<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sigh. When not logged in as administrator that should be</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://server90.web-hosting.com/mailman/listinfo/interest_chnorthmetro.us">http://server90.web-hosting.com/mailman/listinfo/interest_chnorthmetro.us</a></span><br><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="mailto:khbkhb@gmail.com">khbkhb@gmail.com</a> | kbiermank (AIM) | khbkhb (Skype) </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from my iPad</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>On Mar 13, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Keith Bierman <<a href="mailto:khbkhb@gmail.com">khbkhb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(102,51,255)">Sorry, bad form to reply to oneself. But I neglected the subscription page: <a href="https://server90.web-hosting.com:2083/cpsess6545333856/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/interest_chnorthmetro.us">https://server90.web-hosting.com:2083/cpsess6545333856/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/interest_chnorthmetro.us</a></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(102,51,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(102,51,255)">I have set "moderation" on, this is not intended to be a discussion alias ... just a notification one.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Keith Bierman<br><a href="mailto:khbkhb@gmail.com">khbkhb@gmail.com</a><br>kbiermank AIM<br>303 997 2749</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Keith Bierman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:khbkhb@gmail.com" target="_blank">khbkhb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#6633ff">I know Darcy was going to send out a notice, and not having received it I thought I should send a test message. However, instead of wasting everyone's time with an empty message, here's my notes from the meeting for whatever they are worth.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#6633ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><ol><li><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">Geoff, Darcy and I were in attendance. Lacking a quorum we would have just decamped, but we had a member of the public who wished to speak, and it seemed appropriate to listen. Alan Levin was kind enough to share some thoughts with us (I've taken the liberty of editing for length and reordering, and have copied Alan to ensure I caught the gist of his remarks).</font></li>
<li><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">I pointed out that the reason we created <a href="http://chnorthmetro.us" target="_blank">chnorthmetro.us</a> aliases (especially the "<a href="mailto:board@chnorthmetro.us" target="_blank">board@chnorthmetro.us</a>" alias) was to ensure that discussion was archived (and so to keep our private email private in the event of Open Records requests). Our last discussion about this meeting was inadvertently not sent to the alias, and not archived. We should try to make sure to retrain our fingers to use the alias!</font></li>
<li><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">Darcy pointed out we have some time pressure regarding the "audit exemption" and payment to the County for election fees. As such, we were planning to try to hold the meeting next Thursday. It was noted that as long as there was a physical plurality at the meeting, that a speakerphone could be used to complete a quorum. While not a good practice to plan on, we should pool our cellphone numbers so that in the event of an urgency such as this mornings session, we might be able to complete the critical action items.</font></li>
</ol><div><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">My notes of Alan's remarks</font></div><div><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><ol><li><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">Alan has a sewer blockage, and there seems to be considerable confusion about where his pipe runs (the City sent him to Hillcrest, etc.). Darcy was kind enough to take the matter offline and will try to set him up with our Engineer. </font></li>
<ol><li><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">This led to a discussion of the maintenance videos, and popcorn for the HOA annual meeting. In a less jocular vein, it does beg a couple of questions:</font></li><ol><li>
<font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">The segments that are most problematic from the "main" side, have we notified the upstream residents that they may wish to have an accelerated cleaning from their side?</font></li>
<li><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">Would it be cheaper for residents if this work were to be done at the same time as the main work? If so, can we facilitate communication between the maintenance team and the residents?</font></li>
</ol><li><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">Alan commented that it is a very nice neighborhood, and to his knowledge, values are increasing, and sales are often less than a week. He referenced a recently(?) retired friend who evaluated neighborhoods for some government organization.</font></li>
<li><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">Alan commented that he (and the HOA board) were planning to work to help us pass relevant legislation so that the District could take over the signs. He reported that there remains significant uncertainty about what sign ownership does to/for the HOA with respect to CCIOA (which the HOA would like to avoid being subject to).</font></li>
<ol><li><font color="#6633ff" face="georgia, serif">Note: Other residents have commented to me that if it were cheaper, they'd prefer the District merge with another (others have pointed out "merging" isn't really the right legal term for the usual transfer). If the payback period were 10 years or less, this might be compelling to the community. However, taking ownership of the signs would probably make such transfers more difficult because the only logical Districts to take things over are limited to Sanitation (or Water and Sanitation). </font></li>
</ol></ol></ol></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#6633ff">A possible topic for future agenda(s), should we record the meetings? Board members who cannot be physically present may wish more detail than makes Minutes; also there may be Residents who cannot make the 7:30AM time. Due to space constraints, I'd suggest that if we do regularly record, that we formally adopt a policy about keeping only the last meeting recording up.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#6633ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#6633ff">A note for Alan (if you have read this far). Please ask the HOA board to authorize the District to use the HOA email list (either the de facto one from the 5A discussion last election, or some formal alias the HOA has set up on some server). We have an (empty) "interest" list which is the natural mechanism to "push" notifications of meetings and agenda's .. but there isn't a good way to advertise its existence to the community until the upcoming joint HOA/District meeting. But it seems to me that the HOA Board may well have some interest in joining early. Pass the word.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#6633ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#6633ff"><br></div><div>Keith Bierman<br><a href="mailto:khbkhb@gmail.com" target="_blank">khbkhb@gmail.com</a><br>
kbiermank AIM<br><a href="tel:303%20997%202749" value="+13039972749" target="_blank">303 997 2749</a></div>
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