Approved Minutes For April 2007

Meeting Minutes

4/23/2007

Opening:

Mary Davidson called the regular meeting of the Arbor Ridge Homeowners Association to order at 7:00 PM on 4/23/2007 at Somerset Christian Church.

Present Board Members:

Mary Davidson, Lori Constant, Cathy Parson, Dave Cummings, Ken Pepe, Mike Farris

Not Present: None

Guests:  Michelle Underwood (TMG), April Carroll (TMG)

  1. I. Approval of Agenda

The Agenda was unanimously approved as distributed.

  1. II. Approval of Minutes

Adjustment to the March Minutes; Mary adjust minutes to reflect Mary did not review minutes

MOTION was made to approve minutes with adjustment– Approve Minutes for March 2007

ALL IN FAVOR

III. Treasurer’s Report

Ken did not receive the Treasures Report; they will need to be reviewed in May Meeting Dave had Question regards large charge on sprinkler repair.  The amount was for sprinkler activation, 98 sprinkler heads, and one timer.  We are over for the month but not over annually. Mary Questioning Bad Debt Expense asked TMG for an explanation.

IV. Homeowner Input

Five H/O Present

Question if you live in the Cottage Collection do you have a choice to pay the H/O dues?

Mary – said that you have to pay for the services. It is part of the purchase of your home.

Michelle will follow up with home owner; she is one of the lots that have never been charged and should have.

Question 174th & Lapaloma… Gully, wetlands area need attention… Pictures of areas where presented to the board of the wetland and gully areas that have not been cleaned up.

Michelle and April would like them to follow up with the H/O attorney to talk to  Arbor & West Hills; Some dead trees … may need to be cleaned up … walls may need Signage for no climbing, Old Car in the creek? Loose Fence in the      west side of wet lands.

Question Box Elder Bugs; Per Showplace they just started hatching and they suggest spraying

$270 we should wait till they hatch.  Michelle will contact Showplace and discuss options for controlling.

  1. V. Management Report

ADMINISTRATION

One Board Resignation

Chandru will need to resign for personal reasons, when things clear up he would still be interested in re-joining if there is a position available.

Compliance Report

Revised Report presented for easier readability and better information.

Meeting Notice Signage

Example of sign verbiage

Need to lock them down with a cable and keyed locks

Change Signs will read:  ARBOR RIDGE

HOA Meeting

Mon @ 7:00 PM

Somerset Christian Church

www.ArborRidgeOnline.com

Signs should cost less than $1000, April will validate costs

Collection Resolution

Signed by Board

Fine & Enforcement Policy Resolution

Dave had question of order of fines to letters; Michelle clarified the information; Mary stated that we had a professional attorney review and TMG believes the verbiage is legal.

MOTION was Made to approve the policy as written – 1 Nay from Dave; 5 In Favor

Audit Resolutions

Was signed as written

Wetlands

TMG has stated that the Turnover will happen; they do have to respond to objections

We want to be a part of the walk through for the wetlands

FINANCIAL

Delinquency Report

There are no pending collections for some of the high delinquencies per VF / NWCM.  TMG needs to continue researching to make sure they do not file a lien if there is already one.  Board will verify if any homes are up for sale.

Audit & Taxes

C&M are working on the Audit for 2006; they are 30 days into it.

Reserve Study

Michelle will email the whole report to the Board.

Delinquent Owners

Being paid as agreed

Overpaid Assessments

Being refunded

16926 Greyhawk

Home Owner is aware of issue

REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE

Tract I

MOTION – to put down a ground cover that is low maintenance, drought resistance – 1 Nay Cathy; 5 in Favor

Moss control

Showplace will do moss control this week in the Cottage Collection

Deduct Meter

Being installed this week

Annual Flowers

Showplace can move forward with $150 purchase

VI. Old Business

Wetland Transition

Already discussed

Neighborhood Watch

Postponed due to unforeseen circumstances of committee chair

  1. VII. New Business

Avamere expansion of facilities and services

No concerns by the board, no comments from home owners

Bethany Blvd changes coming

Washington County is beginning to start the process of widening Bethany Blvd

Watering concerns to change Watering to occur less often

We are unable to adjust the watering system because we are on the battery pack system; we would have needed to have a hard wired system by West Hills.

Board Training

Michelle – Eric from Barker Martin said they may be willing to do some training of board members

Barker Martin is doing a Seminar

CAI – has a seminar coming up; CAI chapter in WA might be a better choice then the Oregon chapter.  They are more active then the Oregon one.

New Neighborhood signs showing up on our property

Michelle has been trying to contact West Hills, Arbor Parc & Arbor Heights about placing signage on community property.  West Hills should be respectful of the CCRs since they helped write them for our community.  Michelle will continue to try and get them to cooperate. The Board will be considering having them remove their large sign on West Union & Laidlaw when the time period has expired per our agreement.

  1. VIII. Adjournment

Mary adjourned meeting at 8:40 PM.  The next general meeting will be at 7:00 PM on 5/28/2007 at Somerset Christian Church.

Minutes taken by Mike Farris

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