The
Annual Meeting for Hawthorn Park was held on
January
16, 2005. Achieving a quorum was delayed as insufficient
numbers of homeowners mailed in their proxies or attended the
meeting. Through the efforts of Kathy Lesjak, Mike Hogan, and
others who pressed their cell phones into service, enough people
arrived to achieve a quorum and the meeting was able to be held.
The outgoing Board delivered the following list of
accomplishments and acknowledgements
of contributions:
Board of Directors
Outgoing directors
Bill Smith, Mike
Hogan
Committees
ARC
George Sinclair, Chairman
Art Stadlin, Bill Smith, Jeanine Balsis
Maintenance
Len Lesjak, Chairman
Bill Smith
Communication
Art Stadlin (Webmaster, HP
Website)
Kathy Lesjak (Editor, Hawthorn
Herald, sale of ads)
George Sinclair (sale of ads,
communication distribution)
Joan Krauter, Bob Turner (free
printing Bradenton Herald, delivery bags)
John Whidden (flyers, signs,
communication distribution)
Grounds
Peg & Joe Mazza
Welcome
Committee/Directory Maintenance
Jeannie Ladd
Meetings
Sign-In/communication distributon
Beate Kutschera
Signs
Mike Theoret (and distribution
of communication pieces),
Len Lesjak,
Fred Baumgratz
Working Committee
- Common Area Maintenance
Vince Meli, Chairman
Ken Hill, George Morse, Hugh Schulte
Social Events,
Other Activities
Garage Sales (
George Sinclair,
Chairman)
Ladies Tea and Annual Picnic (
Peg Mazza,
Chairman)
Independence Day Flags -- Entrance (
George
Sinclair, Art Stadlin).
Manatee County School Board Meeting -- Testimonials (
Joe Sloss, Barbara Wagner)
Holiday Party (
Tom Falcone,
Chairman)
Storm Shutter Seminar (
Jeanine &
Diane Balsis, co-chairmen)
Festival of Holiday Lights (
Sally Ann
Dines, Michelle Jones, co-chairmen)
Christmas Lights - Entrance (
Fred
Baumgratz, Len Lesjak, Mark Quehl, George Sinclair, Art Stadlin)
All
Others
All those (too numerous to mention) who made financial contributions
and contributed their time, talent and treasures.
VOTES:
1) The motion to increase the
number
of Directors from 5 to 7 passed unanimously.
2) The motion to adopt the
2005 budget,
with the dues increase, passed unanimously.
3) There were 8 candidates for election of 7 Directors. The Board
received notice from Peg Mazza that she was removing herself from
consideration because she has an opportunity to serve on the Board of
the Palma Sola Botanical Park. No additional nominations of
candidates were received from the floor. Therefore there were 7
candidates for 7 openings. The
7
candidates were elected unanimously.
The new 2005 Directories were distributed.
Meeting photos courtesy of
Kathy
Lesjak:
The Annual Meeting was adjourned, and followed by a
short business meeting of the new
Board of Directors. In that post meeting, the formal roles of
each Director were established, as follows:
President -- Jeanine Balsis
Vice President -- Art Stadlin
Treasurer -- Mike Theoret
Assistant Treasurer -- Nancy Maloney
Secretary -- Pat Whitesel
Assistant Secretary -- Claudia Quehl
Activities Director -- George Sinclair
Congratulations to all the new Directors!
Regular
business attended to:
- Two ARC requests were discussed.
- Two complaint letters were discussed.
- The new Duties Roster was distributed for review.
- The Manatee County Beautification Grant application was discussed
briefly.
The next reguilar business meeting of the Board will be the 4th
Thursday at
7:00pm, as usual,
January 27, 2005.
