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Meeting Called to Order: President John Fulmer called the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m. Board Members present were Jim Harrison, Bill Allison, Brad Burke and Sharyl Nelson. The minutes were read and accepted.

President’s Report: Forestry Program is at a standstill. We expected them to be working last month but that did not happen. John will get in touch with Arne and see if we can get things going. We have reapplied for grants so we can continue with the project. Report accepted.

Vice President’s Report: Jim, John and Paul went and checked out the Anderson lot. Mr. Anderson wanted to know if he could give it to the Club. A motion was made and passed that we would accept his gift. Also looked at Browne lot and he thinks that we can sell it. Jim wanted a motion to put the Browne lot up for sale. Sharyl made a motion to put the Browne lot up for sale thru John’s Realty and it was seconded and passed. Talked to Kathy McGill, the Mosquito Committee chairwoman, she is ready to go again. Jim read letter from Kathy regarding the mosquito control. She suggested we do a trial spray in coordination with Chiwawa Pines. Then we could make a decision on how we should continue. We would have to get a vote of the membership to spray or not to spray and also permission to use funds for this purpose. A suggestion was brought up about land spraying as it seems like it would be better for us vs. the helicopter spraying. Board would like to have her present at the Annual Meeting and she could present her case then. Diane will bring a bat house and the pattern to build one to the Annual Meeting. Bats do consume a lot of mosquitoes. Fish and Wildlife Commission was contacted to see if there is any possibility of opening the river to fishing. They are working on it. It could open for catch and release. Jim’s reported was accepted.

Director of Operations Report: Brad said the regarding the Saddle and Colt projects; the completion date we are aiming for is 5/31/04. Looks like we will be under budget for those projects. The Appaloosa Rd project: Brad presented a letter he is going to send out, with Board approval, to about 6 contractors to bid on this project. The Board approved the letter to send to 6 potential bidders. Park safety project: Brad presented a plan for improving the playground to bring it up to the safety requirements of our insurance company. Materials cost is approximately $2,180. Labor would cost extra. Brad will look into increasing the size of the boarder material and what the insurance company will accept. The Board accepted his plan. Del Keifer has a tree on the boarder of his property and the Ponderosa property along with a couple of stumps. He would like to remove this tree and take down the stumps, at no cost to the Ponderosa. The Board approved his request. Mr. Crosby who owns property on Riata needs an easement. It was approved in approx. 1989 but it was never completed. He has drain field in the Greenbelt. He is trying to sell his property and he needs something legal done. The Board will sign off on that when he presents the legal document to us. Paul billed us for work on Saddle and we will need to bill Terry Drexler, the property owner, for reimbursement. The water tests were good. The water leak on Primitive Park Rd will be repaired in April and the pump should be returned and installed this month. The insurance company will cover the costs except for the $1500 deductible. Any other bills should be submitted relating to the cost of the repair. Now that we know there should be periodic maintenance done on the pump, we shall do that to avoid this problem again. Report was accepted.

Treasurer’s Report: To anyone who received an incorrect billing, I apologize. Bill read the monthly statement. Dick asked to have some figures verified for the Budget Committee. Treasurer’s report was accepted.

Secretary’s Report: Pool Cards – a lot of people have sold their property in this last year and if they passed those cards onto the new owners they will not work until we hear from the new owners. We need to get their names with those cards. This information will also be put in the next Needler. Report accepted.

Communications Committee: The Ballot and announcement of the Annual Meeting will go out next week. All articles for the Needler should be to Tim by the 20th and will be mailed out the first part of May.

Water Improvement Committee: They have Bill Schmidt working on a design for the project. They are working on getting a Project Manager. They have a couple of people they are looking at.

Social Committee: Pam asked if the Quilt til you Wilt day could be changed from the 24th of April to the 17th. Since there wasn’t a conflict for using that day, the Board approved the change. May 8th there is going to be a Board Appreciation dinner. After the Annual Meeting this year we want to have a social. Pam asked for donations of cookies and goodies so people can have coffee and goodies and socialize with other members. Starting in June the Clubhouse will be open a couple of days a week from 11:00 to 4:00. At the Annual Meeting Pam will have a sign-up sheet for people to sign who would volunteer to be at the Clubhouse during these times for adult supervision. Right now the Social Committee has $316.36 in funds.

New Business: Paul asked the Board if we had considered having a pool monitor for the big Memorial Weekend. Last year there were to many people in the pool. A suggestion was made to contact a Security Co. It cost approximately $300 a day. 99 people is the limit of number of people that can be in the pool area at one time. Maybe we could hire a lifeguard for this weekend. Jim volunteered to check into getting a lifeguard for Memorial weekend.

The Fire Dept. Aux. has their raffle quilt ready. They are selling tickets now. The quilt will be here for the burn pile weekend and for the Annual Meeting. If you want to sell tickets, Diane Johansen has them. She will have pictures of the quilt you can have to show what it looks like.

A question was asked: Do we have a Water Committee? We have the Water Improvement Committee and Paul is our Water Distribution Manager who oversees the quality of the water etc. The Health Dept. is satisfied with our water system. Paul is not a Cross Connection specialist. He doesn’t feel we need that at this point.

Ballot Committee: Sue Eriksen has volunteered to be Chairperson. She will get other committee members to help her.

Respectfully submitted,

Sharyl Nelson
Secretary