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SUMMER 2018
Community Garden Opens See page 4
LLV Recipes See page 18
Cocktail Corner See page 25
ROUND TWO AND HOPE
New RFPs For 2018 Road Plan Sent Dennis Peters, of Peters Consultants, Inc., Berwick, Pa., addressed the June 2 meeting of the Locust Lake Village Roads Committee and offered the possibility that the rebidding process for the 2018 Road Plan could result in work on the 2018 Road Plan being completed by Nov. 15. Peters Consultants, Inc. was engaged by the Locust Lake Village (LLV) Property Owners Association (POA) Board of Directors to design the required
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ELECTION 2018
Call For Candidates For LLV POA Board Those property owners in good standing who wish to run for the Locust Lake Village Property Owners Association Board of Directors must file their credentials at LLV’s Administration Office by the annual members meeting July 21. Candidates will be running for three-year terms to fill three open seats previously held by Wade Burchell, and Carrie Pohl, who are completing their own second three-year terms as officers of
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Opening Day of Trout Season brought scores of anglers to LLV’s East Lake. See “Nothin’ But Fish” section beginning on page 14.
ROAD BLOCK
Board Votes Down 2018 Road Plan When Locust Lake Village (LLV) Property Owners Association (POA) Board Chair Wade Burchell said that “a lot is going on” in his opening remarks at the May 19 monthly board meeting held at The Chalet, that statement was soon more than proven correct. The report on the Roads Committee given by Chair Steve Marga was the tipping point when Marga expressed disappointment in the board’s refusal to approve the 2018 Roads Plan that the committee had been working on since late last year.
DELIQUENCIES HURT LLV
His frustration was shared by many property owners in attendance who strongly voiced their displeasure with the decision. Amid pleas from the audience of “Fix our roads,” two comments from the floor seemed to crystalize the controversy. “For 30 to 38 years we’ve been voicing our concerns,” one person shouted. “We are frustrated over these ongoing conditions,” voiced another.
Marga explained to the board and the audience that the
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Collections Activity Setting Precedent In addition to the vote on the bid for the 2018 Roads Plan project, collections represented another important item on the agenda for the May 19 meeting of the Locust Lake Village (LLV) Property Owners Association
(POA) Board of Directors.
“Based on our inhouse audit reports, we use the foreclosure process as a tool,” said Board Chair Wade Burchell, who has been leading the effort in foreclosures and collections since 2017. “If we don’t do anything, delinquencies in dues payments will continue to cost us money.” To Burchell’s knowledge, there has never been a foreclosure completed by LLV prior to 2018, only lenders have performed this previously. He pointed out the top six accounts in arrears owe LLV $240,000. Four of the six are in foreclosure; two have had judgements handed down against them.
Burchell explained that delinquencies and foreclosures tie up properties that otherwise could be owned by people who would pay the annual assessment fee,
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