Norman Downes Homeowners Meeting

1/19 16 Meeting minutes

Attending: Peggy Chandler, Rob Welch, Susan Porteus, Cheryl Wheeler, Bob Porteuos , Sam Carr, Cliff Curtis

Last week’s minutes approved.

1. Erosion Control Updatea. No dissention for paying for the erosion improvements, up to $60,000. Jonathan from

JVG Engineering is following up with the city to see where they are with approving the drawings. Cheryl recommends we contact neighborhood folks on the city council who can follow up. Cheryl will send an email to them to see about following up on the approval.

b. Rob thinks that someone may be re-channelling the stream by the pool. Meanwhile the erosion at the tennis courts is getting worse with all the rain.

2. Treasurer’s Reporta. Susan is not at the meeting so we did not review the treasurer’s report.

3. Discussion of Possible New Board Members/Elections:a. Possible members include:

i. Cris Wilcox (Tennis Chair)ii. Peter Van Arsdale

iii. Mark Carter would like to be a committee memberiv. Sue Van Lanenv. Nicole Beasley

b. Dean’s are interested in the Lake ( maybe a Lake committee that looks at Lake owners issues). Cheryl will tackle Lake Issues as she already has emails.

c. Landscaping- was done by Andy – Susan will take on this committeed. General maintenance committee needs a chair – they would maintain lights at front

entrance, Christmas decorations, etc.e. Social committee – social events not well attended. Not much interest in women’s club

anymore. Thought is that downtown Duluth offers so many great family events, there is not much interest. So Rob recommends we don’t have a social committee unless demand increases.

f. We will need a paper ballot for the elections. Cheryl will contact list of volunteers next week. We will need a blurb from everyone on qualifications. They will be mailed out and there are 3 options for returning them: Mail to PO, drop in boxes at entrance or at pool, give to board member

4. Sam’s Dam News:a. He unblocked the toe drains. There were several that were blocked. He wants a

drawing of the dam.5. Tree Removal

a. Kay Brown has asked Rick for an update on the 4 trees that they want removed. Cheryl will ask her why they need to come down and Rob/Sam will go over and take pictures.

b. Chris got the quotes for the Tennis court trees. Cheryl wants to see them. Peggy will summarize the quotes and send it out to the board.

6. New business:a. Someone (?) wants to buy up houses on Church street and create a new development

that is a gated community with access to ND and Church street. b. Wooded area around the tennis courts could be used for a nature trail. Possible Boy

Scout project?c. Barry wants to move the NDHOA files out of the basement. Peggy made a motion to

only retain the last 10 years of documents. Rob seconded. Remaining documents will be sent to Rob.

Cliff made motion to adjourn. Rob seconded.