Minutes for the Annual Meeting - March 13, 2006
Pending Approval March 2007
Open meeting at 7:00 PM with the Pledge of Allegiance
The meeting was then turned over to Chad Reid who had agreed to chair the Annual
Meeting.
Glory Schrader, acting secretary, read the resident roll call to determine if a
quorum was present. 74 lots including 15 proxies were present. This constituted
a quorum.
Glory Schrader read the minutes for the Dec. 2004 annual meeting. There were not
enough residents present to constitute a quorum so the meeting was postponed
until March 2005. The acting secretary then read the minutes for the 2005 Annual
meeting. The minutes were approved as read with a motion by Dutch Sykes and
seconded by Dick Weyland.
Election results — Before Marilyn Morris read the election results, she
challenged residents to get more actively involved in the community. She also
challenged the new members of the BOD to come up with creative ideas to get all
qualified residents involved in volunteering for various committees and running
for office. The results are attached to this document
There was a discussion on whether to change the by-laws so that a person running
for office need not be a homeowner. It was suggested that we are a Homeowners
association,, therefore a person running for office should be a homeowner. State
law was also quoted as was a lawyer’s interpretation. A hand vote indicated that
there was not enough support for this at this time.
Discussion on the job of the election committee’s efforts to contact everyone to
inquire about their desire to run for office. It was stated that the committee
did their job as dictated and every effort was made to contact every resident.
Also discussed was the issue of whether winter residents (snowbirds) were
discouraged from running for the BOD. In the past, people have been removed from
office for missing a
certain number of meetings. It was pointed out that, according to our documents
— a person can be removed from but it is not required. However, past practice
dictates that removal from office for missing meetings has occurred. It was
brought up that if residents do not exercise their rights to run for office and
get involved in running our village, a private management company might have to
be hired at a certain
increase in monthly fees.
It was suggested that more people would get involved if there weren’t so many
recriminations from certain people who don’t want to follow the rules.
Discussion about people following the rules, which are written for everyone’s
benefit. It was suggested that the Code Enforcement committee and the
Architectural Committee work together to follow-up on the violations to rules.
Letters from the BOD will be sent to offending parties with possible legal
action to follow. They will also work with Pasco County regarding any permit
necessities.
Discussion regarding allowing free-standing sheds. It was suggested that they
not be bigger than 8 feet by 10 feet, be hurricane approved and match existing
house colors, and be placed so as not to disturb neighbors. A written vote was
taken 42 yes / 32 no 51% was needed to pass (motion passed)
Discussion on whether to use an alternate heating system, besides the solar
panels, to heat the pool. It was suggested that realtors advertise our village
as having a heated pool. In order to protect our real estate values and to allow
winter residents (who pay maintenance fees year-round) the pleasure of using a
heated pool. It was suggested that a heat pump be purchased to supplement the
solar panel system presently in
use. The decision to also purchase a pool cover will be left up to the new BOD.
A written vote was taken 60 yes / 13 no ( motion passed)
It was suggested that possibly the agenda for the upcoming BOD meetings could be
included in the Newsletter.
A show of hands approved moving $2,000.00 to pool fund from the General fund.
The Annual meeting was closed.