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Date of Meeting: October 8, 2025
Meeting Location: Council Building, Zoom
Website: chickalooncc.com
Email: info@chickalooncc.com
Prepared By: Kalee Bowen

 

CHICKALOON COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES

DATE : October 8th 2025

Officers Present: Jeff Myers (Chairman), John J Vessey (Member at Large), Cindy Hotz (Treasurer), and Kalee Bowen (Vice Chair)

Community Members:  9 members, 7 guests and 5 on zoom. See attendance sheet

Meeting called to order at: 7:01

Pledge of Allegiance: Marcia Stock

Approval of Agenda as posted: 1st by Janie 2nd by Jeremy

Jeff started off the meeting by announcing that Blanche Roe resigned effective immediately

• • Minutes from Last Meeting (9/10/25): Read by Kalee Bowen written by Cindy
    • Approval of Minutes: 1st by Janie  2nd by John

• Announcements and Guest Speakers:

• • • ASRC: Amanda said there is no update on the appeal, but they are still planning on work in December. They will be conducting some work with smaller trucks and will not be stopping traffic. This work will begin within the next week or so and be prepared for increased traffic in the area. Please reach out to Amanda directly. ASRC has also donated fire blankets to match the Chimex fire sticks. Do not forget to sign up, everyone in the community gets one.
    • Chickaloon Police: Donna announced that they did get the Palmer dispatch contract so they will be dispatching calls now for them. In an emergency call 911 and they will relay information to Chickaloon Police. They are also adding starlink for officer safety in remote areas. There is a survey out for Jonesville rec area, they are looking to clean up and start patrolling due to increased crime in the area. The PD has a Facebook page where they are posting press releases. They are a couple open job positions that have been posted. There is an increase of homeless people in the valley but the lack of housing is causing road block. Donna recently attended a conference to learn about the resources available for missing children. The call volume for Chickaloon has gone down since tourist season is over, they had a total of 8 calls in the last month.
    • Michelle Heun told us about current meetings going on about excise tax and encourages people to attend, and had a flyer for Jonesville special use project timeline. There are also changes to the borough site and an improved problem reporter. www.michelleheunforassembly.com
    • Michael Bowles briefly introduced himself and discussed his goals to take away property tax and do a 3% sales tax. He said Wasilla has implemented this and they are out of debt.
  • Reports and Correspondence:
    • Treasurer’s Report: Read by Cindy Hotz
    • Road Service Area (RSA 31): Dave was not present, but Kalee has been in contact with owner of Tews Construction and they are doing a great job.
    • Community Assistance Program (CAP): No new applications have been received but we do need projects that benefit the whole community.
    • Crime Watch: There was grizzly bear that came and got into some chickens recently.
  • Public Comment:
    • Marcia brought up the potholes in the driveway to the council building and was hoping they can be fixed. Hugh Keogh offered to try and fill them.
    • Jeff announced that the General Store is now open for business! They opened on the 29th and are open Monday through Saturday from 9-8.

• Old Business: 

• • • We have received one cleaning bid for $150 each cleaning. Janie makes a motion to accept the bid, Jeremy 2nds. Room is all in favor, none against.
    • There are no plow bids, so we will have to extend the bid period until the 30th of October. There is hope that we will have someone submit a bid.
    • Fire Department: Skip announced that the fire department is closed down. He has gathered all the information including a flash drive etc and gave it to John J. There are a few trucks that were recently acquired that belong to the borough, but they do not want them back. He said it may be worth reaching out to other volunteer departments in a similar position to us that may need them. Brian Davis is not surprised that the department failed but is surprised we lasted so long. This led into where the council was with taking possession of the fire department. Jeff read an email we had received that out a halt to the work parties the council had planned after an emergency session had been held. The emergency session meeting minutes can be found on the website. Jeff also read a section of the fire department bylaws which states once the FD board dissolves then it reverts back to the CC board. While looking into the current state of accounts we had discovered that the fire department had been dissolved in March of this year due to not filing paperwork on time. Skip addressed this and said he did get the paperwork in after the fact, and so the corporation will be active again. Which now he wishes he hadn’t done since it would be simpler for all involved if it wasn’t active. Michael Bowles offered to help with this since he works in that department. Donna brought up that corporations shouldn’t be able to work with dispatch and acquire radios like we did. She said it would be better the council had oversight due the fact its a government body. Cindy also discovered that the property taxes are due on the Fish Lake property, and Skip said he will try and get those paid. Jeff asked Skip about the IRS tax issue, Skip said that the info has been passed to John J and gave a rundown on him trying to resolve it but had never heard back from IRS. Janie asked if we should respond to the email that had been received, there was some general discussion in the room and the consensus was to let it be. The general outlook of the room is hopeful that the department will continue back up in the near future. Skip said if the department can be managed by people other than the volunteer fire fighters, and we get a good core of able bodied individuals that we may have a chance. Jeff relayed that it is our hope as well, and many of the individuals are willing to come back to the department. We hope to get a committee that can look into feasibility and restructuring. Jeff reiterated that the council board are just facilitators and it is up to the community on how they want to move forward. Kalee said that our main goal was just protecting fire departments assets so that way it could be started up again if it’s decided to do so. But it was important to make sure the trucks were left without water so the pumps didn’t freeze and accounts were taken care of. Skip and Marcia emptied the trucks of water over the weekend, there is just one truck left to be dealt with.

• New Business: 

• • Janie introduced Joe and Gina Phillips to the room and that Joe will be running for a chair position. Joe gave a brief speech about himself and why he wants to run for council. He looks forward to the possibility of serving the community and being involved. Jeff announced that Cindy will also be running again. Jeff and Kalee both spoke up about the great job Cindy does on the council as Treasurer. Jeff announced that John J is also running again. Kalee and Jeff both stated how vital John J is to the board and all that he does.
  • Janie also introduced Nancy Calhoun, a new addition to Chickaloon. She received a warm welcome from everyone. Gina also took a moment to introduce herself.
  • Website Update: Kalee has been trying to get Teri in the back end of the website but have had continuous problems. Stephen was able to help with this, so we should be moving forward now. We will not know the cost of fixing current issues until she gets a good look at the site, but it should be about $300 yearly for maintenance.
  • Tim Hale briefly stood up and thanked everyone for 6 years of service and how it was the greatest pleasure of his life to be in the position.

Agenda Items for Next Meeting (11/12/25) : none

Meeting adjourned: 8:27pm 1st by Janie, 2nd by Jeremy

 

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Status: Approved

President:

Secretary:

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