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IMPORTANT – STMA BEACH PARKING!

May 29, 2025 | Beach, Facilities, Featured, Newsletter, Presidents messages

Could you help us with our STMA beach parking lot? 

If you abuse the STMA  parking lot access at the Beach…

According to the access card swipes, there were 504 entries into the parking lot over the Memorial Day Weekend. Numerous residents abused this amenity by lending their cards to other vehicles to gain access.

Please remember:

  • Only ONE vehicle permitted to enter per access card.
  • Passing a Property Owner’s Access Card to another vehicle to permit entry of more than one vehicle on a card is prohibited.
  • The Beach Parking Lot is for the exclusive use of Sea Trail Property Owners and their guests.
  • Open 6 am to 10 pm. 7 days a week.
  • No overnight parking allowed.
  • 46 overall parking spaces: vehicles and golf carts.
  • Access card required
  • Parking spaces along the inside fences on both ends of the lot are designated for golf carts only. These are indicated with parking signs.
  • DO NOT park outside our parking lot (against the fence) – You will be ticketed and could be towed.
  • Vehicles shall be parked diagonally with the front end of the vehicle straight up to the parking bumpers (along the south and north borders of the property).  When the diagonal parking spaces along the south and north borders of the property are full, vehicles shall be parked in a center column across the lot from the west to the east allowing a lane of sufficient width for those vehicles parked on the south and north borders to be able to maneuver to exit the lot to First Avenue. DO NOT block cars or golf carts!
  • Traffic flow once you enter through the gate should always be clockwise within the fenced area.
  • Misuse of the beach parking lot will lead to the property owners’ white access card suspension for 30 days for the first offense and 60 days for each subsequent offense.

To be continued…

Mickey Smith, STMA President

Message from the President

Feb 26, 2025 | Facilities, Featured, Newsletter, Presidents messages

Building Community Together…

A Message from the President
The STMA Board wants to thank everyone that attended our First Quarter Open Board Meeting on Wednesday, February 19th.  Also, a special thanks to all the new 2024 homeowners that attended the new homeowners orientation held on February 22nd.  Special thanks to our board members along with Janine Entwistle, Debbie Cornell and Jack Passalugo for setting up the Pink Palace for both events.

Chair Replacement – Pink Palace & Sunshine Room

Talking about thanking people, I am so grateful for a team of our STMA members. Do you remember in one of the President’s Letters “We’re excited to share that our team is looking into replacing the chairs in the Pink Palace and Sunset Room!”  We’ve heard your concerns and are on it. Three volunteers from the Sunset Room helped us explore options and a team was created which included Hanneke Nagelkerke, Sue Shovlin, Georgia Phillabaum, Roz Dahlen and Jack Phillabaum. After considering these complaints about the comfort/height of the chairs, the team determined that it was necessary to replace the existing chairs in the Sunset Room and Pink Palace Main room.  The team chose a banquet chair in the same fabric and ordered 4 chairs to test out before purchasing the needed 130 chairs. After a number of groups tested the chairs, all gave very positive reviews and the decision was made to  place the order.

Following lots of discussion and investigation, the team also decided to donate the existing chairs to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Newland, NC, one of the churches in Western North Carolina (WNC) that was hit hard by Hurricane Helene. Arrangements were made to have Gary and Teresa Massey, who own the pier and have been instrumental in delivering supplies to WNC, to deliver the chairs to the church. This process should be completed by the middle of March. Our team felt that donating the chairs to our neighbors in WNC was a wonderful gesture that the Sea Trail Master Association could do. Thank you to the “Chair Team” for making this happen!

 

STMA Meet With Condo Association Board Members

On February 20th, the STMA board met with the Condo Associations Board members. Invitations were sent to the 13 Board member Presidents, inviting all of their board members to attend and all boards were able to send representatives, with the exception of 2. Topics like insurance, signs etc. were discussed and we all agreed that it was a productive meeting. Plans were discussed to have another meeting before the end of the year. It was a great example of enhanced communication with condo members! Special thank you to Jo Donna O’Leary, Dawn Smiarowski and Janine Entwistle for planning this meeting.

 

To be continued…

Mickey Smith, STMA President