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Aloha Watchdog Readers,
As always, a recap of the last Board meeting. Over all, in the Watchdog's opinion, it was a congenial meeting with much information -- mostly positive issues discussed roundly and handled well.
Following is a 'points of interest' recap.
- We have a new maintenance foreman. His name is Stephen. He has suggested and it was approved to have Goodwill volunteers [people needing to satisfy a 'community service' requirement'] come in and work in the field. An $8000 budget for safety gear was approved for the volunteers to use. He seems affable enough and has the 'new' employee zeal.
- A new pilot program is being introduced to handle the 'exploding feral chicken' issue. With the cages now in hand they are looking for volunteers who have a chicken problem to work with the maintenance foreman to develop a program for successful capture.
- The Board approved a letter to the Planning Director from the Design and Review Committee to add a step to the process of permitting a home within the Hawaiian Shores Recreational Estates that would -- if approved/implemented by the Planning Dept -- would effectively halt the permit at the Planning Office until they received an official letter from HSCA stating the plans were approved by the Design/Review Committee.
- The Design/Review Committee has changed their monthly meeting time from the 3rd Thursday of each month to the 4th Thursday at 4p.
- The 'single member' committee report on the past Bylaw Revisions [2008-2010] -- allegations made they may be illegal at the February 2012 monthly meeting -- found the Bylaw 11.01 -- changed from 2/3rds to 51% apparently in 2005 -- was initiated for the change in a 2004 letter from the attorney for HSCA in 2004 and approved by the Board for a vote by members in 2005. Subsequently, it was contended that the Bylaw changes from 2005 through 2010 may be 'illegal' if they did not meet the 2/3rds requirement for a change. The member who is doing the research was unable to find the tally sheet for the 2005 sweeping changes; and unable to find numbers for the 2009 changes. However, he was able to ascertain the changes made in 2008 and adopted in 2009 by a vote met the 2/3rds rule. It was also clarified there is no state mandate that requires a change to bylaws be registered with the state. The statement made in Feb 2012 was not factual in its entirety. Having said that, the CCR's are a part of the Deed for a ownership of property and a current/correct one should be available. This has been done. No CCR changes were made from 2008-2010 so no filings were necessary.
- The decision was approved by motion to levy a $100 per hour fee to cover the costs of 3 employees for clearing the easement to the water lines when the property owner fails to do so. A question arose: if we were going to pay $8000.00 for safety gear for Goodwill volunteers who would ostensibly be used to help expose the water lines from the Stables to the ocean and then all the lateral lines -- why the additional costs to clear the easements?
- The Board was made aware of a report from a pool company with the cost set at $72K to resurface the pool. At this time this was just a report with no motion going forward.
- Audit for 2011 was approved for distribution.
- Some discussion regarding a confidentiality policy gave rise to just exactly what the policy should be and then a quick nod to the obvious conflicts from the past year. [Watchdog has already referenced this issue on this site with regards to the official record of the business of the Association -- the Minutes. This issue remains unchanged.]
