June 27, 2010 General Meeting

STANNARD BEACH ASSOCIATION
GENERAL MEETING
06/27/10
The Meeting was called to order by President George Dallas at 9:15AM

Treasurers Report:
John Kava reported that we should end the year with a positive $25,000 balance. The budget for this year’s so far is on target. The new proposed budget is basically a break even budget. There was some discussion on a few items on the budget and they were, Beach maintenance Grounds beautification and playground, resurfacing the Tennis courts, Roads and drainage and Social activities. A motion was made by Sandy Seidman to accept the budget as proposed, seconded by Dennis Hersh, voted upon and approved.
Old Business:
George Dallas stated that the paving of Cedar Lane is moving forward and on schedule. The scope of work is milling old roadway, processing the old material for a base, fill and grade the parking area. Water is to be directed to the newly installed 45,000 gallon capacity drains. A path to the Pavilion will also be included in the paving process. George further discussed again the process of grading and packing the recycled old milled road and that there are to be 2 layers of 2 types of blacktop applied. He further explained that the lowest bids all included having our old pavement recycled for a base and typically is the way most roads are paved now. Jeff Morris had a question regarding the Warranty and George Dallas stated the job is guaranteed for 90 days on workmanship and one year on materials.
New Business:
We welcome two new families, Herb & Marsha Dunn on Ripley Hill and Bob & June O’Leary, 138 Second Ave.
Steven Mason is passing around the directory, if anyone has to make changes please contact Steve or Barbara. Many Thanks to the Mason’s for taking on the task of updating our directory annually.
Tennis Courts are on budget, George Palmer is arranging to have them resurfaced.
Monies have been allocated for ongoing Jetty repairs.
Security is returning with the following schedule: Friday 6-10pm, Saturday 10-10, and Sunday 10-6. Very good news for our beach our Guard from two years ago, Brian will be our primary guard on duty.
Reminder on Golf Cart, the State of CT is requiring that these vehicles be registered with the State of CT and only driven by licensed drivers.
George Palmer is making arrangement to have the beach cleaned up. If you have logs you’d like remove please get in touch with George Palmer. There was $2,000 allocated in the budget for this.
Sydelle Baskind requested that the minutes of the meeting be e-mailed to all the residents as well as posted on the blog spot. She asks that people keep their voices down on the beach in the evening as the noise travels and she hears numerous conversations. She also said she would like to have more sand in front of her home. George Dallas said the ongoing Jetty repairs will help with that but moving the sand is an expensive approach that is not a guaranteed fix.
Barbara Mason asked if was really necessary that the guard be armed, and made a motion to discuss whether or not our Guards should be armed. After some brief discussion on the statement of authority the gun presented and who felt it was good and who did not think it is good for him to carry a gun, Dennis Hersh asked that we table this discussion so people can think about it and discuss it further. He felt the reason he has a gun is to have an appearance of authority. Which Dennis said is a excellent way to approach squatters and people illegally parking on our Association property. Sandy Seidman mention that years ago the Association used to hire off Duty police officers and it was much more costly. Susan Miller questioned if anyone knew, what is the Security company protocol with their guard’s use of their fire arms? Some suggestions were that possibly other instruments that are less violent like tazers and such may be used. The Motion was modified to look into these questions for next year. Michael Rottblatt suggested maybe have the Police and Security company meet with us to discuss the Pro & cons of carrying a fire arm. The Motion was tabled and will Take Michael’s suggestion to have representation at our meeting next year so our residents can discuss their concerns.

New Business:
The minutes from the last meeting were read by the Secretary, Dennis Hersh motioned to approve the minutes as read Seconded by Sandy Seidman.
We paused for a moment of Silence for the passing of Grace Barnett along time former resident of 6 Stannard Dr.
Other Business:
July 5, 2010 is Water’s Edge fireworks display. Our security along with Water’s Edge Security as well as the police will oversee anyone coming into to our Association and the parking situation.
There was no further Business and the meeting was adjourned at 10:00AM by President George Dallas

Respectfully submitted
Marie Gallo-Garabedian
Garabedian@comcast.net