HOL meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month (except for December) at 4:30 PM in the Fireside Room or when posted.
All residents are invited.
Agendas and or minutes will be posted when available.
HOL APRIL Agenda
Wednesday, April 3, 2025, at 4:30 PM
In the Fireside Room
Call to order:
Public comments:
Approval of minutes: March 6, 2025
Treasurer’s report: Tara
Committees:
Activities and events report: Janie
Just One Hour/Buddy Program: ?
Craft & Chat/HOL Bulletin Board/Boutique/Ballroom Craft Fair: Tara
Contractors Guide: John
Art in the Park: Suzie
Extra Food: Jill
Pool: Ed
Trash pickup: Ed
Yard Maintenance: ?
Old business:
1. Pride Day parade: John
Saturday, June 28th Need to find a co-organizer
New business:
1. New board member(s): John
2. Gym faithfuls: Janie
PAC report
DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Next meeting is on Thursday, May 1, at 4:30 pm.
Adjournment
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HOL General Meeting Final Minutes 3/6/25
CALL TO ORDER: Board Members Present: John Feld—President, Ed Collins—Vice President, Timo Navsky, Absent, Anne Lakota—Secretary, Tara Plocher—Treasurer, Lisa Jackler, Absent, Janie Klimes—Activities and Events, Michale Dancer—At Large, Sandy Zeichner Absent
Residents present: Shareen Akroosh, Jill Boland, Ginger Christie, Marty Gelman, Peggy Hill, Suzie Lahr, Erma Wheatley
Public Comments: John Feld Timo Navsky has officially resigned from the HOL Board, but she is always willing to help with anything we want.
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES from February 6, 2025
TREASURER’S REPORT: Tara Plocher
Income for February $62.00
Expenses $643.18
Bank Balance 2/28/2025 $10,870.87
General Fund $6,795.87
Yard Fund $4,075.00
Tara Plocher made a comment about the Dump Run. It only cost us $100.00 this time because of donations.
Activities and Events: Janie Klimes Pretty much the same as last time. Refer to the calendar.
Erma Wheatley We have some new things coming up. On April 29, Ed Collins and Michael Hagerty are doing a seminar on Having Difficult Conversations.
John Feld The Last Monday Lectures are continuing. On Monday, March 31, Nan Watanabe presents Group Strength Training at 4:30pm in the Fireside Room.
Just One Hour: John Feld for Lisa Jackler Nothing new to report.
Yard Maintenance: John Feld for Lisa Jackler Nothing new to report.
Craft and Chat/HOL Bulletin Board/Breezeway Boutique/Rollin’ Root/Ballroom Craft Market: Tara Plocher Anywhere from 3 to 6 people have been coming to Craft and Chat. She cleans up the Bulletin Board when it gets messy.
The Breezeway Boutique has moved to the cute little shed at the end. It has more donations and people are always in there. The vendors have done really well at the last few Craft Fairs.
The Contractors Guide: John Feld asked David Tetta for information and didn’t hear anything back. The Guide in the library has very old information.
Art in the Park: Suzie Lahr She and David Gray are hanging Janet Bogardus’ Featured Artist work on Sunday, March 9. The next general exhibit will be hung on June 15.
Erma Wheatley Because of the change of dates for hanging new artwork, there isn’t going to be an artists’ reception. HOL had authorized money for the reception, but it won’t be needed.
Extra Food: Jill Boland Is there a way that weekend events could be scheduled at different times than the Extra Food deliveries? John Feld will talk
to Matt Greenberg about this. In his Echo letter John is also including a request that people don’t move the parking cones.
There is a new administration at the Food Bank located at the beginning of Marin Valley Drive. Sue Meyer picks up food there on Thursday afternoons. They would like to greatly limit the amount of food that Sue brings to us.
Extra Food is the organization that all of our food deliveries come through. They have let us know that the changes in Washington will be having an impact on them. We may not be receiving as much food as we have been.
Nancy Warren is donating a stainless steel refrigerator which has to be picked up by March 14. We will need a refrigerator dolly and a truck with a lift gate.
John Feld will get quotes to have it moved and HOL will pay for the expense. This will be a third refrigerator for the Park Market shed, which will mean that we no longer need to use the stainless steel refrigerator in the kitchen.
The Pool: Ed Collins It’s important to know that along with a shower you should wait 15 or 20 minutes after applying sunscreen before going in the pool. The pool hours for children are 11am-2 pm.
Trash Pickup: Ed Collins There were lots of donations this time. Trash was picked up from 42 homes. Ed does trash pickups twice a year. He could add another pickup if he gets more volunteer help. Kevin Mulvany is adamant that furniture can’t be left at the Boutique. An extra dump run would help with this. If you are interested in helping, please contact Ed.
Hazardous Waste: John Feld You can take toxic waste, which includes house paint, to the Hazardous Waste facility in Novato on Redwood Blvd near Trader Joe’s. It’s free but you have to make an appointment. If you want to use the Hazardous Waste facility in San Rafael, you have to take a bill and your driver’s license to prove that you live in MVMCC. You may need an appointment.
Yard Maintenance: John Feld for Lisa Jackler — Nothing new to report.
Gym Equipment: Janie Klimes Janie and Sandee Duncan have taken it upon themselves to try and improve the gym. Matt Greenberg agrees that there is a lot of old equipment in there. Replacement parts aren’t even available for some of it. Janie is going to label the equipment so that people can identify what’s broken. We also need to identify what gets used and what doesn’t. Matt is looking into buying some more used equipment.
People complain that equipment isn’t wiped down after it’s used. There are antiseptic wipes available in the gym.
Last week Matt bought us aerobic steppers which are against the wall in the gym near a machine that you can hold onto. Eventually, Janie will teach some classes on how to best use those. There is a very specific balance knee and quad exercise which she would like to share.
Lower Marin Valley Drive cleanup: Peggy Hill Earth Day is coming up on April 22, the Tuesday after Easter. We need volunteers to pick up trash starting at 10:30 am while it’s still cool. They clean Marin Valley Drive from the turnaround down to Bolling Drive. They also separate items that can be recycled. Last year it took about an hour.
Pride Day: John Feld — We need someone to help Lee Pochapin organize Pride Day. The event will happen on Saturday, June 28. The parade goes from the parking lot near Pauline Hawkins’ house up to the Clubhouse. We still have a lot of decorations from last year.
PAC and MVC Zoom: John Feld They have all the equipment they need for Zoom but would like 2 more volunteers to run video during those meetings. Ginger Christie may volunteer to do that.
Zoom for HOL events: John Feld — Very often people ask about having Zoom in the Fireside Room for HOL events like Last Monday Lectures, and Maggie’s sing-along concerts. We could use John Hansen’s cameras and microphones that we already own, but we would need volunteers to run the equipment.
John Feld would have to restart his Zoom account. The HOL Board decided to try this idea for one year.
PAC Report: Erma Wheatley — At the PAC meeting, it was announced that Matt is mailing out new bills to everyone because everyone’s bill is a percentage of the total bill. We won’t be charged late fees. If you have already paid, your next month’s bill will be adjusted.
Meeting adjourned at 5:33 pm.
Date of the next meeting is Thursday, April 3 at 4:30 pm.
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