Tuesday board meeting notes

I will preface this by saying again these are simply my meeting notes and you will need to read the Candlewick paper for the official minutes.
The dues credit drawing was held with four winners, each receiving the $525.00 credit. Winners were James Everett, Jerry Gengrich, Larry Santini, and Phil Berger jr. Excuse any name misspellings please.
During the open comments section a P.O. Stated she was unhappy the swans will not be back this year. We had to make several unwanted cuts in the budget this year to cover life guards for the pool.
Jeff Lutzow led off with the financial report. We are still running strong with reserves of $2,729,498.52. Our total operating cash sits at $3,637,018.35 at the end of March. Later in the meeting bad debt was written off in the amount of $15,184.90, mostly due to chapter 7 filings. Pretty much every month there are write-offs but this was larger than normal.
Don Parisi reported on our ECC meetings. Nothing extraordinary there, just some color changes and miscellaneous tree removals and small construction jobs. Ron Drake was appointed as a new member and Darin Wheeler will be an associate member. We are at full membership again.
Bonnie Marron gave the lake management report in Steve Lambright's absence, indicating volunteers have now addled 71 goose eggs. The plantings for water quality are being addressed and the alum treatment bid specs are being reworked. Fish stocking had also been discussed in their meeting. Eight new docking spots will be available this year. A kid's fishing tournament is scheduled for June 16^th this year. A goose roundup was discussed in commission but that is simply in the discussion stage and may be too expensive to pursue.
I gave the roads report. There has been not formal meeting since our last board meeting but some of us met informally with Mark Rice at McClure Engineering about the possibility of being our project manager this year. The first job of the project manager will be to check last year's work to see areas that Rabine may need to address. He is putting together a cost for us. Joel Gehrett from AQUA contacted me and asked to attend meetings with the roads commission so they can find out the areas we will be working on this year and coordinate their part of the project. I told him I would inform him when we are ready to designate areas so he can be involved. Jeff (maintenance supervisor) is working on a map of areas that he feels need work this year so we can assign priorities and see what can be done with allocated funding. As I have mentioned before, the job will start later this year so we can get the shoulder and drainage work done prior to laying the new surface. We need one more member and a couple associates for the commission. This commission is really tough to fill.
Karl Steiskal reported the Rec commission would like Bonnie Marron to be appointed as a member. She was voted in by the board. Lifeguards are being hired for the pool. Michele reported on the upcoming activities. Those have been posted here before. The Eagles Nest cafe is still on schedule for opening June 1.
Bonnie Marron reported the legal committee has not met since the last board meeting so nothing to report. I was asked to rejoin the legal committee.
Chuck Corso reported the golf commission has several events planned for the coming season. I have reported those on this site and will continue updates. A discussion was held regarding where meeting are to be held.
The commission will decide on their own where to meet.
A property owner made an offer to sell his lot at a good discount to the association. The offer was refused. Your association already carries eleven lots on the books we would like to sell so we don't want to add to that total.
A property owner that helps coach fifth grade girls basketball at North Boone asked for permission to use the gym for practices twice per week for two hours weekly this summer. We were unable to grant the request because of the amount of time our current programs use the gym plus if we allow one we will have many more similar requests.
Scott Pointner was again hired as our legal council for the next fiscal year.
The new president of Poplar Grove (John Neitzel) sent a letter asking to informally meet with board representatives to discuss possible opportunities for our communities to work together for the benefit of both. We agreed to do so. If there are ways we can both benefit this is a good thing and John should be commended for the initiative. Anyone who knows me will know this discussion will in no way involve any possibility of either annexation or incorporation. Opportunities in other areas should never be dismissed. Don Parisi, Bonnie Marron, and myself will be the attendees along with our general manager.
The group “Friends of Candlewick” has purchased a solar light that flashes and will disturb geese, hopefully making the area an unpleasant place for them to stay. The unit also has a cage to avoid tampering and mischief. They asked to be allowed to install the unit by the beach to see how well it works and if we can avoid the mess of goose droppings and the clean-up labor in the area. Of course this was a no-brainer and was passed. Let's hope it does the job and one can be used in the future in other areas.
The board had a discussion about a possible format for committee and commission charters. Some template changes were made. Charters are currently being looked at for improvement in specifics of responsibility and general make-up.
I hope that covers it. If I missed some points please check the CWL paper. This was a lot of info to note. Ken