Towne Lake Hills Board Podcast
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Towne Lake Hills Board Podcast
From Asphalting to Splash Pads: Your Town Lake Hills Board Report
Ever wondered what's really happening with that neighborhood repaving project or when the pools will open? The Town Lake Hills Board pulls back the curtain in our inaugural podcast episode, giving you direct access to the decision-makers shaping our community.
Board President Gary Winchester joins host Sean Kaufman to introduce the entire HOA leadership team and explain their mission to increase transparency and communication with residents. For too long, misconceptions have circulated due to limited interactions between the board and community members. This podcast aims to change that dynamic by providing regular updates and encouraging resident participation at monthly meetings.
The conversation covers several timely topics, including the recently completed east-side asphalt project, the opening of both community pools for the summer season, and details about the upcoming $450,000 splash pad renovation. Winchester provides candid insights about the engineering requirements and county code compliance issues that have complicated what might seem like a straightforward project. Parents will appreciate the gentle reminders about pool safety and proper use of tennis facilities as we enter the busy summer months.
Perhaps most importantly, this episode extends a warm invitation to all residents to attend the June 16th board meeting at 5:30 PM at the clubhouse. The first 30 minutes are specifically reserved for public comments, giving you the chance to voice concerns, ask questions, and connect with your elected board representatives. We're committed to open governance and genuinely want to hear from you! Mark your calendars, bring your questions, and help us build a stronger Town Lake Hills community together.
Welcome to the Town Lake Hills Board Podcast, your go-to source for the latest updates and news in our neighborhood. We're here to keep you informed and connected about upcoming events, community initiatives and important neighborhood updates. Thanks for tuning in Well. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to our very first Town Lake Hills Board Podcast, and I am actually here with Gary, who is the president of the Town Lake Hills HOA, and I think, gary, we should start by kind of introducing the board to everyone. What do you think?
Speaker 2:Sure, let's do that. So, Gary Winchester, I'm the east representative and also the current president of the HOA board. Alex Carbondale is the vice president and is a at large individual. Lisa Waters is our north representative and Adam Morehart is our west representative. John Morehart is our West representative and, of course, the host of this podcast. Sean Kaufman, is a member at large as well, and probably future treasurer, of our board.
Speaker 1:Very good, I appreciate that. And let's talk a little bit, gary, about why we're kind of doing a podcast. I mean, we're kind of trying to update ourselves and improve our technologies and just try to get out to the people in the neighborhood. So you know your thoughts on that. What are we doing? Why are we doing this?
Speaker 2:So, at the end of the day, I think over the last few years there have been misconceptions that have gone on in the community. There hasn't been much communication. People didn't know who to come to to talk to us, hasn't been much communication, people didn't know who to come to to talk to us, and I think so what we're trying to do is to reach out to the community, give them you know names, faces, and give them an opportunity to be able to talk to the board members and figure out what we need to be doing to make the community better.
Speaker 1:Absolutely so. The key here is, we want to increase communication and we want to invite everyone who's listening to this to talk to your board, really truly talk to your board. And I'll remind you several times, but June 16th is our next meeting at 530 at the clubhouse, and it's an opportunity to come and provide at least see your board in action. And you know, I guess, gary, they have time to talk as well, don't they?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so what was you know? When we start the meeting at 530, the first 30 minutes is for public comment, so we try to limit that to three minutes per resident. Sometimes they just run over and that's okay, but it gives the people the opportunity to ask questions and get responses from the board.
Speaker 1:Well, very, very good. So I want to again invite you to mark your calendars for June 16th, if you can, and we'd love to see you there and at least meet you and hear what you have to say and actually, again, we'll be in action so you'll be able to see how we're all working together. Gary, neighborhood is as you know. We went through a big, major inconvenience lately. This was a big thing. No-transcript.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so at the end of the day right this all started on May 5th the county had really pushed us back numerous times on getting the east side of the community re-asphalted. They did a pretty good job. They started out kind of rocky. We had some inconvenience with traffic because they really didn't have the people out there to monitor and to move the cars. They got that resolved kind of in the first week, but then we had some issues with you know the way that they were doing the work, that they were encroaching upon people's driveways and that type of thing. But from what I understand now, allied's been pretty good about coming back in the community cleaning things up and I think that they are actually done and gone from the community now.
Speaker 1:Very good. And, Gary, if there is somebody that has a problem maybe they didn't catch it Is there some place that they can go or somebody they can contact?
Speaker 2:So, from the county standpoint, a gentleman by the name of Steve Dobson is the director for public works Underneath him and I can't remember the guy's first name but his last name is Bradshaw. He actually is the squash manager for this project and again, I think I know people have reached out to him and he's been pretty responsive in getting back to them and also getting things resolved, absolutely Very good.
Speaker 1:Hey, it's past Memorial Day. We want to say thank you to all those vets out there and to remember those who have lost their lives fighting for this country, but Memorial Day for this neighborhood means that the swimming pool is now open for business. Do you want to give an update on how we're doing with the swimming pool?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we had a little bit of delay in the north side. We were replastering the north pool this year as part of our typical process of keeping the pools up to date, and so we that was delayed a lot because of weather and then the tile selection. We had a problem where the tile disappeared. We had to get new. But the North pool should have opened on time for the Memorial Day weekend. The East Pool has been open since the 10th for weekend activity and now officially, with the holidays gone, it should be open every day, as well as the slide pool. So while we're on that side of the aisle and talking about the slide pool, let's just kind of briefly talk about the waiting pool, future splash pad.
Speaker 1:The splash pad. This is a hot topic, Gary. This is a hot topic right now.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, so we've hired two contractors from an engineering standpoint, to get the structural engineering done, get the understanding what the flows are going to be like, what the size of our mechanical room is going to have to be to handle all of this activity.
Speaker 1:Gary, can I stop you real fast? There's a lot of people out there probably are asking why do we have to hire people? I mean, is it really that complicated? Are we overcomplicating this? I mean, what's the deal here? So, at the end of the day, right, I mean what's?
Speaker 2:the deal here. So at the end of the day, right when this was originally built in 1994, there were different county rules that allowed for the wading pool and the splash pad to be commingled, if you will, or I should say the sliding pool and the wading pool being co-connected. When we went in to try to resolve that problem, then we had to bring everything up to code, and so that changed all the dynamics and therefore you have to bring engineers in to make sure that what we're presenting to the health department for Cherokee County is in fact in compliance with the code as it is today.
Speaker 1:All right, so we are engaged with two contracts now to do that assessment. I'm sorry to have interrupted you. Go ahead, continue.
Speaker 2:So then the selection has gone through on what we're actually going to put on the new concrete slab and I guess I should point out that one of those features that the wading pool originally had from its grade standpoint was one of the major factors that has to be changed to bring it into compliance. So there'll be a new pad floated on top of the existing pad, will boot all new plumbing into the pool equipment room at the lower end of that area and that that vortex splash pad activity is. We're kind of waiting on some engineering stuff from them on loads, but we think that we should be really ready to get things started and we're not going to do anything during the season right now because we don't want to interrupt anybody being able to use the slide pool with having construction activity. So this major work will start after we close the pools at the end of the year.
Speaker 1:Very good, no, very good. And, gary, just because you know we're entering a swim season, anything we want to say to parents about children coming up to the pool, just any advice or any thoughts you want to provide, well, the first thing is be safe and have fun.
Speaker 2:Yes that's the first thing. Second thing I would say is if, if a guard tells you to stop running, yeah, let's practice some, some safe activity there so that we don't have kids getting hurt. But other than that, I think the important thing is just go enjoy the pool. This is, this is your time to regenerate yourself before you go back to school. This is your time to regenerate yourself before you go back to school. Yeah, please have a good time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, enjoy yourself. And I would like to say let's be kind to our lifeguard staff. I mean, they are really, really working hard and let's try to be as respectful and kind and, parents, as supportive as we possibly can for the staff. Now, gary, I know we're impromptu here because I was thinking of an issue before we go into our final issue on our agenda, but noticing at nighttime a lot of kids playing baseball on the tennis courts and a lot of kids playing a lot of stuff, even riding bikes on the clay courts and doing a lot of skidding out and those types of things. What would you recommend if you see those types of behaviors or you're just someone in the neighborhood, you see those things happening? Um, what would you recommend? Any recommendations on that?
Speaker 2:Well, the first thing would be, I would say that we need to reach out to the uh tennis director, make make Mark aware of what's going on. Um, hopefully, uh, the parents that didn't hear this will talk to their kids and will not have that activity. I mean, those assets that we have on the for the tennis courts and the hard courts, those things all cost money to maintain and they're not really designed for that type of activity and while we want them to go out and play baseball and do things outdoors, they got to be respectful of the property. Our reserves are really, really tight right now. We're going to have to be doing some things with dues and everything else. This splash pad that we're going to be doing is probably going to cost us $450,000. That's kind of an estimate for people. So we got to be respectful of what we got and we would ask the parents to make sure that their kids are aware of that Absolutely, and I think that's important.
Speaker 1:It's fun to have a, you know, I've even noticed some folks are at the tavern, which is awesome. They can have a drink, they have a great meal. They send their kids out to play at the park. But it's just. Let's be careful with where those kids are playing and be respectful of the property. Now, in closing, gary, there has been a change at Sixes. I'll let you talk a little bit about that, Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so Sixes Management will be providing us a new property manager. Management will be providing us a new property manager. We'll get more information on that probably early next week. I know the individual's name, but we'll leave it at that. Hillary is departing. She will leave on May 31st and she's returning to her home state of Oklahoma to be closer to family.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think that's really, you know, she's worked for the community now, I think, for four or five years and she's done a great job. We're going to miss her and we hope everything's the best for her.
Speaker 1:We're going to miss her very, very much and I send my thoughts and prayers to her and her family and that she has a great move and again she will be working a little bit remotely, but we will certainly miss her and thank her so much for all that she's done, Gary. Any final thoughts? This is our first podcast. We'll provide these kind of on a monthly basis, unless, of course, we have any emergency situations. We want the neighborhood to go, but any final thoughts? Comments for the neighborhood?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, if you got ideas, you want to help us. You want to serve on committees. Don't be shy, we can always use the help. We're hoping to get some of the other committees back in operational. The ACC seems to be one of the most active ones we've got and Dave's done a great job in keeping everything rolling there.
Speaker 1:Exceptional job. A shout out to Dave for everything that he's done and all the committee members. Thank you so much. Anything else you could think of? Gary?
Speaker 2:Nope, I think that's a good wrap for us for the day.
Speaker 1:Very good. Well, I want to say again thank you for listening. I want a reminder, please. We want to meet you. This board is open, transparent. We want to see you. We want to meet you June 16th, 5.30 pm at the clubhouse. Come meet your board, come sit in, watch what we do. We certainly want you to be engaged and we certainly want you to be involved. Thank you again. Thanks, sean. Well, that's it for today's update from the Town Lake Hills Board. Stay engaged, Stay informed and, as always, thank you for being a vital part of our community. Until next time, take care and enjoy our neighborhood.