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Thank you to everyone who joined us in person at the Lake Club and virtually on Zoom for our 2022 HOA Weekend Meetings. We covered a wide variety of topics regarding the present and future of our community including some exciting new plans from our Developer, Barbara Salk. Check out our full notes from each meeting below, including a link to the Zoom recording for your viewing convenience. (The notes for our Mountain Condo will be sent to our lodge owners in the coming days.) |
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Friday Club & Property Meeting with Barbara Salk
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- No raise in club dues this year
- Progress Barbara and Team have made around property since closing on March 31st
- Club deck temporarily repaired
- Broken flagstone in parking lot repaired
- Bear n’ Bean Café & General Store opened
- Wooden bridge temporarily repaired
- Survey Update - Most popular topics from our 2022 Homeowners Survey
- Dining menu/selection
- Pools
- The deck
- Pickleball courts
- Infrastructure
- Club/HOA fees
- Will send out Survey in Bear Prints and discuss in detail at the November Homeowners Luncheon – Nov 25th
- What Barbara and her team have learned about BLR
- A real sense of community
- Our homeowners are family-oriented, down to earth, humble, inclusive, pet-friendly, health & wellness conscious, and community-focused
- Many who live here want to leave a generational legacy at Bear Lake Reserve
- Lake Club Village Plans – Still in Works, but the General Vision/Ideas
- “Wellness Villas” to be built at Robinwood (staff parking lot area) – first project to begin
- Completing Water’s Edge development – no set date
- Hotel/condo complex to be built on waterfront, next to the Lake Club, dedicated pool included – no set date
- Lake Club to be remodeled (See more below)
- Fitness Center & Spa to be upgraded, moved near the villas
- Additional parking at Lake Club
- Pool to be cleaned up/upgraded, new pool to be added
- Deck to be expanded, new Chef’s Reserve space outside
- Banquet Hall/Member’s Lounge potentially replacing the Fitness Center downstairs
- Lake Club Updates/Refresh
- New furniture, art, interior decorations, etc.
- Enhanced Chef’s Reserve
- More culinary experiences
- Extended night life activities/events
- Improved retail and café (also improvements to Greeter’s Cottage Market)
- Enhanced movie theater
- The Summit plans (1-2 year vision)
- Top of the mountain social & athletic hub
- Food truck
- Fire pits
- Event stage
- Upgraded pro shop
- 8 standalone Pickleball courts, 2 brand new tennis courts
- Golf cart parking and storage
- Orvis-endorsed Fishing Village plans
- Work to be done on the road to Robinson Creek for safety, ease of access
- Improving communications for those in Phase 3, especially in the event of an emergency
- Amazing Grace – The Big Idea (not finalized or 100% approved, but a work
in progress)
- Executed LOI on purchase of a portion of Amazing Grace (600 acres)
- Plan to construct a road leading out of BLR, through Amazing Grace, towards Happ’s Place/Cashiers
- Top of the mountain to Happ’s Place would take only 20 mins to drive (40 mins currently)
- Provides secondary entrance/exit
Click here to view the Zoom recording of this meeting.
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Saturday HOA Master, Cottage, & Villa Meeting |
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- Organization
Chart
- 3
committees: Finance, Nominating, and Physical Maintenance
- Finance: Steve Doerr, Greg Mazza, Jeff Gets,
Scott Sport and Gaston Comas
- Nominating: Justin McLaughlin, John
Matheny and David Welch
- Physical Maintenance: Peggy Taylor,
Sonda Frattini, Ed Hess, and Kristin Heath
- Greg Mazza, Jimmy Adams, Victoria Matheny, and Jim Greenwood have stepped down from their positions and were recognized for their many years of service
- HOA
Manager – Tembo HG (until a new manager is hired)
- Assistant
HOA Manager – Jared Nadeau
- Field
Supervisor – Cristian Sardina
- After-hours Emergencies
- Call Greeter’s Cottage, a communications company will direct your
call as necessary
- Maintenance Committee Update: Roads
- 225
culverts inspected, 80% were clogged
- Temporary
repairs to wooden bridge
- Working
with Physical Maintenance Committee on 10-year road plan
- Water,
Sewer, & Septic
- Implementing
best practices for clearing fields/regular tank pump for cottages
- Programs
to be created during shoulder season
- Sewer
system: upgrades, clearing of overgrowth, computer system replacement to be
done
- Trash
- Proximity
to Panthertown means we need to learn to coexist with the bears
- Bears
will remember where they got food for 10 days – NC Fish & Game
- Ben
Woods of The Trash Company: Only system that will work 100% of the time is a
concrete pad with metal, bear-proof container bolted to it
- Designated,
centralized dumpsters as well as trash & recycling center at the
Amphitheater to be installed by next season
- Trash
days: Mondays through shoulder season, Mondays & Thursdays during summer
- Trash
Solutions
- Centralized
dumpsters
- Peanut
barrels
- Highlander
300L
- Stricter
rules on Bearicuda bins: Only put trash out on pickup days, $250 fine
- Reposition
current trash bins, rebuild enclosures to be as tall as the bins
- Physical
Maintenance Recap
- Major
Repairs
- Landslide on Lake Forest Drive over
Pepperbush Road
- Birdymay Drive repairs along roadside
- Hedgewood Drive widened, roadside
drainage improved
- Culvert
assessment and inspection schedule
- Gravel
added to roadsides to diffuse weight and pressure of vehicles
- Yellow
striping added to roadways
- Reflectors
added
- Wooden
bridge maintenance
- Budgeting
of major repairs slated for 2023
- Landscaping
- Improved
processes to mitigate challenges faced this year
- Group A: Handles heavy lifting in all
areas, roadsides, common areas
- Group B: Handles finer details such
as planting, pruning, bushes/shrubs, flowers (currently looking at Garden
Starts LLC)
- Communication: All landscapers will
check in at Greeter’s Cottage, indicate where they are working that day (allows
us to track activity)
- Finance
Committee
- No
dues increased last year, small increase in operating dues this year
- $28/month increase in master
operating dues + $60/month increase in reserve contribution per property +
$12/month increase in water = $100/month HOA due increase
- Service Area Budgets
- Owners of the 98 cottage properties in the Bear Lake Reserve Owners Association Cottage Service Area will pay an additional $155/month service area assessment​ in FY 2023. This compares to $144/month currently and represents an $11 increase from FY 2022.
- Owners of the 14 Villas in the Saddle Notch Villas Service Area will pay an additional $280/month service area assessment in FY 2023​. This compares to $268/month currently and represents a $12 increase from FY 2022.
Click here to view the Zoom recording of this meeting (due to technical difficulties only half of this meeting was recorded). Alternatively, click here to view a PDF of our presentation.
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