Seascape Association Board Zoom Meeting

                                                                                                 5-19-20

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Attendance

• Tim Gallagher                                      

• Greg Strakosch

• Peter Howard

• John Mannix

• Ellen Clark

• Russ Hazelton

• John Biegel

• John Honey

• Michelle Sax

• Jeanine Kelly

• Charlie Loguidice

• Marianne Beardsley

• Warren Fish

• Art Schick

• Brian Murphy

 

                                                                                    Meeting Notes

President Tim Gallagher recognized a quorum and called the meeting to order at 7:10 pm.

 

Nominations

• Russ presented the slate of board nominations for 2020:

  • President: Tim Gallagher

  • 1st Vice President: Art Schick

  • 2nd Vice President: Peter Howard

  • Treasurer: Marianne Beardsley

  • Secretary: Ellen Clark

  • New Directors: Warren Fish, Brian Murphy

• There was a lot of interest this year from several people who want to participate on the board.

• The president’s position is more difficult to fill.  

• Art agreed to do the 1st VP position with Tim mentoring him.

• John Mannix is stepping down as treasurer since 2002. 

• Tim and the board expressed sincere appreciation for John’s many years of good work as the treasurer.  

• Introductions were made by Art, Marianne, Brian and Warren.

• All were welcomed and thanked for their interest to serve on the board.

• A motion to approve the board nominations was unanimously accepted. 

 

Annual June Meeting

• In consideration of the pandemic, the board discussed the pros and cons of various ways to hold the annual meeting in June under the guidelines of social distancing.  

• Some of the suggestions considered were a zoom meeting, a combination zoom meeting and an outside physical meeting, postponement of the meeting, and no meeting altogether.

• The board decided to NOT have a physical and/or virtual meeting this year. 

• In order to take care of business, the board decided to send out the President’s letter by email with a ballot to vote on the current business. 

• The residents who do not use email will receive their letter and ballot by US Postal mail.

• The ballot will include the following:

  • Nominations 

  • Budget

  • Increase the 2021 dues to $400

• Members will return their votes to the board.

 

Dues Collection

• For the 2020 dues collection, the board will send the invoices to the membership by US postal mail because we get a much better response than by email.

 

Budget

• John Mannix reviewed the budget.  As usual the areas where the most money is spent are the roads and the beaches.

• This year the beach expenses were higher than expected due to the sand on B beach and the permitting process.

• The roads were less than expected because the drain expense was not recorded on the balance sheet until 2020 and the paving has not happened yet.

• A motion to approve the budget was accepted.  The board will recommend the budget to the membership.

 

Beaches

• Greg reviewed the plan to continue with the monitoring.  

• We will have one four-hour shift from 11:00am -3:00pm.  

• The monitor will walk the beach at 11:00 to make sure everyone is a resident.  The monitors will call Tim or Greg if there are any issues. 

• Beach goers are expected to social distance, gather in groups of no more than 10 people, and stay six feet apart. 

 

Tennis

• After some discussion regarding social distancing, the board voted, 8 yes, 2 no, and 1 abstention to put up the nets and the sign-up sheet to open the courts for Memorial Day.

 

Roads

• Mike Shea is taking over for Jack Royle on the road committee.

• The speed bumps have been painted by Art, Hal and Tim.

• The roadwork plan has been to pave the road from the new drain up to Russ’ house.

• Russ suggested that the road committee consider paving the road from Tim’s house to A beach because it is in poor shape before we do the section from the drain to Russ’ house.  

• Also, we should revisit the paving plan with Lawrence Lynch and get a revised estimate.

 

Security

• Tom Griffin has been contacted to provide the night security again this summer.

 

Summer Social

• In August we hope to schedule and organize a “neighborhood crawl” cocktail party with social distancing.  Date and details to follow.

 

New Business

• Tim made a suggestion to consider changing the officers’ terms in the bylaws to two years because it takes time to learn the job.

 

Motion to adjourn at 8:15 pm.