1 1 2 3 4 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 5 LONE PINE ASSOCIATION, INC. 6 MAY 10, 2018 7 7:04 P.M. 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2 1 BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: 2 Bryan Shaver, President 3 John Parrottino, Vice President 4 Nikki Wilson, Treasurer 5 Jim Gasparotto, Membership 6 Steve Guenther, Boat Chair 7 Joe Lockwood, Boat Chair 8 Natalie Shaver, Beach Manager 9 Marilyn Maher, Chaness & Maher, P.C. Membership Services 10 Andrea Edelson, Certified Shorthand Reporter 11 12 IN ATTENDANCE: 13 Val Murray 14 Dagnya Iyla 15 Joellin Wojtczak 16 Ann Pintar 17 Susanne Guendelsberger 18 Rodney Cuneaz 19 Sheldon Schwartz 20 Phyllis Schwartz 21 Robert W. Rogers 22 Steven Balagna 23 Fred Wendell 24 Laila Guessous 25 Semo Meskouri 3 1 ATTENDANCE (continued): 2 Steve and Barbara Bartley 3 Michele Hepburn 4 Modathir Bougrine 5 Joseph Campanelli 6 Bob Loosvelt 7 George VanDyne 8 Gerald Mahar 9 Sarah Jackson 10 Audrey Ilyasov 11 Sue and David Dinger 12 Mary Lynn Rice 13 Jack Wright 14 Ron Graham 15 Chris Parrottino 16 Howard and Margot Luby 17 Jeff Lockhart 18 Aaron Ellenbogan 19 Louise Staffer 20 Kip Rice 21 22 23 24 25 4 1 MR. SHAVER: Good evening everybody. So 2 welcome to the 2018 Lone Pine Association meeting. 3 It is 7:04 and we'll call the meeting to order. 4 MR. BALAGNA: Do we have a quorum? 5 MR. SHAVER: I think so. Marilyn, do we 6 have a quorum? 7 MS. MAHER: I'm still counting. 8 MR. SHAVER: A few reminders for everybody. 9 When you are going to speak, please stand up, state 10 your name, speak slowly so our court reporter can 11 record the information. 12 MS. WILSON: Also, while we're waiting to 13 get started, I do have some gate clickers here today 14 if anyone would like to purchase them, they're $40 15 apiece, it gives you 24-hour access. 16 MS. MAHER: We have a quorum now. 17 MR. SHAVER: We have a quorum. Thank you. 18 So the first order of business is a motion to adopt 19 the annual meeting. Would anybody like to motion 20 that? Please stand and state your name. 21 MR. GUESSOUS: Luila Guessous. 22 MR. SHAVER: And your motion -- is there a 23 second? 24 MS. PARROTTINO: Chris Parrottino. I 25 second it. 5 1 MR. SHAVER: All of those in favor? 2 (All say aye.) 3 MR. SHAVER: All those opposed? 4 (No response.) 5 MR. SHAVER: The 2017 minutes were posted 6 on the website last summer, so if you wanted to see 7 them they're up there and I think the last several 8 years are there. So the next piece of business is 9 approval of the minutes of 2017. Do we have a 10 motion to approve? 11 MR. SCHWARTZ: So moved. 12 MR. SHAVER: A second? 13 MS. PARROTTINO: Chris Parrottino. 14 MR. SHAVER: All those in favor? 15 (All say aye.) 16 MR. SHAVER: All those opposed? 17 (No response.) 18 MR. SHAVER: So now we'll start with the 19 introduction of the board members. So my name is 20 Bryan Shaver, I'm currently the president last year 21 and this year right now. This is Steve Guenther, 22 he's one of our boat chairs, Nikki Wilson, 23 treasurer, John Parrottino, vice president, Jim 24 Gasparotto, membership, and Joe Lockwood also boat 25 chair. 6 1 We have two open positions tonight to 2 replace, which we'll get to later in the new 3 business. So that being said, we'll go right into 4 the beach operations with John. 5 MR. PARROTTINO: So just a few updates with 6 regard to beach operations. One is we are putting 7 in four new grills in the beach area or the replaced 8 picnic area. The ones would be the same size as the 9 current grills that we have. We have gotten two 10 medium, we'll call them, or family size, a little 11 bit bigger, and then we have got a large one going 12 in, so there will be four new grills this year. 13 We are putting in some landscaping in the 14 south parking lot to kind of block off the road 15 view, if you will, make it a little bit more 16 private, and there is going to be some mulch done 17 and some weeding done as well. 18 We are going to look at potentially the 19 swim feature. We have had some problems with the 20 raft every year, it has holes in it and it's long in 21 the tooth, so we do have some budget set aside for 22 that if we need it. I will ask -- Natalie is here, 23 she's the beach manager, I'll have her introduce 24 herself to everybody. Those of you probably know 25 Natalie, but I'll have her introduce herself and 7 1 provide us with a little bit of an update with 2 regards to the staff and anything else. 3 MS. SHAVER: Hi. Natalie Shaver. I have 4 been beach manager for six years now. This year we 5 have most of the same staff coming back. We have 6 one new person right now, so we should be good. 7 We're open 10:00 to 10:00 every day. Obviously, 8 with your clicker you can stay afterwards and do 9 bonfires and do all that, or come early and fish. 10 And then we sell ice cream, drinks and stuff for $1. 11 You can get it from us from the front desk where you 12 sign in every day. And if you have any guests, it's 13 $1 per guest. And you can book parties through us 14 for the picnic area. 15 MR. PARROTTINO: Anybody have any 16 questions? 17 MR. CAMPANELLI: On the south side of the 18 parking lot when you exit there is a bad pothole 19 there just before you come out to the asphalt. Is 20 that going to be addressed? 21 MR. PARROTTINO: Is that outside of the 22 gate? We can look at it. 23 MR. CAMPANELLI: It's in the parking lot. 24 The north parking lot. 25 MR. PARROTTINO: North or south? You said 8 1 south, that's where the launch is. 2 MS. WILSON: South entrance. So we did 3 have it addressed two years ago, but if it needs 4 another repair, we'll look at it. 5 MR. PARROTTINO: Yeah, we'll look into it. 6 So that's it, I'll turn it over to Steve Guenther 7 and Joe with regards to the boat report. 8 MR. GUENTHER: Well, obviously with the ice 9 just leaving not that long ago and all the rain we 10 have had, we're starting off with the best water 11 depth we have had in a long time. Needless to say, 12 that really hurt the docking company as far as 13 getting started a little bit earlier. But I just 14 got off the phone with them and as of right now 15 we're still putting in a few of the cross-ties for 16 stabilization, but the dock itself is in place which 17 is good news. I have talked to a lot of you via 18 text or telephone. It's ready. It will be finished 19 up tomorrow. They're also going to be adding the 20 dock tomorrow that goes right along the ramp, and 21 then we're trying something this year -- that was 22 all brand-new wood, so we coated it with a special 23 paint that's supposed to make it last longer, it 24 looks real nice. That will be up and running 25 tomorrow as well. 9 1 We also took the south dock, and I took one 2 of the sections out that was not the length of all 3 the other ones and put a full section in, so that 4 means everybody down there has just 20 feet between 5 the two boats, or 19'7". So even if you have an 6 8'6" bow, everybody fits in real nicely this year, 7 so we have a little bit more room. 8 Let's see. The pram racks, as soon as he 9 gets done we're taking the original pram racks and 10 having them cut so that they're the same height as 11 the new ones. So that means if you got one of the 12 top rungs, everybody can now reach it because it's 13 going to be the low profile, which makes it easier 14 for a lot of people in here. The only thing that I 15 ask, if you have your pram, or kayak, canoe on one 16 of those now and if it's locked up, can you just 17 unlock it temporarily because we need to disassemble 18 those to reconfigure the side, and then we can put 19 them right back. Question? 20 MR. LOOSVELT: Bob Loosvelt. I'm on one of 21 the top ones. 22 MR. GUENTHER: On the old ones? 23 MR. LOOSVELT: Yeah, 25 is the number. 24 Anyway, do we talk to you about reassigning to 25 another rack or do we just throw them in any rack we 10 1 want? 2 MR. GUENTHER: No, those racks, even though 3 we have new ones, every one of those is spoken for. 4 MR. LOOSVELT: Then the people that are on 5 the upper rack that are being cut away -- 6 MR. GUENTHER: No, we're just lowering it. 7 MR. LOOSVELT: Oh. 8 MR. GUENTHER: So if you're on the top 9 rack -- which some of the people were having a hard 10 time reaching up there. 11 MR. LOOSVELT: Oh, so the whole thing is 12 coming down. 13 MR. GUENTHER: Yes. It will just be a 14 lower profile, so it's the same amount of shelving, 15 but it's just going to match the newer ones that are 16 the low profile. 17 MR. LOOSVELT: Okay. Thank you. 18 MR. GUENTHER: Then as the season gets 19 started, one of the things that we're going to do 20 that will go behind the boat house, were going to 21 build a racking system where we can properly store 22 all of our poles and everything else that goes along 23 with the docking system which will provide better 24 security, somebody can't go down there and step on 25 the darn things, and just make it safer all around, 11 1 and get them up and get them out of the way. A 2 better way to organize it. 3 So, like I said, the docks are going to be 4 in place and finished tomorrow, Saturday is when 5 we're going to start to launch the pontoons. Thank 6 you, Steve. Other than that, that's pretty much it. 7 Yes? 8 MR. WENDELL: Fred Wendell. Is there an 9 issue if the boats are there an extra week on the 10 beach? 11 MR. GUENTHER: No, because we're not 12 opening until Memorial Day. So as long as 13 everybody's up and running before then, that's fine. 14 And Fred, he's working on those as we speak. 15 MR. WENDELL: Yeah, I saw him out there. 16 The reason I ask -- not only that, but Saturday and 17 Friday is supposed to be a pretty crappy day for 18 launching a boat. 19 MR. GUENTHER: It's been that way the whole 20 spring and that's why we're still working on it. 21 MR. LOOSVELT: You'll mark down what slot 22 we go into? 23 MR. GUENTHER: You just keep your -- 24 MR. LOOSVELT: I don't remember what the 25 number was. 12 1 MR. GUENTHER: Natalie, don't you have a 2 list on there? 3 MS. SHAVER: Yeah, I'll get one. 4 MR. BALAGNA: We tried to do the pontoons, 5 like, May 15th because they take up so much space on 6 the beach, so we can start working on the beach. So 7 if you have a different kind of boat, it's probably 8 not as big a deal to be in such a hurry. And I 9 guess -- I haven't heard from the five people that 10 were all launching, I mean, I got a wet suit, I 11 guess we're going on Saturday. Hey, took them out 12 it was 82 degrees, so we're not on a very good 13 streak here. 14 MR. GUENTHER: That being said, we have six 15 people -- and I think what we'll end up doing this 16 year is literally have some people, some of the 17 staff hold one of the pontoons where the other 18 person can stand on the pontoon and ratchet. 19 It's too deep right now and that water's too cold, I 20 don't want anybody getting sick or hurt. So we'll 21 just kind of commandeer the pontoon at the time 22 until the back-tie poles are in. And I have got an 23 extra ratchet coming tomorrow night when I'm meeting 24 with the owner. And like I said, we have six people 25 that are supposed to be there on Saturday, so I want 13 1 to get this done. Everybody wants to get their boat 2 in. 3 MS. WOJTCZAK: Joellin Wojtczak. I have a 4 question. I think you had said that each of the 5 wells that were on the south dock are 9'7"? 6 MR. GUENTHER: That's the least amount. 7 They go from that to 20'. 8 MS. WOJTCZAK: Is that the same on the 9 north dock as well? 10 MR. GUENTHER: Yes. 11 MS. WOJTCZAK: So when I got my boat dock 12 in 2012, 8' beam was the maximum that I could do. 13 MR. GUENTHER: 8'6". 14 MS. WOJTCZAK: No, I was told 8'. So now 15 it seems the rules have changed to 8'6". So with 16 8'6", we're only talking about 2'7" potentially on 17 both sides of the dock or both sides of the boat or 18 in between the boat. Is that sufficient? 19 MR. GUENTHER: It's in the rules that it's 20 8'6" because we expanded the width. 21 MS. WOJTCZAK: You did expand the width? 22 MR. GUENTHER: To 20'. Those used to be 23 smaller than that, and since so many of the boat 24 manufacturers have gone to a wider beam, that's why 25 we cheated a little bit and extended the docks. 14 1 MS. WOJTCZAK: So a typical would be to 2 have less than three feet for extra room between two 3 boats and the two fingers? 4 MR. GUENTHER: Yes. 5 MS. WOJTCZAK: Okay. 6 MRS. SCHWARTZ: Phyllis Schwartz. I'm down 7 kayaking once or twice a week all summer, and last 8 summer there were leftover poles from the docks. 9 They were around there, it was dangerous. 10 MR. GUENTHER: That's why we're building a 11 rack system, I don't want to see any of that anymore 12 on the ground. 13 MRS. SCHWARTZ: I actually had to move some 14 of those around. 15 MR. GUENTHER: That's not what it's 16 intended for, that's why we want to clean that up. 17 MRS. SCHWARTZ: So that will be cleaned up 18 after they put in the docks? 19 MR. GUENTHER: Well, I want to get those 20 out of the way, and then once the racking system is 21 in place, then we can store them behind a boat. 22 MRS. SCHWARTZ: I'm just saying, they'll be 23 out of the way, though, this year? Because they 24 weren't all last year. 25 MR. GUENTHER: Yes. 15 1 MR. SHAVER: Any other questions for boats? 2 (No response.) 3 Jim with the membership report? 4 MR. GASPAROTTO: So the membership has been 5 more stable this year than years past. We've had 6 six stock transfers since the close of last season, 7 which is down quite a bit from where we usually are, 8 and we still have four outstanding offers, so the 9 potential of 10 docks changing hands this year so 10 far. 11 We have some really good news on the 12 members in arrears. There is only two members in 13 arrears, that's the best it's ever been since I have 14 been part of this. I think it's a real testament to 15 the engagement of the board and to the engagement of 16 all the membership that we only have two members in 17 arrears. And unless there is any other questions, 18 that's the end of the membership update. 19 MR. DUNIAC: Rodney Cuneaz, C-u-n-e-a-z. 20 What's the total number of the membership? 21 MR. GASPAROTTO: So the total number of the 22 membership is 300 households. We have three 23 outstanding offers that still need to be assigned. 24 So I suppose at this snapshot in time it's 296 25 households. 16 1 MS. HEPBURN: Michele Hepburn. What does 2 it mean by you have four outstanding offers? 3 MR. GASPAROTTO: So when a home is sold 4 that there is a stock attached to, the new homeowner 5 has an opportunity to transfer that stock into their 6 name. And we send them a letter notifying them that 7 they have the option to do that and they have an 8 amount of time to respond to that offer. So there 9 is four that we have done that, four that have not 10 yet accepted the offer. 11 MS. HEPBURN: And what happens if they 12 don't accept the offer? 13 MR. GASPAROTTO: Then we have a wait list 14 based on rental history and those stocks would be 15 available at the top of the list. 16 MS. HEPBURN: For people that are interested 17 in renting, do they have to live within a certain 18 area or can it be anybody? 19 MR. GASPAROTTO: Yes, it has to be a 20 household that qualifies for membership but doesn't 21 currently have a stock assigned to it. Those people 22 can apply for rental privileges. It's not open to 23 anyone in the area, only specific neighbors. 24 MS. HEPBURN: Okay. 25 MR. SHAVER: Now to Nikki for the 17 1 treasurer's report. 2 MS. WILSON: For those of you who got here 3 early enough to get the balance sheet and the other 4 breakdown of the spend in our budget, please take a 5 look at that. If you don't have one and are not 6 sitting next to someone that does, raise your hand 7 real quick and I'll give you one. I apologize, I 8 will print more copies next year, I can't seem to 9 get the number correct. 10 So the good news is we have more money than 11 we anticipated, both in the boats and on the 12 membership side. If you look at last year versus 13 this year, we've earned a total of about $22,000 14 over what we were at last year. A lot of that had 15 to do with what Jim said earlier, with the 16 membership being really good about paying on time, 17 we didn't anticipate everyone to pay. We also 18 collected a lot in launch fees from the lake owners. 19 Those are the two main sources. And transfer fees 20 last year we did have more than anticipated. On the 21 expenses side we had less than anticipated based on 22 the last year's meeting where we decided not to 23 proceed with the architect or the changing of the 24 bylaws. So with that being said, with the surplus 25 money last year, we intend to do the beach 18 1 improvements that John mentioned earlier. If anyone 2 has any suggestions, please feel free to e-mail the 3 board and we'll add them to our wish list of 4 enhancements. But we will be doing the arborvitaes 5 and the grills will be the two major improvements 6 that we plan for this year. 7 On the other sheet, which is the more 8 detailed sheet -- is there a question in the back, 9 I'm sorry? 10 MR. GUENTHER: Ron, is that you? 11 MR. GRAHAM: The last few years we've been 12 talking about putting in a gazebo on the north side 13 of the beach and that was under study, maybe that 14 was the architect you were talking about. What 15 happened to that project? 16 MS. WILSON: So the next step was to hire 17 an architect to do an official design, but at last 18 year's annual meeting the consensus was not to 19 proceed with the pavilion, so that project's been 20 placed on hold at this point in time. 21 MR. SHAVER: It was proposed for a couple 22 of years in a row, we collected money for it, it got 23 shot down last year to move forward, so we as the 24 board decided we're tabling it unless there is 25 somebody that's really interested in it and wants to 19 1 pick it up. Because we brought it to the membership 2 and it was turned down, so if somebody wants to 3 continue with it, we can create a sub committee and 4 those people can lead forward on that activity. 5 Therefore, in the meantime, we have decided to 6 reallocate some of the funds to other projects such 7 as replacing the grills, the landscape and 8 arborvitaes and those type of activities. 9 MS. WILSON: Again, on the other sheet 10 here, the balance sheet, for those of you who didn't 11 get a chance to see it, if you'd like me to e-mail 12 it to you, just let me know after the meeting. But 13 going down the list, I starred where the total 14 income is and our total expenses. Taking a look in 15 the expenses area, again, the legal expenses fees 16 was tabled and placed on hold based on the bylaws 17 being put on hold, and all the budget associated 18 with the architect was also placed on hold. We did 19 not get around to being able to install security 20 cameras last year, so that has been carried over 21 into this year's budget, and we intend to add two 22 additional pram racks this year. Or we did that 23 last year, that was last year. So that's where part 24 of the budget went on the boat expenses. 25 MR. SHAVER: Just an update on security 20 1 cameras, we're just waiting for the timing of the 2 electrician. It looks like probably by mid May 3 those will be installed this year. 4 MS. WILSON: So again, even with the 5 planned improvements we have this year we have a 6 budget surplus and we are a nonprofit, so we 7 definitely want to take the surplus budget that we 8 recieved and invest it in the beach. So if there is 9 anyone that would like to volunteer for a project, 10 let us know. And that's all I have for the 11 treasurer's report unless there are more questions. 12 Yes, sir? 13 MR. WENDELL: Fred Wendell again. It's not 14 a question really, it's more of a comment. I just 15 want to make sure that we are still not overlooking 16 the income tripwire for becoming a for-profit 17 entity. I remember we ran into that a few years 18 back. We had accumulated too large of a surplus and 19 it triggered potential tax consequences. 20 MS. WILSON: Yeah, absolutely. So, again, 21 that's why we want to stay as a nonprofit. If there 22 is someone who wants to take on looking into making 23 it a for-profit company, if there is a volunteer 24 that would like to do that and take it on. 25 All right. Bryan? 21 1 MR. SHAVER: Any other questions for our 2 treasurer? 3 (No response.) 4 MR. SHAVER: So general new business. The 5 next topic I have on here is the Fourth of July 6 party and the lake sponsored fireworks. Again, we 7 are going to donate $15 per household as we approved 8 last year. If I recall correctly we had a two-year 9 agreement on that, or a two-year time period. So 10 I'd like to see what the feedback is. Do people 11 like the fireworks? It seems like we have a good 12 turnout. And can we extend that for another X 13 number of years with the proposal, again, of $15. 14 MR. BALAGNA: I like the fireworks, like 15 them a lot. What's the situation -- in the first 16 year we gave a lot of money and they had a big 17 surplus. Where is the whole lake fund for the 18 fireworks at right now? 19 MR. SHAVER: So there was a surplus that 20 was carried over. Last year there was not as much 21 of a surplus. They're still collecting for this 22 year, so I don't know what the total is. I don't 23 think they hit the goal yet for this year from the 24 report I have seen, but they haven't gotten our 25 information that we're donating yet. 22 1 The intention was to keep a surplus in the 2 lake account, and then try to expand it to do some 3 other activities. We haven't got to that point yet. 4 So they are still actively on every other beach 5 collecting money and doing fundraisers. Again, our 6 board decided we're not going to do fundraisers, we 7 would just do a special assessment. 8 MR. BALAGNA: Right. So it's hard to make 9 a motion. So do you have any kind of ballpark 10 number of how much money they're sitting on? 11 MR. SHAVER: The first year the lake 12 collected -- I believe it was -- I'm going off 13 memory, so don't quote me exactly, but $22,000 and 14 we spent about 18. And last year again we spent the 15 18 and we collected I want to say 19 to 20,000. So 16 there should be 4 to 5,000 -- 17 MR. BALAGNA: So there is not a big pot of 18 money sitting. 19 MR. SHAVER: Correct. And we, for the 20 first two years, have been the titled sponsor, so if 21 you guys have seen the flyer that's on the website, 22 John has it up on the website, we're marked as Lone 23 Pine Association Sub 3, titled sponsor, Walnut Lake 24 Fireworks. 25 MR. LOOSVELT: I noticed last year at the 23 1 fireworks a couple of the boats had so many people 2 around them they broke the dock. I wonder if there 3 is any safety factor. It just caved. 4 MR. GUENTHER: It didn't break, but -- 5 MR. LOOSVELT: Which was a safety factor if 6 anyone walked out there. 7 MR. GUENTHER: Well, to address that, 8 believe it or not, where that happened we theorized 9 there is an underground channel, and about three 10 times a year we have to adjust that dock section. 11 So what we tried to do this year is to straddle that 12 more where it's not where the poles are. So 13 hopefully that's going to help that situation. 14 Because for whatever reason there is current under 15 there, and over time, like I said, about three times 16 a summer I have to get our dock guy out. 17 MR. LOOSVELT: That's the one that runs to 18 the ramp? 19 MR. GUENTHER: Yeah. Yes? 20 MS. GUENDELSBERGER: Susanne 21 Guendelsberger. Last year I recall the fireworks 22 that we were sponsoring were fantastic, but it 23 seemed like the beach next to us was kind of 24 competing, they were shooting off stuff at the same 25 time. 24 1 MR. SHAVER: I don't think it was the 2 beach, it was one of the households. 3 MS. GUENDELSBERGER: Oh, a household. So 4 we can't really control or even suggest that they 5 hold off? 6 MR. SHAVER: There has been suggestions -- 7 The entire lake association -- that people just 8 concentrate on our sponsored lake events and not 9 shooting them off on their own property. But if an 10 individual household's going to do it -- 11 MS. GUENDELSBERGER: I didn't realize that, 12 I thought it was the beach club next to us. Thank 13 you. 14 MS. MURRAY: Val Murray. I just want to 15 comment back on what Bob said. When that dock 16 collapsed, that was right where we bring in our 17 boat. We were out on the water, and it wasn't that 18 the boats were too full of people. I don't know 19 what happened, but when we went out before dark, the 20 dock was fine, when we came back it had crashed. So 21 I don't know if too many people were standing on the 22 dock. 23 And like Steve said, maybe there is 24 something like a current that weakens it, but it was 25 fine when we left, and when we came back it was 25 1 sunk, and it was literally right in front of where 2 we bring the boat in so it was a little tricky. But 3 it wasn't from the boats were too full. 4 MR. GUENTHER: Yeah, there was a lot of 5 people. 6 MS. MURRAY: When the fireworks were going 7 on we had too many people on the dock is what I'm 8 thinking, and that was the issue. 9 MR. GUENTHER: Well, hopefully I've 10 addressed that, but you're correct, we'll just have 11 to monitor that and just be sensible about it at the 12 same time. 13 MR. ROGERS: Bob Rogers. Question: Last 14 year's fireworks, are we leaving the gates open and 15 anybody can walk in, or is it just members? The 16 beach was just crowded. 17 MR. GUENTHER: That's 300 families, they 18 showed up. 19 MR. SHAVER: So back to the point on this, 20 is there a motion that we can continue to donate to 21 the lake fireworks going forward? If so, would 22 someone like to propose one? 23 MS. GUESSOUS: I move that we extend the 24 fireworks fee for how many years? 25 MR. SHAVER: You tell me, what do you want? 26 1 MR. GUENTHER: Two years? 2 MS. GUESSA: Two years. 3 MR. SHAVER: So the proposal is that we 4 extend the firework special assessment for $15 per 5 household for two more years, which will be 6 2019-2020. 7 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes. 8 MR. BALAGNA: Second. 9 MR. SHAVER: Any other comments? 10 So all those in favor? 11 (All say aye.) 12 MR. SHAVER: All those opposed? 13 (No response.) 14 MR. SHAVER: Thank you, guys. 15 MR. LOOSVELT: When the residents come in 16 to the beach for the fireworks, do their guests 17 still pay $1? 18 MR. GUENTHER: Yes. 19 MR. SHAVER: Yes. 20 MR. LOOSVELT: Okay. Did you get a lot of 21 money then because there are a lot of guests there? 22 MS. SHAVER: Yeah, I mean, people have to 23 wear their wristbands. The guests pay $5, and since 24 they're not eating anymore, we do charge the $1 when 25 they walk in. So I don't know what the numbers are. 27 1 MR. SHAVER: When we look at our budget, we 2 planned last year for guest fees $3,000, and we 3 actually collected 4,658 for the year. 4 MS. MURRAY: Can you guys explain the 5 wristband situation? Because I know we came down, 6 we're regulars, we didn't know anything about it, we 7 bought our wristband and we noticed half the people 8 on the dock didn't have wristbands, so it's, like, 9 do we have to buy wristbands, don't we have to buy 10 wristbands or why are so many people walking around 11 without wristbands? I'm just confused. 12 MS. SHAVER: Well, at the end, probably 13 about 6 or 7:00 we ran out of wristbands, and I 14 think we had bought 350 and we ran out. So when 15 they came in for fireworks, we weren't giving out 16 wristbands. 17 MS. MURRAY: But during the day -- I mean, 18 on the dock, Bob and I bought a wristband and half 19 the people on the dock didn't have wristbands. 20 MS. HEPBURN: We usually come in the 21 morning on Fourth of July. My daughter's quite 22 young and I put it in my wallet. I don't wear it 23 because my daughter's six, she's going to destroy 24 it, whatever. So we put it in my wallet, spend the 25 day on the beach, we usually go home for dinner, put 28 1 the wristbands on, and then come back for the 2 fireworks. So maybe there are a lot of people doing 3 the same type of thing, just holding onto them and 4 not wearing them. 5 MR. SHAVER: Let's continue on to different 6 activities. So last year Heather Mott graciously 7 nominated herself to become our social committee 8 chairwoman. We had our first event last year which 9 was the movie night on the beach. I thought it was 10 fun, we had popcorn and a movie. So we're going to 11 continue that this year with another movie on June 12 15th at 9:00 p.m. and the movie will be ET. In 13 addition, she set up a Facebook page for the Lone 14 Pine Association, the address was in the letter that 15 went out to everybody, but she intends to keep a 16 calendar up, and John has been updating the website 17 as well with activities. So they're working 18 together to keep the same information going. She 19 has several other ideas for activities this year and 20 she just needs to know if people want to do them. 21 So if you see Heather at all or if you want to help 22 out, she's more than willing to take help. But she 23 has a whole list of ideas that we can keep ourselves 24 busy all year with the intention of everybody 25 socializing more. Val? 29 1 MS. MURRAY: I want to say thank you to 2 Heather. I know we talked about this, Carolyn and I 3 talked about it a few years ago, getting something 4 going. But I appreciated the e-mail today because 5 it reminded people of the meeting what was coming 6 up. I sent her some pictures for the website. I 7 just want to say thank you. 8 MR. SHAVER: So yeah, if anybody has any 9 idea for social activities, please get in touch with 10 Heather and we'll make it happen. We're willing as 11 the board to put money toward something in our 12 budget to get everybody down there and interact with 13 each other. 14 MR. LOOSVELT: Does Heather have a phone 15 number or e-mail? 16 MR. PARROTINO: If you go on the LPA.org 17 site, you have the link to the Facebook page and see 18 if you can get ahold of her. 19 MR. SHAVER: And on the letter that came 20 out on the back page is her e-mail address as well. 21 MR. LOOSVELT: Okay. 22 MR. SHAVER: Any other questions? 23 Yes? 24 MR. WENDELL: This probably relates more to 25 boat operations and future investments. I've noted 30 1 that the hose over by the new prams does not work. 2 Is that something we can put on that list? 3 MR. SHAVER: I'll address that one right 4 now. We had that water turned on a week ago and I 5 brought it up with the plumber. He went and he 6 turned on the faucet and it's working he told me, 7 before he left last week. 8 MR. ROGERS: In addition to that, is there 9 a hose where the staff can access to use to hose off 10 the raft or the trampoline? They get covered with 11 goose dung, and there seems to be a reluctance on 12 occasion to clean it off. But if they had a hose, 13 they'd probably be willing to spray it off. Because 14 I have seen kids sit on the beach and not go out 15 because it's so mildewed. Is that something that we 16 can do? 17 MR. PARROTTINO: I don't think you can drag 18 a hose out to the raft, I think we can probably 19 bring the raft in and clean it up. 20 MR. ROGERS: Maybe bring it in at night. 21 Something to keep the geese off of it. 22 MR. PARROTTINO: It's not so easy, it's 23 anchored, you know, I don't think it's a daily 24 thing, bringing it back and forth and over the swim 25 lines. We can look at bringing it in and cleaning 31 1 it off. And if you noticed it, please bring it to 2 the attention of any of the staff members down 3 there. And if you notice it doesn't get acted upon, 4 just contact me and I'll make sure it gets cleaned 5 off. 6 MR. SHAVER: Any other questions? 7 (No response.) 8 MR. SHAVER: Okay. So we're at the point 9 where we have two open positions for the board. 10 It's a 3-year term. Unfortunately or fortunately 11 for him he's taking an overseas assignment, so we 12 have to replace him. 13 MR. GASPAROTTO: Yeah. 14 MR. SHAVER: And Kelly Gable is no longer 15 on the board as well, so we have two open positions. 16 They're nominated for board position and we decide 17 as a board afterwards who does what role. So you're 18 not really picking a role, we decide that 19 afterwards. We generally ask if there is anybody 20 that wants to nominate themselves or somebody else 21 wants to nominate the other person. 22 MS. JACKSON: Sarah Jackson. I want to 23 nominate Moda Bougrine. 24 MR. SHAVER: Do you accept the nomination? 25 MR. BOUGRINE: Yes. 32 1 MS. PARROTTINO: I second. 2 MR. SHAVER: All those in favor of 3 nominating Moda to the board? 4 (All say aye.) 5 MR. SHAVER: We need one more person. 6 We're going to draw names out of a hat. 7 MR. PARROTTINO: Can we go to the record to 8 see who asked the most questions? 9 MR. SHAVER: Really guys, it is some work, 10 but it isn't, like, overwhelming. We try to meet 11 only when necessary, in the wintertime it's very 12 seldom, and it's just a couple times during the 13 summer we get together as a whole group, and it's 14 just maintaining your guys' investment that we have 15 in our property here. 16 MR. BOUGRINE: I nominate Sarah Jackson. 17 MR. SHAVER: Do you accept the nomination? 18 MS. JACKSON: Yes. 19 MR. SHAVER: All those in favor of Sarah's, 20 nomination to the board? 21 (All say aye.) 22 MR. SHAVER: At this point we have open 23 discussion. Any other points that anybody wants to 24 bring up? 25 MR. LOCKHART: Jim Lockhart. I just 33 1 noticed the south wall in the beach house is in need 2 of repair. The brick wall looks like there are some 3 bricks that have fallen off. 4 MS. WILSON: Yeah, we'll take care of that. 5 I have noticed that today, too. 6 MR. GUENTHER: Are you talking about where 7 the garden is separating -- I just noticed that. 8 Not the building itself? 9 MS. WILSON: The landscape wall. 10 MR. LOCKHART: Not the building. 11 MR. SHAVER: Yes? 12 MS. BARTLEY: Barbara Bartley. I'm just 13 looking at the budget here for federal taxes. The 14 federal taxes have gone up 50 percent and then 15 another 50 percent projected for 2018, and state tax 16 is up 100 percent and another 100 percent. What's 17 going on here? 18 MS. WILSON: Based off of last year's 19 actuals and knowing whether or not our staff is 20 increasing or decreasing, but we did give most of 21 our staff a raise, that's part of it. But as far as 22 the taxes go, I can't really speak to it. I'm not 23 the accountant, but I can certainly look into it and 24 ask about it. 25 MR. PARROTTINO: The payroll's not doubled. 34 1 MR. SHAVER: Yes. Yes, Marilyn? 2 MS. MAHER: Marilyn Maher. The increase 3 has to do with what the employees have with health. 4 So if they reduce their exemptions -- I've never 5 looked at the W-4 forms, but it's not taxes we're 6 paying, it's taxes we're withholding and remitting; 7 does that help? On paychecks you withhold federal 8 taxes, state taxes, Social Security. 9 MR. BALAGNA: So our employee match, 10 employer match is not changing? 11 MS. MAHER: No, it's not changing. 12 MR. BALAGNA: Okay. Then that answers that 13 question. I'm guessing that the beach staff 14 probably could increase the number of exemptions on 15 their W-4s and not wait from the big check from the 16 IRS, although maybe that's their strategy. 17 MR. SHAVER: Any other open points, 18 questions? Yes? 19 MS. HEPBURN: Has there ever been any talk 20 or consideration into either repairing or replacing 21 the little playground? You know, the slides and the 22 monkey bars? 23 MR. SHAVER: No, but if you want to take on 24 the challenge, you are now the committee member for 25 the playground. Who else wants to be on the 35 1 committee? Yes, Val? 2 MS. MURRAY: Do you have anyone to plant 3 flowers this year? 4 MR. SHAVER: Yes, we do. The landscaping 5 company will be out -- 6 MS. WILSON: We don't have a date yet. 7 MS. MURRAY: I was going to volunteer. I 8 used to plant the flowers before we used them. 9 MS. WILSON: We could definitely use help 10 with the annuals. We have the landscape company out 11 to plant some perennials and clean up the beds, but 12 after they're complete, it would be great if you 13 wanted to help with the annuals. 14 MS. MURRAY: Just let me know when you're 15 ready, I love planting. 16 MS. GUENDELSBERGER: I just have a 17 question. Any changes in the boat wait list? 18 MR. SHAVER: No, the updated list was 19 posted today on the website, so if you want to go 20 check it out, I have one printed copy of it here if 21 you want to take a look at it later. 22 MR. GUENTHER: This is the first year it's 23 been very slow this year, and it's a direct 24 reflection of the value of lake property right now. 25 MR. SHAVER: Fred? 36 1 MR. WENDELL: Did we have a volunteer today 2 to come down and help pick up the trash on the 3 beach? 4 MR. SHAVER: This Saturday. The same time 5 as the pontoon launch. So if you're waiting for 6 your boat to be launched, you can be working on the 7 beach and other areas. Any other questions, points? 8 I want to take the time to thank everybody 9 up here on the board for all volunteering here. It 10 takes some of our time. 11 (Applause.) 12 MR. SHAVER: And if there are no other 13 questions, then does someone want to motion to close 14 the meeting? 15 MR. SCHWARTZ: So moved. 16 MR. SHAVER: Any seconds? 17 MS. PARROTTINO: Second. 18 MR. SHAVER: All those in favor? 19 (All say aye.) 20 MR. SHAVER: It's 7:47. 21 (Meeting concluded at 7:47 p.m.) 22 23 24 25