Minutes - DRAFT

Present were Officers and Representatives:

               President:  Lesa Hartigan, The Links

               Treasurer:  Mike Grubbs, Country Lakes

 

Absent were:  Vice-President:  David Brand, Lakeside Woods

                   Secretary: 

 

Representatives present:

Cathy Allen, Avista; Barbara Robinson, Clubside; Marguerite Puca, Club Villas II; Karen Vieira, Fairway Lakes; Eric Van Baars, Fairway Point; Dan Reeves, Fox Pointe; Barbara McDaniel, Golf Pointe; Tim Gooch, Lakeside Woods; Greg Martzoff, Palm-Aire Country Club; Jon MacDonald, Pine Trace; John Mele, Timberlake Village; Sue Smith, Woodland Green

 

Absent were:

Sue Pavlisko, Avista; Donna Hampton, Broadmoor Pines; Club Villas I; Nick Barbi, Condo B/Sarasota @ PA; Conservatory Estates;  John Dietract, DeSoto Woods; Jean Pacholek and Pamela Horrigan-Maslanka, Eagle Creek Condos; Ray Toothaker, Eagle Creek Villas; Michelle Marquis, Fairway Bend; Fairway Six; John Volpe, Gardens of Palm Aire; Laurie Lawrence, Misty Oaks; Rosewood at the Gardens; Marie Diamond, Woodlake Villas

 

The meeting was called to order at 3:34pm by President Lesa Hartigan.  A quorum was established.

 

MINUTES

 

The minutes of the March 19th, 2025 meeting had previously been emailed to all PACC directors.

 

No changes were suggested.  Mike Grubbs moved that the minutes be approved as submitted.  The motion was seconded by Dan Reeves and approved by voice vote.

 

 

COMMITTEE REPORTS

FINANCE – Mike Grubbs

              

March:

• Deposits

  • MSTU (Christmas lights)                       $948.55

  • Association Dues (DeSoto Woods)      $84.00

  • Interest                                                   $0.88

• Expenditures                                                ($0)

• End Balance                                                  $21,754.63

 

CD                                                                        $32,887.02

Total (CD plus checking)                                     $54,641.65

 

April:

• Expenditures

  • Annual Incorporation Fee                    $61.25

  • IRS Tax on Interest                               $463.75

  • General Liability Insurance                 $558.04

 

Association Dues Paid by 13 out of 25 associations as of 4/16:

Broadmoor Pines                                     Gardens at Palm Aire

Club Villas I                                               Golf Pointe

Club Villas II                                              Misty Oaks

DeSoto Woods                                         Rosewood at the Gardens

Eagle Creek Condos                                Woodlake Villas

Eagle Creek Villas                                     Woodland Green

Fairway Six

 

MSTU – Lesa Hartigan

 

• Frontier/Verizon fixed the gates.  They’ve been asked to paint the inside of the gates.  Barbara suggested that the gates should be closed and locked.  Lesa said that PACC property goes up to the fence and that PACC might consider landscaping in front of the fence.  Question: might Verizon cover part of the cost?

• Power to the well - lack of communication between county departments: the well was dug by the lift station at the suggestion of the county because of the availability of electricity from the lift station.  However, there is apparently not enough power available.  Barbara said that since the county approved the plan, the county should cover the cost of the power to the well.  (Addendum: The county insisted that landscaping be done and chose the landscape architect, ergo, the county should pay for it – c. $30,000)

• REPEAT ACTION ITEM:  Directors have again been asked to look at the Improvement Plan for their communities and provide feedback with a focus on the plantings and their proposed locations.  Lesa asked directors to do markups per page.  The first phase of the project stops at the blinking light.

 

NEWSLETTER – Dan Reeves

              

• Spring newsletter copy was delivered to the printer on April 9th

• Fall Deadlines:

  • November 2, 2025 – Articles and Advertisements

  • November 9, 2025 – Publishing Date

• Letters to the Editor are always needed!

• The following articles are needed:

  • A lead article

  • Neighborhood Spotlight

  • Thoughts from the President’s Desk/PACC Board Update

  • Realtor Corner (need a new author for this)

  • Palm-Aire Country Club

  • 4 Facts

• The cost of advertising covers two issues

 

WEBSITE – Cathy Allen

 

Treasurer Mike Grubbs indicated that Cathy Allen had submitted an invoice for her work on the website.  The $650 fee covers the cost of the domain name hosting service ($21.99/year for each of the two domain names), the cost of the website generator ($348 for 2025) and labor.  As this item had not been included in the budget passed last month (due to the fact that Cathy had not submitted invoices during the tenure of the current Board administration), Mike said that Director approval was needed.  Dan Reeves called for a voice vote.  Approval was granted.

 

Cathy Allen said that the website is up to date.  Communities are encouraged to submit community descriptions and make full use of their community pages.

              

OLD BUSINESS

 

Election of Officers - Lesa said that the election of PACC officers was supposed to have taken place in March.  Barbara confirmed that a nominating committee usually comes together in January of each year, the slate of candidates is posted in February and the election takes place in March.  Lesa said that she was open to suggestions.

Lesa also pointed out that currently, Vice-President David Brand was on a leave of absence due to illness and that the position of Secretary was open.

 

Barbara suggested that the current Board be re-affirmed, with the subject to be re-visited in two months.

 

A motion was made by Cathy to reaffirm the current Board, and re-address the issue in two months.  Barbara seconded the motion.  The motion was approved via voice vote.

 

Whitfield Master Plan Landscape – Volunteers are needed for the MSTU Landscape Committee.  Lesa would like to step back, not step down.  Kelly Arnold agreed to lead the committee, with the help of Steven Siegler and Karen Viera, who would work on grants.

 

Palm-Aire Community Signs - A voice vote was taken on the issue of the 4 double-sided signs along Whitfield.  It was noted that the county will pay for the signs.  With 15 communities voting, the vote was 9 to 6 in favor of installing updated signs.

 

Questions:

Should communities be listed alphabetically or in the order in which they appear?

Should there be more signs with fewer communities per sign?

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

               Entrance – Tim Gooch spoke with Greg Martzoff and Ed Kornberger about cleaning up the country club property at the entrance to Palm-Aire.

 

               Other Country Club – The 5th hole on the golf course runs the length of the Woodland Greens villas.  The lack of watering and “mowing and blowing” have resulted in dust and dirt getting into the villas.  Discussion: the country club will be maintaining the course until 4/20/2025, at which point, it will be closed for remodeling.

 

               Other - Communities should look into grants as a funding source for landscape improvements.  Now is a good time to act.

 

               The traffic tie-up at Lockwood Ridge and University Parkway is the result of work being done at night to repair the ends of the barriers.

 

MEETING ADJOURNMENT

              

The meeting was adjourned at 4:46pm. 

 

The next PACC meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 at 3:30pm at the Palm Aire Country Club.

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

Cathleen Allen