Highland Ranches Property Owners Association

P.O. Box 1039 Virginia City, Nevada 89440 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING MINUTES

May 27, 2003

Please note: approved w- amendments at July 29, 2003 meeting.

 1.   Meeting called to order by Kay Dean, Architectural Committee Advisor at 6:40 PM.

         Board members present: Jay Campbell, Kay Dean & Lou Tassone.                   Gary Brownwell & Kelly Brownwell absent due to family emergency.

Sign in sheet:  Maggie and Werner Hohn, Angela Morran, Nichole Frens, Sherry Sampson, Deb Westgate, Keith D. Hall, Annette & Cory Morris, Joe Coppick, Lydia Hammack, Andy Mathiesen, Bob & Dottie Haga.

2.  Review and Approve Agenda for May 27, 2003:

M -Lou      S - Jay       V- Unanimous

3.    Property Owner/Homeowner Comment/Members Forum Per NRS 116: NONE

4.       Architectural review: Plans for Morris Lot # 484 - needs variance.                          Keith Hall -Lot #457 had changes.  Zulims - Lot #162 plans are ready to be picked up.

Discussion about revisions to the C.C. & R’s. The group of rewrite volunteers had a 3-hour meeting last Saturday to finish taking comments and suggestions. Kay reorganized the draft from comments made and presented it tonight. Lot owners present went thru the draft with Kay and made some minor changes and typo corrections. Kay will revise them again and Lydia will post the draft on the HRPOA website before the annual meeting.

Two letters about noncompliance where sent out to property owners with no response yet.  

5.     Review & Approve Minutes from April 29, 2003 meeting

M – Lou    S – Jay      V – Unanimous

                         6.      Review and Approve Treasurers Report for May 2003:

Savings balance $77,567.55; Checking balance $15,442.28; Reserve fund $32,082.74.  Total outstanding assessments $6195.00. It was noted by the bookkeeper that the budgeted amount for the reserve fund deposit hasn’t been authorized for payment yet.  

M –Jay     S – Lou      V- Unanimous

7.   Road report:  Gary not being at the meeting there was no formal road report.    However, several roads have been graded this past month.

The receipt of a bill from the one-acre association for Cartwright Road maintenance was discussed. It was noted that no approvals were asked of the association before work was started. The association did agree to help pay for the blacktop on the 2 miles of Cartwright but never agreed to pay for regular maintenance. The association has the 1st and last mile of Cartwright to take care of already. The board will relay this information to the ones.

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 8.    Finalize details for annual meeting June 14th at 10:00 AM at the fire station.

Lydia informed the board all necessary forms and contacts have been made. Will need a volunteer to tabulate the proxy list -Angie will help. It was decided to ask for volunteers to bring snacks to the meeting with the association supplying water and sodas. Lydia will also design a flyer to post at the mailboxes and on the website asking for donations of snacks.

9.   Review Correspondence. Attorney/ Property Owners/ CC & R’s

RE: Lawsuit:  A letter was received from the plaintiff’s attorney about dropping the attorney fees on the recent lawsuit. The association was dropped from the case with the ruling that the legal fees are to be reimbursed by the plaintiff. The letter said if the HRPOA doesn’t pursue collecting the fees they wouldn’t add us on to an appeal they are filing. The board will take a phone vote on this issue, as the amount is around $7000 (*amendment) in lawyer fees.

                    10.   Next mtg. Date June 24, 2003 at 6:30 pm-- Meeting adjourned at 8:10

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