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The Lake Forester • May 2017 • 1
The Lake Forester
Your Community...Experience it!
May 2017
Volume 27, No. 5
The Handoff
“A CHARGE TO KEEP”
you. You made history! You voted not to amend our covenants. On the down side of that, unfortunately a lot of members didn’t understand what they were voting for. We even had some residents calling people and posting flyers with completely false infor-mation about what they were voting for. As the communications committee chair, I’ve tried very hard to get accurate information out to the membership, so that’s frustrating on a personal level. I’ll just try harder. Since the meeting I’ve corresponded with dozens of people that voted “No” because of false information they were given by individual members that had no idea what they were talking about. All of those folks would like to see this vote proposed again. We’ll do a better job of clarifying exactly what the vote is, and what it isn’t, and you’ll know if you hear otherwise, you’re being deceived. To quote
win enough support for the update. Confusion occurred because of miscommunications, misunderstandings as well as some unfortunate misrepresentations. On behalf of the board we will strive to course correct that this year, improve our interaction dialogue and provide you with an improved message regarding this proposal. Bottom line, updating and strengthening our Architectural Guidelines is one item that if passed by the membership will enable our community to improve. More to follow this year. Let me also take time to thank our outgoing President Steve Sasser, who has graciously accepted a new role on the Board of Directors to serve as our new Vice- President. Steve has led our LF Association as President for 2-years. During his tenure has provided exceptional leadership, time and devotion to our community.
Notes from the President LF POA May 2017 Written by Victoria J. Phelps
Steve Sasser, Vice President
Steve Sasser, Vice President, LF POA Thanks to everyone who attended the annual meeting in March! We had a great turnout of around 200 residents! It was refreshing to see so many people interested and engaged in what’s going on in our neighborhood. Even more remarkable, for the first time in Lake Forest’s history, we were able to have a quorum of the membership and a vote that determined the result without any influence from our developer. The membership alone voted. If you turned in your ballot, congratula-tions to
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Bernard Shaw, “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” I have served as President of the BOD for the past two years. To say that it has been an honor and privilege is an understatement. I will forever be proud to have served in this capacity. To say that is has been a lot of work is a gross understatement. I wish I could quantify the phone calls, emails, meetings, and conversations I’ve had over the past couple of years. It is a staggering amount of time. In addition to having a family, including our 11 and 12 year old, I am my son’s assistant den leader in Cub Scouts, assistant coach to his football team, and with the help of my wife, run our electrical contracting business. I wouldn’t change a second of it. I’ve had a good run, but I’m ready to pass the torch! At the BOD’s annual organizational meeting HANDOFF continues on Page 2
Victoria J. Phelps President, LF POA Friends and neighbors, let’s get right to it. Thank you for a robust Annual Meeting, WOW! What a success! We heard you! The meeting was well attended, which was great to witness and provided an opportunity to hear some of your thoughts, your concerns and yes, your praises. With regard to the attempt to update our Architectural Guidelines, we “the Board” did not effectively communicate the need, nor present clear and concise language to
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He has spent countless volunteer hours away from his family and his business contributing service hours acting on your behalf. He has strived to improve communications to our members with the written word through his monthly articles in the Lake Forester as well as with his efforts toward the development of our new and improved LF Facebook page and website. Through his monthly articles he has tried to inform and educate our community regarding our past history, our present conditions and our future potential. We collectively thank Steve for his service and welcome him to his new role as Vice-President. Thank you Steve!! Our board’s organizational efforts for the period that runs from just after the annual meeting March 2017 through March 2018 netted the following results. David CHARGE continues on Page 2
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