Susan S. Phillips Gunther Jochl Village Manager Mayor Stacy C. Eggers IV Scott J. Brown Village Attorney Mayor Pro Tem Council Members David Ammann (828) 898-9292 Wade Wittman www.seesugar.com Dick Casey THE VILLAGE OF SUGAR MOUNTAIN 251 Dick Trundy Lane Sugar Mountain, NC 28604 May 16, 2025 It has become increasingly difficult to compose a monthly report and attempt to remember what takes place from day to day. The hours tick by at such a fast rate, it seems that you can hear the click of the counter! The debris removal from the right of ways of our streets has been completed. The tree crews from Delton, Michigan and Sumter, South Carolina have finally gotten home. They worked 7 days a week for 80 days alongside our crew. This was time spent away from their families also and their lifestyles to help us return to a sense of normalcy. I am SO thankful for their presence and time that was given to the Village, and the work that was completed would have taken our crew years to complete. For 90% of the time the pleasantness of Sugar Mountain was in full effect in front of our visitors, but I was thoroughly embarrassed at times at the way they were treated by some of our full-time residents. Driving by at higher than needed speeds while rolling down windows to yell obscenities at them was observed by myself and our crew on more than one occasion. Despite this, they kept working, and all of them would love to return to this area to vacate at some point. This effort resulted in over 1500 truckloads and over 50,000 cubic yards of debris being removed from Sugar Mtn. We have for the most part completed the repair of the areas where landslides compromised our streets, and washouts alongside the edge of the asphalt. We have replaced culverts on Rock Spring Circle and at the entrance to the Park. The roadway on Briarcliff in the area of Slopesiders has been reconstructed and repaved also. The slide at Timber Ridge Road and on Sugar Mountain Drive just beyond the tennis courts is still in the engineering phase and we hope to have those repaired by winter. We are still in the process of cleaning out all our ditches and are currently on the Grouse Moor Drive side of the mountain. This creates temporary scars, but the healing happens fast when the native vegetation grows back. We also will be getting the areas alongside the streets mown and looking better in the coming weeks. We hope to get some white and yellow lines painted next week on Grouse Moor Drive and Sugar Mountain Drive. We have managed to get 8 holes of the golf course open as of today. Holes 11,8,9,10,17,18,, and 2 are open for play in that order. I am SO thankful to see people back on our golf course. I have been worried that this point would never come, but to see it come to fruition does our crew and my heart a lot of good! We are thankful for the support of the Council and of our manager Sue to assist us in all that we do for the Village. Respectfully submitted, Bill Daniels, Village Maintenance Director