Have Something You'd Like to Give Away?

A few have been talking about this thrift shop idea a bit. It may happen eventually as things smooth out and get organized. But for now, one of our pleasant commenter's, Vicki has thought about having a place to offer things to give away. Why waste something that works and could be useful to some else? Plus, it should help with our dumpster costs. So this topic will be just for that. Anyone that would like to offer something can post an "ad" under this topic.
Here are the basic guide lines:

• Leave a good description of what you'd like to offer and a way to contact you.
  

• Once the item has been picked up, post a new comment stating so and I'll delete both.
  

• No commercial ads.
  

I will say this up front now, even though I've been accused of censoring comments, I have not deleted anyone's comment so far, they have all been allowed through. However, I will delete any comment that is unrelated to this topic, posted under this topic. So please leave those unrelated comments elsewhere.

Hopefully we can help each other out.

Tuesday Nights board meeting....

We had our board meeting tonight and it was reveled that Mr. Kaufman hasn't got his affairs in order. So, he has now asked to delay the expected purchase date by a week or so.

Also a petition has gone around with some 40 or so signatures to have another meeting within 30 days in hopes to get the amended park rules approved sooner.
Also, to give a heads up, there will be a request to allocate probably some $30,000 to purchase new equipment and replace some commonly used items by the maintenance personnel. since the maintenance dept is being stripped of nearly everything by the current owner. So that's on the agenda too, to be approved by the members.

So we're looking into scheduling that, most likely for an up coming Tuesday evening. Of course more folks will have to attend than were there at the end of the last meeting. 51% or more need to be there or we'll still be in the same boat. So talk it up with your neighbors, and we'll be able to get this done.

Results of the Membership Meeting

Saturday's Meeting started out with 25 new households joining. For a total of 326 households.

Ben Belanger, Vice-President resigned for personal reasons. Joe Cayer was voted in unanimously to replace him. David DeGagne now is moved into 1st alternate on the board. Peter Poole was elected as 2nd alternate to the board with 29 votes. The other totals were: Kathy Campbell 7, Roger Russo 19, Susan Hill 19.

The new proforma budget was explained and approved by 180 for and 1 against. It contained the new town sewer rates which had almost doubled. Therefore the new lot rent is expected to be at $415.00 and that assumes that interest rates won't change meaningfully from what they are by signing date, April 2nd.

The By-Laws were approved and passed as is.

Chris Clasby stated we will become the 86th co-op formed in New Hampshire.

A Conflict of Interest Form was approved. So anyone that does work for the park that lives here or is a friend or relative of someone in the park will have to disclose those relationships and that form will have to be on file with the co-op.

Then the really hot area of discussion was the Park Rules. After an hour of wrangling, so many had decided to leave, there were no longer enough members present to pass the amended rules. We we're 11 votes short. to have 51% approval. As a result the OLD PARK RULES (Lindenshire's) are still in effect.

So anyone that imagines that the amended rules are what will govern us, they are mistaken. New rules cannot be created until the next member meeting, likely in September, when we have our annual meeting.

The members that stayed to the very end we would like to commend them for doing so. The 40% or so that didn't bother coming to this convenient Saturday meeting, with plenty of notice, and the ones that got impatient and trickled out as the meeting went on are responsible for the failure of not passing the proposed new rules.

So to reiterate the results: Mark Kaufman's rules stand until a new member meeting is held. Hopefully most will learn the lesson of what happens when one doesn't care to participate.

Some Recent Research....

Our Co-op President has been looking into a few things and has these points to make:


I need to make an entry strictly dealing with the FACTS. I have spent many hours researching the following:

Dogs- I spoke to Barbara from the Emanual Insurance Agency. She is finding us the best deal on insurance for the COOP. She said “once it is in the park rules that dogs are welcome on the land the coop assumes some of the liability. If a guest in the park is bitten that person has the right to sue the home owner that owns the dog and the COOP that allowed the dog to be on the land. THIS IS FACT. If a dog bites anyone for ANY reason, before our insurance policy is renewed we must prove that the dog has been destroyed or we as a group will loose our policy. FACT there is only four insurance carries that are willing to insure the COOP.

Then I spoke to Bob Sheppard he is one of two attorneys that represent the coop (US) and I told him what was going on and I asked him “If we (the coop) need to take any legal action involving dogs and owners about how much would he charge.” He said “upwards of 1500.” THIS IS FACT. We are budgeted in the performa of 8000.00 legal. This is for regular stuff. We may need to increase the lot rent next year to cover more money for legal. I also asked Bob Sheppard if we could make it a rule that dog owners have home owners insurance. He said NO, in the state of New Hampshire it is not mandatory to have home owners insurance like it isn’t mandatory to have car insurance the live free or die state he said that people are foolish if they don’t. Only banks that own titles on the homes or cars can make in mandatory.

We as a group need to decide what we are willing to risk. What Pandora’s Box we will open. We can’t just open it and think it is easy to close it, because it won’t be.We need to deal in fact. 90% of people will be wonderful dog owners this is FACT . I worry (not fact) about the other 10%. We all can think of someone that pushes the rules to their limits. I would love to have a little dog, my kids are begging me to go to the SPCA. I still have a lot of thinking to do on how I will vote on Saturday.

I definitely have personal views on many issues involving the park. I am trying hard to deal with facts and not what is best for my family as an individual but looking at what is best for the group (the Coop) . I URGE everyone to step back and really think about the what ifs of life here and remember we are setting the tone for many years to come. Even when we are long gone this will be a coop. Lets all come together on Saturday with positive attitudes even if we don’t agree on all the issues. The majority will rule it is what a democracy is all about.
Anita Jordan

Everyone Should Pick Up a Packet

As of today, all co-op members should be picking up a packet which contains the draft of the park rules and by laws. Non-members my join and receive a packet.

Anita Jordan at 2 Pecan St has been dispensing them.