Stannard Beach Assn BOD meeting May 24, 2015 Notes
The Board meeting was convened in the Connell pavilion at
9:05 am by George Dallas.
A moment of silence was observed for those members who have
passed on:
Dennis Hersh
Sis Palmer
Warren Katz
Bill Wrang
Emily Fedorko
The minutes were read from 8.30.2014. Motion to accept by
Sandy Seidman, 2nd by Merle Katzman. All voted to accept the minutes
as presented.
Dave Caslin has left the Board. Need to fill the position.
Connie Tosto and Sharon Bender suggested filling with another woman to further
balance the board – the Nominating Committee has had no suggestions of women
interested in serving on the board, and currently Laura Petchler and Maureen
Keegan also serve, so there is a reasonable contingy of women at this time. Ed
Spazzarini was suggested. Motion to accept Ed Spazzarini to fill the 3 months
left in Dave Caslin’s spot made by Lou Brown, 2nd by Steve Mason,
all accepted.
Treasurer’s report: $105,000 in the bank. All dues paid to
date except Rosenblatt, who was reminded and will send in payment.
Expenditures:
Pavilion repairs
Groin #1 repair
Speed gate repairs
Dead end sign moved to speed gate at Mackey Barron. Needs to
be higher - needs to be mounted on pole higher so is in clear site line for all
traffic, as per previous notes.
Security: Fred is
back this year, starting the Friday before July 4. Hours are Friday 5-11,
Saturday 11-11 an Sunday 11-7. No Water’s Edge fireworks this year, though Tina
Datillo may possibly do an in house party that weekend – she will let us know.
Paul Shlien asked if the Water’s Edge spotlight that shines
down the length of our beach can be adjusted to not shine in our faces at
night? Many in attendance agreed.
Connie Tosto: Capital Budget reserve is about $70,000 to
$75,000 now. We are setting aside $25,000/year and whatever unspent funds are
available if possible.
Shoreline: DEEP was here in September 2014. George asked DEEP to wait until spring to see
how the weather would go. He took pictures over the winter of lots of sand in
place, and now that it’s spring there will be a loss of sand. This is a repeated pattern over the years,
depending on the direction of storms.
Pizza Night: Friday evening, June 26.
Sharon Bender informed the board of a family reunion she is
hosting at her house at 123 2nd Ave, Sunday, August 23, 2015. There
will be extra cars and people that day.
Cars were left in the parking lot over the winter. Upon
inquiry they were Fred’s car (security guard) and Jim Kiely’s car. Fred was
asked to remove his vehicle.
A person writing a book about the area around Westbrook and
Stannard Beach contacted George Dallas to say he found a deed saying the area
at our beach including tennis courts is owned by others. But the deed expired
10 years ago and no one has come forward with a claim. Sandy
Seidman asked that we share this info with the full Assn and vote on a motion
to keep all public and nonbuildable areas in perpetuity.
A set of the newly retyped, clean by laws compiled by Sharon
Bender and Laura Petchler, from all the history of Assn and Board notes, will
be sent out by email to everyone, with a request for input and ideas as to
modernization of our by laws.
Lyman/Brown right-of-way:
OCM told Ziaks that the contract for $16,200 is to excavate the center
of the right of way, put in underground tanks to catch the water and leach it
out underground, refill the area and grade and sod it. Additional charges from Ziaks included
engineering oversite for $6000which has been adjusted to $3300.
OCM, Alex Orlowski, is/are the owners of Clean In Between
also. It is his wife’s business. George checked with Town hall but they had no
info on OCM to share. George asked Ziaks for references but has not received
any to date. Ziaks stated he would not be the general contractor for the right
of way work. The Stannard Beach assn. needs to sign the contract, but who would
oversee it?
The BOD hired Ziaks to do a study of what could be done for
$6000.
We cannot be the contractor as we have no one to oversee the
work daily – we need a General Contractor.
There has been no report of any water in the area or in basements.
If the contractor has given us his license, insurance and
bonding, should be ok. F W Brown can serve as a reference for OCM. Mike Guinan
knows Alec, the owner of OCM, has talked with him and Alec is a large
contractor on major New England projects.
Are we obtaining a release? Needs to be obtained prior to
any contract for work being signed. Have not heard back from Lyman’s attorney,
and it has always been a part of the deal to have a release signed prior to
work being done.
Regarding additional costs from Ziaks for $3300, Connie
Tosto said we cannot approve this amount without the Assn being informed, but
Board members disagreed.
Sandy Seidman made a motion to spend up to $18,000. Mike
Guinan 2nd the motion. Voted 7 in favor, 4 against, 2 abstentions. Motion passed. Ziaks will be contacted.
Motion does not include legal costs to obtain a release.
Lou Brown has hired an attorney to protect him. The fees are
coming out of the $8000 he is putting towards this project. So far the fees
have amounted to $550.
$8000 original amount from L Brown
$1900 sod
$ 8950 net
-$550 legal
fees to date incurred by L Brown
$8440
The community is broken over this on going issue in the
right of way so let’s fix it and move on.
Motion to adjourn at 10:15 by Sandy Seidman, 2nd
by Merle Katzman. All agreed.
Submitted by Sharon Bender
