Tuesday June 20, 2006

Board Members present: Albert McCormick, Bob Older, Pam Ley, Jeannette Goodwin, Thane Tagg, Sheri Thompson, Larry Giannone
Homeowners present:  none
Meeting location:  Albert McCormick’s home

• a message from your Webmaster ~ The June 20th, 2006 Meeting Minutes are the last minutes to be prepared by Pam Ley, our departing Skippack Ridge Board of Director's Secretary.  Pam fulfilled this position for the past two years and has done a great job of bringing us the news!  As many of you know, Pam & Brian (along w/ their 3 children) are relocating to the Johnstown PA area and will be sadly missed by all of us.   Best of luck to the Ley family...  We'll always remember the great times w/ you guys!

• The last meeting’s minutes were reviewed and approved.

• Treasurer’s update: Jeannette Goodwin noted there are still some outstanding community dues; she will contact those neighbors by phone to inform of overdue payment.

• Pam Ley gave an update on front-entrance landscape lighting: broken lights and faulty wiring have all been removed; a new spotlight and landscape lights were installed; work was completed by Ford Electric of Audubon for total cost of $1,926.00. Both the front-entrance streetlight and the SR sign/landscaping spotlights operate on dusk-to-dawn sensors.

• Skippack Ridge Community Association meeting minutes will only be posted on www.SkippackRidge.com and no longer distributed by mail.

• Pam Ley presented an estimate from McMan Nursery of Skippack for the removal and replacement of nine common-area trees. Six trees are either dead or diseased, and three unsightly locust trees along Mountain Laurel Circle will be replaced with maple trees.

• Bob Older is continuing to research password-access programs for our SR website for “residents only” viewing, to ensure privacy.

• Fran Tendall asked about our landscapers spraying the common areas with lime twice a year: are two applications really necessary?  (Larry will check on this)

• New Board positions were discussed. Sheri will become the Secretary; Larry, the Treasurer; and Jeannette, the President.

• Albert contacted our landscaper to discuss spraying all common areas to kill any ticks, and was told it is not cost-effective; Sheri will get an estimate from another landscaper.

• Appreciation and gratitude noted to Fran Tendall and all the neighbor-volunteers from her SR Garden Committee for planting flowers and weeding the front entrance.  Thank you to Gerard Vandermeys, for power-washing the gazebo and fences, and to Melissa Older for staining the gazebo floor.  It looks beautiful!

• Diane Hartman wanted to remind neighbors of how their privacy can be exposed when our trash is blown from trash bins on windy days:

• Please be careful to properly dispose any documents with personal information; she and her family have picked up pieces of trash in the common-area near their home and have seen personal mail, financial statements, etc.
• Also, Diane has noted seeing dog waste throughout the neighborhood. Please be courteous to clean up after the dogs when on walks (and please remind any dog-walkers too).  This is also a Skippack Township ordinance and requirement.
• Jeannette Goodwin and Albert McCormack will call Allied Waste and Ches-Mont Disposal to ask them to please stop and pick up any trash that is being seen blowing from their trucks throughout our streets on pick-up days

• Skippack Township posted a “Watch Children” sign for us at Pam’s request.  There are still issues with neighbors speeding. Please remember the speed limit here is 25 MPH, and remind visitors to slow down as well.

• The next meeting will be at Thane Tagg’s home, 4432 Mountain Laurel Circle, on August 29, at 7 PM. All SR residents are always welcome to attend.

*** Get a free recycling bin! Did you know that all Skippack Ridge residents are entitled to one free recycling bin, courtesy of Skippack Township? Extra bins can also be purchased for $10.  Stop by the Skippack Township Municipal Building, 4432 Heckler Road, in Skippack, to pick one up. Tell them you read about it in the SR newsletter-meeting minutes.