Friday, August 20, 2010

Open Board Meeting - 19 August 2010

August's regular board meeting was uneventful, as these meetings go. Here are (some of) the highlights:
  • Reserves are headed in a positive direction. The board has been doing its best to spend money out of the association's operating budget where possible to avoid depleting the reserves. The CD which held the bulk of the reserve monies rolled over recently, and the association received approximately $2,000 in interest. The board's vice president was able to secure a 2% rate for the new account.

    Reserve contributions continue as budgeted. I suggested that we look into making up January's contribution (which was missed) since we appear to be doing better financially. This will most likely need to be brought up again next month.

  • The board approved a large number of landscaping items including turf replacement, installation of new hedges, and the like.

  • Various items around the pool need work/repair/replacement: tile(s) on the bathroom roof need replacing; bathrooms need new timers for the lights; new drains are being considered in a couple of areas to keep run-off (specifically, the chlorine in it) from killing the landscape.

  • The issue of speeding was raised, and the board is looking into installing a temporary speed bump at or near the Belflora entrance gate. If successful, the speed bump would be replaced with something permanent.

  • The board president presented the other board members with proposed amendments to the bylaws. The reason given for the changes was to remove the possibility of cumulative voting in board elections; however, there are other changes as well. The proposed amendments will be on the September agenda, presumably for a board vote, after which, if successful, the amendments will be presented to the membership where they require a majority vote to be passed.

    [I have not had time to review the proposed amendments, yet. I plan to do so in the near future and will write about it once I have, though. Any member who wishes to write about the proposed changes and have their writing posted on this site should submit their writing to me by email. I would prefer not to publish anything anonymously; however I will consider any requests to do so.]

Minutes posted

Minutes from May, June, and July's regular board meetings are now posted.

Note that the password has been updated to match the new resident gate code.