Plum Grove Estates Property Owners Association
Neighborhood News Working Together for a GREAT Neighborhood
Spring 2013
President’s Message Since this is my first Message as your new President, I thought that it is only appropriate for me to introduce you to the members of the Board of Directors of the Plum Grove Estates Property Owners Association (PGEPOA) for 2013. Gary Dindia replaces Randy Mitchell as our Past President. The knowledge that Gary has attained while serving as a board member and as President will be a great benefit to all of the other board members. Dave Freeman returns as Vice President. As all Vice Presidents do, he fills in when necessary for the President. Dave is also the head of Architectural Control. He is the board member that you should contact when you need board approval for your home repair or other project. He is always helpful and he enjoys working with our residents towards approving their various projects. Debbie Denten has returned as our Secretary. She is responsible for taking our minutes at board meetings and for board correspondence. As you may know if you attended board meetings last year, there were some heated issues and the meetings were not always -1-
calm. This made the Secretary’s job somewhat difficult. Yet Debbie did an excellent job in preparing accurate minutes and we are happy to have her back as Secretary. Hopefully, this will be a calmer year. Mary Crook has become our new Treasurer. This is also a difficult job. She is not only required to maintain the financial accounts of the Association and to keep custody of the Association funds, but she also has the responsibility of collecting and receiving all monies that are due. So, if you haven’t paid your 2013 dues yet, you will most likely get the opportunity to personally meet her.
Stop the Presses! Many residents have recently received a letter from Groot. PGE President Guy Karm said, “Groot is sending out these letters to sign up residents for a 3 year term. This has never happened before and raises the issue that maybe we have a choice of garbage services.” President Karm continued by saying that he hopes that residents will not sign up with Groot until the PGE Board has had time to assess the situation and report back to the community. stepped in last year and took over for Glen Prezembel who resigned because of his regular employment work load. Carl supervises entrance gate, light maintenance and maintenance of peripheral fencing and street and other signs.
George Reichl returns this year and supervises two areas- the Auditing and Nominating Committees. As head of Steve Sperling returns as head Auditing he is responsible for of Civic Affairs. Although he examining the financial records, works with legal issues books and accounts of the including publication and Association. As head of the distribution of the covenants, he Nominating Committee he is mainly functions as the Board’s responsible for leading the committee that secures the slate of officers and directors that run Newsletter Contents in each year’s election which is held at the October board Directors Reports…………………….3 Holiday Party Photos………………4-5 meeting. May PGE POA Meeting……………6-7 Carl Siemianowski returns this PGE Calendar………………………..8 year as head of Area Control. He
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