Ranchos de Placitas Property Owners Association
Saturday, 22 January 2025 • 10:00AM – 11:30AM
OFFICERS PRESENT: Craig Kendall – president, Graham Allen – VP and Architectural Committee Chair
OFFICERS ABSENT: Linda Sheldon – treasurer, Camille Gabbrielli – secretary
- Welcome and Call to Order
Craig Kendall welcomed those present and called the meeting to order at 10:07AM. - Approval of 27 Apr 2024 Minutes
Minutes of the previous meeting were approved without correction. - President’s Report – Craig Kendall
-Craig thanked Winnie Maggiore for helping check folks in for the meeting.
-Pointed out a meeting is already scheduled for June 28 at the library from 2-3:30pm and noted the Jan meeting for 2026 was scheduled for Jan 17th.
-Thanked Rick and Claire Foster for getting the printed notification out about this meeting.
-Reported that the Association’s Director & Officer’s policy would not be renewed by the current provider and appealed for anyone willing to assist to identify a new policy. There were no volunteers. - Officer & Committee Updates
- Architecture Committee – Graham Allen
-Graham reported there were two projects currently underway:
39 Chaparral – house build
21 Tejon Canon Rd – studio/cassita build
-Camille Victour volunteered to serve on Graham’s committee.
-A question was asked about the process if an owner began a build without design approval by the Architectural Committee. Graham noted that since the Board, and by extension the Committee were granted neither the responsibility or authority to enforce the Covenants, there was no path for the Board/Committee to take, but owners any owner/group of owners could take the non-compliant owners to court.
-It was suggested that the Committee could write a letter to the owner emphasizing the risk of their non-compliance and noting they were in violation of the Covenants.
-Graham reiterated that all non-exempt property builds were subject to the Covenants, as well as county, state, and federal laws and that everyone had to have a building permit from the county. - Treasurer – Craig Kendall (Acting)
-Pointed to the report link online for those that wanted to review.
-Noted there was a $5.15 change to the previous report due to a misclassified transaction. The result was no change in assets, liabilities, or equity. Just an adjustment to the two affected categories on the previous report.
-Craig reviewed the balance sheet and profit and loss statements which are available online presenting them for approval. The reports were approved.
- Architecture Committee – Graham Allen
- Old Business
- New Business
-There was significant discussion about communication and notifications about meetings. Craig committed to consider additional ways to notify residents about meetings beyond email.
After extensive discussion about unit directors, volunteers and the lack thereof it was suggested that the vacant second vice president would be a possible way to coordinate unit directors for the purpose of communication. Craig agreed it was a good idea and committed to look into it.
-Mike Neas raised the question of having a water board representative at our meetings for reporting and questions. Craig noted he’s been working on something like that and that the water board meetings were open to the public for those interested.
-Craig noted the preparing for wildfires briefing scheduled at the library for the 25th of Feb.
-A point of order was raised about the April 2024 vs August 2024 minutes linked on the website, and after discussion a motion was made to amend the approval of the minutes at today’s meeting to be for the August 2024 meeting minutes not the April 2024 minutes. The motion was seconded and passed. - Adjournment
-A motion was offered to adjourn, seconded, and approved at 11:45am.