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Thank You Friends and Neighbors!

“No act of love, however small, is ever wasted.”

By Jean Gilcher

I have been both humbled and awe-inspired at the unending generosity and compassion our community has shown again this year. The food and clothing drive was a huge success!

In partnership with the Whiskey Creek Country Club, we were able to deliver 2 huge loads (1 very large SUV stuffed to the ceiling and 1 pick-up truck full) of food, warm clothing, toiletries and blankets to the Soup Kitchen for distribution to the needy. The folks from the Soup Kitchen that met us and helped us unload were both grateful and astounded at the amount of goods our neighborhood sent to them.

Special thanks go to Roland Kotcamp and the Whiskey Creek Country Club for co- sponsoring the event. Their support, volunteers and presence helped insure success and inspired many additional people to get involved.

Many thanks to the volunteers, who worked so hard on Saturday to set-up, distribute and clean up. Without all of you none of this would have been possible. Thanks as well to Mack and Michele Bennett for volunteering their pick-up truck and driving to the Soup Kitchen to deliver and unload all of our goodies. And a loving thank you to my husband Wally, for helping me with the signs, shoveling sand, collecting items and stuffing them into the car, driving to the Soup Kitchen, unloading and putting up with my insufferable worrying that we aren’t ever going to be able to do enough!

Last but certainly not least – THANK YOU WHISKEY CREEK!!! You have proven again what a great community we live in.

Community meeting Jan. 24

Bring your petitions and your wall questions to a community meeting on Saturday, Jan. 24, beginning at 10 a.m. in the cafeteria at the Tanglewood Riverside Elementary School, 1620 Manchester Blvd. (at the east end of Tanglewood/Manchester Blvd.). There will be a brief presentation on the project, and we'll have volunteers on hand to answer your questions; there will also be notaries available to notarize your petitions if you're ready to sign.

Want to fix the Summerlin Road Wall? Send in your petitions!

(click here for wall presentation), (click here or wall petition), (click here for wall facts), (click here for cost estimates), (FAQ's)

By Kate & Ken Gooderham

By now, you should have received your petition information on the effort to replace the Summerlin Road Wall. Many of you have already signed and returned your petitions to support forming a taxing unit to pay for replacing the wall and turning it over to the county to maintain. Some of you attended the Nov. 13 community meeting to ask questions about what's being proposed. Now what?

Well, if you support this idea -- which is spelled out in detail in the petition package and online at www.whiskecreeknews.net -- here's what you can do:

1) The most important thing to do is to send in your signed and notarized petition indicating you support this idea. If we cannot amass at least 800 petitions by May 1, the county will not form the unit to pay for this project.

2) If you've sent in your petition, talk to your neighbors about sending in theirs. This is an all-volunteer effort, so any help toward making this come together is essential and certainly welcomed.

3) If you have questions about the proposed project, plan to attend the next community meeting on Saturday, Jan. 24, beginning at 10 a.m. in the cafeteria at the Tangle Riverside Elementary School, 1620 Manchester Blvd. (at the east end of Tanglewood/Manchester Blvd.).

The first community meeting was a spirited, standing-room-only event, and we worked hard to answer people's questions about the proposal simply and thoroughly. We've also responded as quickly as possible to your e-mails and voice mails, and are continuing to add information to the Web site based on the questions you're asking.

But this is a complicated project coming during some very troubling times. We understand there will be questions and concerns, and we will work hard to get you answers.

To briefly summarize what's being suggested: The plan is to form a Municipal Services Benefit Unit (MSBU) of the entire Whiskey Creek community in order to pay for the wall's replacement and to then turn the completed wall over to the existing Whiskey Creek Municipal Services Taxing Unit (MSTU) for maintenance by the county. Whiskey Creek residents would agree to assess themselves one time to pay for this $1.2 million project after it is built. The county's funding formula charges the property owners who "own" the current wall $62 per linear foot of wall on their property to pay for 25% of the final cost (since they get a direct benefit from the wall's replacement), and it also charges all 1,575 affected property owners in Whiskey Creek a flat per-parcel assessment of about $569 to pay for the remaining 75% (since we all get an indirect benefit from having a wall in place).

If more than 50% of the property owners agree to this assessment, the county will form the MSBU, work with property owners on necessary easements, and arrange to borrow money to fund demolition of the old wall and construction of the new wall. When construction is complete and all the bills are in (probably in 2010), the county will ask property owners to pay their assessments ― either up front to save interest charges or over 10 years. (A sample breakdown of what you might pay using this system is included on the petition.)

Need to contact us?

· Send an e-mail to whiskeycreekwall@gmail.com.

· Leave a voicemail message at or send a fax to (877) 871-9223.

· Information is available online at www.whiskeycreeknews.net.

Bottom line is the Summerlin Road wall won't get fixed unless the community supports it. We hope you'll sign your petition and show that support today.

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