Lake Forest Community Association Board of Directors
Minutes of Apr, 2002
The Board met at the home of Steve Gilbert on 17 Apr 2002. In attendance were Steve Gilbert, Jim Evans, Evelyn Hempstead, Harry Hopkins and Dave Wilson and Bev Franklin. Meeting was called to order at 8:10 pm.
The draft minutes of the March 2002 meeting were reviewed and approved.
264 of 279 homeowners have paid their dues for 2002. 15 homeowners are delinquent. Steve distributed a draft letter to those delinquent homeowners, and the Board approved the letter. He will mail the letters on 1 May after giving the homeowners a 30-day grace period.
Evelyn drew up a plant diagram for the entrances. She’s proposing some stone landscaping, new shrubs, and rearrangement of existing plants. The Board voted to approve $1000 for Evelyn to spend as she sees fit to relandscape the entranceway beds. The 2002 budget provides $2500 for landscaping the entranceway beds.
Dave suggested that Harry post the 2001 financial statement on the LFCA web site. Steve will get the statement electronically and provide it to Harry for posting on the site. Dave reminded us we need to arranged with the Church for our June annual meeting. Gene normally takes care of this. We will plan for 5 or 6 June. Steve has for action.
Bev indicated the trail repair estimate is just an estimate. We decided to meet at Steve’s this Sunday at 5 pm to walk the trails to assess the trail condition. Bev will advise the one contractor who provided us a written repair estimate. The Board also voted to authorize up to $21K for trail repairs, conditional upon our review of the trails on Sunday.
Jim reported that he has replaced 6 of the 12 pipestem signs. He has 2 signs and 6 poles left to replace. He is installing 3 a weekend.
Harry indicated that all news is now posted on the LFCA web site.
Steve suggested that Harry post an announcement on our website soliciting nominations for new Board members, in preparation for our annual meeting in June. Steve also suggested that Bev prepare a community newsletter to discuss our trail condition and imminent repairs, annual meeting, community clean up day and yard sale on 18 May (19 May rain date), monopole update, AAA garbage agreement with the community, dues status, and entranceway beds. Bev asked that we email her with details of announcements we wish to have included in the newsletter. Target is to mail the newsletter during the first week of May. Steve also indicated there is a public hearing with Cox Communications to discuss citizen complaints. Details on our web site, to be posted by Harry.
Next meeting will be 7:30 on Thursday, 16 May at Steve’s home.
Meeting adjourned at 9:05 pm.