I¡¯m glad to hear of the Board meeting on this
Wednesday, May
5 at 6 pm at Ricardo¡¯s.
I¡¯ve finally received the ¡°public record¡± of
the ?Fairfield Estates RIMD
budgets for 2019 and
2020 and they are attached.
The budgets are very simple with income about
$20,000 a year in taxes, ~$10,000 in transfer from Reserve Account
(which I know
nothing about) and for 20-21 ~$22,000 carryover.
The planned expenditures for each year are
essentially
$5,000 for Professional Services and $20,000 for improvements
other than
buildings.
The last pages have the cash balances on June
30, ~$14K in
2019 and ~$33K in 2020. From 2019 to 2020 the cash balance
increased by $18,569
so not much was spent in 2020.
The FERIMD was dormant for several year before
2019 when Jim
revised it. I greatly appreciate him for doing that as the Road
District is a
hugely important assent of our community.
But the Road District is taking about $20,000
in our taxes every year, and
I suggest the Board start following some of the rules that boards
normally
follow. See the attached copy of the Board Members Resource
Manual.
On page 24 of the attached Manual, it says,
¡°The public
must receive prior notice of the¡.meetings at 24 hours in advance.
The notice
must include ¡an agenda listing the specific matters to be
discussed,
considered or decided upon.¡±
On page 10 it says, ¡°All districts must publish
their budget
30 days prior to the Public Hearing at a meeting to adopt the
fiscal year
budget.? A copy of the
publisher's
affidavit and the published budget must be submitted along with
the district
budgets.¡±
Obviously 30 days prior can¡¯t be met for the
budget on May 5, but 24
hours prior should be able to be met with no problem.
So, the meeting Wednesday should have an agenda
and budget published
24 hours ahead of time. Hal¡¯s email said, ¡°We plan to discuss
mailboxes, the
recent history of the board, and financial records.¡±, which sounds
like a good
start to an agenda.
If you have specific questions or items, you
want added to
the agenda, I suggest that you send them to Hal and that he
,following the Board Members Resource Manual, publish (via this
) a more specific agenda 24 hours ?before the meeting.
Ken
