January 10, 2006 Meeting Minutes

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The meeting was called to order at the Burgundy Clubhouse by Errol Rowland , Burgundy , at 7:00pm. Introductions were made and the following residents were present:

Aurora council person, Molly Markert, was unable to attend as were 2 Exec Committee members. The agenda was accepted.  A vote of: “UAHR mission is to preserve the Heather Ridge 18-hole golf course in its current form at a golf course market price”, was unanimously re-affirmed.

Cathy Thrash, Chimney Hill, gave the treasurer’s report:  The 12/31/2005 UAHR Contribution List $9,655- was displayed as well as the UAHR Check Book register, balance $8,656.37 (each is detailed at the end of these minutes).   It was noted that 2 more contributions were received today.  One from Cobblestone Crossing HOA and one from a private individual Burgundy resident.

Cathy said we committed $3,500- last week starting the formation of our Special District.

Vinny Roith , Sausalito , will have more on this later in the meeting.  The members unanimously approved the treasurer’s report.

Next we moved to the GMOR report - Group for Maintenance of Residents.

Sharon Gunderson, Double Tree, reported that she still is working with the neighborhoods in the surrounding area and encouraging them to support our efforts with letters to the newspaper, media and City Council Members. She stated "We must continue the letter writing campaign to be heard". Consideration must also be given to raise funds with neighborhood functions such as wine & cheese tasting, neighborhood social gatherings, and the like to continue to generate contributions and donations for our cause.  A special thank you was given to Dean Glorso , Fairway 16, for offering several historical documents on the early days of Heather Ridge .  Many of these documents are now published on a new History of HR web page of our UAHR.org website.

Next from the GCAAG - Golf Course Acquisition Action Group.

Vinny Roith reported that our special district attorney, Gary White, filed the SERVICE PLAN to form the Special District with the City of Aurora on January 6^th.  We are now known and recognized by the city as the proposed Heather Ridge Metropolitan District.  We are forming this Special District in order that we gain control of the future of the golf course. It will now take approximately five weeks to complete the paperwork.  Our group needs to provide more specific boundaries for the Special District.  Dean Glorso offered his professional assistance with the legal descriptions. David Brahinsky, Country Club Ridge, also offered to help with the legal descriptions of the newly formed County Club Ridge. Vinny stated Gary had provided us with the financial requirements. We now have specifics to form a budget.  The budget is broken down into two areas: First is the requirement to bring our Special District to election; and second to retain a Land Use Attorney.  Retention of a Land Use Attorney was advised by Gary White and also David Clinger (see his comments in the UAHR October 11, 2005 minutes).

The breakdown for this budget is:

Several avenues for obtaining finances were discussed including:

Van Lewis, Heather Ridge South, previously stated that the homeowners living on the golf course will have major concerns should the golf course be developed.  He recommended they be asked to contribute a larger amount than those not being directly adjacent to the golf course.  Cathy Thrash and Vinny had done some homework on this and the proposal was: The number of homes directly on the golf course numbered 362.  Dividing that number by the required $75,000 suggests each homeowner living directly on the golf course be asked for a donation of $207.00 dollars per household, and $50 contribution from those not directly adjacent to the golf course.

Attendees agreed to this method of fund raising.  Letters would be prepared to those on the golf course from the executive board of UAHR.org.  Two types of letters would be prepared: one for the requested $207 contribution and one for the $50 contribution.  Ed Kay and Elaine M. Long agreed to draft the form letters to the 2 groups. The following persons agreed to forward the names and addresses of each group to the UAHR Executive Board for mailing preparation:

Cathy thrash agreed to supply the postage for this mailing. 

Finally from IDAG - Influencing Development Groups.

Errol reported that the group is not aware of any current development activities. This led to a discussion of our intent to hire a LAND USE ATTORNEY. At the UAHR October 11 meeting, David Clinger was adamant that we retain an attorney specializing in "LAND USE" because of the ongoing, tenacious development threat. Clinger donated $500 and 25 hours to help us preserve the golf course and prevent development. Since this meeting, we have had several people including Gary White who have recommended we retain a LAND USE ATTORNEY. The LAND USE ATTORNEY will offer legal opinions regarding the ways to stop development of the golf course; as well as any re-zoning issues. We have agreed we need the best, most respected LAND USE ATTORNEY in the metro area to represent the UAHR.org.

New business - City Council committee assignments are done and we need to write to the people involved in the Planning Development Group. This list will be posted on the web site. Andy Klein was contacted by the Rocky Mountain News and, apparently, stated that he was no longer interested in buying the golf course.

To Dos for next meeting

1.       Raise $75k – gather HOA N/A for mailing, Homeowner letter prep & Mailing

2.       Develop SD boundaries – including Country Club Ridge

3.       Alternate Funding continuation – assistance to Lynn Dolan and Libby Toomalatai

4.       Letters from UAHR to: New City planning committee introducing UAHR and seeking support; City Council (CC) – seeking support; CC thanking for support; Talent Contributors thanking support

5.       Retain LAND USE ATTORNEY

The next monthly UAHR.org meeting scheduled for Feb 7, 2006 at the Burgundy Clubhouse.  The meeting adjourned at 8:15pm. 

Minutes by Jane S Klein, United Association of Heather Ridge, Inc. Secretary

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