February 2025 Letter to Stilwater Property Owners
February 7th, 2025 Stilwater Property Owners,
On behalf of the Stilwater POA Board, we wish everyone a happy 2025 and want to share some reminders and updates.
1. Weather – We are experiencing a good, old fashioned winter in Garrett County and Stilwater is facing challenges with maintenance of the roads and the hill. The board is working with Tripco to address where and when it may lack timeliness and/or eƯectiveness. We remind property owners to 1) maintain access to driveways, 2) no parking on roads, 3) no plowing snow from driveways onto the roads and 4) awareness of freezing pipes. Also, appropriate (4-wheel drive) vehicles to successfully traverse the roads in Stilwater is a must for renters, owners and visitors. Please contact Barry at Tripco (304-216-5713) with any road maintenance issues.
2. Nominating Committee - The nominating committee is soliciting an interested property owner to serve on the committee for 2025. This individual would not intend to serve on the board in 2025. Please email stilwater.poa@gmail.com if you are interested.
3. NEW! Cove & Shoreline Improvement Working Group - The board is seeking interested property owners to join a working group to be focused on improvements and potential changes to our cove and shoreline. This group is being tasked to assess the cove/shoreline and develop suggestions for improvements that may allow for jet ski docking, designated/upgraded kayak launching, and safe swimming in addition to the current boat slips. Some of these items were raised during the annual meeting in October. Please email stilwater.poa@gmail.com if you are interested. We intend to start meetings in February.
4. NEW! Stilwater POA Social Media – We want to remind Stilwater owners that we do have a Facebook Page and plan to make it more active. This will include posts about news, community issues, stories, and weather updates. Please search for Stilwater POA on Facebook to Like and follow.
5. All owners please be on the lookout for the 2025 Owners Information form. The form will be emailed out by Tripco and the Board asks that each owner fill out and return to Tripco with any updated information by March 1st.
6. Just a reminder that the Quarterly Board meeting will be held this upcoming Monday, February 10th
Barry A. Savage, Stilwater Property Manager On behalf of the Stilwater POA Board
In October 2022 a ballot was sent to all Stilwater Owners to request approval for legal funding to research the possibility of placing restrictions on rentals. The vote passed with 41 of 59 lot responses and 21 voted yes.