The first order of business (almost) at the 2025 General Meeting will be to consider the following Bylaws update.

There are no changes to BCPOA’s fundamental mission—this is an administrative update. Principal changes include:

¨ Clarify membership criteria in the event of multiple ownership.

¨ Stagger board terms and manage vacancies to prevent clustering of elections.

¨ Provide more committee structure for distribution of workload.

¨ Improve the resolution of real or perceived conflicts of interest.

¨ Make liability and indemnification consistent with state law.

¨ Provide a map for clarity.

Final text:

The strikeout/underline version, showing amendments from the 2017 bylaws:

Resolutions of consent for the board’s recommendation to adopt the bylaws and adjust the staggering of board terms (signed copies are on file):

Membership zone map:

With direction of the board, the BCPOA Zoning Committee created a draft standard. In October, the board didn’t have a majority supporting the standard, and sent it back to committee for further work. The primary objections were to provisions 1.d. (a grandfather or amnesty clause, felt to be unfair) and 1.b. (an “adjacent” clause, felt to create too much potential for commercialization). The October draft is here:

Current Short Term Rental draft standard, for comment

The committee’s latest markup is here:

The board has deferred action on this version until after the Dec. 12th Planning & Zoning hearing considers the PRC amendment.

As we stated before, the latest STR survey results were marred by a number of obvious “sock puppets” with nearly-identical responses purporting to be from different parts of the canyon. This makes the numerical results not worth reporting. Apologies to everyone who submitted for the wasted time; it is sad that this is the level of civility that now passes for normal.

However, a few of the questions preserve some directional validity despite the additional “contributions” and the written responses to the survey are an interesting read, so I’ve shared them below.

We had a terrific turnout and interesting discussions. Great to see everyone!

Slides are here:

BCPOA general mtg 2023.pdf

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BCPOA had the privilege of hosting this evening with Chad Klinkenborg from the Gallatin Valley Land Trust. We discuss conservation easements and the recent acquisition of a trail easement protecting public access on the Bridger Ridge.

BCPOA has created an email list dedicated to matching COVID19 assistance requests with volunteers – for example, shopping for people who are high risk and want to stay out of town. You can sign up for the list here: http://bcpoa.net/mailman/listinfo/canyon-assist_bcpoa.net This is an open discussion list so feel free to jump in with information, requests, or offers of help.

BCPOA’s long-running general list is: http://bcpoa.net/mailman/listinfo/canyon_bcpoa.net This list is announce-only, to keep traffic low. We typically use it for announcements of BCPOA events like the General Meeting, pending County zoning actions, the occasional stray dog or cow, and (very rarely) fire information.

See the Calendar and the flyer for details:

All Bridger Canyon Annual Potluck Picnic 2019.pdf