MINUTES BVRI BOARD MEETING JANUARY 24, 2009            

ATTENDING BOARD MEMBERS:

Dave Morley

Jack Wedgwood

Katherine Aitken-Young

Gloria English

Eric Jung

Ron Murphy

Randy Mancini

Paul Peterson

Gordon Ritter

Sue Garratt

ABSENT BOARD MEMBERS:

Brian Neth

Mitzi Nelson

Jeff Gouveia

Ron Rossi

Gary Willard

GUEST:

Terry Woodrow

The meeting was called to order by board Vice President Dave Morley at 4:03 pm in the Perry Walther Building in Bear Valley, California and via telephone conference bridge for those members unable to attend in person.

MOTION: Jack Wedgwood moved to approve the minutes.

SECOND: Eric Jung seconded the motion.

All members in favor.

None opposed.

Discussion: Jack Wedgwood reported not much change since last report except a deposit of $1,000 including 10 memberships. Have some bills to pay for latest newsletter, postage, printing, post office box, etc.

MOTION: Eric Jung moved to approve the minutes.

SECOND: Ron Murphy seconded the motion.

All members in favor.

None opposed.

None. Brian not present.

The next thing we're expecting to see is the draft EIR that will then go to the Board of Supervisors. There will be public hearings before the final approval on the EIR.

Brian Neth not present so no official report.

Discussion: There seems to be a possible solution (Mallard) but it hasn't been implemented. Bill Perley is suggesting he may be able to save some money off the Mallard proposal but a new engineer would need to be hired--all of which would take time and would delay implementation.

The BVRI Board is anxious to see some resolution on this sooner rather than later. Dave Morley will plan a board delegation to go to Brian to discuss the situation and encourage faster implementation now that the cost has been reduced. Discussion of Ecologic's ability to adequately advise the Water District.

We agreed in principle to change the bylaws to enable email meetings.

Ron Rossi is going to come up with some wording to include in the bylaws.

Ron Rossi not present in this meeting to report on this.

Jack to come back with slate for elections and send it out for a motion.

No nominations were received by BVRI subsequent to the BVRI email on this topic.

Membership renewal and election mailing will go out together to everyone in the database within the next two weeks. Must be a member in good standing in order to vote.

Boat parking discussion. Paul Peterson is going to investigate a possible solution for summer parking with Chuck Toenisketter.

RE: House for sale with pending unresolved ARC violation. Owner provided paint chips for board to select an approved color.  Ron will prepare a letter to go back to the owner to indicate which samples would be acceptable so owner may provide final selection back to ARC for final approval.

ARC fees have not been increased since 3/1/95. The ARC reserve fund has been reduced to nearly nothing with recently required ARC activity. Ron sent (by email to the board) a proposed set of updated ARC fees that reflect the additional workload required for each activity covered on the fee schedule.

MOTION: Eric Jung moved to approve the updated fee schedule with one change to make the variance request fee $500.

SECOND: Randy Mancini seconded the motion.

All members in favor.

None opposed.

The new fee schedule is now posted in the Architectural Review Committee Section of the Website at: http://www.bvri.org/arc.html

BVRI received legal advice from our attorneys regarding the retention of certain types of documents. BVRI secretary will maintain a copy of the Document Retention Policy.

MOTION: Eric Jung moved to accept the policy as provided by BVRI attorneys.

SECOND: Ron Murphy seconded the motion.

All members in favor.

None opposed.

Gordon working on getting current data on snow mobile noise production in order to develop a plan for the community regarding snow mobile noise.

Discussion Terry Woodrow, Title 3 dollars will be available again for fuels reduction work. '07/'08 projects aren't even being reviewed until this summer so won't be using those dollars until 2010.

Power and water projects on hold. Upcoming summer expenditures include new sand and possible canoe rack.

Discussion about continuation of this program which supports specific individuals vs. the entire community. BVRI has received some complaints about this use of BVRI money.

Discussion about more broad-based use of this money.

Terry Woodrow reported on state budget issues that are impacting us including:

County spent $70K on prop 40 for the playground equipment for which they're not going to get reimbursed. In addition county spend a significant amount of money on roadwork that won't be reimbursed--instead they will provide IOUs. Services for children in town will be affected.

Discussion regarding modifying the way the money is given out. Possibly a community fund that BVRI could contribute as well as individuals.

Discussion: cancel scholarship program but keep some kind of educational assistance for the school. Eric Jung to ask the school for a wish list of needs we can help support. Eric to speak with Jeff about an action plan on this.

Cost was about $700. Newsletters received 1/24/09.

The 4th of July is on a Saturday in 2009 at 3:00pm.

Same schedule as previous picnics.

Dinner will be at 5:00 as usual.

Jeff will head up the raffle donations again this year.

Raffe proceeds planned to go to the BV Early Learning Center again.

Discusion: BVRI thank you card.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

4:00 pm

Dave Morley adjourned the meeting at 5:15 pm

On 2/20/09 Dave Morley made an email motion to the BVRI Board as follows:

The following statement should be read at the BVWD board meeting on Monday

2/23 as follows:

The Bear Valley Residents Inc. Board of Directors would like to encourage

the Bear Valley Water District Board to proceed with the John Mallard

solution to Bear Valley's state mandate on tertiary. We believe that Clean

Filtration Technology has addressed the major concerns regarding state

approval, cost, and ability to perform as required. We look forward to

seeing the District put this matter to rest in a cost effective manner, and

we also appreciate the local aspect of Mr. Mallard's company.

Mitzi Nelson seconded the motion

Five members voted in favor. One opposed.

The motion did not pass due to insufficient votes.