Minutes – VHOA Board of Directors Meeting – July 01, 2005

6:00PM – Joe Krager’s Home

Meeting adjourned at 8:45PM. Meeting time was 2:45 hours.

 

Attendees: President, Arnie Sheldon (Hereafter, Arnie)

 Vice-President, Dori Barnard (Dori)

 Vice-President, Laura Bradley (Laura)

 Treasurer, Tony Perry (Tony)

 Secretary, Joe Krager (Joe)

 

Order of Business:

 

-       Discussion of pool management contract

o       Response to Dan Gibbs’ e-mail: Laura’s letter will be e-mailed to him after this meeting.

o       Discussed making the pool gate harder to get into after the summer. An extension will be made to the area around the knob inside the gate.

o       After numerous complaints, the Board will be terminating the contract with US Aquatics as soon as a new pool management company is obtained. A letter will be drafted by Laura & Tony to terminate the contract with US Aquatics by next week.

o       The statement of work written by Tony Perry was approved and a new contract will be signed in the next days.

 

-       Status of the amendment from attorney Joe Tart

o       The corrections from Joe Tart still haven’t been made. Laura will be contacting him next week for these corrections.

o       The amendment, letter, and proxy need to be mailed to homeowners next week from CPA. CPA is aware these documents need to go out and will be able to send them out the same day we provide the final editions.

o       The Board will go house to house collecting proxies from those homeowners who will not be able to attend the meeting on July 20th. The proxies votes obtained will be for the amendment issue only after it is mailed next week.

 

-       Interest discussion

o       We will be discussing with David Bryan whether our right to charge interest to for past dues not collect is waived since they weren’t charged at the time.

o       Interest of dues not paid by homeowners going forward will be charge after the due dates listed on the statements sent out for the third quarter 2005.

-       Distribution of newsletter

o       Dori discussed with the postmaster that the post office will deliver to every homeowner in Valleyfield if we put any homeowner in Valleyfield on each copy. The Board will discuss further how to distribute the newsletters in the future prior to October’s edition. It takes a lot of the Board’s time to write the articles, edit the document, make 170 copies, get labels printed with each homeowner’s address, and put postage on them. We will probably have to pay CPA to mail the final additions in the future.

o       The Board will be hand delivering all of the newsletters this quarter since they need to be delivered before July 4th. We understand that some homeowners may be upset by the Board putting then newsletters into their mailboxes, but since this is time sensitive, and only a one time event, we decided to go ahead and do it because of its content. We apologize to those upset by this decision.

 

-       Mulch delivery for the playground

o       We will be getting mulch delivered at the park next Friday afternoon. The mulch spreading will be that evening and over the weekend.

o       We are paying $15.92/sq. yd. for 24 yards. Total=$382.00 plus tax for Cyprus playground mulch.

 

-       Discussion items for the July 20th meeting

o       The Board will meet at the Hunt Community Center at 6:30PM for set up of meeting. The cafeteria has been reserved from 6:30-9:00PM.

o       The Board will be purchasing food/drink for the community for this meeting. We have budgeted $75.00.

o       Name tags will be provided to all homeowners/Board members to help with identification.

o       Laura will be the moderator for this meeting and will keep time on each subject, as well as helping to keep us on agenda.

o       Agenda Items:

§         Update/information on the bank accounts-Tony (5 minutes)

§         Update/information on the website-Joe (3 minutes)

§         Update/information on the improvements we have made to the community since April-Dori (5 minutes)

§         Where do we want to spend our money going forward-Arnie (10 minutes)

§         Update/information on the pool contract-Tony (10 minutes)

§         Ask for volunteers for the pool and ground maintenance committees-Arnie (10 minutes)

§         Information on street signs-Arnie (3 minutes)

§         Interest/Liens/Foreclosures-Tony/Laura (10 minutes)

§         The community alcohol policy-Arnie (9 minutes)

§         Declaration amendment-Laura (15 minutes)

§         Questions/comments from the community (40 minutes)

 

-       At this time, the Board went on a field trip to the street sign at the corner of Grassy Valley/Morton Farm Road

o       The signs are in desperate need of maintenance.

o       It was found that the entire post needs to be removed from the ground.

o       After painting the posts, we will need to re-dig the hole and pour in cement to get the post to stand straight up in the future.

o       Twelve street signs have been counted in our community and we, the Board, will attempt to get some of them taken care of before the end of July.

 

-       The field trip continued down to the pool.

o       We noted several areas of the pool that haven’t been cleaned properly by our current pool contractor and the chemical check list had not been filled out properly.

o       Several notes were taken to ensure they are addressed by the new pool contractor we hire.

 

-       The final stop on the field trip was to the swamp.

o       We took notice of the current dam and now have a better idea what we will be talking to the Holly Springs Environmental Office on Friday.

o       The meeting will be at Dori’s home and we will walk over to the swamp from there during our meeting with the Environmental Office.