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PINE BROOK
HILLS HOMEOWNER’S ASSOCIATION
GENERAL MEETING MINUTES
January
30 , 2008
The
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 general meeting of the Pine Brook Hills Home
Owner’s Association was held at the Pine Brook Hills Community Center,
Station One. Following the potluck dinner the meeting was called to order by
President Mark Menagh at 7:07 pm. Approximately 20 residents were in
attendance.
New
president reviewed mission statement of the HOA.
The Pine Brook Hills Home Owner’s Association is an all volunteer,
non-profit organization, dedicated to advancing programs that make our Pine
Brook Hills community attractive, safe, harmonious, and healthy for all
residents.
Event
Announcements:
SOCIALS – 7pm – 10pm First Friday of Each month
$10 per person to cover drinks and other expenses. All Pine Brook Hills
residents are invited and encouraged to attend. RSVPs are encouraged but not
required. The first TGIF Friday, February , 1 has been cancelled. Watch your
mail for details about the upcoming TGIF locations.
Pet
rescue meeting Friday,
February 8th 6:30pm at PB Community Center
To discuss
neighborhood emergency plan for evacuation of pets. There will be pizza .
RSVP to marla@saville.us
Need
for volunteers:
Architectural
Review Committee.
Meets every month on the second Tuesday
Ken Larkin
has retired from ARC after 10 Years there are 4 members and there should be
5.
Water Board
Meets every month on the second Thursday.
HOA Fire mitigation coordinator
Tim Triggs
has done a great job but we need someone to follow up on getting the grants
and coordination of the work. Ask me for more info or Tim Triggs. A job
description is pasted on the yahoo groups.
General Meeting Set-up
We meet once
per quarter and the room needs setting up prior to potluck.
Thanks were
expressed to volunteers.
Reports:
Water
Board and Fire Mitigation-
Mark Menagh:
There has
been a water rate increase that has been explained by a letter and in the
Pine Brook Press.
There is a
need to raise $75,000 to move the dirt around the dam. A $20,000 (10/10)
Fire Mitigation grant contract has been signed for a 3 month project.
Beetle
Busters-
. Suzanne
Adams:
attended a meeting of the State Forestry Association and reports there has
been rapid spread of beetles in Colorado. It took about 10 years for the
beetles to destroy 1 million acres of trees (1996-2006) but in only one year
(2007), trees on another half million acres were beetle-killed. There is
concern that the media coverage of the beetle destruction is inadequate. It
will only be a few years before we will be affected and it is important for
homeowners, not just Beetle Busters and other experts, to know how to
recognize the signs of infestation. Training for this will be offered on
April 26th and again on September 27th. The need for
mitigation (thinning) and spraying was stressed. There was a discussion
regarding various aspects of cultivating healthy forests. Only 10% of
homeowners in PB are actively engaged in fighting beetles. Suggestions for
enlisting greater participation included putting up pictures of Grand County
devastation and financial incentives for homeowners such as House Bill 1110
(see below).
Reservoir
Recreation committee-
Suzanne Adams: there is an opportunity for input and a sign up sheet
was passed around so that those interested will be informed of future
meetings, etc.
BMFPD-
John Benson:
House Bill 1110 was passed out of committee today which provides (State
Income) tax credit up to $2500 for homeowners’ expenditures for fire
mitigation. He thanked those who shovel snow around fire hydrants and also
asked that parking along “snow bank-narrowed” roads be done in a manner
which does not obstruct passage of fire engines and emergency vehicles.
Old Business:
Secretary
-Minutes from October 31 2007 meeting were moved, seconded, approved.
Treasurer
-Treasury update- Dave Davies: budget distributed, discussed and approved.
New
Business:
Introduction
of the new PBH HOA board members:
• Mark
Menagh-President
• Bill
Alexander-Vice President
• Dave
Davies-Treasurer
•
Marla Saville- Secretary
• Tim
Triggs-Member at Large
Booton
property
(not a part of PBH): Mr. & Mrs. Booton were
at meeting to address issue that had received attention in the PBH forum.
They explained the situation. [Technicality of not being a full 35 acre
lot, therefore not a legal building site. This because they had sold 5
acres to county/city/PBH for water reservoir.] A County hearing scheduled
merely to rectify error to establish their property as a legal building
site.
Param Singh
made a motion to indicate PBH HOA had no objection to the establishing of
the Booton property as a legal building
site. Motion seconded and passed.
Legal status
of HOA asked to be clarified. We are basically a social organization (501(c)
(6). General discussion followed.
Dam cleanup:
Why couldn’t a bond cover the costs, etc. it could, but the cost of issuing
the bond would actually exceed the amount of money needed for the clean up.
Covenant
enforcement:
Lex Shepard wanted to discuss the Valentine property issue. He asked for
clarification of motion passed on 10/31/07 at HOA general meeting. Mark
Menagh explained that the HOA Board acts according to the association’s
instructions and that the motion passed at the 10/07 meeting said to
investigate this covenant enforcement issue (this involved obtaining
legal counsel).
Further
Discussion included: Covenants are tied to the subdivision of PBH land, and
individual homeowners are legally empowered to pursue enforcement of those
covenants. To preserve the enforceability of our PBH covenants now and in
the future, the board believes that it is important to actively participate
in the current enforcement issue.
Lex also
reported that he suspects that the Valentines have resumed building the
structure and made a motion that the HOA board continue to assist
affected homeowners (with legal counsel) and to pursue the enforcement of
the covenants.
Discussions
followed. The motion was tabled.
A separate
motion was made by Param to have the HOA continue to investigate and if
necessary, consider asking the residents of PB to have a fundraiser to help
with financing legal help in enforcing the covenants. Motion was
seconded. Discussion followed. Motion passed.
On behalf of
Kelly Pricco, a representative reminded the meeting about the upcoming
caucus.
Bob DeHass
reported that $5000 has been received by the district for dirt removal over
the past few days.
Program:
postponed until next general meeting.
The meeting
was adjourned at approximately 9:20 pm.
Respectfully
submitted,
Marla
Saville- Secretary |
