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Agenda – Annual Meeting September 6th, 2020

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Saunders Meadow Home Owners Association Annual Meeting

September 6, 2020

  1. Roll Call, Verification of Quorum: Oscar Inclan & Terry Shirley
  2. Board Approval of Minutes From the Previous Meeting: Oscar Inclan
  3. President’s Report-Year in Review: Jon Bauer
  4. Treasurer Report-Dues, Donations, & Accounting new BBVA bank accounts Jon Brown
    1. https://saundersmeadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SMHA-Treasurers-Report-2020-09-06.pdf
  5. Update on Website: Jon Brown
    – New website https://saundersmeadow.com/
    – ALL homeowners can login to see protected content update their contact info
    – How to set a password – https://saundersmeadow.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
    – Verify Addresses and Phone Numbers
  6. Update on Roads and Newsletter articles: Terry Shirley
  7. Review of architectural requirements per CC&R’s
    1. https://saundersmeadow.com/documents/ccrs/
    2. https://saundersmeadow.com/documents/architectural-review-request-instructions-arr/
  8. Review CC & R’s-Section 6. Article VI, Section 6: Jon Bauer
    – Approved with 48 “YES” votes: Delete, CC & R’s- Article VI, Section 6 referring to owning the water system. 6. The Association owns and maintains its water system… Any other use shall be at the discretion of the Water Committee…Excessive use of water may lead to suspension of service. https://saundersmeadow.com/documents/ccrs/#s6
    – Reason: This is outdated. We do not own the system and there is no water committee. This could be confusing to new buyers and a potential deal breaker for the sale of a property.
  9. Fire Abatement of Common Areas and Resources for Fire Prevention for Homeowners Private Property: Jon Bauer
  10. Tree Health Concerns in Common Areas and on Private Property: Jon Brown
    1. https://gsob.org/
    2. John Huddleston – https://idyllwildtree.com/
  11. New Business – Open to All Homeowners.
    – Dues Set Today Are Due Within 30 Days. Late Fees Will Apply.
  12. Elections for Three Board Positions
  13. New Board Gathering Via Zoom After Meeting to Establish Offices and Set the Next Board Meeting Date
  14. Adjourn

SMHA Joins Nextdoor.com

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Thanks to one of our SMHA residents, we’re now able to communicate with each other via the Nextdoor website.   Join by going to  www.nextdoor.com/join and enter code:  HWRCXW.   Once you are a member of SMHA Nextdoor, you’ll be able to see neighbor posts and place posts yourself.   This will be a great way to share news and information.  

Rain and Snow Hit the Hill

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Some of the heaviest rainfall and snow totals in years has hit Saunders Meadow and the hill communities.   Since October, over 25 inches of rain has fallen.  Snow totals have exceeded averages, with February storms leaving behind 2 to 3 feet of snow.   The much needed moisture has filled hill water storage facilities, but in its wake has damaged key roads into the area. Major connections from Banning and Hemet have been closed due to road washouts, with CalTrans working hard to re-open both 243 from Banning and 74 from Hemet.  The road from Hemet is expected to open in early September, with 243 not expected to re-open until mid to late November.   Until then the only way up the hill is the eastern side of 74, coming up from the desert or Anza and with pilot cars and special hours on the western side of 74.  In Saunders Meadow, the heaviest damage to roads occurred on Tanglewood and Macteckelwood, with plans underway to repair the damage.  

Prior to the rainy season, Saunders Meadow private roads were trimmed back to meet the Fire Department requirements.   After the Cranston fire, we received notification that some of our roads had overgrown trees/shrubs that would prohibit access to fire trucks.   To insure the safety of our residents, the board reacted quickly to trim vegetation to meet the Department’s requirements.

Cranston Fire

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Hi everybody. I know this has been a very stressful time for everyone with many of you not knowing if your homes were in danger from the Cranston Fire. Well the good news is not a single home was damaged nor was a person harmed during this major incident. Anne and I returned home yesterday to find our home, our neighbor’s homes, and Saunders Meadow itself untouched by the fire. Gary Johnson, who stayed with Suzanne and kept us all updated with their lively emails, drove me and Phil and Pam Howard up May Valley to look at the scars from the fire yesterday evening. The mountain itself is pretty banged up but by some miracle SMH Inc is unscathed. I also took a walk this morning up May Valley road then along one of the deer trails to South Ridge and saw where the firefighters turned the fire away from us near the dump, along May Valley Road, and along the ridge behind SMH where they really laid down a lot of  Foscheck and even managed to get a dozer up there to create a fire break between us and the fire. I’m not even sure how they got a dozer up there as it is at least a 45° climb. Anyway, enough from me, I hope everyone got the emails from myself, Gary, Jon and Brian and I thank them for keeping me and all the rest of us updated. I’m going to post the map from Inciweb and some photos I took this morning from May Vally and from the ridge above SMH and a lovely one fron Gary and Suzanne welcoming us all home. If anyone has any information, maps, news or photos they would like to post to this web site please send the to me and I’ll include them, Thank you everyone, Pat Moloney.