February 2025 Meeting Minutes

Warner Creek Board Meeting

February 5th, 2025

AGENDA

Call to order 

Called to order at 8:03pm

Attendance: 

Sarah Fabian, Anh Le, Bob Stanfield, Nöel Quiton, Megan Kloustin

Approval of previous meeting minutes 

Approved unanimously.

Committees Updates

• Treasurer (Colleen absent)

• ABR

  • Anh informed us that the fence at 6656 Sauk Trail was approved.

• Welcome 

  • The welcome committee greeted 3 new neighbors

• Activities

  • Food trucks are booked.  The neighborhood-wide sale will be moved to August to be in line with the Michigan Ave. garage sales.

• Parks - Bob briefed the history of the south park and ran through several options for installing a bridge that would connect the East and West sides of the park.  The bridge option he recommended was by Rescue Rennovations for $20,533.  The board discussed this proposal and determined that in their options there wasn’t enough usage/support of the south park to warrant spending this amount of money.  Bob will “go back to the drawing board” for more less expensive options and will solicit the level of support at the next annual meeting.

New Business

The board reviewed the 2025 budget as proposed and unanimously approved it.

We discussed the Annual Meeting

• Date – 5/6/25 with 5/7/25 as a backup

• Place/Venue - We decided to keep the meeting at Pittsfield township

• Zoom option – We will have a zoom option

• Public Safety – After much discussion, we decided to hold on public safety.  Noel stating it was a wast of time, that people wanted a short meeting.  Sara implied that she didn’t get much out of the public safety briefing, but that others in the community really appreciated the speakers

• Other speakers? Bob will try to get the Township supervisor or trustee to give a briefing

• Agenda

• Election..All other board members will stay 1 more year.  Chris will be departing after the annual meeting.

January 2025 Meeting Minutes

Warner Creek Board Meeting

January 8th, 2025

AGENDA

Call to order – 

Called to order at 7:05pm

Attendance: 

Chris McDonald, Sarah Fabian, Anh Le, Bob Stanfield, Nöel Quiton, Stacey Sherrille 

Approval of previous meeting minutes 

Approved unanimously.

Presidents report

• Traffic incident

  • Discussed child being hit by car near the intersection of Hatfield Circle and Robison lane.  Spoke about street lighting and the board agreed that adding street lighting may not fix this problem.  Chris will research getting a radar speed sign placed to address speeding.

Committees Updates

• Treasurer – Stacey Sherrille briefed the 2025 draft budget.  The board lowered amounts budgeted for legal, printing, and park grass fertilization.  We increased it for trees for the park and extra set-aside for the reserve account.

• ABR

  • A Fence application was received.  The applicant is attempting to receive approval from neighbors to extend the fence to the property line.  They are not receiving any response to one of her neighbors.  ABR will encourage them to continue to reach out to the neighbor.  

• Welcome 

  • No updates

• Activities 

  • Food trucks are booked for 2025 and will be posted on the website.  Warner creek had a successful Cookies and Santa event at the park.

  • Brief discussion about the delay in re-imbursement from Compass.  Chris will speak with Stacey.

• Parks 

  • Bob did receive an estimate for the new bridge.  Will discuss this item at the next meeting in February.

New Business

Delinquencies – The board discussed delinquencies. The names and details have been left out here out of respect to our neighbor's privacy.

Dog attack – Nöel informed us that Beth Callan’s dog had been attacked and her husband saw the attack.  Attempts to get the person to come forward have been unsuccessful.

Meeting adjourned at 8:12pm

November 2024 Meeting Minutes

Warner Creek Board Meeting

November 6th, 2024

MINUTES

Call to order

Called to order at 7:05pm

Attendance: Chris McDonald, Sarah Fabian, Megan Kloustin, Anh Le, Bob Stanfield, Colleen O’Toole, Nöel Quiton, Larry Pearlstein

Approval of previous meeting minutes – One correction on the spelling of Sarah’s name, there is an “h” at the end.  Approved by board.

Presidents report

• Quick review of fine policy & words from Larry

  • Recap from July meeting about policies:

    • 2022 Sign Policy – Board decided to rescind this policy in a unanimous vote. 

    • 2022 Fine Policy – The fine policy remained unchanged.

    • 2022 Late Payment Policy – Board voted in support of a revised interim policy. 

Larry Pearlstein addressed the board regarding how the board’s policies may conflict with the Declaration of Covenants in the bylaws.  The board heard his comments and responded that our policies have been revised previously by the board to address this.

Committees Updates

• Treasurer – No updates except the reserve fund agenda item (below)

• ABR – Anh No new applications

• Welcome – Courtney (via Chris) – No new activity

• Activities – Fall festival was a success!  Next activity in the park is Cookies and Coco for Santa.

• Parks – Laura Sullivan and Bob are working to get estimates to install a bridge at the south park.  Laura received an estimate from the contractor in excess of $40,000, so we decided against that contractor.  Bob will continue with obtaining an estimate from rescue renovations and look into the cost of a prefabricated bridge.

Sarah asked about buckthorn dead branch removal at the Platt road entrance.  Bob informed that Guardian Tree services has been contacted to remove the dead branches. Sarah also asked whether there will be further removal of buckthorn, and Bob responded that nothing further at this time unless it interferes with the sidewalk.

New Business

• Colleen informed the board that Warner Creek HOA has reserve funds in two accounts; $1052 in Huntington Bank and $32,862 in Enterprise bank under our Compass contract.  Neither of these accounts pays market interest rates.  Colleen introduced a motion to move the balances from Huntington and Enterprise banks into a Certificate of deposit through Citizens bank that pays 5%

The motion was seconded by Bob Stanfield.  There was some discussion about liquidity of the funds and Colleen advised we could have access to the money, but since this is a reserve account, any withdrawal would be planned in advance.

The motion was unanimously approved.

• A motion was brought forward by Chris to approve the revised Late Fee Proposal that was based on an amended document already approved by the board in July.  The motion was seconded and unanimously approved.

• The board agreed to continue to have short monthly meetings.  The next meeting will be in December.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:53pm