Chipping away! Wildfire Prep Day 2022
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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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Dog Committee Forum (video)
/The LISE Dog Committee is charged with helping to revise our community's rules regarding dogs, where they are allowed and what is expected of owners will be meeting in an open session. The Zoom meeting was held on March 22, 2022 moderated by the committee chair, Jim Coats, and founding members Carol McKinney and Leslie Dempsey.
LISECC is seeking qualified candidates for two positions
/Lummi Island Scenic Estates Community Club seeks qualified candidates to fill two part-time position of General Manager ands Operations Staff.
Read MoreClubhouse Seacliff Coastal Geologic Analysis
/Coastal Geologic Services (CGS) performed a site visit to the Lummi Island Scenic Estates (LISE) clubhouse to complete an evaluation of the stability of the rock and soil that the clubhouse building sits on, with the focus being on the east/southeast side of the building and foundation.
Read More2021 AGM Voting Results
/The LISECC Annual General Meeting was conducted with a Vote-By-Mail Election Process in accordance with current Covid-19 precautions. See 2021 AGM materials and board candidate statements here.
VOTING RESULTS
Board of Directors (for two open positions)
Steven Brown: 38 votes
Scott Elliott: 20 votes
Timothy Robinson: 53 votes (approved)
Jeff Smith: 69 votes (approved)
The board met on Saturday, October 30 to elect and appoint officers:
President: Ben Twigg
Vice-President: Jim Coats
Secretary: Jeff Smith
Treasurer: William Enoch
Committee Chairs:
Admin: Jim Coats
Communications & Planning: Jeff Smith
Finance: William Enoch
Operations & Water: Timothy Robinson
2021 DWSRF Loan
APPROVED
Approve: 92 | Disapprove 2
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) loan for the pre-construction phase of the LISECC water treatment plant replacement.
2022 Budget and Dues
APPROVED
Approve: 91 | Disapprove: 3
The proposed Budget will set dues at $660 per year, having a total income of $469,938 and expenses of $420,088. Dues do not include the existing DWSRF loan, RTS, and water usage fees.
Audit of financial statements of the 2021 Fiscal Year
DISAPPROVE
Approve: 8 | Disapprove: 81
The board is not recommending an audit of the 2021 fiscal year. The last audit was finalized in August 2021 for the 2020 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 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 MoreChipping 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.
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 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.
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