Kingworks Structural Engineers was contracted to perform a study to determine the feasibility of modifying the clubhouse foundation to protect the structure if the adjacent cliff below subsides.
Read MoreThis year we have coordinated a no-charge chipping service to come to your property and chip your pile of limbs and branches.
Read MoreCoastal 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 MoreThe 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.
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
Approve: 92 | Disapprove 2
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) loan for the pre-construction phase of the LISECC water treatment plant replacement.
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.
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.
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 MoreOur 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 MoreThis year we have coordinated a no-charge chipping service to come to your property and chip your pile of limbs and branches.
Read MoreOur 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 MoreOur 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 MorePlanning 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 MoreThe 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.
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.
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
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.
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 MoreThe 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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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
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
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 MoreThis year we have coordinated a no-charge chipping service to come to your property and chip your pile of limbs and branches.
Read MoreA 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 MoreOur 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 MoreWe 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 MoreOur 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 MoreThe Annual General Meeting was held at the Scenic Estates Clubhouse on August 24.
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
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.
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.
Welcome to Lummi Island Scenic Estates. We enjoy incredible views of Mount Baker across Bellingham Bay with a range of amenities from marina facilities to a mountain swim lake.
(360) 758-2699 office
business@lisecc.com
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(360) 389-7800 mobile
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