Author: Harley Green

Goose Creek Farms Community:

There is a call for significant snowfall and accumulation starting on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. The current forecast predicts snow to start falling late morning to early afternoon on Wednesday.

The Road Committee has contracted with Day Spring Farms to plow Goose Creek Lane from the entrance at Lime Kiln to the mailboxes at Goose Creek Lane and Wild Goose Lane. They have equipment to plow and spread sand and/or salt as needed. Day Spring Farms is located down Lime Kiln at Steptoe Hill so they will be ready when the snow starts to accumulate. Day Spring Farms also partners with A W Smith should larger equipment be needed.

The plan is to have Day Spring Farms start plowing when about 2 inches of snow accumulates on the road. This may change based on what actually happens when the snow starts to accumulate.

The Road Committee is placing orange markers along Goose Creek Lane to let the plowers know where the culverts are and road edge locations.

The Road Committee is not contracting to have any driveways or spurs plowed. If you would like to have Day Spring Farms plow your spur or driveway please contact directly: Tommy 540-351-2322 or Sean 540-359-1245.

Please do not put snow from your driveway into Goose Creek Lane as it will make the job harder for the plowers and could slow snow removal efforts.

Should you have any questions or concerns please contact the Road Committee Board.

Thank you,

Goose Creek Road Committee

Annual Meeting Notes

Our Annual Meeting was held on September 19th where the following announcements were shared with attendees:

• Departing the Committee this year will be Harley Green, Mallory Horton, and Ashley Sawyer. The Road Committee is grateful for their service.
• Scott Butler will remain on the committee and will assume the role of committee Vice President/Treasurer. Gus Muller joins the road committee as Secretary and will focus on communications and neighborhood engagement. Chris Cook assumes the role of Road Committee President.
• The current road fund balance going into the new year is $11,665.39, with 29 households paid in full and 21 households unpaid for this current year. The committee reminds residents that the GCF Road Committee is a volunteer organization – and all dues payments are used to maintain Goose Creek Lane and to developing a sufficient reserve fund for emergency road repairs.
• Annual Road dues will be reduced to $500 per residence in 2021 to increase community participation and to keep Goose Creek Lane open and safe for everyone’s use.
• Unpaid dues for 2020 and new dues for 2021 (due on January 31) can be made to: GCF Road Committee, PO Box 604, Leesburg, VA, 20176.
• To contact the road committee and stay informed: https://goosecreekfarms.xyz/ and Contact Page.

Thank you to our residents that paid their 2020 dues:

John Reynolds
David & Missy Pickett
Fred & Nancy Hinke
Ned & Lisa Wentworth
BJ Brixius
Mike & Trisha Victor
Scott Butler & Lisa Stehman
Brad & Kathy Brown
Jim & Pam Conway
Dave & Mallory Horton
Kerry Koritko & Ingrid Gudnadottir
Laurel & Gus Muller
Marc & Abby Seeley
Harley & Adrienne Green
John & Tina Isom
Jim & Monica Lambert
Mike & Jeanne Roush
James & Faith Cha
Henry Becker
Mary Alice Crawford
Cory & Deb Weaver
Deb Matthews & Che Larson
Sara & Chris Cook
David & Janice Judd
George & Hazel Coupar
Allison Chin
Jonathan & Ashley Sawyer
Tim & Patricia Adams
Ava & Neil Abramowitz

2020 Neighborhood Road Meeting & Ice Cream Social – September 19th, 2020

Mark your calendars for the 2020 Neighborhood Road Meeting & Ice Cream Social! It is scheduled for Saturday, September 19th, 2020 at 5pm.

After the usual road committee business meeting, members of the committee will be personally hosting a neighborhood ice cream social with ice cream sandwiches, wine, and a fire pit. You are welcome to BYOB if and please bring your lawn chairs as it will be held outdoors to give everyone plenty of space

The location will be at the Muller’s home: 38826 Goose Creek Lane (Intersection of Goose Creek Lane and Grey Fox Lane).
The rain date will be the next day (Sunday, at 5pm).

We will be discussing upcoming year’s road maintenance plans, road dues, accepting new volunteers, and other neighborhood road concerns.

Your attendance is critical to provide input to the road committee so the road can be maintained to the level you desire!

Call For Volunteers

The year is ending and several members of the current road committee are stepping down. This creates an opportunity for neighbors who have never served or who’s time has come to serve again to volunteer to help with managing road maintenance! There will be at least 2 open positions that need to be filled. Your volunteering helps ensure the neighborhood has a usable road!

If you would like to help your neighborhood by serving on the committee please contact us for additional details!

Dues Update

The current road fund balance stands at $11,665.39. This is far below the agreed upon reserve goal of $20k voted on during the 2019 road meeting. It means that we can only handle emergency repairs until additional dues are received. It also meant we were not able to buy additional material (gravel/millings) for the road this summer, even though there are many spots that could desperately use the material.

We know some may be facing financial hardship during this time and would like to remind everyone that every little bit helps. If you can contribute any amount to the road fund, it would be greatly appreciated!

If you have not yet sent in your 2020 dues ($550), please send them ASAP to (or bring a check to the meeting on Sept 19th):
Goose Creek Farms Road Committee
PO Box 604
Leesburg, VA 20176

Thank you to the 29 households that have contributed 2020 road dues! You make keeping the road maintained possible!

• John Reynolds
• David & Missy Pickett
• Fred & Nancy Hinke
• Ned & Lisa Wentworth
• BJ Brixius
• Mike & Trisha Victor
• Scott Butler & Lisa Stehman
• Brad & Kathy Brown
• Jim & Pam Conway
• Dave & Mallory Horton
• Kerry Koritko & Ingrid Gudnadottir
• Laurel & Gus Muller
• Marc & Abby Seeley
• Harley & Adrienne Green
• John & Tina Isom
• Jim & Monica Lambert
• Mike & Jeanne Roush
• James & Faith Cha
• Henry Becker
• Mary Alice Crawford
• Cory & Deb Weaver
• Deb Matthews & Che Larson
• Sara & Chris Cook
• David & Janice Judd
• George & Hazel Coupar
• Allison Chin
• Jonathan & Ashley Sawyer
• Tim & Patricia Adams
• Ava & Neil Abramowitz

We would like to ask the following households to please contribute your 2020 dues as soon as possible to ensure we can continue upkeep of the road (If your name is on the list and you think you have paid, please contact us immediately!) If you happen to speak with any of these neighbors, please kindly remind them that it is important for everyone to contribute to the road maintenance as a shared community resource. If anyone on this list has questions or concerns about the dues, please reach out to the committee:

• Marc & Stacey Johnson
• Chris West
• Jey Jeyanathan
• Jim & Lisa Deprospero
• Mark & Alison Trent
• Ron & Theresa Bohn
• Eric Stanley
• Lou & Amy Casciano
• Ed & Jessica Dick
• Robert Short & Cheryl Waters
• Amy Reynolds
• Michael & Leigh Burger
• William McCormick & Sandy Banaszak
• Barry Hager
• Joe & Cindy Emery
• David & Sarah Virts
• Jennifer Upton
• Richard Hull
• Zvi & Rina Glassman
• Robert & Tracey Mock

Current Road Fund Accounting

Please contact us for current accounting summary.

Contact Information

Goose Creek Farms Road Committee
E-Mail
www.goosecreekfarms.xyz
PO Box 604
Leesburg, VA 20176

Happy Memorial Day Neighbors!

This is everyone’s annual friendly reminder to place a note on your dashboard if you park at the end of GCL and Lime Kiln Road. Please place the note so it is clearly visible with your name, phone number, and address stating you are a Goose Creek Farms resident.

With the warmer weather we are seeing non-residents parking at the end of Goose Creek Lane, creating a mess of the area with trash, and blocking the road.
The land owner (Mr. Reynolds) has informed us that he will be having LCSO come and issue tickets to anyone parked there that is not displaying the requested information.

If someone is parked in a way that is blocking safe access to our neighborhood you can call LCSO and inform them of the situation.

Thank you to everyone who helps by kindly letting people you see going down there know that they may be ticketed, and to clean up their trash!

We will be looking into putting up additional signs warning that people may be ticketed and towed if they park there, similar to what was put up further down Lime Kiln. Mr Reynolds has also reached out to LCSO and we will be coordinating with one of their community outreach POCs to help find long term solutions.

URGENT Request: Do you have spare traffic cones? If anyone in the neighborhood has some traffic cones they are willing to set up down at the end of the road to block the common parking areas today, it would help deter people who don’t live here from parking.

New Treasurer!

After 14+ years serving on the road committee, Cory Weaver, has stepped down. Please join me in thanking Cory for all his time serving on the road committee!

Scott Butler has graciously volunteered to replace Cory as our treasurer. Please be patient with us as we transition all the responsibilities from Cory over to Scott. We are taking this opportunity to make much needed updates to our banking system so bear with us as there may be a brief delay in processing dues payments. Scott can be reached via email at treasurer@goosecreekfarms.xyz. As always you can reach the entire road committee at once at board@goosecreekfarms.xyz.

Please continue to send your dues ($550 for 2020) to:
Goose Creek Farms Road Committee
PO Box 604
Leesburg, VA 20176

We will provide an updated accounting statement after Scott has a chance to do a round of check collection and depositing so that we have accurate numbers.

Upcoming Road Work

January has been rough on the road. As soon as we had funds available for 2020 we had our contractor come out to do an emergency road repair. Since then we had a contractor come out and touch up the road as well as perform significant brush trimming to improve visibility along the road.

The recent rains exposed some weak areas in the road between the hill and the mirror so this week we are having a contractor come to reinforce the sides of the road between the hill and the mirror with large stone to slow water flow and protect the road. They will also be cleaning up the drain ditches further to keep water away from the road. This work should commence tomorrow (Jan 28th).

General Update

In addition to the transitioning the Treasurer position, this month we met with neighbors and potential contractors to try and find better ways to maintain the road that are more economical and effective. We would like to thank BJ Brixius and Ron Bohn for meeting with us to discuss maintenance ideas and get input from a potential new contractor. BJ operates a landscaping business and went over the prices we have been paying for various services provided over the last year and confirmed that we are indeed getting fair prices for the work. BJ also generously coordinated having his own crew come up and perform services on the road this past week and again this week. Dave Horton is also working on some ideas for a long term fix to the rough pot hole areas and is seeking volunteers, please contact us if you would like to help him and we will get you in touch with him.

One of the challenges with getting work performed here was demonstrated this month when we tried to meet with a new contractor to get estimates for maintaining the road. The contractor arrived very late from the agreed upon time and we have still not received the promised estimate. This experience exemplifies some of the reasons why costs have gone up for maintaining the road. If you know of a reliable professional that you think might be able to provide economical services to the neighborhood please let us know and we can work with you to evaluate their proposal.

Volunteering on the road: This is one topic where there seems to be confusion in the neighborhood. We would like to repeat and clarify that never has anyone on the road committee asked that people not volunteer to work on the road, other than to avoid improperly snow plowing (which has been a major problem). If you’d like to volunteer your time and/or equipment to work on the road we are more than happy to coordinate with you and facilitate acquiring material as needed. All we ask is that you coordinate your activities with us by emailing or calling someone on the committee! The problem with just going out without coordinating is that we may already have plans for doing work such as plowing or fixing potholes and when neighbors don’t coordinate with us then there is the potential for wasted dues money paying for services that are no longer needed. So please, just drop us a line if you are going to work on the road so we can all coordinate our efforts: Contact Page

Phase 1 of Major Road Renovations Complete!

Hi Neighbors,
We would like to report that we are nearly complete with the first phase of major road renovations. We brought in 29 very large loads of fine millings, completely renovated the road from the Johnson’s property to Lime Kiln including packing and grading so that it has a nice crown and slope to help keep water off, as well as renovations to the road in sections throughout the rest of the length of Goose Creek Lane that we maintain. This is all part of the plan to get the road into much better shape to improve maintainability, property values, as well as comfort and safety while driving.

There are still several sections of the road that we were not able to renovate and we do want to bring them up to the same standards, however at this time we are at critical reserve level with only about $5,600 left in the road fund. To put that in perspective, between millings, grading, and packing this last several weeks of road work cost about $12.3k. So we are going into a holding pattern for the rest of 2019 and will plan on picking up where we left off in 2020 when we have funds available.

Quick Reminder: Please clear the brush along the road on your property!

There are several neighbors who have let the brush grow out into the road along their property and it is becoming a safety hazard. Please do take the time to trim the branches and brush back away from the road so that there is room for vehicles to pass and work vehicles to get through. We do not have the funds to pay for brush clearing services, so it is up to you to do the right thing and maintain your property!

We’d like to send a big thanks out to those that have volunteered their time and financial resources to go out and trim the brush back already, that is a huge help to the neighborhood!

Road Dues Update

As mentioned in the last email update, the road dues for 2020 will be $550 per household. This will allow us to continue improving the road, maintain what we have invested in, and cover cost of professional plowing. 

Please plan accordingly now so that you can pay the road dues on January 1st, 2020.

Thank you to all the neighbors who contributed to the road fund in 2019 so far, we have had some of the best neighbor participation in supporting the road fund this year than in recent history!

Fresh Millings Opportunity

Dear Neighbors,
As most of you know, Lime Kiln road is being repaved in the next couple weeks. We have begun discussions with the project managers and contractors to coordinate receiving the millings from this project. We do not have a lot of details at this time, but we may have the opportunity to receive a very large amount of millings for the neighborhood at a very low cost.

We have a very urgent need for locations where we can store millings for future use along the road or on the spurs. This will allow great savings for future road work as materials will already be onsite. We would fully expect neighbors that allow millings to be stored on their property to be able to freely use the millings for their own driveways and spurs. We would like to thank Mr. Reynolds, the Adams, and the Burgers for graciously offering up parts of their property for us to store millings. However, we are still looking for more locations along the length of Goose Creek Lane so that we have a nice distribution of storage locations. If you have a spot we can store even just one load, please let us know and one of us will meet with you to ensure millings are stored exactly where you want them!

Along with storing millings from this project, our intention is to put down a fresh layer of millings throughout the entire length of Goose Creek Lane. The millings should be tailgated then spread and packed by our contractor, AW Smith. Our hope is that the millings will be free and if so, once Goose Creek Lane is fully loaded with fresh millings, we will be happy to direct the trucks to all the spurs. However, due to our limited funds, we won’t be able to cover costs associated with spreading and packing millings on spurs. The trucks will also only be able to work in areas where they have a safe place to turn around and may require a neighbor who lives on the spur to be available to direct them.

If you do NOT want free millings tailgated down your spur, please let us know immediately, otherwise we will assume everyone would like a fresh layer of millings on their spur.

Once we have received additional information from the VDOT contractors we will send out another quick announcement.

Dues Voting

As a reminder we sent out details about 2020 proposed road dues in the last newsletter. We have only received about 8 votes at this time. You are always welcome to email us your vote and comments.

Neighborhood Business Listing

Several neighbors have asked about compiling a list of business and services that our neighbors provide. To help facilitate this we would like to offer any neighbor that is current on road dues the opportunity to have their business/services listed on the website. To give you an example of what the listing may look like, we went ahead and put up the page so you can see what information to provide for the listing. You can view the current listing here: https://goosecreekfarms.xyz/about/neighborhood-businesses/

If you would like your business/service listed, please send us an email with your business/service name, a sentence about what service is provided, website link, and phone number. 

Road Dues Ledger

We didn’t include the ledger in the last newsletter (it was amended to the website post later). But we have included the current ledger for your review here as well. Because we posted the list of contributing neighbors already this month, we will not re-post that in this newsletter. You can view it on the last newsletter post here.

Best regards,
Harley, Ashley, Mallory, and Cory
GCF Road Committee 2019