Kiawah Island Property Owners Group

By-Laws: By Laws – Art Morgenstern reminded the Board that one outstanding issue has yet to be finished regarding the modifications to the by laws and this center around the issue of long term renters. His plan is to talk to KICA to see how they handle this issue and he will report back at the next meeting. He also brought to the attention of all that the current by laws state that any issue that needs to be decided outside of a regular board meeting must have unanimous approval. Given this fact he asked all Board members who will be away from the island for more than a few days to assign their proxy to another Board member and then E-Mail who they have designated to all individuals on the Board. However, for any significant item e.g. the allocation of funds over $5,000, the proxy would not apply.

Insurance: The Board was reminded that our liability insurance will be up for renewal this summer and initial work needs to start to ensure we continue to have coverage.

Annual Meeting Minutes: Evidently the minutes of the 2007 Annual Meeting had never been approved by the Board. Art will ensure that these minutes are distributed to all Board members prior to the May meeting so they can be approved at that time. In addition, Ron Ritchie will prepared the minutes for the March, 2008 Annual Meeting and here again they will be distributed to all Board members for their review prior to the May meeting.

Freedom Of Information Act: Due to traveling out of town Jay Bender has not yet written the letter to the Town informing them that we believe they are in violation of the act and requesting them to make the necessary changes to be in compliance. Art will pursue this to ensure the letter is sent this month.

Safety & Security:  Bob Oakman reported that traffic at the Main Gate (some 219,444) was 65% higher than what was recorded at this entry point vs.March, 2007. One of the reasons cited for the increase was the fact that the Easter Holiday occurred in March this year. Traffic at the V-Gate was also up some 15% (93467 vs. 89530). The incidents of raccoons exhibiting signs for distemper continued at the high levels noted in February.    

Roads: Diane Lehder reported that the KPOG sponsored presentation by the Coastal Conservation League on March 26th went very well with approximately 50 citizens in attendance. The perception was that the League presented a very fair and balanced presentation.

On this subject Charlie Smith voiced the concern that Kiawah had not been as active as it should be in pressing this issue with our elected representatives at the county level. He pointed out that Seabrook had been much more aggressive in pursuing this issue.
He also raised the question as to whether a serious attempt should be made to consolidate the efforts of both towns under one umbrella. Should KPOG take the lead in this effort?

While no decision was made on his question all were in agreement that this organization should continue to supply a steady stream of information to our members on this subject.

Related to this discussion it was pointed out that on April 10th SCDOT will hold at Public Hearing to solicit input on what environmental factors should be included in the environmental impact study on the I-526 extension. The fact that this hearing will occur will be posted on our FYI List. Charlie, Diane, Barbara and Greg were asked to collectively put together the content of the message to be posted.