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ESLCA Stoney Lake Cottage rs Association Road Is Issues East Stoney Lake Cottage Association (ESLCA) Where is ESLCA? We had an AGM from Hell. Which forced us to: Move from handshakes to written agreements and informed consent


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Road Is Issues

East Stoney Lake Cottage Association (ESLCA)

ESLCA Stoney Lake Cottagers’ Association

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Where is ESLCA?

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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
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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

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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
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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
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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