President Alan Wright called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. Present were Gail Hill, Lynn McDonald, Don Woodley, Carole Gabel, Craig Cowles, Robert English and Phyllis Upright.
After
everyone read the minutes, Carole mentioned that the generic reference to
“homeowners’ association” be expanded to “IAHA” for clarification. Alan asked for a motion to approve the
minutes as corrected, Gail made the motion and Craig seconded. All approved by voice vote.
Paul
and Lewis Sieber have purchased lots on Luscomb. Gail received a bill for $200 for renewal of the corporate
license for IAHA. Gail also mentioned
that on her walks she has compared the maintenance of the northern area to the
IAHA area taxiways and noted many areas where the northern taxiways are not
being maintained as well as ours. Craig
agreed that it would get expensive for them after a year or two. Carole mentioned that they are getting their
Homeowners Association organized currently, so they are in a good position to
get started before it’s too late.
Craig
Cowles passed some copies of a proposal by John Mills Concrete to repair the
walkway to the east of the McLeans house on Stearman. Craig described the way the concrete will be, basically a new
walkway poured over the old, to be above the waterline. The easement map showed that a four-foot
walkway is permissible, rather than the three-foot-wide one that is there
now. Carole asked whether this would be
done before or after the McLeans get their hangar put up, and Craig said that
the plan was to get this done at the same time (since the concrete trucks will
already be there for the hangar pad).
Alan asked for a motion to approve this proposal, Gail Hill made the
motion, and Craig Cowles seconded. All
approved by voice vote.
Craig
also pointed out a drawing he’d made of proposed benches for people to watch
the planes go by, since there’s people who do this at Annie’s restaurant. It’s not something we have to have, but
since the cost is not excessive it’s a nice thing for people who sit down once
in a while and watch the airplanes.
Alan asked if that was park bench or table, and Craig said it was a
picnic table with two benches. Carole
said that the area Craig was talking about was State property, and that nothing
structurally permanent should be put there.
Gail also mentioned that if this bench was portable then it could be
mowed around with little difficulty.
Craig also mentioned that a sign be put on it to caution people to take
their trash with them, and for identification.
Phyllis said the danger of it getting stolen was pretty high, and Craig
said that this was only a $65.00 bench.
Alan said that it wouldn’t take too much to put a post down into the
ground and then attach a chain or cable to the post. Alan asked about whether Oregon Aeronautics would say anything,
and Carole said that these were set far enough back so that they would not be a
problem. Alan asked if a motion would
be made to purchase these benches, Carole Gabel made the motion, and Craig
Cowles seconded. All approved by voice
vote.
Carole
said that a replacement sign is being made for the one that got stolen at
Hoffman Rd., and that Lynn McDonald has made a first-class sign to replace
it. Talk came to the trailer that would
hold it, whether that could be made more secure. The new sign should be up at the end of the week.
Craig
said that the later part of the summer will see some more slurry work on the
taxiways. The asphalt company has a
small machine that can do the edging work on the taxiways.
Architecture:
Don Woodley went through the various approvals for projects: new hangar for
Craig McLean, a fence around the hot tub for the Uptons, a chain-link fence for
the Noell’s place on Luscombe, Buzz Thede’s house with attached hangar on
Luscombe,
President:
Alan passed a copy of the taxiway maintenance schedule that had been drawn up
years ago, and mentioned that the cracks he had seen when he first moved in
have been successfully repaired and have never reappeared. Alan was concerned that the treasury was
accumulating the money necessary for repair at the proper rate. Craig said that there hasn’t been a problem
so far, in that any extra maintenance incurred were met by more money coming
in. Gail said that eventually the rising tide of income would level off as
the lots are all sold and the market is saturated. Alan said that whatever we’re doing is apparently right, since
the maintenance is going so well, but he wanted to get something on paper for
future planning so that this success can be forecast into the future. We don’t want to collect a huge war-chest
and not need it, and at the same time we don’t want to be caught short. Gail said that she could put a financial
history together, and Craig said he could put a maintenance history together,
and Gail then said they could put those two together and see where they were
going. Alan said he wanted to have some kind of preliminary
graph for the next meeting, hopefully to have something presentable by the
December 1st meeting.
Craig
said that there should be some meetings during the summer whenever the taxiway
maintenance will be due, in order to confirm and approve the cost of the
project.
Gail
said that Dan Extron had filled out the tax forms for the IAHA and made the
motion that he be recompensed by waiving his maintenance fees ($100.00). Craig seconded that motion, and all approved
by voice vote.
Insurance
report: Aero Larson left a message for Carole, but Carole wasn’t able to get
back in touch with him and he was out of town for this week. She went on to say that there was only one
bid for the policy, $7500.00 for a $5Million policy, and $5500 for a $3Million
policy. All agreed that we needed to
hear Aero’s input before we proceed.
Don mentioned that this sort of policy may be difficult or impossible to
get in the future. Alan said we need to
investigate this fully, though he was inclined to not approve this idea of
getting a policy on the airpark.
Carole
mentioned that Joan Malette had a few more heart attacks, and also that
Jeanette Kruljac was going in for stim-cell transplant surgery. Also, Minton’s house is for sale (the pink
one).
Alan
asked if there was new business, and there wasn’t any, and so Alan asked for a
motion to adjourn the meeting. Gail
made the motion to adjourn, and Craig seconded. The meeting was adjourned at 8:23 PM.
Next
scheduled meeting will be September 9th.
Respectfully
submitted by Robert English, secretary.
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