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December 2017 Bulletin

2018 Annual Meeting - January 17

ANNUAL MEETING will be on the 3rd Wednesday of January 2018, which will be January 17th. There are 2 candidates for the two open board positions. Here are the candidates’ bi-os. Please note that the Activities Chair is renewed annually. Brian Brannigan for Clubhouse “My wife, Rissa Sanchez, and I have lived in Innis Arden since 2003. We love the quality of life that is supported by our covenants that protect our views, prevents over-building and preserves common properties such as the clubhouse and the reserves. I have enjoyed volunteering my time with the Innis Arden Activities Committee over the years in various roles including: the Neighborhood Night Out event, sorting items for the annual Rummage Sale, chairing the Salmon BBQ for two years and serving as the Board Representative for the Activities Committee for six one-year terms between 2008 and 2015. If you vote for me for a Board role, I will continue the good work that Kathi Peterson has done with the Innis Arden Clubhouse so that it serves as the center for community celebrations.” Jim McCulloch for Grounds "I've enjoyed being a Board member this last year, and would like to continue for a full term. My main goals will be to complete items I started this last year, including the up-grades to the grounds' irrigation system and the play structures. I will continue to sup-port the current Covenants, the homeowners in our community, and strive to improved communications and transparency between the Board and homeowners. Thanks for your consideration “

To find board members’ terms, go to http://www.innisarden.org/?page_id=48.

Volunteers are needed to assist with accepting and processing ballots from IA mem-

bers and proxy votes. There are two shifts of workers: 4-6 p.m. and 6- conclusion of

ballot counting. With more members opting to vote by electronic ballots, we may not

need as many workers at the tables, but more to help process the electronic ballots.

It’s a great way to see neighbors and get to know others in Innis Arden! Workers are

rewarded with a Spiro’s pizza and salad dinner. Let me know if you are willing to help

with the elections. Contact BJ Oneal to volunteer (secretary@innisarden.org or 206-

719-7535).

Inside This Issue

January Board Meeting Agenda

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December Board Meet-ing Minutes

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Website Update 5

Playground Survey Re-sult

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Holiday Party Report 5

Upcoming Events 6

Board Members

President/Compliance Easton Craft

Vice President/ Compliance Chair David Fosmire

Secretary/Legal Affairs BJ Oneal

Treasurer Jeff Gough

Activities Maggie Taber

Building and Remodel/ Compliance Cynthia Esselman

Clubhouse Kathi Peterson

Grounds Jim McCulloch

Reserves/Compliance Steve Johnston

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Board Meeting Minutes November 12, 2017 The meeting was called to order at 7:04 PM by Presi-dent Easton Craft. Board members present: Easton Craft, Maggie Taber, B.J. Oneal, Kathi Peterson, Jim McCulloch, and Steven Johnston. Members absent: Cindy Esselman and Dave Fosmire Meetings minutes from the November board meeting were approved. PRESIDENT, Easton Craft Carlson Carlson Lawsuit Update: The Court has still not ruled on the Carlson motion to amend the complaint, which was to be considered by the Court on November 16, 2017. Accordingly, our counsel contacted the Court on December 11th to inquire about the status of the motion. The Court con-firmed that it has all the motions papers, but that no Order on the motion has been entered. We anticipate that we will be a getting an Order granting the motion to amend the complaint (since it was unopposed) lat-er in December. Following the Court’s Order, Carlson will likely need to file the amended Complaint to make it official and then the Club will have 20 days to provide its answer to the Complaint. IA Website Update Still no change in the plan for a 1Q 2018 rollout of the new site. Storm Creek Erosion The Club has engaged a geotechnical engineer to do an assessment of the Storm Creek outflow. While the neighbors have agreed to pay the costs associated with this work, we anticipate a full reimbursement by the city of shoreline. VICE PRESIDENT/COMPLIANCE, BJ Oneal in place of Dave Fosmire NOTE: All Compliance hearings are held at the Innis Arden Clubhouse at 7:00PM unless noted otherwise. A motion was made (and seconded) for a compliance hearing for the properties at 17249 15th Avenue NW and 17259 15th Avenue NW. The motion passed unanimously. This hearing will be held on Tuesday 01/09/18 at 6PM.

Next Board Meeting Agenda January 9, 2018 7:00-7:05 Approve meeting Agenda and ap-prove minutes of last meeting.

Committee Reports 7:05-7:10 President 7:10-7:15 Compliance 7:15-7:25 Vice President/Legal affairs 7:25-7:35 Building and Remodels 7:35-7:45 Treasurer 7:45-8:00 Secretary 8:00-8:10 Clubhouse 8:10-8:20 Grounds 8:20-8:30 Reserves 8:30-8:40 Activities 8:40-8:50 Community Comments

BUILDING AND REMODEL, Cindy Esselman – presented by Jim McCulloch Jim described the Ballo Remodel at 18623 17th Ave NW. There were no issues brought forth and the board unanimously approved the remodel. TREASURER, Jeff Gough - The Club Operating Checking balance is $27,304, the Collections Savings balance is $274,605, and the Asset Reserve Savings balance is $150,375. CLUBHOUSE, Kathi Peterson – The Clubhouse was kept busy through November by non-profits, business meetings, holiday parties and exercise classes. Income was $2,175 with refunds at $575. Renters have been wonderful, taking good care of the Clubhouse and notifying us with any is-sues that pop up. In late November during some heavy rains, the Club-house ceiling began to leak again. The roofer came and caulked around the roof vent again and the leak-ing has stopped. However, a portion of a wet piece of ceiling tile fell to the floor. Laura Taylor took it to a local asbestos lab for testing and fortunately the tests showed the ceiling tiles contain no asbestos. I'm cur-rently pricing out what it would cost to do some minor tile repairs or completely re-tile the Clubhouse ceil-ing. I'll bring the figures to the January Board meet-ing for discussion. Please remember that the Clubhouse will not be

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available to rent in February due to expected bathroom remodeling. GROUNDS, Jim McCulloch This year’s objectives for the Grounds Committee is as follows: • Maintain and improve the existing lawn and plant-

ing beds around the Clubhouse in anticipation of the new Pool House and hosting of the Inter City Swim Championships in August,

• Maintain and protect the recent investment in the Innis Arden Main Entrance and other Innis Arden Entrances.

Work Items Completed for November: • Monthly maintenance to Grounds and Entrances

by Greg Paquette, Grounds Manager: • Winterization of Irrigation system. • Other Items completed this month: • Pruning, cutting back of entrance vegetation Work Items Scheduled for December: • Necessary maintenance and clean-up. Other Items • Irrigation: Plan for updating system in progress. • Playground structures:

• Plan presented by SiteLines/GameTime is being reviewed and revised for presentation to the home owners.

• Survey results will be posted on the Innis Arden website.

Thanks to Meghan Mannes and Kathryne Shrews-bury for their help and support in planning the play-ground improvements. NATURAL RESERVES, Steve Johnston Trail Maintenance Trail work will occur in Blue Heron in December to re-move roots and other tripping hazards, and to improve the trail in a few areas where it is steeply pitched or very narrow. Invasive Control by Garden Cycles Continues Garden Cycles crews worked in Boeing Creek and Coyote Reserves to remove ivy from around trees, and to inject invasive English Laurel and Holly with an herbicide. They also continued work in some of the other Reserves. Fall Planting 250 native trees and shrubs were planted in Bear,

Upcoming Rummage Collection Dates Monday, Jan 8, 10am -12pm Saturday, Jan 20, 2 - 4pm Please drop the items off at the new pool house. Any questions contact Maggie Taber at mag-taber@comcast.net or 206-963-0757. Please donate items and household goods in clean, sellable condition. We collect clothing (men's women's, children's, infants), bedding, lin-ens, housewares, glassware, collectables, furni-ture, toys, games, books, stuffed animals, small working appliances, holiday items, tools, paint-ings, pictures, jewelry (costume and real). Cloth-ing items should be clean - no major spots and freshly laundered please. Also note that we can-not accept: computers, monitors, printers, TVs, stereos, speakers, mattresses, box springs, bed pillows, bed frames, adult skis, adult ski boots, washers, dryers, sinks, toilets, microwaves, ency-clopedias, car batteries, and copy/fax machines.

Grouse, Running Water, Blue Heron and Eagle. An additional 250 bare root trees and shrubs will be procured and planted in late January, early Febru-ary. Hazardous Tree Removal Six hazardous fir trees and two alders were re-moved from Blue Heron North of 14th Ave NW in December. All trees had been previously topped multiple times, were in very poor shape, and were inspected and approved for removal by the City. Storm Creek Erosion After two tries and a lot of work by the City attorney, the Club attorney, and several Board members, the Club, City, and Storm Creek Neighbors have collab-orated to contract a Geotechnical Consultant (Bill Laprade, of Shannon and Wilson) to conduct a site visit, and to then recommend potential near term and long term approaches to managing the severe erosion at the mouth of Storm Creek. The hope is that the site visit will occur in December, with obser-vations, recommendations and a meeting with the City to follow in January.

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ACTIVITIES, Maggie Taber - Save the dates: 2018 Rummage Sale - Saturday, March 10 & Sunday March 11, 2018 The Activities Committee held a brief meeting on Mon-day, Dec. 4th, prior to the clubhouse decorating party. Officers for 2017 are as follows: President – Randi Fattizzi Secretary (shared) – Belinda Leung and Ann Garnsey-Harter Treasurer – Rebecca Wagoner Representative to the Board – Maggie Taber Following the meeting, a merry group transformed the clubhouse into a festive holiday scene. The Annual Holiday Party was Sunday, December 10th from 4 to 7pm. Many thanks to Kelly and Julie Sanders for Co-Chairing the event. There will be a full write up in the bulletin. The 2018 Rummage Sale is set for March 10th & 11th, 2018. We will again be utilizing a sign up system for volunteers. Collections have begun. The next in-take day is Saturday, Dec. 16th from 2-4 pm. Any do-nation questions please contact Maggie Taber. Upcoming Rummage collection dates: Saturday 12/16 2-4pm, Monday 1/8 10-noon, Saturday 1/20 2-4pm. The next Activities Meeting will be Monday, January 8th at 7pm. Other Pertinent Issue: The Annual Meeting (where voting of new officers and the 2018 budget occur) is scheduled for Wednesday 01/17/18 at 7PM at the Clubhouse. It is imperative that we have a quorum to be able to hold the annual meeting, vote for officers/budget, and carry out other important business so PLEASE vote (by email, ballot, proxy, or in person)! Last year we did not get a quorum so had to re-do the meeting and it was definitely less than ideal. Please do your part and vote. Instructions on ways to vote will be forthcoming and you should be receiving your ballots soon. BJ Oneal, Secretary

Do you have any new neigh-bors? If so, please contact the Hospitality Committee so they can deliver a welcome packet. The hospitali-ty committee is: Innis Arden I: Brian Branagan 546-6773 Innis Arden II: Moria Blair 801-7688 Innis Arden III: Lella Norberg 542-4949 Please Welcome: Miki & Erin Gonzalez - 18270 Springdale CT NW Brian & Eileen Hunt -17245 14th Ave NW Mike Haas & Tana Barton-Haas - 17770 15th Ave NW Justin & Victoria Kuan - 871 NW 175th St Cindy Abrahamson - 17015 15th Ave NW Matthew & Samantha Johnson - 18208 Ridgefield Rd NW Kristin & Joseph Kenny - 18124 14th Ave Nw

Reminder If you plan on changing or adding any structure on your property (deck, garden shed, patio, re-model/addition) contact the Building and Remod-els chair Cynthia Esselman at 542-3408 or build-ing@innisarden.org. This is your responsibility and obligation as a member of a covenanted community!

Blockwatch Please report criminal activity to police at 911 (emergency) or 296-3311 (non-emergency) as well as to communica-tions@innisarden.org. See https://www.crimereports.com/ for crime re-ports. Enter any address and ‘search’.

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Website Redesign Project Update I’m currently working with a subset of the Innis Arden board members on updating our website. The main goals of this project are: 1. To make it easier for people to find information 2. To make it easier for everyone to understand our

covenant & the processes 3. To update the look-and-feel of the website To achieve these goals, we will need your help and feedback. Please look out for a survey in your email in Jan. For those who are not in our email list, please email me at communications@innisarden.org so that I can add you to it. If you prefer to call me instead, you can reach me at 206.390.9728. Here’s what we need feedback on: • What do you like most about the current website? • What would you like to change? • What information were you looking for? • Was it easy to find it? We are planning to start using the new website by March 2018. Sayuri Gould

Playground Structure Upgrade Survey Results This information will also be posted on our website. Do you have any family members who use the play-ground? (89 responses) 52.8% - No 47.2% - Yes If so, how often? (42 responses) 73.81% - Monthly 21.43% - Weekly 4.76% 9- Daily If so, what ages? (42 responses) 54.8% - 2-5 52.4% - 6-10 26.2% - Under 2 16.7% - 10+

Would your household like to see additional equip-ment? (89 responses) 48.3% - Yes 31.5% - Neutral 20.2% No Overall, cost will be reduced if there is homeowner participation with installation - Would be you be willing to volunteer time to assist with installation? 45.5% - No 28.4% - Possibly 26.1% - Yes Jim McCulloch

Holiday Party The Nutcracker came to the club house along with Santa and 150 Innis Arden neighbors, to attend the annual Holiday Party. It was great to see so many new faces and welcome back those that have made it an annual tradition. A big shout out to all of the volunteers who helped decorate, and make the evening memorable. A spe-cial thank you to Mary Ruhlman who put together a festive photo booth with props, mirror and our very own hashtag - we can use it year after year. And Sayuri Gould orchestrated a wonderful children’s per-formance, that warmed the hearts of all. We'd also like to express our sincere gratitude to Sue Cox, who has provided generous support to this party year after year, and in a multitude of ways to the Innis Arden community. What a perfect way to launch the season. Activities Committee

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INNIS ARDEN CLUB

P.O. Box 60038 Richmond Beach, WA 98160

COMING EVENTS Board Meeting - Tue, Jan 9, 7pm Annual Meeting - Wed, Jan 17, 7pm Rummage Collections - Mon, Jan 8, 10am-12pm & Sat, Jan 20, 2-4pm @ New pool house Rummage Sale - Sat, March 10 & Sun March 11, 2018

Deadline for the Next Bulletin: Jan 19 Community Notices (no anonymous items) Sayuri Gould 206-390-9728 bulletin@innisarden.org Remodels Cynthia Esselman 542-3408 building@innisarden.org

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