By now all of you should have received your letter from Sunrise Engineering on behalf of the Kane County Water Conservancy District requesting you mark on the map of your lot where you would like the water meter be placed.  If you have not responded to their correspondence, please do so as soon as possible.  The following is a re-cap of the information supplied in the vote correspondence.  
1. One time Impact Fee of $3,000: Will

be used to defray costs of the new $8.7 million dollar system and previously contracted costs for the existing system (i.e., wells, storage tanks, etc.)

2. One time Connection Fee of $1,000: This is strictly a pass through cost to pay for the installation of a frost-free meter box, piping, and a radio read 5/8” X 3/4" badger meter (standard residential meter) to your property line. (Larger commercial meters will cost more.) This cost is actually lower than the last bid price (our construction cost) received on the Meadow View Heights project, which was $1,577/connection.

3. Ongoing Monthly Fees: A residential fee of $15.00/month for a 12-month water system. In order to keep these monthly fees low, the $15.00/month charge does not come with any fixed amount of water; it only entitles the user to purchase water on a $2.00 per 1,000 gallon basis for the first 15,000 gallons of use each month which is more water than 99% of residents use on the mountain. If you go over the 15,000 you will be charged $2.25 for the next 5,000 gallons and then $2.50 per 1,000 for anything above 20,000 gallons per month. Meters will be read monthly and residents will be billed on a monthly basis. To reiterate, you

Year Round Water a “GO”!!

New Board Members Take Office

The first Board meeting of the Swains Creek Pines Lot Owners association for 2006 was held in St. George, Utah on January 14th, 2006.

At that time new/re-elected board members Cheryl Case, Gary Decker, Andy Osterhout, Frank Pearce, and Alan Zellhoefer were “sworn in”.  Along with current board members, Irene Briggs,

Gayle Cromer,  John Ewing, and Robert Storie, the newly seated board elected the following Officers:

Chairman -  Alan Zellhoefer

Vice Chairman - John Ewing

Secretary - Cheryl Case

Treasurer - Irene Briggs

Fire Hydrants are coming to Swains Creek!

Inside this issue:

February  2006

Volume 10,  Issue 1 

News From Swains Creek

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Through Jan. the snowfall has been very minimal making roads easily traveled to and from the Mountain