Leewood Homeowners Association

November 16, 2004 Board Meeting

Minutes

President: Anne Esquivel

At Large: John Davenport

Secretary: Albert Carchedi

Dune Ly was absent due to the birth of a baby girl. Congratulations Dune and Kirsten

President convened the meeting at 8:09 P.M. and apologized for the last minute cancellation of the meeting last week.

Open forum: Chris Hiltz suggested a blanket e-mail be set up in case of similar cancellations or other last minute items. Discussion followed.

Bob Nelson suggested centralizing requests for minor repair (broken mailbox, fence Etc.) He felt the president had the authority to execute these repairs without committee meetings on the subject. Board will take this under advisement.

Julia King volunteered to fill board vacancy and was invited to sit with the board.

Al Carchedi will check on missing minutes and send them to Judy for the web site.

A resident mentioned that some new residents have Swan statues in their front yard. The board asked Chris Hiltz to speak to his new neighbors and apprise them of the prohibition of such items. Chris also mentioned a large Van parked near him, exceeds the length requirements.

President called the board meeting to order at 8:31 P.M.

Motion made, seconded and approved that Julie King be elected to the board and fill the position of treasurer. Welcome Julie.

Judy Currier gave report of Homeowners accounts. Some of the past due accounts have been collected; some have been referred to our attorney for collection.

Motion made, seconded and approved that the Moon account balance of $900. be waived as uncollectible. No out of pocket loss to the Association.

Grounds and Maintenance: Al Sanford reported that our trees needed fertilizer:

Motion made, seconded, and approved that $2300. be allocated to fertilize the trees.

Chris Hiltz volunteered to explore Planting of additional trees and shrubs.

John Davenport reported that a large oak tree in back of his home on Leestone Street is badly split and is dangerous. Al Sanford will look into it.

ARC: Judy Currier reported that she has received many responses to the first violation letter. Some of the violations were very old and had passed through many walk threw inspections. As a number of these were minor, it was agreed that Judy would send a letter gently reminding them of the violation and to remember to correct it the next time they painted. It was suggested that an item be published in the news letter reminding residents the benefit of ARC compliance.

Motion made, seconded and resolved that second letter be mailed.

John Davenport, agreed to act as coordinator of the ARC requests.

Nuss property is ready to have self help program activated. Our attorney advised Judy, that we only need to stick the letter onto the Nuss property door, and have J&M contractors do the proposed clean up.

Treasurer’s report: Leona Taylor passed out a picture of the approximate assessment needed from the community in the event we decide to hire a Management Firm;

Final budget was presented:

Motion made, seconded and resolved that budget be approved as presented.

Motion made, seconded and resolved that quarterly assessment be increased to $170.13, but that until needed, the quarterly assessment would continue to be collected at $135.00

Meeting adjourned at 10:00 P.M.

Carry over items for next meeting:

Discussion of Newsletter
Discussion of Account managers for our reserves.
Reserve Study update
Nomination to replace Anne as President.

Note: Notices were not sent out on time concerning the assessment increase so the rate remains as it was last year.