Regular Meeting Minutes

Talmont Resort Improvement District

Wednesday, September 24th, 2025, 8:30 A.M.

Howard J. Perry Maintenance Station, 2010 Silvertip Drive

1.     CALL TO ORDER 8:30am

Directors present: Eileen Ilano, Jonathan Jochem and Kristen Anderson

Others Present: Bugg Vokel, Bill Bate and David Horovitz

2.     ADDITIONS/DELETIONS TO AGENDA: None

3.     PUBLIC COMMENT – Bill Bate asked about the Gogolewski claim and if we were doing the fire hydrant snow removal this year.

4.     CONSENT CALENDAR

4.1 Approval of the regular and annual board meeting minutes August 30th, 2025. Eileen wanted to remove the words a negative response from unfinished business 5.1 she felt that was not the case board agreed after correction both Meeting agenda’s approved unanimously.

4.2 Approval of the Paid Bills – Paid bills approved by all with a breakdown of Ricks next bill to show  more broken down detail of work performed. Board asked to look into leasing a truck for the water manager job.

5.     NEW BUSINESS

5.1     New policy discussion of social media use, email and correspondence to our residents. How the board gets their message out to the public was discussed with mainly using the website as a point of reference and maybe pursuing a face book page for information distribution.

5.2     New policy discussion on establishing a code of conduct on external board communication.
Discussed new board resolution “Board communication 25-1” after discussion board motioned to adopt resolution 25-1 with all approved.

5.3     Discuss season’s snow removal contract(s)
Board discussed Fire hydrant snow removal this year and all agreed it was a benefit to the homeowners and the district in a whole to clear snow up to the bollards. The silver tip station driveway was also a very important need. Motion to go out to bid for both hydrant and Silver Tip driveway snow removal with bid opening by zoom at our special meet on Oct.1st at 8:30am.

5.4     New Board position interview(s)

One applicant was interviewed and sworn into office we all welcomed David Horovitz onto the board.

6.     UNFINISHED BUSINESS

6.1     TRID Lot survey and encroachment documentation including all lots quote
After reviewing the new quote for survey, it still seemed to be missing all the lots we needed to get surveyed. Bugg will review all the lots APN’s and resend it to the surveyor. Board motioned to put a $5000 placeholder for all surveyed lots. Motion unanimously approved.

7.     ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
Talmont’s cross connection control program was submitted with state revisions to the state water board for approval. After further review it is apparent Talmont will have to do an initial hazard assessment for all of their water connections.

8.     WATER MANAGERS REPORT – Well #1 tested negative, Electrician is setting up the well switch chlorine feed for auto feed chlorine feeds.

9.     SNOW REMOVAL REPORT – Nothing to report

10.  CORRESPONDENCE & DIRECTORS COMMENT’s
Jonathan brought up dog poop around the area and asked if we could post signage around the
community for picking up after your dog. Posts for doggie bags were suggested. Plan on putting a
brief paragraph about picking up after your dog in the newsletter for October. Kristen brought up
having the fire chief come to one of our meetings for questions at a cost. She also brought up
implementing our fire hardening plan.

11.  ADJOURNMENT 10:12am
The site for the meeting is wheelchair accessible.

By:  ____________________________________

Bugg Vokel, Administrative Supervisor

2010 Silvertip Dr., Tahoe City, California 96145 | Phone: (530) 583-8743 | www.talmontrid.org