Rainbow Lakes West 3rd Special Meeting
Thursday, May 3, 2018
—- 135th Str. N
I. Meeting was called to order by HOA board president Brad Sweet at 7:03 p.m.
II. President shared the definition of covenants and by-laws, the history of the HOA’s work on revisions to the covenants, and briefly reviewed the changes proposed to the covenants.
III. Concerns raised during open floor resident covenant review:
a. Becky Kennedy
i. Clause 2 Section C: Written approval from ACC for new house plans
ii. Clause 3 Section G: Requirement of written approval for improvements – if not given in writing within 30 days of submitting request, approval is automatic.
iii. Clause 2 Section G: Bi-weekly inspection by HOA Management Services inconsistent with 72- hour car parking limit
iv. Clause 2 Section O: Fencing height requirement will cause 4’ fences to join with new 5’ fences
v. Clause 2 Section S: $50 fine per occurrence of noncompliance, $500 max per month
vi. Clause 3 Section C: spelling error “aMicah”
vii. Clause 3 Section C: “rate to be established by board of directors” – too non-specific
b. Victoria Kampschroeder
i. Expressed concern about Rodney Wright and HOA Management Services
c. Rick Kampschroeder
i. Expressed concern about Rodney Wright and HOA Management Services
d. Richard Rose
i. Covenants were to be shared with zone reps, mailing list never sent
ii. Expressed concern that homeowners only had 10 days to review amended covenants proposal
e. Alex Hunt
i. Clause 2 Section G: vehicles in driveway, concerned about time allowed; would like to see the wording amended to specify vehicles without current registration or something similar
ii. Clause 3 Section G: concerned about definitions of “painting” and “mass planting.” Would this include touch-up painting? How many plantings are considered a “mass planting”?
f. Jan Geno
i. Clause 2 Section G: vehicles in driveway, concerned about time allowed; driveways are personal property of homeowners
ii. Never had copy of old covenants – was unaware that they are available on the RLW3 website
g. John
i. Clause 2 Section G: vehicles in driveway, concerned about time allowed
h. Patrick Trant
i. Clause 2 Section G: vehicles in driveway; suggested wording amendment to specify vehicles without current registration or vehicles that are inoperable
i. Tom Bohr
i. Concerned that wording of the covenants is “loose”
ii. Covenant revision proposals should have been shared with homeowners sooner
j. Keith Stutzman
i. Board members were elected to make these decisions on behalf of the HOA
IV. Carmen Neth
i. Requested that the meeting be rescheduled until all homeowners have copies of the proposed covenant changes and the old covenants
V. Brad asked for volunteers to assist in modifying the wording in the proposed covenant changes. Volunteers:
• Victoria Kampschroeder
• Rick Kampschroeder
• Bev Smiley
• Becky Kennedy
• Michael Andra
• Carmen Neth
• Jan Geno
• Wade Waterbury
VI. Brad instructed attendees to give ballots to Terri Wolfe and adjourned the meeting at 7:50 p.m.
Following the meeting ballots were counted. The vote was 23 yes, 20 no; all members not in attendance who had not submitted written ballots were considered “no” votes. The proposed changes did not pass. Results were announced to attendees still present.