Continuing progress and meeting announcement

• BRWAA Questionnaire (please fill out by Friday, March 15th): Click Here
• BRWAA meeting: Monday, April 8^th 2013 6:00pm at the Bayside Middle School

Hello,

 

We are continuing our progress towards the installation of city water here in Bayside for the 139 participants of the BRWAA project.   The 3-way agreement between the BRWAA, the village, and the Mequon water utility has been approved by the village board, and will be considered by Mequon this Wednesday.   The main engineering has been completed, and the bid package for the public project has been made available to the contractors for their review.

 

Meanwhile we are making progress towards finding a suitable contractor in the area to provide services in bulk for the installation of the private laterals to homes, as well as plumbing services to hook up the new water supply inside the homes.   I have been asked by some of these contractors to provide information for the homes in the association, so they can know the plumbing situation and preferences for each home.  Rather than having each contractor collect this information from each home separately, I have offered to run a questionnaire to ask each homeowner a set of questions, and then pass this information along to the contractors making proposals for the lateral and plumbing installations.

 

Please take a few moments to fill out this questionnaire for your home (it will only take a couple of minutes).   You can find this questionnaire here:

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BRWAA_Plumbing

 

Please answer the questionnaire by Friday, March 15.  By answering the questions on the survey, contractors will be able to provide the lowest and most accurate pricing for internal plumbing for your home.

 

We will be holding a BRWAA association meeting at the Bayside Middle School on Monday, April 8^th 2013 at 6:00pm.   This meeting will be held to discuss the status of the project at that point, answer questions, and explain how construction will proceed.

Welcome new members!

(Click here for BRWAA agreement)

Hello everyone,

Over the past few months, we have been working on building the number of participating homes, to lower the costs per household by as much as possible.

Now due to the recent decision of Northway Water Co-Op #2 to join the group, we are receiving a huge number of new entrants into the water project very rapidly.  At this moment, including that trust, we have 116 members of the BRWAA, and that number should continue to climb.  This is well above the 50 or so members we expected to sign up from the outset.

As each additional household enters into the association, the price will continue to fall.  At this point, because the news is so new, we are adjusting and reacting as quickly as possible to the influx of new members.  Due to the fluidity of the situation, we do not have specific pricing but it will continue to lower as each additional household enters into the association.

At this time, we believe that every single member signed to the BRWAA should be serviced by city water, and not one single signed up member will be denied access to the water infrastructure due to lack of interest near them.  The city water project will encompass almost the entire neighborhood, and will provide water access to just about the entire area.

Tomorrow Evening (December 20) actions will be taken by the Village Board regarding the financing aspects of the project.   It is preferable that everyone who is interested in participating in the city water project sign up for the project by 12 noon on that day.

As always, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, or would like some more information.  To sign up for the project, please print out The Bayside Residential Water Access Association agreement is available from the following link below:

Bayside Residential Water Access Agreement

To sign up or city water, please sign and notorize the agreement.  The best way to get this back to us would be to drop it off at Village hall (for convienience, there is also a notary at Village hall).

We are also asking for an up front payment of $300.  If for some reason we are unable to service your residence with the city water infrastructure, this payment will be returned to you.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, at northwaywater@gmail.com

Thank you much

... Howard

Bayside Residential Water Access Association

Hello everyone,

First of all, thank you for all who attended our meeting tonight..  The Bayside Residential Water Access Association agreement is avaialble from the following link:

Bayside Residential Water Access Agreement

The last page has the contact information sheet, which will explain the steps necessary to join the association.  

Basically we ask that you sign and notorize the agreement, and get it back to us either by mailing it back to me, dropping it off at my paper box, or dropping it off at Village hall (there is also a notary at Village hall)

We are also asking for an up front payment of $300.   This payment will be returned to you if it is determined that we are unable to service your residence with the city water infrastructure.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, at northwaywater@gmail.com

Thank you much

... Howard

Public meeting venue change

Hello everyone,

Due to the possibility of a high turnout at the city water project meeting, the meeting place has been changed to the Bayside Middle School, at 601 E. Ellsworth Lane.  The meeting will be held in the school cafeteria at the same time (7:00pm)...  I apologize for the confusion and the late notice, but hopefully we won't have to crowd in so much over there..

.... Howard

Public meeting date set

Hello neighbors,

Today I sent out some mailers to inform the neighborhood that we have another public meeting scheduled for Wednesday, September 19th at 7:00pm, to be held at Village Hall the Bayside Middle School Cafeteria.

The purpose of the meeting is to update everyone on our progress, and to inform the public on what steps have to be taken in order to formally join the project.   There will be more details in the days to come, but please remember to reserve the date if you would like to find out more and have your questions answered in a public forum.

Also, I will be attending the village picnic on Saturday September 8th at Ellsworth Park.   I am not sure exactly where I will be situated, but you can find me by looking for a large posterboard sign labeled "City Water Project" or similar.   Please stop by and I will be glad to have a one-on-one discussion with you.

As always, please feel free to email, or call my phone number, and I will be glad to discuss any aspect of the project.   You can always see the email address and other contact information by selecting "Contact Information" under "Pages", to the right.

.... Hope to see you at the picnic, and I hope to see you at the meeting!

.... Howard

Meeting video posted online

Hello Neighbors,

I have posted the video tape recording of the meeting that took place at Village Hall on Tuesday, February 7.

The video is in two parts..  The first part (from the camcorder) shows the two presentations as given by Jim Voigt (from the water utility) and myself, and the second part (from the i-phone) shows most of the question and answer session that followed.

Big thank you goes out to Roy Dietsch for providing the second part..   Roy had the presense of mind to start filming the meeting on his i-phone as the video tape ran out on the camcorder.

The videos may be a bit soft on the audio, but if you turn the volume up on your speakers you should be able to hear the audio well enough.  Also if you have trouble seeing the presentations on the screen in the video, you can follow along on your computer using the presentation links found in the prior post.

Watching the video back, it occurrs to me that I did not answer (or did not understand) some of the questions fully enough.   My apologies for that.   If you would like a more complete answer to something that you or someone else may have asked at the meeting, of course you should email me at northwaywater@gmail.com .

Anyhow, you can access the video online with the following links:

Part 1 - Presentations

Part 2 - Questions and Answers

If you have trouble viewing the video, please let me know..  And, as always, if you have any questions please feel free to email me...

... Hope all is well

... Howard

Meeting presentations posted online

Hello Neighbors,

First of all, thank you all for what I feel was a great success in our meeting from last night.  It was very encouraging to see such a huge turnout, I would guess there were about 80-90 people there last night.

I have posted the two presentations that were given at the meeting online, for anyone to view or download.  You can view or download these presentations using the following links:

1) City Water Presentation
2) Northway City Water Project Presentation

I have been getting a lot of feedback since last night, and most of it is encouraging.  I will work on updating the interest level maps to see where we are at.  If you feel your interest level has changed, please let me know.

The survey site will be up until the 20th of February, so we can still use it to gather peoples' information..   So, if you haven't done so yet, please head over to the survey site and fill out the survey..  You can access the survey site using the following link:

Northway City Water Survey

As always, if you have any questions or need some more clarification concerning the presentations or anything else, please send an email to: northwaywater@gmail.com

Thank you all again for a successful meeting last night!

... Howard