Is your home hardened against wildfire? Take a test to find out Pages 16-17
INSIDE THIS ISSUE SROA News.................... 4 Nature Center.............. 10 Calendar...................... 13
Public Safety................ 20 Letters to Editor........... 26 Classified Ads.............. 31
The Sunriver Music Festival announces its summer concert series Page 18
S U N R I V E R
S C E N E A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSOCIATION
APRIL 2022
VOLUME XLV • NUMBER 4
It’s ‘universal’ for side-yard recycling in Sunriver
Turn to Recycling, page 3
An excavator removes the old corrugated tunnel that ran under East Cascade Road near Fort Rock Park. A wider, concrete tunnel will be cast in place in the coming weeks. MARK SMITH PHOTO
Last opportunity to run for the SROA Board of Directors By Holly Hendricks, SROA Nominating Committee SROA NEWS – By now, the SROA Nominating Committee has almost completed its responsibilities for this year’s SROA election season. We met monthly, drafted and reviewed articles for the Scene, sought and recruited members to run for a board position. The committee’s charter says we are “responsible for recruiting, screening and qualifying a slate of Sunriver candidates,” so we will be interviewing candidates in early April and forwarding our recommended list to the Elections Committee and the board. But there is another way to run for a board position. If you missed the March 18, 2022 date to submit your application to the Nominating Committee it’s not too late to run for a seat on the SROA Board of Directors by Petition. The deadline to submit your application by petition is April 15, 2022 (see Art. IX, Sec. 3 of the Bylaws). Application by petition requires signatures of no less than 100 Sunriver property owners and filing the completed Petition for Nomination with the Candidacy Form. It’s important to know that the 100
signatures must be verified prior to the April 15, 2022 deadline so please leave ample time for this verification in order to meet the filing deadline. These documents go to the Elections Committee chair, Patty Smith. Please see SROA Bylaws, Exhibit B, Signature Sheet, SROA Director, Petition for Nomination (p.16). So, to recap: there are two ways to get on the ballot each year for the SROA Board of Directors and one additional
way to be elected: 1. Fill out an application, submit it by the deadline, and engage with the Nominating Committee process; OR 2. Fill out the Petition for Nomination with 100 signatures of Sunriver owners. Allow enough time before the deadline for those signatures to be verified and submitted to the Election Committee; OR 3. Each ballot contains a space for write-in candidates.
First reading on proposed rule changes By Susan Berger, Sunriver Scene SROA NEWS – The SROA Board of Directors held a first reading at their March meeting to change Sunriver Rules & Regulations Section 2.03 Pathways, Pedestrians & Cycles. The proposed rule changes initially included a proposal to allow Class 2 e-bikes on Sunriver pathways, but it was overturned at the board level after lengthy discussion and concern that Class 2 e-bikes would “substantially change the character of Sunriver’s pathways.”
Other proposed rule changes still on the table for owner review include implementing a 15 mph speed limit on the pathways; adding a reference to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding modes of transportation on the pathways; and the requirement for recumbent bicycles to be equipped with an orange flag on a five-foot pole. The rule changes are available for f ull review on the SROA website homepage under News & Notices at Turn to Changes, page 3 SUNRIVER SCENE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSN. VOLUME XLV • NUMBER 4 P.O. BOX 3278 SUNRIVER, OR 97707
By Susan Berger, Sunriver Scene The Deschutes County Board of County Commissioner has approved Waste Connections (aka Cascade Disposal) to begin weekly side-yard recycling collection in Sunriver as a universal service. The universal service will add $14 a month to those who currently subscribe to trash pickup and will include comingle recyclables and glass collection. “Just to be clear, universal service means when residents sign up they get trash, comingle recycling and glass collection as a package offering,” said Chad Centola, Director of Deschutes County Department of Solid Waste. Waste Connections anticipates launching the program in September – dependent on the ability to obtain additional trucks and drivers. Owners will be able to provide their own 32-gallon can for co-mingled recyclables (it must have handles and a lid) and fit within your side-yard garbage enclosure. Waste Connections will provide the glass recycling tub. A universal service approach has a much higher participation rate over subscription service and, ultimately, helps to keep more recyclable materials out of and extend the overall lifespan of the landfill. Trash subscribers within Bend city limits are also on a universal plan for recycling pickup. In the coming months Waste Connections will reach out to their customers to provide further information and details how the recycling pickup service will work. SROA is also working out processes for those owners who will want side-yard recycling, but their trash enclosure may be too small to
Out with the old, in with the new
PRSRT STD. U.S. POSTAGE PAID BEND, OR PERMIT NO. 213