FAIRWOOD WEST HOME

Minutes of Meeting
February 11, 2016
Board Meeting

The regular monthly business meeting of the Fairwood West Homeowners’ Association Board of Trustees was called to order at 7:00 pm on Thursday February 11th, 2016.  Trustees in attendance were Chris Hurless, Paul Buelow, Dave Sherman, Raymond Byrd, Eileen Richards, and Brandy Bradford.    Also in attendance was Barb Simeona - Association Bookkeeper.

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~ MONTHLY REMINDERS~

Any changes to the outside of your home must have
an approved architectural control form on file
prior to work being done on the home.
You can locate the form on the Fairwood West website as noted below.

Visit the Fairwood West website located at www.fairwoodcommunitynews.com. Under the navigation bar,
hover over “Active HOAs” and select Fairwood West. 
Here you can find meeting minutes, architectural control
request forms, CC&R’s and contact information.

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Renton Fire Department – No one present to report.

Molasses Creek/Park Pipeline – Chris reported that he has a meeting next Tuesday at 6 pm at the Fairwood Library with King County to begin contract documents.  Once finalized the documents will be sent to the Association attorney for review.

Homeowner Appeals – No one present.

Community Events – Eileen reported that there will be no Easter Egg Hunt this due to previous low turnout.

The annual garage sale is June 24th – 26th.

Eileen will be contacting Republic to see if they can provide dumpsters for “Dumpster Days”.  After discussion everyone feels that April would be a good month and Eileen feels the dumpsters should be placed at Lindbergh High School. 

She is going to ask for 6 dumpsters that can take any type of waste.  She will see if Republic can attend the March meeting.

Pride In Ownership – Nothing new to report until May.

Minutes of the Previous Meeting – A motion was made, seconded and approved to accept the January meeting minutes as amended.

Under “new business” the word “discussing” should be replaced with “discussion”.

Financial Report – The monthly financial report was accepted as presented. 

Treasurer’s Report – Ray reported he will be doing the annual tax return by the May 2016 deadline.

Architectural Control Report – Chris reported that he emailed the builder of the new home going up stating that they need to send in their architectural approval request.

Common Properties Report – Chris reported that he is attempting to get the current landscape contractors to remove some bushes that are obstructing lights and trim up some ground cover before switching over to the new contractor.

Dave asked about the wood piled up against the fence in the front entryway area.  It looks as if someone just left it.  He also noted that he cleaned up some broken bottles in the entryway.

Chris noted he took down all the signs that were in the entryway.

A certified arborist from A&M Tree Service went thru the park to review all the trees. 

The maple tree closest to the playground equipment has some rot and it was suggested that it be taken down.  The bid for that is approximately $1K.

There are some other maple trees that need some trimming as well and they would take care of the above plus this for approximately $2k.  Additional charges for stump grinding.

If we wanted the fir trees done as well the bid jumps to almost $4K.

Dave noted that this company worked for him before, they did a great job and cleaned up after themselves.

Chris is in favor of taking out the diseased maple tree.
Paul feels we should get rid of all damaged trees.
Dave feels we really need to clean-up the trees.
Ray noted that while it’s not in the budget there is reserve to cover it.

Brandy will get a 2nd quote for the Board to review.

Covenant Enforcement – All homes in violation were reviewed. 

Unfinished Business – See the outstanding action items below.

New Business –

The meeting adjourned at 8:03 pm.

The next two meetings of the Fairwood West Homeowners’ Association will be the held on Thursday March 10th and Thursday April 14th both at 7 pm.  These meetings are in the portable building at the Nativity Lutheran Church, 17707 140th SE. 

All residents are welcome to attend. 

Respectfully Submitted,
Barb Simeona

Outstanding Action Items –
Brandy – Handbook of processes for new Board Members
Entire Board – Go around and check on rental homes