2023 August 1 HOA Meeting Minutes
Fairways at Pheasant Run Homeowners Association Meeting Minutes
Meeting: HOA Meeting
Date: August 1, 2023
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Canton Township Administration Building, Room D
Meeting was called to order at 6:31 PM by RT
Attendees:
HOA Board
o Ron Thompson (RT) o Dr. Derek Bair (DB) o Hassan Ajami (HA) o Carol Savoni (CS)
o Steve Hazime (SH) - Zoom Others
o Debi Micallef (DM)
o Andrew Nowak (homeowner)
o Homeowner
o Homeowner
o Homeowner
o Brian Burke (homeowner) – Zoom o BB (homeowner) - Zoom
1. Approval of agenda
a. Agenda approved 4-0
2. Approval of minutes a. Approved 4-0
3. President’s Report
a. Amendment discussion, will cover later
4. Treasurer’s report a. No report
5. Architectural Review a. CS
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Circle drive house corrected issues ID’d by board
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Still have issue with driveway extension
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Approved as patio extension
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Using it to park cars
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3. Talk to homeowner about not parking cars there a. CS&HA
b. DB
i. Original Canton plan was for HOA’s to enforce rules
1. HOA had to approve prior to Township approval ii. Township now backpedaled, they want to enforce
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Took power away from HOAs
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Township not require HOA approval now
c. Homeowner
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Why even have HOAs now if Township taking over enforcement?
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Homeowner parking work trailer in driveway
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Tree limbs too low
d. CS
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Township not even enforcing ordinances
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Already went out and logged issues
6. PRRMA
a. No report
7. Code Enforcement a. RT
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Been here since 95
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Seen the downfall
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Ran for HOA President position back then to make sure issues were addressed
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Big issue is ignoring C&Rs leads to other doing the same or worse
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Many issues are violations of C&R & Township ordinances
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C&R has no teeth
1. Reason for the amendment
b. DB
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Reason for lowering threshold is low turnout
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Elections only had 98 homes out of 263 vote
c. RT
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Potential violations ID’s
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Plan is to send letters to homeowners to fix issues, then escalate to
Township
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For now, hold off on sending letters until amendment passes
d. CS
i. Talk to your neighbors about the amendment
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Reason for it
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Simple majority
e. RT
i. Will put together letter for board review and eventually send to
homeowners
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Explain what we’re doing and why
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Ask homeowners to talk to their neighbors
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Resend DocuSign 2-3 days after
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In-person for who’s left
f. DB
i. Many things in C&R are set in 1994, its time to update it
g. Homeowner
i. Almost gave up, thinking of leaving the sub
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CS
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There are some really bad issues
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ID them and talk to them to take care of the issue
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DM
i. Better luck with calling the homeowner vs sending letters
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Send list of homes with major issues to DM
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RT has list from CS
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Will combine with DB’s list and email out
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Issues with dead trees or trees not replaced with proper type
8. Old Business
a. Glengarry Well
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Well was fixed
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Township did a survey, well was not on his property
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Homeowner told it’s not his property
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Contractor out to fix well, issue with homeowner
1. Police called
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Contractor was out to set up sprinklers
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Homeowner came out and caused issues
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Police called again
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Directive is to call police if he’s in the well area
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Homeowner – He was told he could use the well water originally
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It’s not HOA property, belongs to the Township
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Sprinklers are being worked on
b. Drain
i. 2 quotes in so far, waiting for more
c. Amendment to C&R
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Already discussed
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RT - Motion to draft letter explaining amendment
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Pass 4-0
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AN – Use a forwarding # that can be disconnected?
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Homeowner – How many signatures per house?
1. 1, has to be the homeowner, renters don’t qualify iv. RT
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88 opened DocuSign
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73 signed
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Some had questions, cleared up through email
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80% takes effect immediately
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66% takes effect in 3 years
Inspections
d. Solar Survey
i. SH – Does board want to allow solar?
9. New Business a. None
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Approve contingent on Arch committee developing guidelines
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Task Arch Review with developing guidelines on solar
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Motion – Approve solar panels with contingency that Arch review
develop guidelines and review requests
a. Approved 4-0, 1 abstain (CS)
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CS – concern with guidelines locking some homeowners out from any solar
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Houses that face South or West
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No panels on front
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Panels facing golf course
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Nothing in C&R restricting them, want to get ahead and create guidelines
10. Public Comments
a. Meeting Minutes
i. Post to website when approved
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Next meeting planned for September 5, 2023 @ 6:30 pm
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Public meeting adjourned at 7:45 pm
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Entered closed session at 7:48 pm
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Closed Session adjourned at 8:06 pm