News from the Association

One of the best things about my job is that I have come to expect something new to happen every day.  Today, I got to send the Operations crew out to pull a television set out of the Lake.  I don’t know if it fell off a dock, a boat, or if a disgruntled fan […]

By now you’ve received your ballots for the 2019 budget.  You can vote them in person at the meeting on November 13th or bring them to the office before noon on November 10th.   Ballots received after the office closes on November 10th will have to be voted in person at the meeting to have them

The 2019 final budget is working its way through the process of approval by the Board of Directors.  Once approved by the board, we will send out ballots for the entire membership to vote on it at the full membership meeting on November 13th.  Once again, we expect there to be three ballots.  One is

What occupies the Association staff and Board of Directors after the boating season winds down?  The 2019 budget.  The Ways and Means Committee has been gathering data from the various committees and departments and will present a preliminary budget to the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors at the October meetings for approval.  Once

It seems that another column regarding dock inspections would be appropriate.  I do have a larger sample size of statistics that I can share for this column.  First and foremost, the program from its inception was intended to be an annual program.  As determined by the Board of Directors, every dock will be inspected every

Lake Lotawana Association – Holiday Schedule for Labor Day – Monday, September 3, 2018 Water Skiing/Tubing Sunrise – 10:00 AM 12:00 noon – 2:00 PM PWC 2:00 PM to ½ hour after sunset or 100 yards visibility Sailing Organized or scheduled racing 8:00 AM – 12:00 noon Wake surfing is not allowed on weekend or

Dock electrical inspections are underway for 2018.  This is our fourth year of the program.  It has been a road filled with twists and turns, hills and valleys and more than a few little bumps.  It’s been a somewhat painful process for the membership and for the staff in the office.  Great progress has been

As I write this column, three of the four “major boating holidays” for our Lake are in the rear-view mirror.  We’ve finally got almost all the damage from the tornado cleaned up and things are starting to get back to normal (if there is such a thing as normal) at the Association.  Our new excavator

Hardly a day goes by when I don’t observe work going on around the community that should have a permit from the Association but does not.  Whether it be a new roof, driveway or a deck or patio, the Association has a permitting process.  For many of these projects or activities a permit is required

The tornado that hit our community on Tuesday seemed to be the worst of several weather events that we’ve seen in recent memory.  The damage was so bad along the north shore of the Lake that Ron Descombes and I made the decision to close the Lake for boating for the remainder of the that