Donner Summit Area Association

Board Meeting Minutes



Date:     Thursday, December 16, 2004

Time:     6:40 pm to 8:00 pm

Location: Donner Summit PUD Board Meeting Room

Type:     Second Board Meeting



Attending:

Julie Davies

John Kirrene

Lori VanMeter

Daniel Wexler

Jim Thomson

Kristy Champagne

Charlie Riley

Devin Wixon Keller





1. Legal Structure of Association 6:40 - 7:00

  - VM spoke with Steve Lieberman regarding possible legal status choices

      - We will ask Steve if he can present options to the board at next meeting

  - Discussed possible tax exempt status options:

      - some prevent various types of lobbying, is that okay?

      - 501 c4 (established non-profit) may be best fit

      - public benefit orgs are not tax exempt, is that important?

      - decision that this is an issue that should be voted on by membership



2. Vision Discussion

  - Open discussion about what we want to do

  - NCL.org presented by Lori

  - Discussion about interaction with govnt, attending county meetings

  - How do we gather community opinion

  - Outside vs. inside influences on community

  - Historical review of outside studies that affected zoning code

  - Put together a vision statement, how active should we be? what limits?

  - Lori suggests outside help to put together vision statement

  - Each person puts together a few vision statement sentences

  - Vision statement will be focus of next board meeting



3. Next meeting

  - 12/30 6:30pm, Donner Summit Public Utility District meeting room



4. Website review

  - Switching to donnersummitareaassociation.org by next board meeting

  - Switching to new engine that permits anonymous posting without login



5. Fictitious Business Names Statement and Other Organizational Updates

  - New mailing address for DSAA: a P.O. Box 674, Soda Springs

  - Physical address for DSAA: 21714 Donner Pass Rd.

  - Filed FBN, with four officers as an association

  - once we hear back, we have to publish in paper, 30 days later we're legal

  - once we have a FBN we can get a bank account (for donations)



6. Committee Updates

  - Government Contact: John Rumsy (888-832-1411)

      - PlaVada "Populated Area" sign moved further up the hill

      - New signs on order from CalTrans!

          One "Welcome to Soda Springs"

          Two "Share the Road"

          Four, yes four! "Historic Highway 40"

      - Signs have "Chain Control" on reverse side

      - Signs to be installed in spring

      - Senic Bypass designation is under discussion, but not yet approved

  - Historical

      - still needs list of historical members

  - Communications:

      - channel 6 public access posting

      - notification to be sent to other homeowner organizations

  - Zoning

      - will not attempt a complete plan, just too much work

      - parcel by parcel basis, starting with soda springs area and norden

# posted by Daniel Wexler @ 2:27 PM