SCRA Board Meeting Minutes – June 16, 2005

Weber County Public Library – 24^th & Jefferson, Ogden, Utah

 Present:                   Randy Rochell                                                                                         Bill Amundsen

                                Joel Thompson                                                                                        Monte Matue

                                Cal Pack                                                                                                  Doug Stuart

                                Derek Hunwick                                                                                        Gordon Owens

                                Ken Love                                                                                                 Max Eddy

                                Stacy Shelton                                                                                           Mike Guthrie

                                                                                                                Absent:                    Tony Fox

Minutes:   Bonnie Love

 Bonnie Love gave out copies of the approved January minutes and road maps defining major roads of SCRA for grading purposes.  Monte Matue gave copies of up-to-date expenses for the road grader.

 Derek Hunwick began by discussing water leaks at the lower spring, mentioned how water meter is constantly “spinning” and commented that there is water under the tank too – indicating a broken connection at the tank.  He wants to purchase 250’ to 300’ of black poly pipe about 1 ½” diameter to run from tank down to the farm faucet.  Max Eddy said he could get the pipe for “cost plus 10%”.  A motion was made by Randy Rochelle to purchase the pipe and replace the faulty pipe.  It was seconded by Max Eddy.

 Monte asked if Gordon Owens had contacted the grader repair person.  Gordon had not contacted him about working on the grader.  Monte said the grader just “shut off” after making 2 ½ passes on Rocky Ridge.  Total repair bill this month is $690.26.  Max Eddy made a motion to pay Monte for parts and labor for the grader – approximately $1400.00.  It was seconded by Randy Rochelle.  Stacy Shelton mentioned that we do not have to make a motion to pay for the work.  We just needed the receipts.

 Derek Hunwick wanted a motion made to repay him $88.14 for replacing broken flat locks, pipe, and green boxes at the lower spring.  Again, Stacy said we did not need a motion to pay Derek, we just need the receipts.

 A lengthy discussion began again about lower spring water issues.  Derek suggested we tighten security at the lower spring, if we find someone tampering with anything there, take away their water and hunting rights.  Derek gave Bonnie a list of rules he wanted to distribute to Scare Canyon property owners.  It was suggested that Bonnie might do a “flyer” listing water rights and possibly include it in the August hunting letter.

 Ken Love reminded the board members that access to the springs for maintenance and upgrades cannot be restricted by the land owner.  Derek cannot deny access to the lower spring just because he decided to build his cabin near it and use the existing access road to the spring as his personal drive.  We need to be careful about applying rules we cannot enforce equally.

 Stacy brought a spreadsheet listing parcels and members associated with those parcels hoping that it could possibly help with the issue of how many hunting permits would be distributed per parcel. 

 The meeting was adjourned at 7:20pm.

 Bonnie Love

Secretary, SCRA