Lake Perry Lot Owners' Association
Meeting Minutes
March 10, 2010
Start 5 PM, Rich DeWilde's office

Attendees
Sheila Caskey
Rich DeWilde
Carol Breig
Tom Murphy
Bob Pelker
Harold Unterreiner
Absent
Mark DeLine

Meeting Minutes
The minutes of the February 17, 2010 meeting were read and approved. Harold made the motion, Sheila seconded. Motion carried.

Treasurer's Report
The treasurer's report was read and approved. Harold made the motion to approve, Sheila seconded. Motion carried.

Follow up on the Aging Report. Outstanding balance is $156,595. Liens are in the process of being filed against 28 lot owners who have unpaid assessments. Letters to be mailed on March 11. Lot owners have 20 days to respond. Liens will be filed on April 1, 2010. .

Old Business

2-6 Paving
Discussed new speed bumps. Some car bottoms are scraping. Must come to complete stop to avoid. Discussed placement of speed bumps.

July 15: Speed bumps on new pavement are too high. Cars dragging. Bauman to come back and look at this problem.
August 19: Bauman Construction looked at the problem and is to change the speed bumps so that they are more gradual to eliminate the problem with cars dragging. Bauman will also work on patching several cracks in the asphalt.
September 23: Bauman to work on cracks in asphalt and fix speed bumps the week of September 28.
October 21: Rich has contacted Bauman several times and will follow up on this again.

November 18: Bauman corrected all but a few of the speed bumps. Rich's instruction to Bauman was to fix all bumps that 'showed a scrape", but there are still a few where there are issues. Rich will check with Bobby to find out which ones were not corrected and why.
December 16: Bauman is to be at the lake December 22 to inspect additional work to be done on speed bumps. Bob requested he be included in this inspection.
January 20: Rich will follow up again since it was unclear if anything was done.
February 17: Rich left message for Bauman. Will try again to get in touch with them.
March 10: Rich spoke to Bauman who is to be at the lake next week to work with Bob Welden on the speed bumps.

2-9 Board member concerns
Harold will contact Dave LeClere regarding trapping muskrats, beavers,etc
.
July 15: Harold unable to contact LeClere.
August 19: Rich talked to LeClere and he will do trapping.
September 23: LeClere to begin trapping when season opens on October 15.
October 21: Harold to check with LeClere on progress.
November 18: Apparently no one wants pelts anymore so having a difficult time getting anyone to want to come out and take care of the issue. Harold will continue to pursue.
December 16: Dave LeClere to begin trapping for 15 days after the first of the year.
January 20: Assumption that trapping was in fact done
February 17: Harold will contact LeClere to find out status
March 10: Harold still trying to get in contact.

4-4 Violation of restrictions
The Board had a lengthy discussion about lot owners who continue to violate the restrictions. It was agreed that we must begin to pursue legal action again repeat violators. The Board discussed the cost of doing this and the possibility of using a raise in the yearly assessment to fund this action.

Rich will ask Kim Moore for an estimate of the cost related to pursuing these violators.

Bob suggested we prioritize a list of restriction violators to be used as we began to pursue litigation.

September 23: Waiting for estimate of cost. Still need to prioritize a list of violators.
October 21: Legal costs to pursue violators will be billed at $165/hour. Each board member will make a list of violators they consider to be top priority.
November 18: Need to prioritize the violators. Shelia gave her list. Bob suggested having as many Board members as possible to pick a day and drive around the Lake to list any violators and come up with a list to prioritize. Shelia agreed to send out a listing of possible dates to all Board members to see who would be available. It was agreed that at a minimum it would be Bob and Shelia.
December 16: Board members agreed to meet after the holidays to prioritize list of offenders.
January 20: Bob and Shelia have set a date to tour the entire property.
February 17: Bob and Sheila presented list of the worst offenders. Sheila will draft letters to be sent to those lot owners.
March 10: Sheila presented drafts of letters. Board will review the letters before the April meeting.

6-8 Accounting
Discussed accounting costs. Due to the impending tax season it was decided that this will be deferred until the April board meeting.

Board Concerns, December 16

Suggested bond or escrow for building permit. Tom volunteered to look into this issue.

January 20: Tom will follow up and bring information to next meeting.
February 17: Tom was absent. Will follow up at March meeting.
March 10: Tom spoke to several insurers about this issue. Will present more info at April meeting.

9.1 Board Vacancies
Bob and Mark will form a nomination committee to find new board candidates.

February 17: Two seats will be open on the board this year. Carol Breig will not run for reelection. Harold Unterreiner will. Information will be placed in the newsletter and on the website asking for interested lot owners to turn in a resume to the board. The board will then choose a slate of nominees to place on the ballot at the annual meeting in April.
March 10: Discussed the procedure used to prepare a slate of candidates. Discussed changing the by-laws before the 2011 election. Will present slate for 2010 at April meeting.


9.2 New camping permit
Rich will create a new form, establishing guidelines and restrictions. Will review language by previous developer.
February 17: Rich presented the revised form. Motion was made by Harold to approve, Sheila seconded and the motion carried.
March 10: Winkler Towing has agreed to tow illegally parked campers at a rate of $75 to $100.

9.3 Harold - Bid to fill in the sides of the road along the new paving. Need to get a bid from Christisen, since he did a great job on the dam.
February 17: Decision was made to postpone getting a bid on this.

March 10: Amount saved by not purchasing new blade for tractor this winter was used to purchase rock. Bob Welden and Doyle Mahnken placed the rock.

10-1 Handrails - Rich had a request for handrails to be placed on the ramp to the marina. Bob made the motion, Sheila seconded and motion carried.

March 10: Harold suggested a different way to correct the problem. Will look at site and discuss at April meeting.

10-3 Board Concerns

Carol - discussed items left unanswered from last annual meeting.

March 10: Stagnant water at site of old kiddie pond. Bob Welden to rock ditch and take care of this issue.
Question whether limestone runoff contaminates lake water. Spoke to Dan Reed from USDA and he said it is not a problem.
Request for portable microphone so questions from floor can be heard. Rich will take have the mike available at the annual meeting.

Rich - MW Signs to give us an estimate on a new sign at the Tanglewood entrance.
March 10: Estimate of $1,347 for new sign at Tanglewood.

New Business

11-1 Annual Meeting Discussed agenda for annual meeting. Budget and financial reports. Minutes of last year's meeting. Overview of last year's activities. Revision to camping permits.

11-2 - Lots for sale Discussed whether we should list the lots owned by LPLOA with a realtor. Harold made the motion to list the lots. Tom seconded, motion carried. Rich will handle this.

11-3 - Calcium Chloride Discussed placing calcium chloride on dam road to reduce dust this summer. Received estimate of $2,700 for material only for the dam. Estimate of $4,250 for material and labor for 1 mile of road. Bob made motion to accept the bid of $4,250 to spread the calcium chloride on the dam road, Tanglewood Trails and the entrance to the Mini-Farms. Sheila seconded. Motion carried.

11-4 - Marina Will have Bob repaint numbers on the boat slips.
Have ordered "For the Birds" spray for the marina. Worked well last year keeping birds from roosting.


Sheila made a motion that the meeting be adjourned at 6:25 pm. Tom seconded. Motion carried, meeting adjourned.

The next meeting will be Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 5:00 PM at Rich's Perryville office.