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Road Is Issues

East Stoney Lake Cottage Association (ESLCA)

ESLCA Stoney Lake Cottagers’ Association

Where is ESLCA?

We had an AGM from Hell………. Which forced us to:

• Move from handshakes to written agreements and informed

consent

• Talking to conservation authority vs. just getting work done
• Collaboration with Township on planning
• 5 Year road plan which is now going on for 10 years
• Communicate before, during and after road work
• Raise annual fees $65 to $125 to $200

Where did we go wrong?

• Replaced a culvert with a larger one,
• in a wet Fall,
• no contact with conservation authority,
• downstream from a wetland, upstream from a brand-new

cottage in a low-lying flat—with a basement, poor (verbal

• nly) communication;
• we then dug in our heels when we were very much in the

wrong………….. Then came the AGM

Lessons Learned:

• Township Roads Manager is your NBFF
• Written 5 road plan, minor revision renewed for 5 more

years

• Longer term road improvement projection based road fees

New issues coming up:

• Clear garbage bags
• Challenging thinking on insurance costs and risk

management planning

• Use of social media and website for communication
• Electronic billing
• Lobbying

Why Lobbying:

• ESLCA Municipal taxes that are billed for the 69 properties

for 2017 on our private roads are $265,898.56

• this amount includes the county and education levies- that

the township has no control over.

• The municipal portion of this total amount is approximately

35%.

• Majority of the cottagers are paying taxes for services we do

not use, this creates an argument approaching our township to request financial support/grant funding for road costs