Steve Shirley, HOA President began the meeting with a discussion of the storm drain situation facing Treasure State Acres subdivision. The HOA is about ten petitions short of the signed petitions needed from TSA homeowners to start the process for county consideration of a new RID that would fund an improved storm-drain system. If you still have not sent in your signed petition, please do so ASAP so we can decide who needs to be contacted. If that process doesn’t work, we might also send a few volunteers door-to-door to seek the signing of petitions. If you are willing to help with that, please let Steve know. Several residents, at the meeting, voiced their concerns and described their efforts to remedy the flooding situation on their properties.
If you have an opinion, either way, on the storm drain project, you may contact Steve Shirley, at 4150 Bobcat or email him at sshirleymt@gmail.com to discuss the issue. Although we only need a few more signed petitions to start the process with the county, this will take some time before a new RID would be approved. There will be hearings where TSA residents will have plenty of opportunity to tell us and the county what they think – yes or no – about this proposed project.
The improvements to the playground equipment in our park should start in the next week or two. The work is behind schedule because the equipment is being shipped from the Southeast, which has been battered by storms. Park Board member John Wilkins said the contract called for the work to be completed by Oct. 31, but the City/County Parks Board granted TSA an extension due to the delay caused by the storms. More realistically the improvements might not be done until mid-November. One of the improvements will be a new base for the playground area, so TSA residents who want some of the pea gravel that covers the existing play area can help themselves before the work begins.
Kate Passage agreed to serve as chair of a committee that will oversee the community-wide TSA annual garage sale. Those at the meeting voted to hold the community-wide sale on the Saturday after Labor Day starting next September and going forward in future years. A set date will give residents a chance to gather their sale items throughout the year and to know exactly when our sale will be held each year. If you are willing to work with Kate on that committee – helping with signs, advertising, and so on – please let Steve know.
Steve will soon order the supplies needed to do our annual Christmas Eve luminarias show. If you have been one of the street reps in the past and are willing to serve in that capacity again this December, please shoot Steve an email or text message (457-1918) to let him know. If you haven’t helped in the past, but are interested in helping this year, let him know and he’ll line you up with the people in your area who are handling things there. Otherwise, he’ll be in contact in a few weeks.
Treasurer Terry Atwood reported that after paying the county for the playground equipment of 15473.89 (4473.89 of this was from donations) that the HOA has about $10,000 in the bank. Over the last year we have
spent money on legal fees, Christmas Eve luminaria supplies, printing costs for meetings and petitions and website costs.
Steve Shirley reported that the cost of improving Bobcat, Kodiak and Cayuse drives is expected to be around $65,000. He said the cost is considerably below the cost of other recent paving projects due to decreases in oil prices and other factors. He said the HOA may consider doing other paving projects in the spring if the costs continue to be low.
An election of officers was held and are as follows: Steve Shirley, President; Terry Atwood, Treasurer; and Edie Witham, Secretary.
— Report by HOA Secretary Edie Witham