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2017

2017

6:00 pm

Efficiently sterile, impersonal, ineffective, good way to ignore input and homeowners.

Issues may be routed but does NOT guarantee you will receive an answered response.

2017

2:48 am

2017

4:11 pm

– I’m not sure — will refer your question to the board.  [question about cost of M&S]

– I can’t speak to the board’s reason for the management change or timing of the announcement, as I was not part of the discussion.

– I apologize, but owner contact information is kept confidential and used for official business only.

– Last year is attached. I will follow up on this year to make sure I have the latest proposed budget, and then send your way.

Thanks,

Ryan

2017

9:22 am

Lucy, to complete my responses:

• Morris Sperry agreed to complete the CC&R rewrite for a fixed fee of $7,000 and are on track for completion
• PMA was replaced because their proposed fee increase was unreasonable [$18,000] and prompted negative owner feedback at the annual meeting.
• The following board members were on the ballot and were unanimously elected at the most recent annual meeting in October 2016: Todd Evans [resigned], Ed Robertshaw, Polly Reynolds, and Allison Dittmer. The complete list of board members is here [must set up account to sign in on BOT website — or use link on right.]
• Association budgets are on the website here [must set up account on BOT website to sign in or use link on right]
• FYI: the board has directed that any information available on the website be disseminated via the website, to ensure the latest and most accurate documents are used

Best,

Ryan [Dickey]

The Proposed 2018 Budget shows Model/HOA is to receive $17,500, little less than PMA requested and then were fired for their request.

SF Board Members

MA Board Members (close to bottom of page)

SF Budgets Here

MA Budgets Here

2017

Our HOA documents have never included mention of the underdrains.  The M&S Draft CCRs imperialize the now included underdrains in around eleven title sections.  Please read the synopsis and history of how our happy neighborhood may become a victim of unscrupulous, self-serving individuals who want to benefit from their neighbors benevolent disengagement with their furtive activities.  Homeowners have much to lose if they vote for the Morris & Sperry draft documents. Read them for yourself, Click on this link…………..

Link to Morris & Sperry CCRs Draft:  https://www.silverspringscommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/Silver-Springs-Declarations-Draft-for-Review-by-Members-Jan-2017.pdf

Go to link at the top left to read the Minutes of that meeting.

Hello Ryan,

How far ahead of the October 10th SSSF meeting will you be sending out the proposed 2018 SSSF Budget?  Are we also going to receive copies of the 2017 Master Association Expenditures and the MA 2018 Proposed Budget?  I’d like to know more about the $333,000. the MA has accrued.  I hope the Trustees will provide to us a couple weeks to look at these fiduciary documents.

“4. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting”  Please be more specific.  Are we going to get a current update on the Master Association?  Are we going to learn whether  Edwin C. Ted Barnes is still the attorney for the MA and the SSSFHOA.  Also it is imperative to inform the SSSF Homeowners whether the MA has at last rewritten its 1990 Draft Bylaws.  If the MA Bylaws have been rewritten they should be made available to all the Silver Springs Community property owners, the subjects who are ultimately responsible for their content.

And most critically, will the SSSF Homeowners be provided with a complete update on the specious Morris-Sperry written CCRs and Bylaws?  The Trustees are long overdue on bringing the Homeowners current with what is being done by the Trustees on these unacceptable documents.

Are all the SSSFHOA Homeowners being sent the “Nomination Form to Volunteer to be a SSSF Board Trustee?  This Board needs to give everyone an opportunity to be on the ballot.  It would have been a good idea to have sent this form with today’s letter to the Homeowners. I hope an elected Trustee who truly seeks to provide a fair ballot will consider using this Nomination Form (updated).  Who has been given the helm of directing an impartial, full and open ballot?  There are Homeowners who would like the opportunity to serve.

At the Annual Meeting you might consider asking the attendees/proxies whether they use or agree with the “Open a Ticket” process for attempting to reach the Board of Trustees.  (Sorry, I know monitoring “Tickets” is part of your job description.)

Thank you for your efforts,

Lucy Archer

Nomination-Form-BOT.pdf  attached

Conflict of interest.

Hi Lucy, see answers inline below. Look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks!

Yes, I believe both will be sent out in advance.
This agenda item is really more general in case anything else comes up not currently planned. There is nothing specifically envisioned here as far as I know. Yes, the board will provide an update on the CC&R rewrite.

Tickets are helpful to me since that ensures they receive attention (by virtue of needing to be closed) and don’t get lost in the crush of daily email! That said, I’m fine with however people want to contact me. They always find a way, and anything meant for the board I always pass on.

And for the most part board members ignore the Tickets.

12.22 pm

12:29 pm

12:49 pm

Thank you for your assistance Ryan.  I seem to recall that the budget, meeting agenda and the ballot are to be mailed to Members 10 days prior to the Annual meeting so that Homeowners have time to look over the budgets, candidates, etc. and make arrangements to vote.  At this point the Homeowners have been given notice and no documents to preview.  Has the ballot been finalized?  How did the Nominating  committee produce a full ballot of candidates?  If the ballot is not completed will the SSSFHOA meeting be postponed?

Since the MA has such a huge collection of Member assessments ($333,000.), when will the annual MA fees be decreased as promised since 2010?

It seems like a lot of the issues important to Homeowners remain unresolved year after year.  Someone needs to clear the slate.

Lucy Archer

2017

1:02 pm

3:20 pm

See Ticket #99 below.

Lucy,

Thank you for your concerns.  I will forward your email to Ryan Dickey who can address them.

Polly

[In answer to Sept 19th Ticket, Polly did not admit she was the chair of the Nomination Committee and would be handling which names would be included on the 2017 ballot.  Also that Nom. Com. members for last several years are in same clique, go camping together, Garden Club together, party together, etc.  Appears to be collusion.]

Lucy went to Polly’s house to deliver the 2017 MA Annual Meeting Report.  When leaving, Polly interjected, “I guess it looks pretty bad that I left your name off the ballot.  The men told me I had to do that because they are putting Noland in the fourth vacancy a few days before the Annual Election.  I will email to you the Bylaw reference they told me they were using.

March 3, 2018 – Polly Reynolds has not sent the reference nor talked to me about it when we have seen each other.

2017

4:34 pm

“Ask  at the meeting” makes it a bit late to take action on the printed ballot.

2017

4:54 pm

Hello Polly,

I sent several questions to Ryan.  He said he would forward them to both of you.  Since I hadn’t heard back from you I sent them directly to your email address.  I have not heard back from other folks on the board.  Can the board be this confused.  Or does an edict in place disallow trustees to directly answer homeowner questions?   If that is the case why do we elect a board of trustees?  Why not just allow one person to reign over our neighborhood  [I don’t mean you Ryan].  It has happened here before.

Lucy Archer

Hello Brian,

I have several questions for the board.  I began by contacting Ryan Dickey.  Then an email to Polly Reynolds and Allison Dittmer.  It is disconcerting how little these TRUSTEES know about the committees they represent.

This board has become progressively lacking in transparency.  The inability to get any information from them leads me to believe the board is being dishonest or manipulating the election (again) for their own self-interests.

This email is to notify you that Hunt Williams and Lucy Archer are volunteer homeowner candidates to be included on the ballot for the upcoming SSSFHOA October 2017 Election.

Thank you for your service to our neighborhood,

Lucy Archer

2017

6:36 pm

Lucy,

The reason that there is a process for funneling questions through Ryan, our manager, is so that questions are tracked and responded to in a timely manner, and not lost.  We believe it increases transparency, and not the opposite.  We believe that bypassing that process could be viewed as favoritism or special treatment, and thus isn’t in the best interest of the association.

This is a self-less board that has put in many volunteer hours, working in good faith to fulfill its duty to the association.

Thanks for volunteering.

Sincerely,

Brian

Does Brian mean self-serving?  And who expect the manager to do most of the work?

Nomination Form.pdf file attached.

Sept 23,
2017

Minutes of March 2, 2017 Meeting with M&S re: Draft CCRs

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Sept 28,  2017

October
1st thru 8th, 2017

Hello SSSFHOA Trustees- Brian, Polly, Allison, Ed, Kaye, Edward and Manager Ryan Dickey,

This email is a follow-up to the September 21st letter to ModelHOA and Trustees, and to Tickets 86, 87 & 89.

We will appreciate a response to our earlier questions.

Also the following, how many candidates are on the ballot?

How many positions are to be filled?

Who will be counting the votes?

Will the Homeowners be given copies of the Draft Architectural Guidelines prior to the October 10, 2017 Annual Meeting?

Will the Homeowners be voting on the re-written Architectural Guidelines?  Since a majority of the board’s work is on Architectural issues it appears the Arch Rules do not represent the wishes and opinions of the Homeowners.  It will be responsible to receive the Homeowners input and agreement on the A.R. content.

Will the M&S Draft SSSF CCRs and Bylaws be rewritten and current status reported to the Homeowners?  The BOT has not reported anything further to the Homeowners regarding the Drafts since the March 2, 2017 meeting.  Many people are under the happy impression the Drafts have “been hurled into the circular file.”  Is this the case?

Allison, has the Master Association updated and rewritten the 1989 Bylaws that were provided to them by the Developer, and that include his former (more than 3 decades ago) part in the MA?

Allison, what plans does the MA have for the $333,000 the MA has been holding since 2010 to the present?

Thank you for your participation on the BOT.

Questions for 2016-2017 SSSF Board of Trustees: namely Brian Zilvitis,  Edward Robertshaw, Polly Reynolds, Kaye Lilliquist, Ed Cody, Allison Dittmer.

Today is Thursday, October 5, 2017. Five days before the SSSFHOA Annual Meeting and Election. Has anyone received the 2017 Ballot or an Agenda for the Annual Meeting from the BOT or Ryan Dickey at ModelHOA?  There are those of us who have NOT received these important documents.  Has anyone received them?

These items should have been sent to Homeowners 10 days prior notice to the Meeting. Otherwise the Homeowners do not have time to inform themselves of the candidates and issues to responsibly vote on them.
Is the Board of Trustees going rogue in their responsibilities to the Homeowners or is this another ploy to control membership on the Board and the outcome of the business to be transacted at the October 10, 2017 SSSFHOA Annual Meeting.

And is the BOT hoping for a Replacement Meeting in order to allow the few “any number of Members” to manipulate the outcome of the Election, the Budget item of $17,000 for Model HOA, and the Morris & Sperry Draft CCRs and Bylaws?  ETC.?

Perhaps the Board is willing to allow the Master Association to spend $60,000 for a special assessment to install aerators for the MA large pond and for the Exclusive Easement Private little pond owned by the 24 contiguous pond property owners.  This expenditure requires a 66 2/3% vote of approval from all the Silver Springs Property Owners.  Bill Noland created an uproar in 2010 when he passed, against the wishes of the Property Owners, a 200% increase in Master Association dues to make improvements on the two ponds. He forewent the vote of the Homeowners. The outcome of that fiasco is that the MA has carried a very large balance since 2010 that now has grown to $333,000.

• Entry 309691
• Book 525
• Pages 670-671

SSMA Bylaws 1990:    Includes rules for meetings of members; quorum=50%; special assessment requires 66 2/3% vote of Members; office of trustee may be declared vacant after 3 consecutive absences; limit of 2 year trustee term;  audits and inspection of books; indemnification for harm or loss.

Because the MA has been overcharging the Homeowners for years does not grant to the MA BOT permission to spend large quantities of money on specialized repairs for an amenity from which few benefit.

Oct 5, 2017

SSSF Board of Trustees: namely Brian Zilvitis,  Edward Robertshaw, Polly Reynolds, Kaye Lilliquist, Ed Cody, Allison Dittmer.

Is the Board of Trustees continuing to go rogue in their responsibilities to the Homeowners or is the overt lack of transparency to the Homeowners another ploy to control membership on the Board and the outcome of the business to be transacted at the October 10, 2017 SSSFHOA Annual Meeting?

Is the BOT hoping for a Replacement Meeting in order to allow the few “any number of Members” to manipulate the outcome of the Election and the Budget?  One budget item stands out.  Last year PMA requested $18,000 compensation for the many additional duties the BOT was loading on them in excess of the contracted work.  The response at the Annual Meeting was aghast.  For PMA’s request they were fired,  ModelHOA was hired.  This year the new 2018 Budget shows Ryan Dickey of Model HOA has requested $17,000.  How does the BOT justify this after last year’s reaction? In appearance, Dickey does much less work than PMA did in 2015 and 2016.

Oct 10, 2017

October 8,
2017

“If I do not want to vote on the BOT Proxy form essentially I will lose my right to vote.”

“I did not sign the BOT Proxy, I want to vote for myself.  I have gone to the website to see the Budget (which I do not approve).  I have not been able to find the slate of candidates that Polly Reynolds of the Nominating Committee has selected for approval.  I want to vote for Hunt Williams, he sent in his candidacy form to volunteer to be on the board  so where do I vote for him on this “Proxy”?  This election is a vote grab by the BOT.  I don’t think they care if I attend this meeting, they just want me to give them my vote Proxy.”

-And that is not the only “worst of it”…. If Homeowners do not send in their Proxy and do not have a 50% majority Quorum present to vote in person then the Annual Meeting will be closed without transacting business.   SSSFHOA Bylaws: Article III: Meetings of Members:  Section 5. Quorum.  …Within 30 days the BOT has to have a “Replacement Meeting” allowing Members at least two (2) weeks’ notice of meeting and providing proxy forms, at which time it shall reconvene and any number of attendees  in good standing present at such subsequent meeting,  in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum .  At any such adjourned ”Replacement” meeting held as set forth above, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally noticed.

-I have attended Replacement Meetings where 8 attendees decided on the election, budget, and other business.  The setup is that Homeowners will lose in either scenario; the Board is asking for a blank check and Proxy to do whatever they want.  What needs to happen is that the Homeowners organize and sign the Complaint and Challenge to the Board of Trustees handling of this Annual Meeting and Election.   Call me at 435-649-4663 or email me at [email protected] to be included in this Challenge.

-Another matter that again shows how the BOT disenfranchises the Homeowners is by the SSSF Board allowing the Master Association to spend $60,000 on aerators for the MA large pond and for the Exclusive Private Easement little pond owned by the 24 contiguous little pond property owners (access is not extended to all other SSMA owners).  This expenditure has a required 66 2/3% vote of approval from all the Silver Springs Community Property Owners.  Each subdivision within the Master Association was to receive the voter approval of their Property Owners before allowing this size of expenditure. Bill Noland created an uproar in 2010 when he forcefully passed, against the wishes of the Property Owners, a 200% increase in Master Association dues to make improvements on the two ponds.  The outcome of that fiasco was that subdivisions wanted to remove their membership in the Master Association. There was a court battle that further alienated membership. The effect of Noland’s forced assessment is that the MA has carried a very large balance since 2010 that now has grown to $333,000.

Where am I going with this?  The Trustees’ disjointed “Tickets” interruption of communication between the BOT and the Homeowners and the manipulation of rules to benefit a few cronies is distancing the board from the Homeowners.  Lack of transparency, unauthorized expenditures on a bevy of lawyers, minimal access to the ponds while paying for their costs, and the furtive work on the underdrain system, all without Homeowner knowledge or votes has removed the rights and control of our neighborhood out of the innate authority of the Homeowners and into the hands of a board of trustees who are in conflict with the Homeowners they should be representing.

Oct. 9
2017

Thank you for sending Annual Meeting Information to the Homeowners-Voters this evening,  one day’s notice since the meeting is tomorrow.  We hope everyone has an opportunity to see the 2018 Budget with its inclusion of ModelHOA over-funding and the Homeowner “seize & desist” 2015 vote on the underdrains sneak funding; and for the first time the Meeting Agenda; and Polly Reynolds’ slate of three candidates.  The Bylaws allow for more, were there other Homeowners who were willing to be on the ballot and to serve on behalf of the Homeowners? Why does one vacancy remain? It appears the crony system is still holding the reins on who can be elected to the Board?

This is the most usurping and shameless display of lack of fiduciary duty and transparency of any BOT that I have seen in 35 years in Silver Springs.

Tell me did Ryan Dickey earn his new salary by neglecting to notify the Homeowners of the Annual Meeting and Election and not sending out the required documents until the night before the Annual Meeting and Election?  Or did he earn his new salary because he followed the BOT’s surreptitious instructions?

Archer’s Proxy/Ballot

1- President:  Brian Zilvitis  801-891-7059 (Oct 2015- Oct 2017) OUT-1
2- Vice President: Ed Robertshaw    _{(Oct 2016 to 2018) replacement not elected)}
3- Secretary: Polly Reynolds  649-3775  (Oct 2016 to 2018 )
4- Treasurer:  Kaye Lilliquist 649-1421 (Oct 2015 to Oct 2017)OUT-2
5- Trustee: Ed Cody  647-3685  (2 yr term- Oct 2015 to Oct 2017) OUT-3
6- Trustee-Rep to MA:  Allison Dittmer  659-8757 (Oct 2016 to 2018 )
7- Vacancy-4
New- Trustee: Hunt Williams 645-5345 (Oct 2017-2019)
New- Trustee: Elena Gladson 649-7467  (Oct 2017 to 2019)
New- Trustee:  Joan Benson 649-9218, 640-4434 (Oct 2017 to 2019)
Arch Com: (Keith Moore) Thomas Eddington (non-resident) of Integrated Planning & Design
Property Mgmt Co: Model HOA – Ryan Dickey 435-901-9784 (Dec 2016, renewed Oct 2017)

The trustees and/or committee chairs whose terms ended October 10th were not included on the election ballot so were not re-elected, therefore they are required to vacate their seats on the Board of Trustees in lieu of the new candidates.

The Nomination Committee comprised of Trustee Polly Reynolds, and two or more Members of our Association (Article V. Section 1) were Julia Loughlin, and Brian Zilvitis.

This “Nominating Committee was charged to make as many nominations for election to the Board of Trustees ballot as it shall in its discretion determine, but not less than the number of vacancies that are to be filled.”  Trustees (Zilvitis, Lilliquist, Cody) have completed their election terms. The BOT has had but six trustees.  The 2017 candidates for election were available for placement on the ballot by the middle of September (Gladson, Benson, Williams, Archer). Email to and from Brian Zilvitis and I think Model HOA Tickets #86 and #89 do verify this candidacy.

The ballot sent to Homeowners on the night before the election provided only three candidates to receive votes.  This leaves the 2017-2018 Board of Trustees with a vacancy.

Did the Board nominate or elect a fourth Trustee from the floor during the annual meeting?  Those I have asked say No.  If not, the Nominating Committee has made an error that should be rectified by adding candidate Archer to the Board.

If the Board has added someone else to this fourth seat without being a declared candidate prior to the election, or not having their name on the ballot then the board is working out of order and is non-compliant with our Bylaws.

I hope you correct the Election Ballot error of filling not less than the number of vacancies open on the SSSF Board of Trustees.

Sincerely,

Lucy Archer

Dear Lucy Archer,

We would like to acknowledge that we have received your request and a ticket has been created.
An HOA representative will be reviewing your request and will send you a personal response.

To view the status of the ticket or add comments, please visit
https://help.modelhoa.com/helpdesk/tickets/99

Thank you for your patience as we review your request.

Sincerely,
Model HOA Management Team

or Action from the manager or the Board Trustees.

from: [email protected]
to: [email protected]
date:  Thur, Mar 1, 2018 2:38 pm
re: Ticket Received – Fulfillment of agreement to serve as the Re-write Committee Chairperson

This is received and passed on, thank you.

Dear Lucy Archer,

We would like to acknowledge that we have received your request and a ticket has been created.
An HOA representative will be reviewing your request and will send you a personal response.

To view the status of the ticket or add comments, please visit
https://help.modelhoa.com/helpdesk/tickets/109

Thank you for your patience as we review your request.

Sincerely,
Model HOA Management Team
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To the SSSFHOA Trustees:

January 8, 2018 -_SSSFHOA Board Meeting  – Model HOA –Property Manager’s Report: Manager Ryan Dickey asked what the BOT wants to do regarding Document Retention.  Ryan said he would like to reduce the amount of documents he has accumulated since November 2016 when his company was hired by the BOT.  Williams asked what the law required on this topic and if different types of subdivisions require more or less paperwork.  Ryan manages 3 condominium subdivisions that require much more paperwork.  Ryan would like to trim SSSF files, both paper and electronic records, from retention.

My concern is whether the BOT realizes that failure to retain records could expose the management company and the BOT to liability for negligent practices.  The BOT’s failure to supervise and investigate potential record loss on a regular basis might compromise the board’s position should litigation ensue.  There is no replacement for a thorough paper trail. Loss of documents is a serious problem called “spoliation” whether by a party or its agent.  Worst case scenario, spoliation can lead to court sanctions, the loss of a case, extensive legal fees and possible criminal offense.

The Board president asked Ryan to draft a document to define the Document Retention policy for the board before approval.  Should the SSSFHOA trustees decide to allow Ryan of Model HOA to dispose of the box or two of Association documents his company now holds, I would like to offer an alternate solution.  I have been collecting and housing Silver Springs documents since 1982. Rather than shredding and disposing of Association materials I would like to receive these boxes of information to add to my collection.

As a retired librarian, and Association founding member, and a board trustee for a number of terms/years I feel qualified to expand my stewardship over Association documents.

Submitted by Lucy Archer

from:  [email protected]
to: [email protected]
date:  Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 10:08 AM
re: Ticket Received – SSSF HOA Document Retention

Dear Lucy Archer,
We would like to acknowledge that we have received your request and a ticket has been created.
An HOA representative will be reviewing your request and will send you a personal response.

To view the status of the ticket or add comments, please visit
https://help.modelhoa.com/helpdesk/tickets/110

Thank you for your patience as we review your request.

Sincerely,
Model HOA Management Team

#204 Essential Considerations before approving Draft CCRs – request for extension and more Homeowner Input from Lucy Archer

, reported less than a minute ago

–The underdrains are NOT OWNED by the Board of Trustees or our Association, because they were installed on private properties. The underdrains have never been included in legal recorded plats, have not been dedicated to Summit County. Summit County holds no mandate for our HOA to repair, maintain, or replace any part of the underdrains “as it is reckless to do so.” (according to the U.S.G.S. and the Summit County Commissioners).

–We were told at the Office of the State Water Engineer that the underdrain function of altering the flow of groundwater and discharging it outside of SSSF, an activity that has never been approved by the Division of Water Rights.  It is illegal.  Water in Utah, whether it is above or below the ground, is public property subject to existing State laws for rights of water use.

–The underdrains were to be temporary D.I.A. ditching, installed 5-10’ below the surface within private property on half the platted lots of SSSF by the developer in 1979 to 1982 to facilitate the construction of infrastructure utilities and the first foundations for homes a Special Notice was recorded as Entry 157606 . The polypropylene tubes were new “technology” in the 1970’s. The 1977 Clean Water Act was a new federal directive. None of the other twelve subdivisions in Silver Springs Community installed nor used this new technology. Underdrains are not included in our Association charter documents. There is a clear distinction between channels, drainage (surface storm water and snowmelt) and the underdrains.

–There are men in SSSF who claim they worked for the early developers and engineers who worked on our SSSF development building process. That era and its local outputs were a difficult time, many errors were made on so many levels, bankruptcies were adding up and putting many builders out of business. From 1982 to 2007 the UDs were unheard of leftovers.
One of our neighbors, Matt Lindon, wrote a description of the natural history of our Snyderville Basin and our neighborhood in 2006. He does not mention the underdrains.

For over thirty years people bought their SSSF property without any clue of what lay beneath their lots. Until around 2005, a few underdrains were unclogged without authority by a few men, thinking they were helping their neighbors by removing tree roots and ground soil shift blockages. Approximately five or six lots benefited from this work.  It was found by several Homeowners that sump pumps and French drains proved to be highly effective and less costly with much less damage to Homeowner properties, and without inclusion in the HOA CCRs.  If the UDs are inserted in our CCRs your vote will help create a cloud on your property title that could lower the valuation and make prospective buyers uncertain.

–The problems began around 2009 when these few men formed a secret committee and did little to make their work known to the Homeowners. Funds were funneled in furtive ways to hire root rooters and to trench out what they identified as problem areas. There were a few Homeowners that were privately assisted; now there were scores of Homeowners who feel they have never been told the full story. Advice to the committee by lawyers they paid to support their opinions have been costly ($128,565.77). Advice from several County Commissioners and the County Attorney and other County and State department water officials are free and available; these have been suppressed by the UD committee. The Homeowner’s concerns and anxiety has been displayed at the October and November 2018 meetings as the Homeowners ask unanswered underdrain questions that have not been provided since 2005.   If the UD committee had not been so ambiguous and obscure, this now apparent problem, brought forward in the underdrain- focused v.17 draft CCRs, would not have sent a shock wave throughout the Silver Springs Single Family neighborhood.

–Our valuable, natural groundwater in SSSF is being systematically removed by the underdrains, 365 days of the year.  Whether it is cold, raining or whether the temperatures are soaring without rain for months, the underdrains ARE ALWAYS ON!  There is no way to regulate how much valuable groundwater or irrigation water is being discharged off our properties and neighborhood, or under what weather conditions. See photos and posts regarding the Utah Snyderville Basin drought at https://www.facebook.com/SilverSpringsCommunityUT/

–The underdrain proponents are proud of the work they have done in SSSF.  It appears irrelevant to them that they have disenfranchised Homeowners who have repeatedly voted to ignore the underdrains; and that they usurped authority. They want you to think that discharging our costly irrigation water, and our valuable, natural resource groundwater is a service to SSSF.  As the dehydrating ground shrinks it is possible for home foundations to shift.  Homeowners need to be on the lookout next summer for foundation cracks and leveling changes. Definitely the opposite of becoming a swamp! (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4884879/)

–As clay layers contract, cracks develop that will allow radon gas to more readily pass upward to enter your home. You cannot see or smell radon gas.  Radon gas, prevalent in Utah, is a known cause of lung cancer. Your use of sump pumps or a Pitmaster may be decreasing but your need for dying mature tree removal and for foundation maintenance and concrete sealants such as Ion-Bond Armor are likely to increase.

And while these natural occurrences become more and more evident, SSSF Homeowners are being placed in the situation of “forced consent, unverifiable electronic voting procedures” to accept a specious and dangerous draft of CCRs that will create the problems the UD committee is telling us will occur as “entangling gross negligence law suits,” something that has NOT occurred for forty years because our CCRs do NOT make our HOA or the Homeowners liable for a temporary, aging system of plastic pipes the developer used under half of our private properties.

We hope you take time to read and understand the information we are providing in this email, and within the www.silverspringscommunity.com website and on the open forum (membership not required) mini-site: https://www.facebook.com/SilverSpringsCommunityUT/

Much is at stake, we want you to be well informed about all the facts.

Also attached is the latest edition of the Annotated Draft V.17 CCRs that include comments and notes from dozens of SSSF Homeowners.

This email and Annotated CCRs have been emailed to the seven board trustees.

Working toward Positive Outcomes,
Clay and Lucy Archer

2018-Nov-18-…

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https://help.modelhoa.com/support/tickets/204