         Board Meeting Reports
President’s Report Board of Directors Meeting September 21, 2020 Good evening and thank you for participating in this ZOOM Board Meeting. I can’t tell you how much I look forward to a time when we can meet in-person but we are committed to following the Governor’s guidelines for meetings. Perhaps it may be that within the next few weeks, we will consider opening the Community Center for only ECIA sponsored meetings, basically Committees, Task Groups, Executive Board Sessions and the like. The classroom can certainly be set-up for social distancing and masks would be required by all. The difficulty lies in how to sanitize after the gathering. Be assured, the details are being discussed and hopefully we can find a safe and productive process. In the meantime, ECIA work continues to move forward. Last week the Board of Directors, the eight [8] Committee Chairs and a few residents, ZOOM’ed a meeting about Compliance. This is an issue wrought with concerns and will need a significant amount of Board, Committee, legal and resident input. The minutes from the meeting will be posted on the website and a recording is available by calling the office. The Chairs will use this preliminary discussion to foster further review in their respective meetings. Also, over the next several months residents will be invited to participate in discussions and we hope you will choose to step up and be part of the process. With that being said, I encourage residents to understand their responsibilities to the Association including, but certainly not limited to, timely assessment payments and stable payments, requesting architectural variances when needed, registering a dog before using the dog park, or abiding by the posted signage at the courts, preserves and dog park. Our community is fortunate that most Eldoradans observe the rules. However, as in almost all scenarios, there are folks who choose not to follow established guidelines and as a result, might put others or the community as a whole, at risk. Our primary goal is to minimize that. This past Tuesday evening, many residents joined the meeting about Santa Fe County’s updated Land Use Code. The County changed its side and rear setbacks from 10 feet to 25 feet. This change has implications for Eldorado and as such, the County has recommended that a representative committee that includes residents and business owners from the greater Eldorado area, develop an overlay zone that would allow Eldorado's setbacks to remain unchanged. Anyone interested in being part of this should contact Mark Young at the ECIA office. Just a note, this is not an ECIA committee, but one defined by the County and thus has certain requirements and timelines. And now on to a touchy subject. I would like to address the serious issue of armchair quarterbacking … you know, giving opinions about something without having direct knowledge or experience of it after the fact. This seems to be a chronic problem in Eldorado. Folks hear bits and pieces of meetings or recommendations and then take to social media or gatherings and all too often, rile people up unnecessarily. Please, get the facts before you share incomplete or false information. Before you trash an idea, please make sure you know the whole story. Anyone who wants more information about what’s happening now has a direct route to the office. It’s a new option on the ECIA home page. If you have questions, concerns, suggestions, comments, complaints, compliments, ideas, musings or thoughts that you would like to share, please use the link that is shown. Get the whole picture so you can be well-informed. And as always, I wholeheartedly thank all the volunteers who continue to work on behalf of the community. Their willingness to share their time, expertise and support makes Eldorado the special community that it is. Treasurer’s Report9/21/2020 Based on Financial Statement: August 31, 2020Key Points:
Accounts Receivable: $69K (from Assessments); ~$17K (uncollected 2020 Assessments – ~1.1%) Other Receivables (interest, stables, lien fees): ~$59K
Items from the Finance Committee (FC):
ECIA Board of Directors Liaison Reports Sept. 21, 2020 Architectural Committee Sept. 8, 2020
Conservation Committee Sept. 1, 2020
Election Committee Sept. 9, 2020
F&G liaison report 9/21/2020
Information Committee Sept. 14, 2020 Mel had an excused absence Road Committee Sept. 2, 2020
Stable Committee Sept. 10, 2020
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