hoa annual meeting notes

Attendance: Rick and Barb Ianniello, Braham Prakash, Richard Klaus, Jeff Krauz, Ronnell Spears, Donna Burns, Dan and Kim Buck and Rob Westbrook, Linda Durbin, Dan Baum, Karen Osler, Lisa Gazda and Lynn Rook. Proxies received from Joe Hilloughby, John Conyers, and Nasr Enany

New Business:

• Election: After introductions and reminding folks of our neighborhood blog, we voted to replace Koti Sreekrishna as he rotated off the board. Linda Durbin volunteered and was unanimously accepted. We also voted to have two of the other four board members rotate out next year and two the following year (effectively extending two people for a period of one year). This was to get us back to a regular rotation.
• We then reviewed the budget versus expenses for 2009. There we no issues.
• I announced our fees for 2010 will follow the 4% inflation that we forecasted resulting in $630.
• Karen Osler received gift cards from Natorp in the amount of $75. She will use these and organize a few others to do some small plantings whenever she deems best.
• We talked how general appearance seems to be improved and I encouraged folks to deal with their neighbors directly as 'issues' arise. In particular I reminded them that new mailboxes are very cheap.
• The majority of our time was spent discussing the trail on the outer perimeter on the north and west sides of our property. The situation is not acceptable in that maintenance is too expensive and even with that not at the same standard as the rest of our property. A committee of Braham Prakash, David Burns, and Dan Baum will work with the board to develop options and action steps. The current general direction is to look at replacing the path with grass and maintaining that just as we do the center common area. There are many details to be worked out to include a timeline. This team will take the lead on that.

Anyone Want Some Daylillies?

I dug these up from the front entrance the night before the city was going to kill them when they widened the road. (I did enjoy many of the neighbors slowing to see what I was doing! I realize it looked suspicious!)
I have kept them alive (hardy flowers!), and will be splitting them next spring. I feel they are the neighborhoods' flowers so if anyone wants some next end of April/ early May please email me at oslerfamily@gmail.com.
Also if anyone has a particular "color scheme" for the front annuals next spring also let me know. It will be an exciting spring in the neighborhood. Thanks for everyone who turned out last p.m. at the meeting!

finding a movie

In case you were still calling Moviefone, you may want to check out ShowtimeFu. The left sidebar allows for a lot of customization and is one of the most comprehensive search tools I've found ... unless of course you are one of the cool kids with an iPhone and some fancy app.

It's Corn Maze Time Again!

Iron's Fruit Farm is just off SR 48 (towards Lebanon)on Stubbs Mill Road.
A celebration of 10 years of maze making!

Our maze for the 2009 season is a celebration of creating mazes for 10 years! Come on out to the farm and work your way through some of our past themes (smaller versions) - don't worry, it shouldn't take you 10 years to get through!

The Maze is cut into a 12 acre field of corn (that's almost 12 football fields) and is open on weekends in September and October.

sprinklers

Just a quick update on what is going on with our sprinklers.

One of the zones (at the base of the west entrance wall) is stuck on and there is a water leak at the curb on the east side of the entrance. The city will have Creech's Liquid Lawn look at these ... hopefully soon. In the meantime the systems are off except the zone at the north end of the center pathway because we put some patchmaster out in some bare spots.

And yes, we purposefully killed the grass in the center island at the entrance in preparation for tree removal and then replanting the island and at the base of the entrance walls.

Please let the HOA board know if you spot other issues.

it's fall

If you are not following the Conyer® plan you should at least be able to track along with the simple Scotts® approach. Now's also the time to decide if you are going to over-seed. If you have bare patches, than nothing can be easier than either of Scott's PatchMaster® products ... just add water.

outer trail

We have almost completed the clean-up work around the trail around the outside boundary of Mason Fields. The remaining work is to remove the gravel around the drain on the west side and to put more stone on the path where it is washed out. The effort cost $5000. We are committed keeping this up but it will require work. Some of us will do some minor clean-up and it would be very helpful if the homeowners around the path could help keep the area trimmed. We will pay TRGear to mow.

If we cannot keep the tree line back ourselves it will lead to increased costs - something all of us would like to avoid. So please, as much as is reasonable, help us keep this maintained. With this recent effort we hope that on-going trimming will be manageable.