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

Vice President’s Report: John will not be here for this meeting. Brad Burke was appointed to the Board as Director of Operations. Sharyl Nelson was appointed Secretary for another year since no one ran for the position. The transfer of the Anderson property to the Ponderosa has taken place and has been put on the market with John’s Realty. It was listed for $4950. It will be listed for sale for 6 months and if it doesn’t sell it will be turned into Greenbelt at that time. The County Treasurer’s office said that there are two properties that will go up for tax auction this year. Jim would like to check with Patty, our bookkeeper, to see if she would be able to spend more time in the office. Report was accepted.

Director of Operations Report: Brad reported that we received 3 bids to do the Appaloosa road project out of the 6 that were sent out. We need to award the contract today. He recommended Stubbs Excavating, as they were the middle bid, plus they will do private property adjoining the road project if contacted by the property owner. The Board accepted Stubbs Excavating to do the Appaloosa project. Brad highly recommends that we try to do the whole road project. Only $14,000 was budgeted and it will cost approximately $34,041 to finish the job. We need $24,159.40 additional. We are losing credibility with the Utility companies. We need to go forward. Need to find a way to come up with the money. We need to contact the Finance Committee to find out how we can do this. The Saddle and Colt road projects are starting today. $6,302.18 has been spent so far and that is under budget. The timbers have been ordered for the Playground and they will be placed above ground. Brad checked with the insurance company and they said sand under the equipment would be fine. New playground equipment was discussed and it was decided that we purchase two animals on a spring. They would be great for toddlers. They cost $723 each. People are parking vehicles in the park so we need a gate on the east side of the playground. Brad brought up the fact that people have been asking Paul to have their water be turned off when they are not here in the winter and/or weekends thru the Ponderosa valves. It should only be turned off and on for an emergency or construction. If people want to have their water turned off they should have a water shutoff installed on their property. If we keep turning the water off and on at the property line the valve breaks. The property owners could hire Paul to install the water shutoff for them. We may need to make a change to the Policies and Procedures. In Aug. there will be a meeting of the Deck Committee after the Board Meeting. It is planned to replace the railing sometime in Sept. after the pool closes. Brad is going to put an article in the Needler regarding volunteerism. We need help with projects around Ponderosa.

Treasurer’s Report: Bill read the Financial Report and copies were available if you wanted one. Bill discussed our ongoing problem with Curt Ellison and after talking with our lawyer he recommends that we remove the past assessments and dues owed on the property he bought at county auction. It would be too costly to peruse and who knows what the outcome would be. The rest of the Board agreed and decided to charge him for current dues and assessments owed only nothing owed prior to his purchase at the auction. Report accepted.

Secretary’s Report: Sharyl read a letter from Tim Olson, Sam Hawkins and Ginger Powers. They would like to clean up the Greenbelt behind their own homes, as it doesn’t look like our Forestry project would get to them for a long time. Sam has experience logging and he would cut down the trees. They asked for the Boards permission to do so. For doing this they would like to keep the wood for firewood. The Board gave their permission to go ahead only after we checked with our insurance company. Bill agreed to do that. We also received a letter from several members asking that we send the Fire Chief, Bruce Merighi, an apology for skipping over him at the Annual Meeting. We will do that. Report accepted.

Committee’s: The Management Committee reports that they are getting estimates of the cost of hiring a manager. The vote for Manager will go along with the budget vote this year.

Needler articles should be into Tim around the 25 to 27 of June and then it should come out the week after that.

The Greenbelt Committee reports that the Weed Control Board came out and said that the bugs let loose last year are doing a great job on the knapweed.

Old Business: Paul and Diane discussed making bat houses, using the bigger ones would be better. It was discussed that we could move the Ponderosa sign from Primitive Park down by the Clubhouse and put the smaller signs on it and take them off the trees. Someone called regarding sewage dumping on Appaloosa. They were advised to call the Health Dept. The Health Dept. had been there and is aware of the problem.

Meeting adjourned at 10:20.

Respectfully submitted:

Sharyl Nelson, Secretary