Tamarac at Moon Valley
January 10, 2017 Meeting
7:00 Bill’s Home
Board Meeting Minutes
Attending: Natalie Carlsen, Vice-President; Bill Gossert, Board Member; Jean Long, Secretary; Randy Vinson, Treasurer; and Stu Smith, Board Member. Mary Barnet, President was absent. Joe Minnick, Landscaping Committee attended.
Natalie called the meeting to order at 7:04 pm
January Minutes
November minutes were read and Stu moved to accept the minutes, Bill seconded and they were approve as is.
Old business:
- New landscaping company – Joe Minnick reported that the new landscape company, Caretaker Landscaping, started on January. They will be doing the grounds on Thursdays. Let Joe or one of the Board know if there are any concerns with them.
- Sign proposals –Jean reported that the pool signs would cost $81.25 each for the four pool signs. The two large Private Streets signs will be $95.55 each and the two smaller version of that sign would be $50.15 (Total of $439.90 plus tax). The signs that restrict parking were not discussed since Bill has similar signs already printed. Since there will be a new sign concerning trespassers it was decided that we would wait on these signs until after Bill gets and mounts the No Trespassing signs. Since Mary was not there the No Parking Fire Lane issue was not reported on. Both should be brought up at the next Board meeting.
- The new right to arrest trespassers – Bill reported that as a private property, we can put up signs to prevent people from loitering in our community. With these signs posted in the area, we have a right to call the police when people are who do not live in the community are loitering in the area. The police can then write a citation to the person(s).
- Cox income & contract – Randy reported that Cox sent us a check for $1210.00. This money is for Cox’s use of our property. The contract last for 10 years. Three hundred fifty dollars of it went to handling fees.
- CC&R focus group update – Natalie reported that Cile and she talked about the makeup of the group. After discussion the Board agreed that there would be 7 people on the Board. None of them can be renters or leasers. One or two of them can be nonresident homeowners. They have not met yet.
- Getting involved with Paypal – Randy explained that if we use PayPal there would be a fee charged to the HOA by the PayPal company. At this time it is impractical for us and there has been only one request for this. So we came to the conclusion not to take on the extra expense. If people wish to pay electronically they can use their bank’s online banking.
- 2018 Community activities — After discussing the activities we decided to continue with these three activities: Spring picnic in early May, Garage sale in November that will coincide with Moon Valley’s garage sale, and the Holiday Party in early December. The Fall Picnic was voted out. Bill made the motion to accept these changes and Stu seconded the motion. The motion passed.
- Parking – Bill reported that he did less observing of parking situations during the holiday season. He did keep an eye on the community but with so many extra cars it would be difficult to figure out who they belonged to in a timely fashion.
- Financial – Randy reported that we ended the year with a small surplus of funds and have budgeted into the new budget the rise in the painting fees for the homes. At this point the finances look strong and are projected to be adequate for the year. Bill made a motion to approve the financial report. Natalie seconded and the report passed.
New Business
- Stu brought up the need to have another person as signer on our checks. Mary Bartlett is the only signer right now. After a short discussion Stu moved that the vice president of the Board, in this case Natalie, should be able to sign checks along with Mary. Bill seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.
- Bill presented the painting schedule for 2018.
- Bill explained how the electrician updated the pool lighting so that it is more lighted at night. We also discussed adding more light in the park area beside the pool.
Bill motioned that the meeting be closed at 8:28 pm, Stu seconded and the motion passed. Natalie closed the meeting.
Our next board meeting will be held February 15 (Thursday).