Once again a pretty decent attendance, indicating an increasing interest in current board actions. This is a good thing. The property owners are seeing for themselves how the system works.
Although this was far down the agenda, it was obvious it was the driving issue that brought many folks to the meeting so we will cover it first. The board had a vote as expected to address to the property owners the question of moving forward with an attempt to incorporate. There was a lot of discussion of the wording, timing, number of attempts, and more…….as expected. It appears you will get the question included with the mailing asking for your vote on the CC&R rewrites probably being mailed around December 15. It will come as no surprise to any of you the Pride strongly recommends a no vote on both issues. If you do not send in your vote you will continue to receive the mailings a total of three times, costing your association considerable expense so we would ask you to return your no votes the first time to save money for all of us. I believe there will be a postage paid envelope for the return so it should be a quick and easy act. Be sure to urge your friends and neighbors to do the same. Let’s kill this thing right away and stop the divide in our community.
Speaking of the CC&R rewrites, the lawyer is in the process of producing another amended copy before the mailing. The mailings cost us about $1.00 each and going to almost 2400 lots you can do the math. I suggested just dropping this thing completely and amending the current CC&Rs but I was told it couldn’t be done so with three mailings we will be looking at several thousand dollars spent possibly on this attempt at passage not including the substantial attorney fees now approaching $15,000.00 with postage. Money well spent? You be the judge. I once again must say I feel there are some very good provisions in the rewrites but just too much verbiage subject to interpretation. Simply too dangerous for a yes at this time. I wish I could suggest a yes vote with all that money spent but I can‘t.
Some quick actions……….
~The board voted to write off $5,740.36 in bad debt from bank foreclosures. Too bad but no recourse. These are tough times.
~Our new head of public safety will be announced next week.
~There are several inquiring about taking over the Dockside Grill so that should move forward soon.
~The dredging is completed as we reported earlier and most of the payments have been made to cover that expense.
~Our current cash on hand is $3,375,062.83 so we are still looking very good going forward. Solidly in the black.
~Help is needed for the next leaf drop off next Saturday in the maintenance area, especially young folks to smash down the leaves. Show up to help if possible.
~There are currently 154 rentals in Candlewick and there was some discussion on limiting the number of rentals allowed in our community.
~January first through the fifteenth will be the time frame for dropping off filing information for those wishing to run for the next board terms. Further information and forms will be in the next newsletter.
Now a couple important recognitions...............
There was a house fire a few weeks ago on Candlewick Drive. It was announced last night there was heroism involved. I will be sure to pass along the name of the persons involved which were not available at the meeting but it seems the residents inside the burning structure were not aware of the fire and were sleeping through the smoke alarms. A next door neighbor noticed the light from the fire, called 911, and got into the home, evacuating the sleeping people possibly saving lives. Talk about neighbors watching out for each other, this is truly a wonderful act that needs recognition and they will get it here.
Also an example of a long term selfless volunteer was recognized. Bruce Rushton has spent eighteen years on the ECC committee as well as other duties. That is one big chunk of his time and he deserves a pat on the back for his service to Candlewick. Others were mentioned as well but frankly I can only make notes so fast so I missed some names and my apologies go to them for not publishing there names here. It will all be in the Candlewick newsletter.
This was an orderly meeting, well run with a lot of input allowed from attendees and no loud outbursts even on the hot button issues. That was nice to see. Please remember these comments are from personal notes and not intended to be a finalized set of minutes from the meeting. Check the CWL newsletter for complete coverage.
Ken Dillenburg