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BEACH BUSINESS
Enclosed please find your 2020 Bayside Beach Association Election Ballot(s) and a stamped addressed envelope for the return of your ballot(s).
- Your association officer positions are elected annually. Please indicate your approval/choice of person for each office.
- The Bayside Beach Association Board of Directors consists of six members and one alternate. Three (3) board members are elected each year for two-year terms. Please vote for no more than three (3) members for the board of directors. All terms begin October 1, 2020.
Using the enclosed envelope, return your ballot(s) by the deadline date of Friday, August 28, 2020. The envelopes will be opened, and ballots counted at the following Bayside Beach Board of Directors’ meeting on Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Please contact an officer or board member if you would like to attend the counting of the ballots.
Bayside Beach Association Board Candidates
Joe Bohez – Joe has lived in West Bloomfield for 30 years, 23 of those years as a member of the Bayside Beach Association. He has previously served on the Bayside Beach Board of Directors for many years, this year as alternate. He regularly contributes to making the beach a pleasurable place to enjoy summer events, especially through his efforts to assist in event set-up (and in food service in the years before COVID-19). Joe is a friendly face to everyone at our beach.
Mike Burwell – Mike has been a Bayside Beach Association member since 1988, has served and is serving as our Board Chairman for a total of 26 years, and has used his expertise as an attorney to represent our association in various legal situations (with West Bloomfield Township, Twin Beach Golf and Country Club, Oakland County Road Commission). These situations include working on: the original Colony Drive paving and road abandonment project, swim area re-sanding, parking lot paving projects, the boat storage ordinance petition, our legal action against Twin Beach Golf and Country Club, and our past and present boat ramp repair/replacement projects. Mike also represents our Association as a member on the Upper Straits Clean Lake Association. His service to Bayside Beach has been and is invaluable!
Harley Higgins – Harley has lived in West Bloomfield for most of his life. His parents were members of the Bayside Beach Association starting in 1969! Harley has been a beach association member in good standing since 1978. In the past, he has served as Association president and, for many years he has served as a board member. Harley’s contributions to the beach have seen it been improved remarkably. These contributions include: maintaining and repairing the restrooms, proposing pontoon boat mooring on the north shore that passed a membership vote, facilitating fence and gate repairs, facilitating replacement of the beach asphalt path with concrete, and serving as a liaison between the Association and Steve Cumbo who arranges our annual fireworks display on Upper Straits Lake. Harley regularly assists in maintenance of our beach. This year, he and his helpful granddaughter Amelia delivered many members’ gate keys.
Jeff Laz – Jeff has been a Bayside Beach Association member since 2010 with his wife Jennifer and children (Allison age 10, Jonathon age 9, and Nolan age 6). They love Bayside Beach so much that they are building a new house in the subdivision! They are regulars at the beach and enjoy boating on our beautiful lake. Jeff served as a board alternate in 2015-2016. He has participated over the years in opening day, party planning, day dock pole installation, gate improvement projects, and beach cleanups. As a new board member, Jeff hopes to bring fresh ideas to the beach. Jeff works for Ford Motor Company in purchasing.
Chuck Safalian – Chuck is a relatively new member of the Bayside Beach Association, having moved next door to the south parking lot in October 2014. He and his family (including his wife Cindy, our party application chairperson, and his 2 adult children) have lived in West Bloomfield for 20 years. Chuck is the bass player in several bands, including the former Eddie and the Hipbreakers (now the Breakers), that have performed in past Music on the Lake events. Chuck’s most recent career has been with FCA (Fiat Chrysler) and prior to this with GM, as a mechanical engineer. He extends his mechanical skills at home with many renovation projects to his home (the former orange house on Borland Street), his mini-bikes, and his classic Corvette. (He has repaired our south parking lot fencing whenever someone has happened to slide into it in the winter.) Cindy and Chuck have transformed the orange house to a beautiful home. Chuck looks forward to contributing to the work of our beach association board.
Chris Young – Chris, his wife Bobbie Sue, and their 3 children moved to West Bloomfield and joined the Beach Association in 2012. (Bobbie Sue has served as our Bayside Beach vice president for the last 4 years.) His family loves the beach and all the fun activities that are planned each year. Chris’s contributions include updating several signs at the beach, facilitating the replacement of the pavilion roof, and assisting with the watercraft registration sticker program. Chris offers a fresh perspective to our board of directors. Chris is a manager for the Belle Tire Company.
Bayside Beach Association Officer Candidates
PRESIDENT: Jay Knight (incumbent, running unopposed)
VICE PRESIDENT: Bobbie Sue Young (incumbent, running unopposed)
SECRETARY: Cathy Schroeder (incumbent, running unopposed)
TREASURER: Jo Anne Clark (incumbent, running unopposed)
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Beach Closing Date
Beach closing is scheduled for Saturday, September 26 starting at 9AM. If you have signed up to perform work hours during closing, be sure to show up! - Report Your Work Hours
If you have already served your 6 hours, please be sure to contact Dean Hare to report your service. His phone number is 248.363.6198. His e-mail address is hared152@comcast.net - Private Beach Party Reminder
If you intend to host a private party at the beach with more than 25 guests, remember to contact Cindy Safalian, party chairperson, to apply for a party permit. This permit must be brought to the beach on the day of the private party. Cindy’s phone number is 248.770.0234. - Please Keep Beach Gates Locked!
STILL NEED TO SERVE YOUR WORK HOURS?
Many tasks still need to be performed at Bayside Beach. If you had signed up for a Bayside Beach event and it was canceled, you may still signup for work hours. Here are a few choices:
- Weeding the swim area
- Weeding the flower beds
- Moving and spreading a delivery of sand from the parking lot to the beach
- Sanitizing the bathrooms
- Watering the flowers
Contact Dean Hare if you would like to signup for one of these tasks.
Phone: 248.363.6198
Email: hared152@comcast.net
SPECIAL THANKS!
- Everyone named below helped organize important jobs or events that help make our beach a desirable venue. Countless others volunteered to help them. Thank you to everyone who has helped to make Bayside Beach a better place!
- COVID-19 guideline mailers: Jo Anne Clark,
Bobbie Sue Young - Dock Installation/Maintenance: Allen Oblak
- Facebook administrator: Liz Knight
- Key delivery: Jay Knight, Bobbie Sue Young, Harley Higgins and his adorable granddaughter
- Locks/Gates and Plumbing: Harley Higgins
- Membership Chairperson: Liza Jerzy
- Mooring: Jeff Parko
- Party applications: Cindy Safalian
- Ramp project completion (plantings, permit closing): John Hanson (plantings), Nick and Louise Zajac
- Swim area: Jim White and Tom Borkus
- Website administrator: Tony Pagaduan
- Work assessment: Dean Hare
- Given the extreme difference between this year (of the COVID-19 pandemic) and previous years, it is remarkable that Bayside Beach remained a place for families to enjoy summer. It is because of the many people named above and others whose names may have been missed that our beach continued to be a special place.