January 9, 2006 board minutes

The following members attended: Bill Bortzfield, Wayne Williams, Pat Parrish, Mary Loving and Sallie Wnuk . Residents Byron Delong, and John Loving also attended.
Sallie opened the meeting by asking Bill to read the November minutes. The minutes were approved as amended.

Pat then gave the treasurer's report. As of January 9, 2006 the neighborhood had a balance of $21,686.02.

Pat reported the $5,000 of neighborhood money has been set up into an account to be put toward constructing a new fence at the front of the neighborhood. Sallie said once the city issues the right of way permit another workday would be scheduled to complete the volunteer hours required by a city grant for $5,000.

Sallie then noted the neighborhood still needs a replacement for former board member Jim Thompson.

She also spoke with Bill Champion. He has volunteered to update the resident directory.

Attention then turned to the block captains. Sallie reported that Bonnie Cowling told her she was resigning as head of the block captains. Sallie told the board she will approach several of the other block captains to see if they might be interested in taking over the lead position.

Under other old business Sallie said Resident Ed Nass has fixed the leaking toilet in the men's room at the pool. The project was larger than originally thought. The entire toilet had to be replaced. The cost of materials was $127.

John noted the new concrete chair at the pool is broken, apparently the result of vandalism. The board decided to look at replacing it closer to pool season once a handyman is in place.

Mary researched hiring a handyman. She checked with the city, the Montreaux Condominiums, Secret Cove, Home Depot, and others for leads. She has several feelers out to people that might be interested. Mary said that the head of Secret Cove's grounds committee reported that the neighborhood on Belfort Road is also having more trouble getting volunteers to take on projects than it had in the past.

Sallie reported some of the pool lights didn't seem to be working correctly. She said she would call the electrician that originally installed the lights.

Attention then turned to plans for a neighborhood chili cook-off being planned by resident Bill Champion. He would like to have the cook-off in February. The board agreed to vote on the dollar amount to fund a portion of the cook-off at the February meeting.

Bill gave the board a report on the Secret Woods Web site. The busiest month for the site in 2005 was September. A portion of the report is displayed below.

Usage Statistics for secretwoods.com
Summary Period: Last 12 Months Generated 02-Jan-2006

Summary by Month

Month	Daily Avg				Monthly Totals
Month	Hits	Files	Pages	Visits	Sites	KBytes	Visits	Pages	Files	Hits

Jan 2006	445	354	258	36	71	3905	36	258	354	445
Dec 2005	475	365	152	37	960	145409	1148	4712	11317	14733
Nov 2005	619	446	182	43	986	196032	1304	5485	13390	18571
Oct 2005	780	554	197	46	1256	305666	1428	6123	17180	24188
Sep 2005	944	751	253	47	1311	207005	1419	7601	22549	28345
Aug 2005	699	514	135	44	1257	231358	1375	4208	15937	21677
Jul 2005	581	431	110	45	1327	196434	1405	3410	13366	18016
Jun 2005	536	361	109	28	1182	151606	850	3299	10843	16087
May 2005	564	381	112	28	1118	176659	815	3269	11064	16383
Apr 2005	485	362	85	24	985	329526	679	2405	10139	13592
Mar 2005	422	311	77	34	1336	200670	1075	2405	9668	13098
Feb 2005	626	473	127	34	1988	397392	976	3580	13251	17546

Totals						2541662	12510	46755	149058	202681

Mary pointed out there is a small a white fence that she noticed that was apparently put in place without the architectural review committee's approval. She agreed to look into the matter..

The meeting adjourned at 7:49pm. The next meeting will be February 13 at 6:30pm at a location that was yet to be determined. Submitted by Bill Bortzfield on January 13, 2006. Amended on February 19, 2006.