work.

 Property owners can still apply for gate cards on line at the website and pick them up from Ken Jost. Thank you, Ken.

 And while I'm thanking people -- a big thank you also goes to Russ Wilner who has been responsible for the gate and is the only one who can reliably access the gate computer.

Security
Letters to speeders have been sent to Ray Pitnam and Ricotta. Ray Pitnam contacted John regarding letter, and states he does not speed on the lake roads. Ricotta has not responded.

Building
Bob Quigley, Lot F 32 has submitted a building permit to replace existing seawall (tie wall) with a stone seawall. Contractor will be Stone Workers Inc. Old seawall does have an existing footing.

Amy & Tim Lutrell, Lots E 1-9 would like to move the pathway between E 7-8 to between E 8-9. They are planning on building a home on those lots. Request has been denied, due to problems that could arise in the future from moving the path.

Reniski, Lot O 2 has submitted plans for an addition. The sewer line will be moved, as well as the holding tank. The addition will come out 16 feet, and in addition a stone wall will be put up.

Maintenance
The dumpster for the maintenance yard has been canceled, due to new gate entrance may be too small. The gate entrance is now being changed from 12 feet to 16 feet. Currently waiting on parts to complete gate.

Jerry, who does the snow removal, did a great job clearing the season’s first snow from the roads. 

Battery for the bobcat has been cleaned and charged up.

Communications
Deadline for newsletter is December 20th.

Sewer
Ameren UE contacted us about new easement for electrical service behind dam. They need to move existing utility pole on the Northeast corner, and install a new one at base of dam.
New easement is 20 feet west of previous easement at base of dam.

Sewer mainlines are currently being installed on North Lakeshore, and they are making good progress.

The 75,000-gallon recirculation tank is under construction. The contractor is installing the step tanks on the north side in January. Cost of moving the electric is the Sewer Board’s responsibility.

Dam
Clarue Holland submitted her report. The major findings of the dam engineer, Don Eskridge are:
 
    * We probably won't have to upgrade the dam from Class II to Class I specifications. This is a significant finding because the cost would have been ~$285,000 to raise the dam or $387,000 to enlarge the spillway concrete weir and expand the capacity of the spillway channel.
 
    * We should completely replace the spillway control crest instead of trying to repair the leak in the spillway. 
 
The current spillway weir is currently leaking and continues to suffer erosion on the downstream side. It was never built correctly -- there is no footing or cutoff wall to prevent water flowing under it. And it is down to only about 6 inches thick in some spots.

The estimate of the replacement cost with a 25% contingency is $25,000. We have $18,000 budgeted for dam repair and maintenance. Clarue's recommendation is that we get bids for the replacement of the spillway weir and then proceed with selecting a contractor to do the work. I agree with her and believe we should tell her to go ahead with getting bids. The board agreed to instruct Clarue to proceed with getting bids for the replacement of the weir.

Siphoning
Volunteers Rich Hirsch, Rick Hannick, Rick Kardell, Ken Jost, and John Hindrichs started the siphoning of the lake on December 8th. The water is going down about 1 ½ inches a day, and is currently down 15 inches. The target goal is 48 inches.

New Business
The owners of Lot D77 sent an email regarding paving driveway. The Board suggests to start paving during spring, due to weather conditions.

Respectfully submitted,
Renee Kittel, Secretary