The Board met at Mike Parks' house. In attendance [from memory - my notes didn't list attendees] were Mike, David, Ed, Kevin, and Anna. The first topic of discussion was the trash collection situation. It has obviously become completely unacceptable, and over the prior days we'd reviewed additional proposals. One proposal was over $12,000 higher than our current budget allows (but apparently not too far from more typical average rates). After some discussion, the board chose Con-Serve Industries (CSI), pending a favorable review of the actual contract.

We then discussed finances. AG&E, the landscaping company, sent three outstanding 2004 invoices to SFMC, which paid them immediately from residual money still in SFMC's control. We expressed concern that SFMC even had any money of ours still, and instructed Anna to get full control over those funds as soon as possible. She stated that SFMC still had $1117.35 in the transition account. AG&E had also sent us two invoices, totalling $600, for snow clearing work. These invoices were forwarded to Edgemoore for payment by them, and we requested that AG&E no longer bill us for Edgemoore's work. Finally, Ed suspects that Edgemoore never funded the 2003 budget deficit, and that they may still owe us in the neighborhood of $10,000, but that still needs to be verified.

The next topic was our budget, and the required dues increase. The budget as handed out at the Annual Meeting was formally adopted as our 2005 budget (since we weren't sure if we'd done that or not), and a new quarterly assessment was set at $135, for the 2nd half of 2005. We plan to review this year's spending in September and October, publishing the 2006 budget in November (along with any further rate increases).

Finally, the Board set a date of May 11 for the follow-on to the Annual Meeting, and also discussed burnt-out streetlights and illicit common ground clearing and planting activities.