7:00P Meeting called to order by Deakin.

Roll call: Present were Garrett Deakin, Jim Scheider, Melinda O'Connor, Linda Esper, Greg Moore, Kim Curry, John Aiello, Nancy Bartolomucci, Tom Hiler, David Hofferkamp, Rich King, Riley Lane, Vicki McGuar, Larry Michuad, Sherel Nutt, Carol Schempp, Ron Tucker, Sam Xanders.

Absent Greg Pinto, Lynn Bierma, Jill Leka, Don Leckrone, and Jack Pfeiffer.

Treasures report was reviewed and accepted. First by Moore, second by Aiello. Treasure reported that, to date, only 294 out of more than 700 lake leaseholders had paid this years dues. We will have a list and envelopes at the Escape to the Lake event for lease holders to pay dues.

Update on Escape to the Lake, Volunteers are needed for set-up, decorating, and clean up. Group leader is Larry Michuad, helping will be Rich King, Tom Hiler, and Garrett Deakin will head up the clean up. Anyone else wishing to help please contact Greg Pinto. Riley Lane will be getting the wine, and Alderman Frank Edwards will donate/purchase the first keg of beer.

Sherel Nutt gave a report on the progress on the Lane Captain efforts. There are 44 Lanes on the lake and Mr. Nutt has responses from 8 of the lanes. Mr. Nutt is looking for assistance for the land captain process.
Mr. Nutt expressed his continued concern for the on-going condo issue.
Mr. Nutt continues to look for methods to encourage people to get involved in the lane captain matter.

Pickering Lane Ron Tucker
Hazel Dell Garrett Deakin
Linden Lane Linda Esper
Northwest Cotton Hill ??
North Cotton Hill ??
Northwest Hazel Dell Garrett Deakin
North Villa Grove Greg Pinto
The Elms Tom Hiler

Looking for lane captains that have access to E-mail.

Jim Scheider reported on the LSIA web site. Thanks to Rich King for the assistance on the web site. It is challenging to keep the site current. Jim was wondering what type of use our web site is seeing. We continue to look to local business to help in supporting the cost of the upkeep of our web site by possibly allowing them to purchase advertising on our site. Rich and Jim will investigate the possibility of selling advertisement on the LSIA web site.

Thanks to CWLP for their assistance and input for our web site! To date, for 2003, we have invested $750 for the up-keep of the web site.

Larry Michuad is our Council of Clubs representative. Larry reminded us to support the firefighters fundraiser scheduled for August 20, 2003. This event will be held at their new facility on the lake.

Tom Daley (CWLP) reported that Todd (new CWLP General Manager) is looking at the lake lease policy. Todd would like to reduce the term of the lease significantly from the current 99-year agreements. There has been talk of a maximum term of 40 years. The question was raised that lending institutions may not be willing to loan for such a short term. Also mentioned was the fact that any lease currently being renewed (not transferred) the property is automatically annexed into the city? This has been the policy for some time. And of course, should a homeowner wish to annex into the city on their own, the city would happily have them. Alderman Frank Edwards feels that there is currently no advantage for a lake property homeowner to annex into the city. There needs to be some incentive for the homeowner to annex into the city.

Tom Skelly (CWLP) One of the major issues here for the city is the property value vs. the current lease amounts. Several good issues were brought to the table.

LSIA feels that the lake homeowners are paying property taxes on property that the city owns?
These monies go to CWLP??
Fair lease values Vs. Property value?
Who is in charge of the tax proceeds and regulations?
City, County, or State?

Garrett made it a point to thank Tom Skelly and CWLP for their aggressive approach this season for pumping water out of the South Fork into Lake Springfield to assist in maintaining the lake level. Tom indicated that it also took rain southeast of Springfield to keep the South Fork Flowing with water to allow CWPL to pump.

Old Business Multi Family Dwellings, August 20, 2003 is the County Zoning meeting. Currently the word is that the developers are looking at 22 units. September 16, 2003 will be another meeting with one of the governing bodies on the development issue.

Tom Skelly (CWLP) reported that there are still many issues to be address by the city on the multi-family dwelling proposal for Lake Property.
Will duplexes be allowed?
Lease fee?
Development fee? Etc.

There was further discussion on Sub-Leasing/Multi Family Dwelling. Currently the State Regulations will not allow Condos on property that is not owned by the developer. Calling the project a co-op can circumvent this. Some of the LSIA board members are concerned that all the city is looking at from this project are the possible revenues. Also concerned that the scope of the project appears to have changed several times since its inception and now with a new city leadership " will it be changing again"?

The former administration gave their word that they would monitor and control the project for the best interest of the city and the lake. Now those people have moved on. What is the interest of the current city administration?

Garrett introduced our Lake City Police Officer. Dave Wesselman. Officer Wesselman reports that the city police force has had 7 day a week coverage by officers this year.

During the month of July (2003) the police had 265 boating contacts, Club checks, Party Cove checks and issuing citations.
11 citations were issued during that time.
9 for speeding (fastest 63 mph, lowest 48 mph) with two arrested in an access area parking lot on illegal drug charges.
The city police on the lake also have a new boat. DNR has been very helpful and supportive in getting this new craft ready for the lake. This will enable any officer to respond in a more timely fashion to emergency situations on the lake. Overall things are going well on patrolling on the lake. As of this time there have been 3,277 watercraft stickers issued. The all time high was just over 4,000 prior to the Lepto year.

Complaints from Long Bay residents about the many boats congregating in their cove led to the "Party Cove" being moved. This movement was accomplished with the cooperation of the boaters, police, alderman Edwards, and homeowners. Everyone involved is to be commended to coming up with a solution that works well for all involved.

Mike Johnson and Jeff Stauffer were in attendance. They are the representatives from Oak Harbor Marina. Their goal is to lease their facility to third parties for events. Parties, reunions, etc. They were present to address noise (loud live music) language that had been used recently at an event at Oak Harbor that was sponsored by one of the local radio stations.

There were police called to residences on the opposite side of the lake from the club due to the noise produced by the bands at this gathering. The officer wrote the incident up and there was a copy of the report at the meeting. The representatives from Oak Harbor assured all present that they had no idea that the event was going to be of that nature and that they would not be booking those types of events in the future. They encouraged Lake Area residents to call them should there be any issues with activities at their facility.

Garrett is looking for assistance in promoting Lake Activities and ideas.
The following agreed to assist.

Linda Esper
Rich King
Larry Michuad
Kim Curry
Tom Hiler

Anyone, who is interest in becoming involved, please contact Garrett.

The next regular scheduled board meeting will be held Wednesday November 5, 2003 at the Firefighters/Postal club.

Officer Dave Wesselman drew the ticket for the 50/50 drawing. Mr. Nutt gathered the spoils of $37.50!

Meeting adjourned.

1st G. Moore
2nd K . Curry

Meeting was called to order at 7:05 PM

Vicki McGuar approved the minutes of the February 26, 2003 board meeting and Kim Curry seconded.

Treasurers Report
See banking summary. Dues notices were the only outstanding bills. The Lake Schedule costs $680 for 10,000 schedules. Motion to accept treasurer's report by Vicki McGuar. John Aiello seconded the motion.

Garrett Deakin introduced Rob Flesher, the President of the Council of Lake Clubs and a member of the KC Club. The board appointed Rob as our Lake Council representative. Rob's e-mail is ilini38@aol.com.

Lynn Bierma gave an update on the mailing for membership dues and reported that the mailing went out without any problems, and included the updated addresses provided by John Aiello.

Larry Michaud reported that the Firemen's Lake Club postponed their chicken fry; thereby not conflicting with Springfield Ski & Boat/Parrot Head Island Fever chicken fry. Larry also reported that the lake lease committee will soon have their first meeting. Garrett urged the committee to meet and form ideas quickly since we have a new city council, Mayor and CWLP staff. The first item regarding lake leases addressed by the committee will be the lake lease renewal formula.

Greg Pinto, as chair of the social committee, asked for committee volunteers to discuss ideas for an "Escape to the Lake" party. Garrett mentioned that the function should make money or be as close to breaking even as possible. Committee members: Lynn Bierma, Garrett Deakin, Riley Lane and Melinda O'Connor.

Jim Scheider gave a Web site update. The Web site committee consists of Riley Lane, Rich King and Jim. They met to discuss cost, the goal/purpose of the Web site and how to offset costs.

Costs: last year the cost of the web site was $2500, including a $1500 set up fee. Updates cost $75/hr. Hosting the Web site costs $100/quarter. To actively update the Web site on a monthly basis will run us approximately $1600/year.

Goal/purpose: information for association members, resource for lake area residents and users, publicity for Springfield metropolitan area, and potential revenue generated (advertising). Fee has to be enough to cover updates. Committee recommended the following scale for advertisers: One set up fee of $250, with an annual fee of $100. Maximum size of advertisement to be 4 sq. inches, which would most likely be a thumbnail logo that could link to the advertiser's own Web site.

The committee also discussed pulling the Web site as being too expensive to maintain. Jim will be talking to businesses that have expressed interest in advertising on our Web site in the past and will report at the August 6, 2003 meeting. Jim asked that board members let him know if anyone wants any changes made to the Web site.

Sherel Nutt reported on Lane Captains, and asked that board members help secure Lane Captains. A mailing went out to all board members, asking them to help verify names, and secure contact information with e-mail if possible for lake homeowners. Sherel feels Lane Captains can disseminate information quickly to lake homeowners. Sherel will provide a list of lanes we don't have captains for.

Garrett Deakin reported on multi-family housing. Environmental studies have been completed. The developers want to start construction this fall; however, their current plans don't fit the space. CWLP has told them to submit plans and a description of the site. Garrett felt that building would probably not happen this year. The developers have mentioned duplexes instead of condos. At this point the developers need to come up with a legal description of the land, negotiate a lease and go back to the City Council. Conditions and standards for the development have been pulled for review. No on really knows what the City Council will do. Kim reported that Frank Edwards, our alderman, is on the public works committee.

Garrett reported that the Executive Committee needs another member: John Aiello was appointed.

The board decided not to pursue lake clean up this year. The board also decided to work on appointing a committee to look at our bylaws.

Audits - Vicki will perform the audit of our books.

Budget & Finance - committee will wait until next year to meet, in order to have a full year of good books.

Membership Committee - John Aiello and Lynn Bierma are working together to keep our membership listing current.

Major upcoming agenda items:

• New Mayor/City Council
• Multi-family dwellings
• Lake lease
• Property upkeep
• Conditions and standards of dredging
• Hunter lake
• Inspections/rules on septic tanks
• Sewers for Lake Springfield clubs and homes
• Filtration system

Garrett asked for volunteers for the upcoming triathlon. He needs people with boats and wave runners to help with the water portion of the triathlon.

It was reported that the new I-55 bridge over Lake Springfield has dropped 6 ‡ inches and that the contractor and IDOT are arguing about who should fix it.

Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM. John Aiello motioned to close the meeting, Jim Schieder seconded. Our next meeting will be held at the Springfield Ski & Boat Club on August 6, 2003.

6:40p General meeting called to order.

Motion to dispense with the reading of the minutes from the 2002 annual meeting. 1st by Don Leckrone, 2dn by Ron Tucker.

Sitting President Melinda O'Connor welcomed everyone to the meeting. (There were about 65 people present.) Melinda went over the agenda for the evening, informed all that she had prepared a Questionnaire and encourage all present to fill out one of the questionnaires and return it to the board.

Melinda yielded the floor to guest speaker Phil Gonet from CWLP.

Mr. Gonet addressed the condo issue at length. CWLP has been working on standards that will be applied to condo projects located on the lake. The guidelines include minimum acreage for condos, number of units per acreage, access to city sewers, proper road access, etc. There was some discussion that "Condos", according to Illinois law can not be built on property that is not owned. Such as "lease" property around the lake that the city of Springfield/CWLP owns. So is the method to get around that law by calling them "Multi-Family-Dwellings?

The "Condo" issue attempted to take over the entire meeting. Melinda announced that there had been may forums in the recent past for all to address the condo issue and we wished to keep to the issues at hand and not turn this meeting into another "Condo" meeting.

Mr. Gonet introduced members of his staff attending our meeting. CWLP has a request for $400k from soil conservation as a matching grant to purchase additional "buffer areas" for watershed to Lake Springfield. These areas will serve as a filter strip to aid in catching silt and farm chemicals prior to entering the lake. The Cities matching monies will more than likely come from the $750k that the State of Illinois gave to the city as compensation for lake capacity taken for the construction of the new I-55 bridge. This grant could free up about $7 million in Federal funds that could be used for this project.

Another issue is the sewage from septic systems in areas that are in the water shed for the lake. The city continues to monitor sub-divisions existing and proposed in other towns (Divernon, Chatham) that may be discharging into the water shed. The current regulations require that any septic system that will discharge into the water shed (as far as 20 miles away) has to have a soil study performed to see if the soil is adequate to support a standard septic system. The current thought is that up to ‡ of those types of existing systems may not be meeting this requirement. All of this is an effort to reduce the sewage influent into Lake Springfield to improve water quality.

Hunter Lake: CWLP is working with 3 communities (Divernon, Virden, and Pawnee) that discharge their treated sewage into the water shed for proposed Hunter Lake.

New license for boats for Lake Springfield will have a box to check if your boat has a bathroom on board.

Joe Crifassi is the new boat officer for CWLP. He is a first line supervisor.

There are currently 250 lake leases that are in the city. When your current lease expires, or you renew your lease at your request, you will automatically be annexed into the city. There are about 200 leases due to expire in the next three years. Some of the older existing leases are as low as $18/year. With many of the newer ones from $1,000 to $3,000/year depending on size of the property.

Discussion about the possibility of getting all of the lake lease properties on city sewers. The homeowner is required to connect (at their costs $'s) if your property is within 200' of an existing sewer line. Should lanes wish to go together and form a sewer sub district to connect to the closest city sewer line at the lane's costs that would be fine with the city.

Thanks to Mr. Gonet and his staff for their diligence and attending our meeting!

Frank Edwards, Ward 1 alderman candidate, spoke briefly.

Linda Jamali, Ward 1 alderman candidate, spoke briefly.

Bob Gordon; spoke representing Lake Springfield Marina. CWLP had just milled all of the ramps to keep them from becoming slick as the moss grows. The marina site continues to develop. New gas dock, boat restroom pump out station, handicap access areas, expanded parking areas, additional public boat slips, slips for police and fire fighters boats, extensive line of boats and accessories and full service marina.

Many mentioned the fact that the boat trailers that were stored on old route 66 last year were an eye sore. Mr. Gordon assured all in attendance that this would not be the case in 2003.

4th of July fireworks will be put on again this year by the marina. They will either be the 4th or the 5th. Depending when the city has theirs.

Dave Wesselman, City Police Officer assigned to the lake. Still would like to see each property labeled on the lakeside. This would be very helpful in emergency situations.

Officer Wesselman's pager number is 467-8429. His E-mail address is spfldboatcop@aol.com

Officer Wesselman will continue to conduct his boat safety checks each time he is out this year. He intends to conduct about 8 checks on each patrol. He encourages everyone to police themselves and their boating friends. Not for himself but for the safety of you, your fiends and fellow boaters!

Officer Wesselman will again be monitoring the speed of boaters as well. In 2002 he issued citations to speeding boats. Some were traveling in excess of 70MPH.

There were burglaries at two of the clubs in 2002. Video equipment was set up at one of the clubs and the culprit was captured on film.

There is a new marina at the old marina site. It is called "Oak Harbor Marina".

Betsey Aiello was the nominating committee. Doug Kent will not run this year; Chip Woodward resigned due to other commitments. New slate is to include Larry Michaud, Lynn Bierma, and Kim Curry. Existing members re-elected are John Aiello, Garret Deakin, Linda Esper, Riley Lane, Vicki McGuar, and Jim Schneider.

Dou Kent moved to accept all members up for election as noted by Mrs. Aiello. 2nd by Nancy Bartolomucci.

A great thinks to Garret Deakin and his wife for their help and contributions on the condo issue. We know that they spent much of their time attending meetings and contacting people on this matter.

Some in attendance used the forum of the annual board meeting to publicly and personally attack board members, during the meeting, for not dedicating, as much time as they thought they should to the condo effort.

Motion to adjourn by Nancy Bartolomucci, 2nd by Greg Moore.

6:05 PM Regular Board Meeting called to order.

Roll Call:

Present: Aiello, Bartolomucci (@ 6:30p), Deakin, Esper, Hiler, Kent, King, Lane, Leckrone (@6:20p), McGaur, Moore, Nutt, O'Connor, Pinto (@6:15p), Scheider.

Dinner meeting and election of officer's date set for Wednesday February 26, 2003 at a location to be named later.

There was no Treasures report due to the absence of our Treasure. We know that our funds are running very low or possibly to the - side. All present agreed that there is a need to raise the annual dues as we have taken on many legal challenges involving preservation of the lake in the recent years. It was also agreed by all, that we would wait until the Treasure presented us with a current report at the next meeting (02/26/03) before determining what the dues for 2003 would be.

The issue of communications between the out-going officers and the in-coming officers was non-existent. All agreed that this communication must be improved.

Our President went over the questionnaire she had prepared for the lake residents to fill out during the Annual Meeting as well as the Agenda for the annual meeting.

There was conversation as to the Web Site for our organization not being accessible or up to date. King and Moore will look into this issue. Possibly posting current events, questionnaire results, and current issues concerning the lake it's users and residents on out web site.

The need for other officers, other than only the Treasure to access our PO box. This may aid in getting correspondence and bills in a timelier manner.

Stressed the importance of the Treasures position. And the need to file the proper tax forms for our organization.