Minutes – VHOA Board of Directors Meeting – September 1, 2005

6:00PM – Arnie Sheldon’s Home

Meeting adjourned at 7:30PM. Meeting time was 1 hours 30 minutes.

 

Attendees: President, Arnie Sheldon (Hereafter, Arnie)

 Vice-President, Laura Bradley (Laura)

 Treasurer, Tony Perry (Tony)

 Secretary, Joe Krager (Joe)

 

Order of Business:

 

-       Status of the amendment

o       Nothing new to report

o       Laura will meet with Elizabeth McCullough in the near future to discuss how to proceed.

 

-       Wetlands

o       Dori has contacted her committee, but is still waiting for the person from the Town of Holly Springs to provide the information that she promised back in July.

 

-       Status of the newsletter

o       Joe has created the format for the newsletter and written two articles thus far (Pool closure/Bulletin boards).

o       We need to write articles on the following:

§         Hurricane relief

§         ARC article

§         Halloween safety

§         Amendment update

§         Summary of the Community Town Hall Meeting

§         Finance meeting

§         Pig Pickin’ – Second Saturday of October

§         Next Town Hall Meeting – late October

 

-       Arnie will work on a new location the next Town Hall Meeting

o       Due to bad acoustics and temperature issues, we plan to move the next meeting to a new location.

 

-       Pig Pickin’ will be scheduled for October 8th

o       Looking for cooker for the pig who will make hush puppies and anything else.

 

-       Yard sale for community

o       Saturday, October 1st, 7:00 AM.

o       Advertisement in the News & Observer and on the Classifieds bulletin board will be made by Arnie.

 

-       Pool bids for next year

o       Tony will finish the statement of work and will use our contract with Carlos to help write it.

o       We will get bids for approval to start work on January 01, 2006.

 

-       Foreclosures

o       One of the foreclosures we started in July has paid in full and all further proceeds toward foreclosure have ceased on this homeowner.

o       Discussed the remaining two foreclosures we continue to collect on based on information from our attorney.

 

-       Architectural Review Committee

o       Arnie is still going to take over as chairperson of this committee. He will be in this roll only as the chairperson, and will not be a voting member.

 

-       Entrance signs

o       The Board received an unsolicited bid for an entrance sign to the community at the Morton Farm Road entrance.

§         $18,800 for a sign with stone on both sides

§         $16,200 for a sign with stone on just the front side

o       Tony will seek additional bids based on our current sign’s design.

 

-       Playground improvements

o       The grill the Board purchased will be put in this fall.

o       The Board discussed purchasing a “big” kids swing set for playground.

 

-       Bulletin Boards

o       The total cost of establishing the bulletin boards was about $375. The Board approved paying Sandy Beach, our webmaster, $466.50 for the three month period.

 

-       Finance meeting

o       Right now, the meeting is scheduled for November 1st.

o       The Board will gather financial information on the following:

§         Income

·        Dues (and the possibility of lowering them)

·        Foreclosures and back dues

·        Interest

§         Expenses

·        Ground maintenance

·        Pool contractor

·        Management company (CPA)

·        Pest control (the possibility of getting one)

·        Entrance signs for the community

·        Playground swings

·        Website

·        Socials

·        Additional furniture for the pool

·        Monthly expenses including phone, electric, water

 

-       Amendment meeting

o       Right now, the meeting is scheduled for November 19th.

 

- The Board’s next meeting will be Sunday, September 25th, 5:00PM