Meeting minutes for August 2014 Board Meeting
Monday, August 11, 2014
President: Brien Sherman
Vice President: Venus Chan
Treasurer: Jay Heath
Secretary: Shaun Ross
Member At Large: Anand Singla
Association Manager: Jack Taylor
Homeowners Forum
● Two homeowners were present at the meeting this month.
Meeting was called to order at 6:36pm. The July 2014 minutes were approved as written.
Treasurer’s Report
For period ending July 31, 2014.
Bank, Savings and Investment Accounts
Checking: $48,979.26
Washington Federal Replacement / Special Assessment Reserve CD: $325,700.91
Sound Credit Union Savings: $211,206.79
Petty Cash: $100.00
Total Assets: $585,986.96
Committee Reports
● No committee reports.
Security
● Reminder: Please consider having your packages delivered to your workplace or use the Amazon lockers at select locations like 7Eleven stores.
● Of the 3 bikes stolen in early July, one has been recovered.
● Storage lockers continue to be a favored target for thieves. Please don’t store any item in the lockers that you are unwilling to lose.
● CONTINUED REMINDER TO ALL RESIDENTS: Please wait for the garage door/gate to close completely before proceeding to your parking space or away from the building. It takes less than a minute for the door/gate to close. Homeowners with renters, please discuss this with your tenants. It’s their security too.
● Discussion of added security options occurred during the meeting.
● The antiloitering strips on the alley concrete walls have been successful at deterring seated loiterers. Standing loiterers continue to be an issue.
● On the property, dogs should be leashed at all times outside your unit. Please pickup after your dog and consider using Citronella collars to curb barking.
● Warm weather is still here. Remember that neighbors can hear noise coming from your unit. Please be aware of all audio levels and remember to shut off any wake up alarms. Your neighbors will appreciate your consideration.
● Homeowner / resident alert: Please remove stored items from your parking space. These items encourage people to rifle through them. If your vehicle protrudes as a result of these stored items, we may be forced to tow your vehicle if it blocks access to others.
● Please refer to the Cleanscapes or the City of Seattle website for what is recyclable: http://www.cleanscapes.com/seattle/recycling_guidelines/residential/. The Board has noticed a
considerable reduction of trash within the recyclables. Thank you! Remember that pizza boxes are not recyclable. Please throw them in the garbage.
Old Business
● Associated Roofing inspected and made minor repairs to the roof of each building in July
● The complaint between two unit owners regarding air quality in one of the east building’s hallways is resolved.
● Please consider replacing your toilets, as many are original. The original models are CRANE units, water wasters, and near the end of their working life. You may qualify for a free toilet or a rebate from Seattle Public Utilities (www.seattle.gov/util/freetoilets or www.savingwater.org/rebates).
● Carpet cleaning in the east building hallways and stairwells was completed on Thursday, August 17th.
New Business
● The courtyard area and the garage level walls on E Howell St and Summit Ave will be pressure washed August 28th & 29th (new dates).
● A soft spot in the decking of another 5th floor deck has been found. Preliminary inspection looks to be a simple repair, but we’ll have to wait and see once the floor is opened up. Work is scheduled for this fall.
● Our annual Homeowners Association meeting was last Wednesday, August 13th. Minutes will be sent to all homeowners.
● The batteries in all emergency lights have been replaced.
● Tree pruning of the alley trees is tentatively scheduled for August 26th. At this time, it looks like the tree farthest north may be the only one removed. Ivy will also be removed from the trees and the building. We will also cut down one diseased tree in the courtyard, and we will thin the others. The disease is a common fungus that is contagious among certain plants. We will likely lose other plantings to the disease and we may lose shade loving plants that are now exposed to the sun. It will be some time before anything can be planted permanently in the area around the diseased tree.
● Our annual Reserve Study update has been initiated. We should have the updated report in about 8 weeks.
Meeting adjourned: 7:40pm.
Next Board meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 8, 2014 at 6:30pm in Unit E108.
Ambassador II Condominium Homeowners Association:
506 E Howell St, Seattle, WA 98122