Minutes from the Huntington Highlands Community Annual Meeting, Monday March 4, 2013

Attendees:

Board members:

• Carol Straughan Co -president
• David Blatner – Co- president
• Jeanne Marcil
• Susan Sodorff
• Lynn Kepl

Community attendees:

• Betty Stack
• Tina and Spero(SP) Papanose
• John and robin Godfrey
• Robin and David Hutchinson
• Susan Anderson
• John and Pam Logsdon
• Matt Hart
• Dave Straughan
• Pat Moore
• Matt & Jennifer Johnson
• Dapeng Lui
• Mike and Anne Lind

Agenda

Meeting commenced at 7:08 PM

• Entrance Update:
  • Entrance is moving forward and will include the following; Columns and post, brick and rod iron. Three tree’s e.g. birch with up-lighting.
  • HHCO Board – is getting two more bids then should look plausible
  • Question from Jennifer Johnson: Who handles the maintenance – HHCO board does, Sodorff’s and Peacocks cover water.
• Summerfield house: offer out and working through sale.
• Comment by John Logsdon that having the fencing and clear entrance would ensure the entrance to the neighborhood is well kept and keeps the value of the home.
• Budget presentation by Susan Sodorff:
  • 37,902.53. 2013 annual dues bring us to 45,800 in budget.
  • See attached as reference.
• Discussion:
• Meet with a lawyer to understand what is required to update CC&Rs.
  • A lot of discussion about what the lawyer fees were for. The notes from this meeting with Carol Schmidt will be published.
• Summerfield house will need to share that it needed to be approved by the board.
  • They need to replace the wood fence with wood fence, not cyclone that was placed and approved by a previous board.
  • Carol: will discuss the cyclone fence with the Summerfield potential owner.
• Website:
  • Removed the password protection for ease of access by community.
  • HuntingtonHighland.org. attendees commented this was helpful.
  • There is a list of recommended services, plumbers, roofers….
  • To Email someone in Huntington Highlands – there is a map that you can go to and click on the location, you can email that person.
  • We are working on emailing “everyone” through google groups.
  • Compliments were given to Carol on break-ins or other news. Thank you for the notifications from the Board (Carol).
  • Send a note to opt out – if you don’t want to receive. David will update the alias.
  • Proposal for the blog, let the community add in the blog. David can offer that this is a service.
  • Putt on google group and ask if people want to opt out.
• Social update:
  • Positive feedback on the Halloween party. Thank you to Blatner’s for hosting the party. Good turn out and many without kids.
• Neighborhood signs – for security.
• Benches – there was interest in seeing if there is a way to have benches on the main street, perhaps by the mailboxes.
• Cul-de-sac maintenance was requested. The CC&R’s state that the cul-de-sac maintenance is responsibility of the homeowners within the cul-de-sac. A proposal was made to have the board look into adding annual dues to the cul-de-sac owners dues to cover costs of maintenance. The board will consider looking into this.
• Election of Board of Directors will be at next year’s HHCO Annual meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 8:14pm.