minutes, All-Community Meeting, December 14, 2022
Topics: budget
All-Community Meeting, Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 7:00-8:45 p.m.
Present: Eliza (fac), Larraine, Kerry, Lynda, Caroline (guest), Marina, Joe, Kay (notes), Linda, Joe, Cheryl, Vinnie, Victor, Vicky, Jorge, Lauren, Alex, Myste, Coleen, Beth
If you'd like to add something to the storage bin, submit it online or contact. Fire pit proposal, using Slack, nonresident parking, civility proposal
Election
Management is recommending an 8% fee increase.
Along with the budget, the other agenda item for the Annual Meeting is electing three members for Management. Process: explain Management duties, nominations, attributes, acceptance or decline of nomination, election. We ask that people nominated not say whether they will accept or decline until after the attributes round, in which people say why they feel the person nominated are a good candidate.
Budget
This is the last ACM discussing the budget. It will be discussed and hopefully passed at the Annual Meeting, the first meeting in January.
Since the last draft, the play structure and trees have been removed from the reserve.
$3K for tree work. Probably should reassess which trees need work given changes since the plan was pulled together two years ago. If it is decided more money is needed, it could be pulled from the float.
Q. Is the north field a club or committee? Some say it is, some say it isn't. It should be discussed. (Have they received a budget in the past, in addition to their fund raisers? Kay remembers they have, others say they have.) Q. How much would it cost to care for that area if we had to mow or weedwhack it? Should have a process by which a club morphs into a committee, not just them asking for a budget.
If we question whether the north field should be funded, we also need to question all other projects, like Underutilized Spaces wanting to repair the dog run. Previously, the north garden group did all the same things mentioned (taking care of the space, giving vegetables to the community) but didn't expect funding. The $365 requested is about $2/mo/unit; people say it's just a little money. Feel like a grinch questioning whether the community should pay for it. Why don't we pay for other passion projects, like a throwing wheel for a crafts group? Safety & Security submitted a request but isn't given funds in this budget. (Management feels what Safety & Security is proposing is worthwhile but needs more fleshing out and discussion.)