French Branch Homeowners Association
Meeting Minutes
Time:
__7pm______________
Gewel
Beard-Secretary, Darlene Brennan-Treasurer
(Dave
Mannella- Vice President absent)
Homeowners
Present: _15_ (see attached attendance sheet)(count does not include officers)
Agenda
for meeting as follows (see attached sheet)
Call
to Order: Robert
Broome called the meeting to order requesting Ann Smith to lead in prayer and
Pledge of Allegiance.
Minutes
from January were approved.
Darlene
Brennan went over treasurer’s report. As of March 22, 2004 a total of 177
homeowners have paid their dues. Bank balance at the end of February 2004 was
$14,712.12. (See copy of treasurer report for all figures)
Robert
introduced the quest speakers from the Parrish. Bill Oiler- Chief
Administrative Officer and also Jean (John) Thibodeaux who is an engineer with
the Parish.
Bill Oiler discussed in detail some
of the issues he had received emails about.
*Paving of Rue Charlemagne- construction should
begin on this in
August.
*Park N Ride on
The
discussion remained on the Park n Ride for some time and Rick Williams stated
that he did not think this was a good idea and that he thinks that other areas
will take advantage of this which means traffic problems in French Branch. Also
wanted to know what determined it being at this location. Bill Oiler explained how it was decided to be
at FB and does not agree that it will cause problems. The discussion continued
between Parrish reps and two or three of the homeowners for some time regarding
this issue.
Robert
Broome then commented that the important thing for tonight is the get the
Parrish to commit to hearing HO concerns about this issue at another time. When asked by a homeowner what it would take
to shelve this project indefinitely Bill Oiler responded that is would take
allot to stop it and asked that everyone be open mined about what the Parrish
is trying to accomplish.
* Bill brought issues of the Parrish Annual Report
for anyone interested.
* Discussion about the Walmart/Lowes traffic issue.
Parrish is continuing to do traffic counts on several streets. The traffic
patterns are mostly the same as before. In another 2-3 weeks they will do another
traffic count.
* Drainage issues- at this time the Parrish Engineer
Jean Thibodeaux took over most of the
discussion and answered questions and responded to concerns from HO. He had
maps and models to show the drainage areas and some of the plans for addressing
drainage in this area.
Robert
asked of a meeting could be set up with the Parrish and some of the people in
the HOA that are knowledgeable about the drainage problems here to discuss the
drainage issue.
At
this time the discussion with the Parrish representatives was adjourned.
Robert
then continued on with tonight’s agenda.
Robert
gave the school board report.
ARC
report- EJ reported that the white camper on Rue Holiday has finally been
removed. A total of 5 letters have been sent out to different homeowners
regarding covenant not being adhered to. Out of those five letters, three has
brought results, one has had response but no action and one has had no
response.
Ann
Smith gave update on progress on new French Branch signs. Hope to have
something going by June.
At
this time Rick Williams and Debbie Foster were asked to give their
Walmart/Lowes report. This discussion
went on for some time. They also requested again that the HOA pay $200.00 for an attorney just as a consultant
and even though we did not have quorum at the meeting insisted we have a show
of hands for those in favor of paying for this service. There were 13
homeowners still present and all voted yes to this. This did not include the
board members. Robert Broome voted no and Ann, Darlene and Gewel at this time
did not vote. (At a separate meeting earlier in the month, Robert Broome and
Dave Mannella (representing the entire board) met with the Walmart/Lowes
committee and at that meeting turned down the proposal for hiring and paying
for an attorney).
The
meeting was adjourned at 9:10pm.
(Note:
Any attachments referred to above will be with original copies of minutes in
secretary’s files)
Minutes
by Gewel Beard.