March 2007 Board Meeting Minutes

Present: President Diane Lehder called the meeting to order and took roll call. Present were Vice President Art Morgenstern, Secretary Sandy Williams, and Board Members Laurie Burpee, Katie Kotz, and Ron Ritchie. Also present was: Barbara Winslow, TALK Editor. Absent was Treasurer Ben Farabee.

Approval of Minutes: The minutes of the February 2007 Board Meeting were approved with minor corrections

Treasurer’s Report: Secretary Sandy Williams announced in Ben Farabee’s absence that the balances as of March 2, 2007 were: checking account: $15,710.94; savings account: $79,531.06, for a total of $95,242.00. We have $101,872.13 in our CD account.

Art Morgenstern has some checks if needed in Ben’s absence.

Membership Report: We have approximately 1300 members for 2007 at this point. We still have 2006 members that have not joined. Kathy Heikes will send out a reminder letter to those who have not joined. At this point while Kathy is away, any data base changes should be sent to Diane Lehder. Kathy and the new Membership Chair Katie Kotz will work together to take care of the data base backlog when Kathy returns. Cindy Redmond, Wendy Kulick, and Pat Gresch have been maintaining the data base in Kathy’s absence.

Directory: We want to get the Directory out before the postal change in May. Barbara Winslow has the Directory cover for our approval. The Board approved the cover with minor changes. Diane Lehder asked the board members to assist in proofing the Directory if needed. Art Morgenstern will work on enlisting the help of our volunteers.

OLD BUSINESS

Safety & Security: Art Morgenstern reported that traffic coming into the Island is going down, but traffic increased going through the second gate. February numbers have gone down slightly perhaps due to the fact that February is a shorter month

Traffic Counts:

Change	2006:	2007:
Main Gate - 31.0%	133,137	123,591 -7.2%
V Gate +26.2%	71,123	71,842 +1.0%

KICA: Diane thanked us for our input on the Covenant Change issue. Diane posted information on the KPOG website. Diane added that Covenant change is not supported by all former Property Owner Directors. The proposed change needs to pass by 75% of those voting.

It was announced that all KICA Board members will serve on the Strategic Planning Committee. Sub committees: Amenities, will be headed by Kelly Bragg; Environment, (totality of everything outside of amenities), will be headed by Brooks Boveroux.

Board meetings will be held every other month. Questions asked at the end of the meeting are to be answered within the next two weeks. Once a month, every month, KICA will hold “Mornings with Joe”. (Open discussions with Joe Bunting.)

Mosquito Misting Systems: The Board position is that the ones already in place will be grandfathered in with restrictions. New systems can be installed as long as they follow the new regulations. Details can be found on the KICA website.

Annual Meeting: We had a terrific turnout. Members enjoyed hearing from South Carolina Assembly Representative Leon Stavrinakis and County Council member Paul Thurmond as well as Roger Warren from the Resort. KICA Board member Hal Fallon asked to make some remarks about the proposed Covenant change and answer questions at end of the meeting. KPOG board member Ron Ritchie suggested that next year we invite Glenn McConnell to speak. It was also suggested that next year we not invite the Mayor and KICA to speak (since they declined to speak this year), but encourage them to be there and to answer questions at the end of the meeting.

Town Council Meeting: Arthur Booth and Charlie Davis gave a presentation on setting up a Medical Clinic for Johns and Wadmalaw Islands. The clinic would be for those who do not have insurance. They have been given land by Roper. The issue of the Town donating to charity —or other events may come to a head. Freshfields. President Diane Lehder along with the Consultant, Sid Williams from the Arts Council, Councilmen McIver and Lipuma, Bill Hindman, a representative from Seabrook, and the Seabrook Mayor, was a participant in first discussion on the result of the feasibility study for the proposed amphitheater. The Consultant has identified two locations for the amphitheater (front side of lagoon…back side of lagoon). It was decided that location in front of lagoon would be best. This is to be a Community Arts Theater complex. The tentative plans are for a 2000 seat amphitheater with open fixed seats. The complex will also have a year round building which would have on the third floor flexible space for Arts Council programs. Buddy Darby would donate the land. KPOG needs to do its research into all aspects of performing arts centers so we can give information to our members. By investigating how other performing arts centers handle performances, security, acoustics, traffic patterns, etc., we will be able to get information out there so people will be informed to ask pertinent questions about the proposed amphitheater at Freshfields.

Johns Islands Roads: There are meetings all week at Berkeley Electric. The Town has no formal representation at these meetings. Being there as “cheerleaders” for Johns Islands concerns builds relationships.

NEW BUSINESS

Diane would like to have Board members send her an e-mail if they will be away, so they can be reached in emergencies. We also gave her our cell phone numbers.
Bylaws: Our current by-laws are open to interpretation in terms of officers. We need a committee to revisit them. Diane Lehder asked all of the Board members to review our bylaws on the website, identify areas that we need to work on, and make comments. We are to send comments to Diane. Areas of particular concern are: proxies and the nominating slate. Should members be notified of the nominating slate by e-mail? If so, the proxy card will need to be changed. Once the proposed by-law changes are in place, we will have to have a special meeting to vote on the changes. It was suggested that we get Gullah specialist Marquetta Goodwine as a speaker for this meeting in the Fall — that way we can get a good crowd and vote on bylaw changes.

Diane asked that we read about the history of KPOG on the website. This might be a possibility for TALK articles.

Issues Assignments for next year

Safety and Security – Art Morgenstern

Amphitheater – Diane Lehder

KICA Board Meetings (every other Monday), Mornings with Joe: Ron Ritchie, Sandy Williams

Johns Island Roads – Laurie Burpee

Town - Sandy Williams will see that important KPOG events are sent to KICA.

ADJOURNMENT

Upon motion duly made and seconded, the meeting was adjourned to Executive Session at approximately 11:05 am.

Respectfully submitted,

Sandy Williams

Secretary

Kiawah Island Property Owners Group

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