Greens Way Board Meeting

Hiawatha Library

April 11^th 2022

Officers Present:

Mike Lindeman-President

Jerry Bair-Vice President

Karol Cooper-Treasurer

Linda Miller -Secretary

Board Members Present:

Elaine Read, Paul Zimmerman, Ron Davis & Elaine Blick.

Resident Guests:

Larry Cooper, Nora Becker, Rosie Turnis, Linda Ham, Patty Gothe, Kathy & Norm Stepleton.

Meeting Objectives:

1. Raising the monthly dues.

2. Whether we will have a dumpster this year, and if so, when?

3. The status of a garage sale this year.

4. Replacing siding on some of the unites.

5. Lawn repair from the damage of the snow removal.

6. The berms.

Mike reported that the lawyer that was hired (Greg Epping) is continuing his work to rewrite some of the rules and regulations. This was voted on by the residents and passed to have the rules simplified and some of the other verbiage removed which were no longer relevant for the association. When this is completed, it will be filed with the state.

Mike reported on the sink holes on the southside of the Greens. The Boomerang Company inspected the sewer pipe with a camera and no cracks or holes were found. They called it, purely a settling issue. They will do the work required to fix the problem. At this time, we do not know what the cost will be to have this project completed.

Discussion began about raising the current monthly association dues. As Karol has stated before we are not collecting enough in dues to meet our monthly expenses. In turn she has had to transfer money from our reserve account. The reserve account is used for unexpected expenses that arise from time to time. Ron Davis suggested a special assessment be done. There was also some discussion on how to cut back on expenses. Jerry Bair made a motion to raise the monthly dues by twenty-five dollars for a total of two hundred dollars. With that increase $175 would go the operating account and $25 to the reserve account. This increase was voted on and was passed. The increase will be effective July 1^st,2022.

Mike will send out an email to the residents, notifying them of this change.

President Mike brought up whether we wanted to supply a dumpster for the residents to dispose of unwanted items. It was agreed that this is a nice perk for the residents. Linda Miller volunteered to contact ABC disposal, to set this up.

Garage sales were discussed, and even if we don’t promote them, that if someone is moving or has an estate sale that it would be permitted. Board approval would be required before the sale.

Linda Miller reported that Cutting Edge would be doing lawn repair from the winter snow removal damage. She also contacted them about doing some additional work like seeding around the fire hydrants. Also, we need to spray the weeds, rising from the rocks, behind several of the houses on the west side.

The berm committee which is made up of members Karol Cooper, Elaine Read, and Elaine Blick, reported that a survey was sent out to the residents in February. Many of them had varying opinions as to what should be done with the berms. They had gotten several quotes for clean-up, reshaping, and additional planting, which were all rather expensive. The quote was only for the east side berm. Weed control is where we need to start, and for this year, we will not take any action except to having our lawn contractor apply weed control spray and wait to see what viable plantings return. The Derecho had been very hard on the berms, and this is not an easy fix.

It was agreed that we should have beautiful flowerpots at our front entrance again, with a $250 allowance. Once again, we need volunteers to water the flowers.

The next board meeting will be on Monday June 6^th at 2:00 at the Hiawatha Library.

Linda Miller

Secretary