Contents
1. Phase 2 Road Project
2. Nominating Committee
3. Miscellaneous Items

If you have not already done so, please read the Board summary found here: August 2015

Comments below are in addition to that summary.

1.  Phase 2 Road Project

The Board summary above says that this project began on August 24 and is expected to be finished by year end. As noted in the summary posted to the POA web site, the project will cover Governors Drive from the end of the previous work to the Upper Morehead intersection; plus Manly from Governors Drive up to Eastchurch. It will be financed through a $3.0 million loan and a 10% increase in the annual assessment. I am still reviewing the Board’s project summary and will post additional information if there is anything worth noting.

2.  Board Nominations

The Nominating Committee was formed several months ago. It has five members; three Board members plus two at-large members. The three Board members are Dave Bursiek, the Chairperson, Judi Anderson and Don Lummus. This is Judi Anderson’s third consecutive year on this committee. The two at-large members are Mary Ann Anderson and Bill Lewis. Mary Ann Anderson was on the Nominating Committee two years ago.

Dave Bursiek informed the Board at this meeting that the committee expected to present a slate of candidates by early September. In addition, two new aspects of the process were discussed at this meeting.

First, we will be voting on three directors in this upcoming election; even though only two are going off the Board. We currently have eight directors but, after this election, will have nine; which is a much more logical number. And that is the number originally called for in the covenants. The directors have decided to add another director’s position to bring the total to nine. This has come about because of a rather unusual situation involving a ninth director position that was supposed to be filled by a representative of the developer; but which has been vacant for over five years. This move by the Board corrects the imbalance.

Second, at the time this year’s Nominating Committee was formed, the Board gave it discretion to propose as few as three candidates for the three positions. But please note this very important point. Dave Bursiek made it clear to the Board that the committee had not yet decided whether to nominate only three candidates or more than three. It was simply noted that the committee had the approval of the Board to do either.

Should the committee nominate only three candidates, there would be no contested election unless we had one or more write-in candidates. In that regard, the Board noted that it was changing the write-in requirements to make that process easier. Currently, a write-in candidate requires signatures of at least 10% of the property owners; but this would be changed to 5%.

For those who might be interested in this, the By-Laws already give the Nominating Committee discretion to nominate as many or as few candidates as it wishes.

This concept of nominating a slate limited to the number of openings was discussed by the Board three years ago, but the idea was not pursued at that time.

Again, please note that the Nominating Committee has not yet decided how many candidates it will propose.

3.  Miscellaneous Items

For information on finances, the front sign, and the joint marketing plan with the country club, please read the Board summary (August 2015). Full information on these items is in that report.