Chipping away! Wildfire Prep Day 2021
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This year we have coordinated a no-charge chipping service to come to your property and chip your pile of limbs and branches.
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Important Information about Your Drinking Water
/Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard. Although this situation does not require that you should take immediate action, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened, what you should do, and what we are doing to correct the situation.
Read MoreImportant Information about Your Drinking Water
/Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard. Although this situation does not require that you should take immediate action, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened, what you should do, and what we are doing to correct the situation.
Read MoreWater Treatment Plant Replacement
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Planning for, and replacement of, the water treatment plant has become the Board's primary focus and over the course of the next three years, significant time and money will be expended on this project.
Read More2020 AGM Voting Results
/The LISECC Annual General Meeting was conducted with a Vote-By-Mail Election Process in accordance with Governor Inslee’s Executive Order concerning the phased re-opening of the state.
VOTING RESULTS
Board of Directors (for three open positions)
Ben Twigg: 68 votes (approved)
William Enoch: 67 votes (approved)
Jim Coats: 49 votes (approved)
Sharleen Peitsch-Tyerman: 31
The board will meet on Sunday, August 30 to elect and appoint officers.
2021 Budget and Dues
APPROVED
Approve: 74 | Disapprove: 2
The proposed Budget will maintain dues at $725 per year, having a total income of $392,600 and expenses of $359,100. Dues do not include the DWSRF loan, RTS, and water usage fees.. 100
Audit of financial statements of the 2021 Fiscal Year
APPROVED
Approve: 52 | Disapprove: 22
The board is recommending an audit of the 2020 fiscal year. The last audit was conducted in 2019 for the 2018 fiscal year.
Important Information about Your Drinking Water
/Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard. Although this situation does not require that you should take immediate action, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened, what you should do, and what we are doing to correct the situation.
Read MoreVolunteers needed for Island Dr Wildfire Risk Reduction Project
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Join us for an hour or two to help clean up the Island Drive switchbacks
The goal of this Wildfire Risk Reduction Project is to reduce potential wildfire fuel around the Island Drive switchback by removing smaller trees and limbing established trees. The road through the Island Drive switchback is the only evacuation route for a peak population of approximately 50 residents. Summer peak population coincides with wildfire season.
The schedule
Scott Josiah, a professional forester with the Lummi Island Fire Department, has marked small and diseased trees for removal. Timber Tree, LLC tree service will cut and limb the trees in this area on Friday, July 31. Volunteers will work on Saturday and Sunday to move the fallen branches to side of the road for chipping. These stacks will be chipped the following Monday and the chips will be blown back into the area to promote forest health.
Volunteers needed
Saturday or Sunday
August 1 & 2, 2020
Between 9am and 5pm
By preserving forest canopy, existing native vegetation will provide a fire-resistant understory. Future routine fuel reduction will require less effort and can be accomplished by our local Firewise volunteers. This project has been endorsed by Whatcom County Public Works and the Lummi Island Fire Department.
The Scenic Estates board has approved the bulk of the funding for this project. We have also received $800 in pledges from neighbors in this area. And the Fire Department has been able to support part of this project through a Washington Fire Adapted Communities grant. Thank you!
Volunteer for wildfire safety
David Canterman will be coordinating volunteers so that everyone can work safely and maintain social distance due to COVID-19. Work gloves, drinking water, eye protection, clippers or loppers are recommended. Most work will be dragging fallen limbs into chipping stacks.
Need firewood?
Volunteers and donors are welcome to firewood rounds produced from this project in appreciation for their participation.
Again, thank you to Scott Josiah, David Canterman, the LISE Board of Directors, Lummi Island Fire Department, all the people who pledged funds for this project, and those will help lend a hand with cleanup. You are appreciated!
For general questions about this project, please contact Isaac Colgan at (425) 281-4836.
Endorsement from Lummi Island Fire Department
Speaking for the Lummi Island Fire Department, John Granger and I agree that reducing forest fuel loads on lands adjacent to the switchbacks along Island View Lane (which is the only evacuation route for residents in upper Scenic Estates) would significantly enhance resident and evacuation safety during a wildfire event. It would also improve safer access for first responders to this area. We commend you and the residents of Scenic Estates for initiating this project and making it happen. As a professional forester, I would be glad to mark the smaller understory trees and ladder fuels for removal, while ensuring the larger trees and native shrub layer would be retained to maintain site diversity and appropriate shading levels. When you have received authorization from the county to remove trees on the county lands that are adjacent to the road, I’ll go ahead and mark the trees.
Scott Josiah, PhD
LIFD Disaster Preparedness Division
Support from Whatcom County Public Works
From the County’s perspective, you are good to go. Public Works does not require an encroachment permit for tree removal and routine vegetation management on private land covered by a public right of way, unless the work interferes with the public use. Your proposal does not interfere with public use.… We at Public Works are believers!
Jon Hutchings
Public Works Director, Whatcom County
I’ve worked with Scott Josiah and knew that he was working on some plans for fire fuel reduction for the island. Having this information in the proposal, which is comprehensive and specific, is very helpful.… I commend Scott and the other island residents for taking this on.
Laurel Baldwin
Whatcom County Noxious Weed Control Board
Important Information about Your Drinking Water
/Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard. Although this situation does not require that you should take immediate action, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened, what you should do, and what we are doing to correct the situation.
Read MoreChipping day #2 scheduled for July 27
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This year we have coordinated a no-charge chipping service to come to your property and chip your pile of limbs and branches.
Read MoreWildfire Prep Day is a success!
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A record 182 cubic yards of woody debris was chipped in May to reduce our wildfire danger with participation of 19 households in Scenic Estates.
Read MoreImportant Information about Your Drinking Water
/Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard. Although this situation does not require that you should take immediate action, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened, what you should do, and what we are doing to correct the situation.
Read MoreLISE water system has returned to drinking water turbidity standards
/We are happy to report our water system is no longer violating turbidity standards in your drinking water. Turbidity measurements have remained below 0.3 turbidity units for the month of December, 2019 to present. However, we need to notify you that turbidity treatment requirements were not met from August to November 2019.
Read MoreImportant Information about Your Drinking Water
/Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard. Although this situation does not require that you should take immediate action, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened, what you should do, and what we are doing to correct the situation.
Read More2019 AGM Voting Results
/The Annual General Meeting was held at the Scenic Estates Clubhouse on August 24.
VOTING RESULTS
Board of Directors (for two open positions)
Doug Cash: 75 votes
Jeff Smith: 73 votes
Confirmation of William Enoch for the one year remaining on the vacated Board position by Paul Dempsey to which he was appointed in July 2019 (per Bylaw 4.4.1.6)
Approve: 76 | Disapprove: 1
At the board meeting following the AGM on August 24, the Directors elected the President and Vice President, and appointed the following offices:
President: Doug Cash
Vice President: Ben Twigg
Treasurer: Ben Twigg
Secretary: Allison Cash
Administration Chair: Sharleen Peitsch-Tyerman
Finance Chair: Ben Twigg
Communications Chair: Jeff Smith
Water and Operations Chair: William Enoch
2020 Budget and Dues
APPROVED
Approve: 76 | Disapprove: 2
The proposed Budget will maintain dues at $725 per year, having a total income of $399,025 and expenses of $399,025. Dues do not include the DWSRF loan, RTS, and water usage fees.
Audit of financial statements of the 2019 Fiscal Year
DISAPPROVED
Approve: 7 | Disapprove: 70
The board is not recommending an audit of the 2019 fiscal year. The last audit was finalized in August 2019 for the 2018 fiscal year.
Looking at Clubhouse Erosion
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Jeremy Wolf, LISE Member and Vice-President of GeoTest Services will be presenting his observations at the next board meeting on Sunday, May 19.
Read MoreWildfire Prep Day with Scott Josiah
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On May 4 we were privileged to host Scott Josiah, retired Nebraska state forester and director of the Nebraska Forest Service. Here is what we learned…
Read More2019 Coupon Books
/2019 coupon books for membership fees are expected to arrive before January 1. The monthly payment option is only available to members who maintain a current account status.
Coupons cover the membership dues and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) loan payment amount. Water usage fees are invoiced separately by mail every other month. See a breakdown of member fees here.
Members have three options to pay dues:
Pay Annually - $796
Due by January 31
Pay Semi-Annually - $398
Due by January 31 and June 30
Pay Monthly - $66.34
Due on the 31st of each month.
Firewise on the Island Drive Trail
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Volunteers removed over 60 cubic yards of woody debris from the trail. Learn how this made it better for our leafy, feathered, and furry neighbors as well.
Read More2018 AGM Voting Results
/The Annual General Meeting was held at the Scenic Estates Clubhouse on August 25.
VOTING RESULTS
Board of Directors (for three open positions)
Ben Twigg: 76 votes
Paul Dempsey: 69 votes
Sharleen Peitsch-Tyerman: 46 votes
Ken Swanson: 33 votes
At the board meeting following the AGM on August 25, the Directors elected the President and Vice President, and appointed the following offices:
President: Paul Dempsey
Vice President: Doug Cash
Administration: Sharleen Peitsch-Tyerman
Finance Chair: Ben Twigg
Communications Chair: Jeff Smith
Water and Operations Chair: Doug Cash
Treasurer: Leslie Dempsey
2019 Budget and Dues
APPROVED
Approve: 71 | Disapprove: 6
The proposed Budget will maintain dues at $725 per year, having a total income of $382,595 and expenses of $382,597. Dues do not include the DWSRF loan, RTS, and water usage fees.
Audit of financial statements of the 2018 Fiscal Year
APPROVED
Approve: 57 | Disapprove: 21
An audit of the 2018 fiscal year to be performed in 2019. The estimated cost of an audit for 2018 fiscal year is $8,000.
Appeals Court rejects petition for rehearing
/The judicial panel of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has unanimously denied a petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc. Read the complete order here.
Proving that he is truly incapable of taking no for an answer, Charles Ortego requested a rehearing by the same three-judge panel that rejected his claims and a rehearing en banc (by the entire Ninth Circuit) on July 5, 2018, which is rarely granted even in meritorious cases.
According to LISECC attorney Jessica Goldman, "The only avenue for review remaining is a petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. At this point, this case concerns only issues of state law and there is zero chance the Supreme Court would accept review."
