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
