“Hello Twain Harte Meadows Park Supporters,

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season!  I wanted to provide you a quick update on our progress with the new park.

As you probably know, we submitted a Statewide Park Program grant application in August.  There is $254 million available statewide through this grant program and about 500 applications were submitted, making up about $1.3 billion in projects. If we are successful, the grant would cover all costs to design and build the new park.

The grant agency originally anticipated that they would announce grant awards by December 2019; however, their process has been delayed and awards will likely not be announced until March 2020 now.  In late November, the grant agency scheduled a meeting with us to tour our site and ask questions about our design and community involvement process.  They were very impressed with the amount of involvement from our community (thank you!) and like the design we all put together.  While this visit isn’t a guarantee that we will receive the grant, it seems to be a good sign that we are in the running.  Not all projects received in-person, scheduled site visits.

We remain hopeful that we will receive good news in March and will get working on things right away.  The grant requires the entire project to be complete by December 2021.  This means that we will need to complete design and bid the project this year so that it can be constructed during the construction weather window in 2021.  This is an aggressive schedule for such a large project, but it would be great to get the new park open to the community as quick as possible.

I will let you know when we hear more.  There are several other grant opportunities through Proposition 68 that we are pursuing in case we are not successful with this grant.

Thank you for all your support so far and please keep an eye out for opportunities to be involved as we continue toward building this incredible park (there will be plenty of opportunities!).  If you haven’t seen the conceptual design that was submitted for the grant or want to learn more about the process we took to get there, please visit our website: https://www.twainhartecsd.com/twain-harte-meadows-park-development-update-december-2019

Kind regards,

Tom

Tom Trott, P.E.
General Manager
Twain Harte Community Services District
P.O. Box 649, Twain Harte, CA 95383
PH: (209) 586-3172  FAX:  (209) 586-0424″

MONDAY, Dec 30, 2019 – 6:00 am

SNOWFALL TOTALS

• Past Week: Summit – 8″ / Base – 5″
• Season Total: 117″
• Base Depth: Summit 42″ / Base 23″

100% OF MOUNTAIN TERRAIN IS OPEN

• 100% of the terrain is open and accessible.
• Chairlifts 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and the rope tow are scheduled to run along with conveyors 1 & 2 for Children’s Lessons.
• We have 41 groomed runs today, offering miles and miles of immaculate groomers today offering fun and carveable conditions throughout the mountain.
• Rocky’s Road Terrain Park is open with 4 new features, and we’ll continue to add additional features along with a new park in the works for later this week.

CURRENT WEATHER

• The temperatures on the mountain right now are 27 degrees at the base and 25 degrees at the summit with crystal clear skies overhead.

FORECAST

• We’ll look forward to clear and beautiful, bluebird skies with highs in the upper 30’s to low 40’s and cold overnight lows in the 20’s, keeping the nearly 10 feet of snowfall this season in great condition.
• For today,  The forecast for the week ahead is looking to continue with beautiful and comfortable, crystal-clear, bluebird skies through the first week of the new year.
• We’ll have clear roads for your entire EZ drive to Dodge Ridge with NO chain requirements today. With this week’s current forecast we’ll look forward to clear roads to Dodge Ridge through the first weekend of 2020.

Have you signed up to be in the parade? Everyone is invited to participate. Just fill out the parade entry form and return it to All That Matters in downtown Twain Harte See instruction where to send it at the bottom of the application. Christmas Caroling begins at 5:30 in front of the reviewing stand and the lighting of the tree is before the parade starts at 6:00 pm Santa will arrive during the parade and pictures with Santa will be available after the parade at the Twain Harte Fire House.