TIME & PLACE: 7:00 PM on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at the Moorage Office (C-7) located at 2630 N. Hayden Island Drive, Portland, Oregon, 97217.
Board Members Present:
· Mr. C.W. Taylor, President
· Mr. Steve Weisensee, Vice President
· Ms. Lorraine Creek, Vice President
Mr. Walt LeDoux, Secretary
Board Members Absent:
· Ms. Pat Buescher, Treasurer
Order Of Business
· Call to Order; Determination Of Quorum.
o The President called the meeting to order and announced that with three Board Members present, a quorum was established.
Sec. Note: Mr. Weisensee arrived shortly after the announcement of a quorum.
· Reading & Approval Of The Minutes Of Previous Meeting
o The Secretary passed out minutes from the previous meeting.
§ Moved, seconded and passed unanimously to approve March Board Meeting minutes.
· Treasurer’s Report
o Dispensed with the Treasurer’s report in her absence
· Old Business
o Standing Committee Reports
Facilities & Grounds.
o Pat sent out email on water – found several leaks – may need to encourage owners to check for leaks. – may tie into dye test.
o Steve – need to rent a trencher - $175 total at loc next to his shop.
o Lorraine – are we planning a spring work party – CW wants to set a date before July.
o Ann – asked that we schedule a separate work party for the Oregon Grape planting – she will get prices and schedule a date.
o We want to snip tops also.
o Long term planning sub-committee (placeholder).
o Purchased new bulletin boards – no outside advertising – must have name & slip # on any postings.
Fire, Security And Safety
o Break-ins & Thefts – all broken fence spots have been plugged.
§ Not going to be even 50% safe.
§ How is this guy getting in?
§ Out of 7 penetrations, 6 were behind garages.
§ Motion detectors, Beams along back side of garages. May cost $3-4K.
§ People have been personally damaged – but the thieves get out of jail before the cops get back on the island.
§ CW – cameras won’t do the job – they use a stick and point the cameras up.
§ Police shift ends at 2AM and next shift doesn’t start until 6AM.
§ Steve asked Chris to discuss what he’s done to protect his garage – looked at an alarm that will alert at his house but it was line of sight (would not reach his house).
§ Also a suggestion that a simple baby monitor may be a solution – go for blocks.
§ Chris Lund– found a guy that has been in the moorage - name is Mike Wallace – drives a reddish brown van with stripes – watch for him – known felon.
§ Steve will do some more research on Pulsed IR beams and their cost.
Architectural Review
o CW - advised Lorraine to get out a notice & date that ARC is going to do a walk around.
o Lorraine stated she asked Mary Ann if she would fill the vacant ARC position as Roy never responded.
By-Laws, CC&Rs And Rules
o Proposed CCR changes to 3.2 and 9.1.
§ Walt passed out the proposed changes as written by the Committee.
§ He also passed out the email concerning 9.1 from our attorney suggesting we follow the wording in ORS 65.437 (1)(b) (also a handout).
§ The Rules committee chair agreed to the change.
o Proposed CCR change to 4.5.2
§ The Secretary stated he was presented with a petition carrying the required minimum signatures to propose a change to the CCRs.
§ The change proposed would allow 1 dog and 2 cats OR 2 dogs and 1 cat per houseboat.
§ In view of the petition the Secretary made a motion to place a moratorium on fines for breaking the 1 dog, 2 cat rule until Aug 1, 2008 or sooner and until the CCR change is voted on (but no later than 1 Aug). Motion seconded and passed Unanimously
Violation & Adjudication
o No Report.
o HINOON & Columbia River Crossings Project
Esther Wright is taking over for Jimme’ as our Neighborhood Representative.
She is attending the meeting tonight (10 Apr).
§ No other report
§ New Business
Steve W. - wants to get going on the long term planning committee.
Milfoil – CW will do some more research on a product that gets spread on river bottom.
Mike Maiden asked how the stop sign is working.
Seems to be working quite well – haven’t heard any complaints from the residents – people are stopping.
Still plans in the works to paint lines.
Rick Ruffo – starting to see strange vehicles.
Do we need a moorage bumper sticker?
CW all 56 owners have a right to question anyone we don’t know.
Jackie Byrne – we still have homeless people possibly coming from west of the moorage – can we consider a fence to the water line.
Steve asked Walt to check the gate entry records to see who came in at that date/time.
Sec. Note: Records were checked and no unknown cards were used at that time (possibly a “follow in”).
§ Reminder Date, Time, & Place for next Board Meeting.
o Day – First Thursday in May (May 1, 2008).
o Time – 1900 (7:00pm).
o Place – Moorage Office.
§ Reminder Date, Time, & Place for 2009 Annual Membership Meeting.
o Day - 4th Sunday in January (January 25th, 2009). (The next 4 Super Bowls are in Feb.)
o Time – 1600 (4:00 PM).
o Place – TBD
§ Adjourn.