2009 Jan 10
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          Surfside Annual General Meeting

 

          Saturday, January 10th, 2009

 

          Call to Order by Kurt Dommers 10:12 a.m.

 

 

 

          Introduction, welcome   Kurt Dommers, president, welcomed the residents in attendance and introduced the current board and the lawyer for SURF.

 

 

 

          2008 Board Members Attending

 

          Kurt Dommers, President

 

          Janet Lammey, Treasurer

 

          Chantal Willemse, Vocal

 

          Absent:

 

          Lis Garcia, Vice President

 

          Laurie Meir, Secretary

 

          Arnoldo Andre, Fiscal

 

 

 

          Agenda:  Kurt addressed the residents with an overview of the accomplishments of the board for 2008, which included having street lights repaired, our worker cleaning roads and ditches, and using the weed machine to keep the area neat.  He also talked about the plans and progress of the board’s coordination of the road paving situation which is currently "ready to go" and awaits funding.  He said that private funding is an option but we have been advised to wait for the short term as the gov't had been doing inspections and may allocate funding. 

 


               Additional topics included SURF having completed the process to update and once again become a registered and legal association and that SURF played a significant role in the water well and orchard issues that are now resolved in our favor.

 

 

 

 

 

          Janet Lammey, treasurer, presented the financial report for 2008 (attached below) and gave an overview of the current security crisis in Surfside.  She went over an in depth report prepared by the security company, which included all of the actions they had taken this year against possible intruders and burglars.  Janet also stated that paying for security helps, but stressed that the only solution, in her opinion, was for the residents to install automated alarm monitoring systems in their homes.  Fico has a monitoring station up and running.

 

 

 

          Election of Officers for 2009

 

 

 

          The residents unanimously elected each of the following persons for the 2009 Surfside Resident’s board

 

 

 

          Janet Lammey:         President

 

          Laurie Meier:           Vice President

 

          Peggy Pease:            Treasurer

 

          Carlos Lopez:           Secretary

 

          Sherrie Bidwell:       Vocal

 

          Ann Lankford:        Fiscal

 

 

 

 

 

          Floor opened for questions

 

 

 

          A resident requested the price of annual dues for condo owners and was told $75.  There were questions regarding this as it was voted in last year:  a home owner’s (which includes condo owners) dues are $75 a year, and additional lots are $25 per lot.  Renters are charged $40 per year. *[ Please support the Association by paying your yearly dues!   We can do more to help the community if more people come on board and pay dues.  Encourage your non-paying neighbors, as well.  Only around 25% of the current lot/home-owners/ residents/ renters pay the annual dues.  Imagine the things we could do to better our community if we had 100% participation!]*addendum to minutes by current president   

 

 

 

          Security alarm system questions were asked.

 

 

 

          The FICO representative present was asked the price of cameras for our streets which would be monitored via internet at their local office.

 

 

 

          Meeting Adjourned 11:10am

 

          Minutes submitted by Janet Lammey

 

 

 

 

 

          Financial Report for S.U.R.F.

 

          2008

 

          Prepared and submitted by Janet Lammey, treasurer, January 10th, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

          Balance from 2007……………………                        $3,997.96

 

          Collections *dues and donations 2008                          $5,285.00

 

          Total income for 2008 

 

                                                                                                 $9,282.96

 

          Payments:

 

 

 

          Road cleaning, trash collecting, ditch weed help         $2,780.00

 

          Employee

 

          Social Security for employee                                        $ 840.00

 

 

 

          Payments to lawyers and investigators for

 

          Help with the Water/ well/ property issue                   $2,250.00

 

           (To be reimbursed from water board)

 

            

 

          Pay for additional work done by Janet for

 

          Security/ employees/ computer/ collections/misc.      $2,400.00

 

 

 

          Gas purchased from Beto for weed machine               $    71.38

 

          Oil for weed machine                                                   $      9.97

 

 

 

          Office supplies (ink for computer/; paper, etc)              $ 126.92

 

 

 

          Trash bags for beach and roadside collections      $    88.00

 

 

 

          Website fees                                                                    $ 339.10

 

 

 

          Equipment for employee (rainwear, safety

 

          Glasses)                                                                       $    22.49

 

 

 

          Legal fees (books)   -lawyer Einer                               $ 300.00

 

 

 

          Mistaken deposits made to SURF for security            $ 240.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          Total expenses for 2008                                              $9, 476, 86

 

          Balance (deficit)                                                            < $184.90>

 


          Subject: form for surf dues payments

 


                Asociación de la Urbanización de Surfside (S.U.R.F.)

 

                Apdo. 78 - 5111 – Supermercado Surfside, Pl. Potrero, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste

 

                Costa Rica
              

 

          

 


              
                Name(s)___________________________________________________________

 

                Mailing Address___________________________________________________________

 

                Phone_____________________________________________________________

 

                Email______________________________________________________

 

                Annual Owners Fee (U.S. Dollars, please)..............................................................$      75.00

 

                ______Surfside Lot(s) #s_________________  x  $25.00 each....................$________

 

                Total - ...................................................................$________

 

                _____I have added an additional $50.00 per lot to have my property cleaned (please initial)

 

                BCR Account #325-2009-5  cuenta de Ahorro  Please put your name/lot# in motivo.