Leewood Homeowners Association
April 19, 2005 Board Meeting
Minutes

Elected Board members present:
Julie King
Albert Carchedi
Mohammad Umar
Tom Harvat

Committee members present:
Judy Currier
Al Sanford

Residents present:
Tony McSorley

It was announced that John Davenport had resigned from the board. Resignation accepted.

Meeting called to order at 8:05 P.M.

New board members were introduced:
Julie King was nominated and elected President of the association.
Albert G. Carchedi was nominated and elected Secretary of the association
Tom Harvat was nominated and elected Treasurer of the association
Mohammad Umar was nominated and elected 'Member at large'/Vice President until the Office of Vice President is filled.
Office of Vice President remains unfilled.

Meeting convened by President.
Board Minutes of Annual meeting (March of 2004), of February 2005 and of Annual meeting (March 2005) were approved as submitted. Judy will have the minutes for Oct. 2004 ready for the next meeting.

Open forum:

• ARC: 'Chairman' of ARC is non-filled. Julie King is acting as Coordinator until someone from the ARC committee volunteers to fill the position.
• POA packets discussed, especially ARC violations, last inspection is usually done by Bob Flynn.
• Hallcrest Heights HOA written up in Washington Post mentioned.
• Message board: After a person's name, a title (i.e., senior editor, new member) is displayed. What do these mean? It is a function of the software for the website. As you post more articles, it will change.
• Community property problems: please report these to the G&M committee by email, by mail (attn: G&M) or by phone. Contacts can found in the newsletter or on the website.
• ARC violations to report: please report these to the ARC committee by email, by mail (attn: ARC) or by phone. Contacts can found in the newsletter or on the website.

Officer reports:

President:

• Passed out new improved maps, Which Tony then corrected and the corrected copy is now on the website in printable form.
• Reported financial status, questions of transfer of certain Schwab funds.
  ARC needs money (for the forms for 'violation checklists' and 'stick-ons', these are both still being discussed by the ARC), discussion included the type of stickiness and similarity to parking tickets, and included the cost amount.
• Financial Committee needs to be started to research better ways of investing money, mostly in CD's. Presently, only Julie King and Tony McSorley have volunteered for this committee. We will need a chairman, more volunteers, clean up of authorization to sign to sign checks and input from Leona.
  

Treasurer: --Tom Harvat advised he would contact Leona and see that action is taken.

Secretary:

• gave his report on ticketing certain cars in the community.
• Cost of having tickets printed discussed.

Committee reports:
ARC: Judy Currier

• A successful ARC meeting the previous night: Written report submitted.
• MOTION: that violation stickers and checklists (as formalized by the ARC committee) be printed and distributed to the zone captains of the ARC committee.
• A report of all out standing violations was given to the board, along with violations that had been addressed by the ARC committee and now needed board action.
• Judy brought in pictures to show the board when discussing the hearing notices.
  MOTION: that board hearing letters be sent to two residents indicated in the report.
  MOTION: that the board send 2nd violation letters to those indicated in the ARC
  report.

Homeowner's accounts: Judy Currier-

• It was reported that Homeowner's accounts are in pretty good shape at this time.
• It was announced that Lou Ann Munson has agreed to handle Consumer Affairs.

Grounds and Maintenance: Al Sanford -

• It was announced that Juan Laguna has agreed to act as mediator when an outside contractor causes damage to the common area.
• Details of the Spring Cleanup project were presented.
• MOTION: that the committee can spend up to $150.00 to provide food and drink for the volunteers.
• MOTION: that committee can purchase two push brooms if needed for this project.

Old business:

Letter from resident outlining complaints and offering solutions to the increasing problems of parking in some areas, was read to the board. Discussion followed.

Meeting adjourned at 10:10 P.M.