Regatta this Saturday (or Sunday)!
Hey folks,
We are grateful for our supportive community – evidenced by the neighborly help last week through the storms. We’re asking for more support now by reminding you to pay your POA dues! It’s an annual fee of $35 a year and it helps us with a variety of small costs, from video and website hosting services to funding a part of the Regatta (more on that soon!). The annual dues also allow you to vote in the election of POA board members every other year. We appreciate your generous support of the Roaring Brook Lake POA!
There’s a lot happening on Roaring Brook Lake this month. Buckle up and read on!
Get Ready for the Regatta
The Regatta kicks off this Saturday morning at Children’s Beach. It’s one of our most enjoyable community events of the year. Events will be split into age groups (up to 6, 7-9, 10-15, 16 and up) and admission is open to all. And of course, food and drinks will be available for purchase to all. The events, from a bike race to greased watermelon contest to sandcastle building, will kick off at 10am in the morning, and go until 5pm. In case of a rain day, we’ll reschedule the Regatta to Sunday, July 30. Keep an eye out for another email on Saturday if we do need to make the change.
The Regatta will also give you all a chance to see a new spruced up Children’s Beach. Work is currently underway to repave the old walkway and create a new walkway to the garbage enclosures, install a new block wall on the low side of the walkway, and creating a catch basin at the bottom of the walkway to help with any runoff before it reaches the outlet to the brook. Work should be completed by Friday.
Finally, while many more carp did survive the storm and fall over the spillway, thanks to the work of our neighbors, a small number of dead carp have been spotted floating in the lake. Workers went out this week to clear them from the lake.
Annual Labor Day 5k Race
Another great community event will kick off at 9am on Sunday, September 3 (Please note the correct date here; a past email had the wrong date listed). It will be open to anyone 12 years of age and older. Sign up here! The Run/Walk will circle Roaring Brook Lake, starting at Children's Beach, with one water station stop, and end at Children's Beach with an award ceremony. If you (like me) are not keen on trying to run up Cardiac Hill, another great way to participate is to take out some lawn chairs on to the road and cheer your neighbors on their run.
If you’d like to sponsor the run, send a check to: THE WESTCHESTER ROAD RUNNER, 179 East Post Road, White Plains, NY 10601 with the 5k mentioned on the notation line.
The Deadline for sponsoring this event is August 1, 2023.
General Donor ($150) will have honorable mention at race.
Silver sponsors ($250) will have their names listed on the t-shirt.
Gold sponsors($400) will have the same benefit as the Silver Sponsor, but will have their names in larger print on the t-shirt and the names of their businesses mentioned at the award ceremony.
Platinum sponsors ($500) will receive all of the above benefits in addition to having top billing with the largest letters (or business logo) on the t-shirt and have the opportunity to have advertising placards supplied by the sponsors at spots on the Run/Walk course.
Proceeds for the run go to Second Chance Foods, a non-profit organization serving hungry families in need in the Hudson Valley.
Town Budget & Short-Term Rentals
Please note that the town will meet on August 5th at Town Hall at 9am for its initial budget meeting review. We encourage you all to attend and provide any feedback on the budget. The Annual Final budget meeting will be held Saturday, September 9, 2023.
We’ll be moving our monthly POA community meeting at Children’s Beach to August 12th (note: it was originally scheduled for August 5th).
Last week, the Town Board held a hearing on proposed regulations to short-term rentals. RBL resident Sarah Bartlett has a great summary of the meeting on her blog Watching Putnam Valley. She summarized the challenge as between “two camps: those who view the increase in short-term rentals as a threat to their quality of life, especially for those who live on lakes; and those who view the regulations as restricting their rights as property owners and impeding their right (or need) to earn money by leveraging their homes as financial assets. The latter group asserted that there were plenty of regulations already on the books to address quality-of-life concerns and what was needed was more and better enforcement.”
The Town Board will meet again on August 16th to present a revised proposal at a second public hearing.
All photographs courtesy of Alex Harris.
