Board of Directors Meeting April 17, 2007
Rancho Tehama Association Board of Directors Meeting April 17, 2007
Approved 05/08/07
President Jerry Kohler called the meeting to order at 9:00 am and lead the flag salute.
Directors in attendance were Jerry Kohler, Bill Massey, Karis Pierce, Danny Murray and Jim Long.

Agenda Additions/Changes: None

Guests: Youth Activities Foundation - Alta Cowden requested the Cook Shack for June 1, 2007 until August 12, 2007. She said that pals baseball this year will begin on June 4, 2007. With the littler kids practicing and playing on Mondays and Tuesdays and the bigger kids practicing and playing on Thursdays and Fridays. She wanted to know if the Association was still going to put bars on the windows of the Cook Shack to prevent break-ins. Opening Ceremonies will be June 23, 2007 and Alta invited all the Board Members to come. She said that there should be a lot of visitors from out of the area. Possibly 3 pitchers retired from the Giants and Oakland A's, a representative from the Giants organization and the new Tehama County Pals Commissioner Joy Nelson. Danny Murray wanted to know if they want the flag pole moved to center field. He said that volunteers will move it if the Board approves the move. Right now the flag can not be seen in the ball field. It is in the playground area. The board approved the move of the flagpole. Danny also said he would check into the bars for the cook shack. Jerry said he was contacted by Ken Cowden about the possibility of getting grants for the ball field. Jerry Kohler appointed Bill Massey and Danny Murray as board liaisons to work with the Youth Activities Foundation regarding the grants.

Open Forum: - A member asked if anyone was doing the 4th of July this year. No one has volunteered. Jerry Kohler said we would check into it and bring it up at the next meeting.
- A member requested the maintenance crew clean up the chairs after the meeting, because they have Bunco on Tuesday nights.

Unfinished Business: Audit and Financial Reports were postponed until the end of the meeting.

Board of Director Nominations - There were none. Road Signs - Danny Murray has gotten the price of green 40 reflective green with white lettering street signs for Rancho Tehama Road and Stagecoach Road. The least expensive estimate was $3133.00. Danny asked the Board to approve the money for the signs. Jerry said there is no money in the budget at this time for the signs. Bill made a motion to approve purchase of the signs when money in the budget for them can be found. Jim seconded the motion and it was passed with a vote of the Board.

Flag Pole was covered under guest.

New Business: Voting Rights - Jerry Kohler thanked Sheri Schultz for bringing to his attention the correct way of suspending a member's right to vote. He said that the Board will be sending out letters to all members who are in jeopardy of loosing their voting rights. Jerry read the letter that will be sent out. The letter will be signed by the full Board. This letter is to notify people that they can make payment plans and arrangements to pay their dues and that their voting rights are in jeopardy. Right now everyone can vote until they receive their notice of a right to a hearing. A member suggested that a contact person's name be put on the letter. Janice Menzies' name will be put on the letters as a contact person.

Recording Open Board Meetings for the Minutes - Karis said that our Attorney has said that recording meetings for minutes purposes is available to us. The copy would be kept until the written minutes are approved and then it would be destroyed. Jim Long did not think it was legal to tape the Board Meetings. This item is tabled until the next open board meeting for further investigation.

Financial Reports - Bill Massey said we are still in the process of changing over to the new software. Unfortunately it is taking longer than we anticipated. Bill went over the January 1, 2007 to March 31, 2007 Income Statement. We are slightly up in receipts from projected amounts, but we are way over in expenses from the projected amounts. There are some figures like the prepaid insurance and the audit that will average out as the year goes on, but we are over in expenses and payroll, so we will need to try to cut back in that area. The office has already removed one position. Jerry Kohler said we need to be careful in our spending for the rest of the year. He has asked Malinda to open a General Fund checking account. We need to consider options for the Transfer Station because that is a large expense. Mel McNeill from the Budget and Finance Committee said it was approximately $96,000 per year. Danny Murray said we need to consider ways to reduce costs such as recycling more. Jerry said we need to look into making sure we spend the money in the year earned along with building up our reserve fund instead of going into monies received in previous year's receipts.

Audit - Jerry Kohler said we now have our 2006 audit complete and available to members. We are not going to send it out this year since we can not find anywhere in the code that says it is required to be mailed to all members. We are making it available to all members free of charge if it is requested. Members can either call or come in to request a copy of the audit. The audit is not in the best form to be usable to us. Next year we will make sure whoever does the audit has it in a format that is best for us not for the auditor.

Announcement - Dee Oliver is having a Town Hall Meeting on April 28, 2007 at 10:00 am. A representative from the Sheriff's Department will be here to talk about gang recognition and she is also asking for sign ups of volunteers to assist the Architectural Committee.

Adjourned to Executive Session: 1012 am.

Respectfully submitted by:Karis Pierce, Corporate Secretary

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