The Meridian Service Metropolitan District held its monthly board meeting Sept. 4.Marti Wallner, senior director of the Meridian Ranch YMCA, asked the board to consider changes to the guest policy for the center’s pool. She said there is currently no limit to the number of paid guest passes a resident can purchase per day. ìIt’s very disconcerting when someone brings in 20 guests and the next resident family shows up but we’ve hit capacity,î Wallner said. ìThe days we hit capacity this summer are ones we had a ton of guest passes sold.î The board asked Wallner to present options at an upcoming meeting.Wallner said the Silver Sneakers program for active adults has been successful, with as many as 30 participants signed up.She also said the staff is working on the resident member list. The center has not removed families that have moved away, so the system shows several sets of member families on same addresses. If a member is accidentally purged from the records because of an address overlap, Wallner said they will try to make it easy for the correct resident to be re-entered into the system.Metro district staff reported an incident with a homeowner who had a former renter break into their property and set the irrigation and inside faucets to continuously run. The staff noticed the extremely high usage and alerted the homeowner. The district offered to adjust the bill down to the average previous usage, rather than charge the homeowner for the malicious act. The sheriffís office was involved as well.Tim Hunker, district representative, asked the board to discuss changing the fee structure for homebuilders’ use of water district resources before and during construction. ìWe’ve come to install meters at new construction that had grass installed and fully rooted,î Hunker said. ìThat means they’ve been using a lot of water before the meter was installed. When a builder buys a lot and sits on it for two years, our district is providing a lot of value in the meantime that they should pay for,î said Doug Woods, developer representative.The lift station building project on McLaughlin Road behind Guadalajara Restaurant was again on the agenda. A system flush and full pressure test was scheduled for late September. Full operation is scheduled to begin in late October or early November.Meridian Ranch filing 11, which includes 193 homes near Falcon High School, is being submitted to El Paso County for approval. Grading in that area will begin in October. The Stonebridge age-restricted development south of the high school was also discussed. Stonebridge will include 173 homes and a separate clubhouse. The traffic report for that project will also be submitted to the county in late October.
