The following is a summary of the news from GCC's Annual Meeting held on June 12.
Pre-meeting Fun
Music and tasty food was on the menu for the pre-meeting BBQ this year. Good old-timey tunes were provided by local band Dog Fish Creek and Donna Elena once again manned the grill to feed those who showed up for this important community event.
Accomplishments
Board members reported on their duties and accomplishments (as well as some problems) over the preceding year. Highlights included a new public venue for monthly Board meetings (see Board Meeting notice for details), numerous maintenance and repair projects in our parks, an Eagle Scout project that installed a new play structure at the beachfront park, dog poop bag dispensers installed at both parks, monthly cleanup along Gamble Bay Road through our neighborhood, Earth Day community cleanup, and ongoing work with our lawyer to consolidate and update our legal documents (see special meeting notice).
Future Goals
In addition to completing and hopefully passing restated GCC By Laws we will be working with our lawyer to consolidate and restate our covenants (then we can begin looking at updating and improving them).
Motions by members that were discussed and passed include: Installation of horse shoe pits at the beach park (depending on total cost, additional picnic tables were also approved); Purchase and installation of additional aggregate benches around the fire pit; Create an improved pedestrian entry around the gate at the beach park entrance; Investigate adding electrical power to the beach park; Installation of sign to remind drivers into the beach park that children are at play in the area in hopes of reducing traffic speed; Purchase of an official GCC laptop so that member information and records are not kept on private computers; Improvement of the ball field at the beach park.
Filling of Board Vacancies
The last bit of business was to fill three Board seats as members Gus Holstein, Phil Elena and Diane Green had terms expire. Gus and Phil offered to serve again and were nominated and elected. Diane decided to decline another nomination after giving much time and energy over 2 years as communications officer. Tori Dougherty stepped up to volunteer and was elected to fill the fifth Board seat. Tom Moench and Tom Twigg continue to serve existing terms.
Wouldn't it Be Nice?
The last thing to say about the annual meeting is that it (and your community) would benefit from greater participation by our membership. We seem to always see the same faces at the meeting—it would be wonderful if more of you could make it in the future. If you have a conflicting engagement and can't make it please consider sending a proxy to represent you. Did we mention there is free food?
All the Details
Complete Annual Meeting minutes may be downloaded here (PDF).
