APPROVED: MINUTES BVRI GENERAL MEETING September 5, 2010

The meeting was called to order by BVRI Board President Dave Morley at 4:02 pm in the County Services Building in Bear Valley, California.

Bears in Bear Valley. The bear is still breaking into homes in Bear Valley. The bear has even broken into an occupied home. There's a trap on its way to Bear Valley. Should be set in the next few days.

Per the Sheriff (Denver), If a bear breaks in or is about to break in, call 911 and the sheriff will be there to help right away. Other recommendations: make noise and don't shoot the bear unless your life is in danger. Call 911 and the sheriff will help you.

If a bear has broken in and you discover it later, take a few pictures of the damage and any specific evidence of the bear for reporting purposes. None of the houses that have been broken into have had clear bear violations (food or garbage out) so it appears this bear is just "shopping" from home to home.

Dave Morley presented a CSA Flyer regarding the Bear Valley Roads and noting the special presentation at the CSA board meeting on September 15 at 2:00pm in the library.

Discussion of history of rate increase requests and detailed analysis done by John Dralla and supported by the BVRI board and the water company. LAWC is now in the process of putting this into a formal document that is presented to the CPUC. Homeowners will be getting a letter from the water district advising of the status as this goes forward.

Julio Guerra, General Manager of the Bear Valley Water District, presented the current status of waste water treatment facilities and plans.

The district has been involved and has been working to determine true available capacity both for hookups and treatment. Current (unconfirmed) status: Can service 140 new homes. In order to address development issues, BVWD will need approximately 60 more acres of land for dispersal.

Once these numbers are confirmed, the BVWD board will issue an official statement regarding the number of available hookups.

Julio addressed community misunderstanding about how sprayfields are utilized. He indicated that there are limitations to how a sprayfield can be used and that a dry sprayfield may properly and deliberately be in rotation.

BVRI member Gloria Dralla commented that the BVWD board had recently changed the sewer district by-laws so that voting was based on acreage rather than unimproved land value, resulting in more voting power for homeowners. Supervisor Terry Woodrow indicated that the by-law amendment was subject to Board of Supervisor approval, expected 9/8/10.

The BVWD NPDES permit renewal will be heard in February. It's not until this renewal goes through that the requirement for a tertiary treatment facility will be formally removed. Julio indicated the community should be on standby to support the Bear Valley Water District when the permit renewal comes up.

The next Bear Valley Watet District meeting is at 9:00 am Monday, September 20. Meeting times have been changed from 1 p.m. and can be attended off-site via Skype.

Martin Wegenstein presented an update on the two development projects (Mountain and Village) and also provided a briefing on the new sub-projects that are underway this summer.

Environmental Assessment is being done in parallel with the EIR with regard to use of forest service land. This deals with the use of the mountain property to support current and new runs. The forest service will release the final EA for 30-day comment period. It will be available on the forest service website. Once comments are accepted, then the EA will be certified (before end of year is the hope.) The EIR was certified by the Board of Supervisors in May, 2009.

In the EA and EIR entitlement process, the sewer district has to complete their analysis of capacity before development planning can move forward. There is not a timeline in place for development planning at this time.

Base Camp will be opening this fall for inexpensive summer lodging. As soon as ski season opens, it will become employee housing.

Setting up a call center to solicit customers and handle all products Bear Valley offers (lessons, passes, lodging, restaurants, packages, etc.)

Mountain Biking on the mountain was piloted using the chair lift to get up the mountain on Saturdays this season. Plan to incorporate hiking access and trails formally next season.

The Tough Mudder event was introduced this year (combination obstacle course, endurance, etc.) We are the first West Coast site for this event. There are about 3400 participants signed up so far for the event which will be held in October. This was introduced to bring people into the area in the off season.

Re-Siding of the commercial center is complete. New AV equipment has been installed. Improvements are being made to Sky High Pizza. Upgrading one floor of the lodge to be a premium floor.

Sales Kiosk for Bear Valley Village services was introduced in the sunroom in the lodge on the mountain last year and will be implemented again this year and another kiosk will be added in the commercial center.

Moving forward to open the whole east side of the mountain down into the village for the upcoming ski season. Weekend bus service frequency will be increased. The area will be fully patrolled. Home run and lunch run will not change. East side will all be new terrain that is open and groomed for skiing.

Any ski entry into the village will be clearly marked and groomed to guide proper traffic. An audience member requested that a map be prepared so that homeowners could visualize the new ski runs. Martin indicated that he's "not a paper guy" but curious homeowners could look at his computer after the meeting.

The village lift is tied to the village development and can't go forward until the EA is certified so there is no timeline for this at this time.

BVRI member Gloria Dralla asked Martin what was meant when Chuck Toeniskoetter said "the lights could go out in Bear Valley" at the 8/29/10 meeting between BVRI and the development team. Martin said that, since he wasn't at the meeting, he couldn't speak to Chuck's comment.

BV homeowner Brian Thurston asked whether the impact on the lake was considered when trees from the common area "fingers" are removed to allow additional ski access to the Village. Martin responded that very few trees are being removed. Eric Jung said that the USFS had been asked to use "best practices" in the timber management project.

In the past few months, the ARC has approved 1 new home on Flynn Road, 6 repaint/re-stain projects, 2 re-sidings, new entry stairs and new windows and a deck change.

Trees that are leaning over from last winter's storms that have died need to be removed as soon as possible.

If homeowners need to replace propane tanks, the ARC is encouraging homeowners to put them under ground-which is now an approved method of maintaining propane tanks. This needs to be done in a very specific way and permission needs to be secured before this is done. Homeowner Ed Diekman indicated that the dimensions of a 1000 gallon tank are such that not every lot can accommodate underground placement.

BV homeowner Daniella Karo asked a question of Terry Woodrow regarding USFS property near her home which was not addressed.

Fire inspections were completed by BVRI Board members and letters were sent to violators. If homeowners don't respond then the matter is turned over to the sheriff to follow up.

The Sheriff re-inspects the lot and sends his own letter. If action still isn't taken, the matter is turned over to the DA. Of 12 problem lots, only 3 have gone to the DA due to lack of response/action.

No buoys this summer due to the old ones being water soaked and useless. We are taking input on how this was for the community before we invest in new ones for next season.

Community members have been asked to remove all boats from Bear Lake by end of September. All boats on BVRI property will be considered abandoned after October 10th. Tom Ward, as our beach attendant, took an active role in managing the beach and all the way around the lake.

Discussion about quality of lake water (green). Nobody from LAWC in attendance. Dave Morley will send a letter to the LAWC regarding this issue.

Residential Chipper program has been held up due to forest service personnel changes. Terry is waiting for an authorization letter in order to proceed with the work. The project has been approved since June. Chipper request forms were handed out in the meeting. They will also be available in the library and general store. Program will run end of September through October.

Taking place just West of the Old Sub and the area the comes down Home Run and that little finger of forest service that goes down to the lake. Also working on a large area from Highway 4 up Blood's Ridge.

Wednesday through Sunday is when there's a person in the Bear Valley office to take non-emergency calls. Non-emergency calls get forwarded to Markleeville outside of those days.