GPHA Minutes June 1, 2026
Board Members:
Dave, Jed, Rowdy
Residents:
MaryAnn K, Kieth K, Jim & Lisa M, Geraldine R, Lori S, Michael P, David M.
Call to Order: 6:35
Treasurer’s Report
- Account Balance: $68,370.10
- Outstanding Balance: $4,025.00
Design Review
- A few this week, all looked good
Shed Ammendment Passed
- Vast majority voted yes
- Lawyers are handling filing with city, will let us know next steps
Accountant
- Brief explanation of who Ben is
- Notice that we’ve passed bill payment on to Ben, instead of Dave handling
Davey Tree
- Contract with them to continue, lowest price and good service
- $22,315.00 – same as last year
- Idea from previous meeting of adding flowers to entrance
Pollinator Gardens
- They’re not looking good
- Davey can handle, but we should look into it more. Need to confirm if they have an actual pollinator guy
Garage Sale
- Coming this weekend
- Shout out to new letter board
- We have little directional signs, home owners can decorate their own mailboxes
- Dave needs to rush sign at corner
- Jed to make map: printed flyers and up online
Getting bylaws re-written to be cleaner
- Currently on the website as scanned PDFs, hard to read
- Lawyers able to do it for $2,000 or so
- Jed to look for people on Fiverr
New letter board purchased
- $360
Electrical outlets at front entrance
- Need to look back at who installed it
- Davey has an electrician that can look at it
- Dave reached out to Dennis, no response yet
- Check that one big box
Holes in fence
- Call out to fence company for quote
Quickbooks verification
- Need to submit paperwork to prove 501 tax status
- Assigned to Ben
Maintenance Walkthrough
- To be done July / August by Dave and Rowdy
- Explanation of process for residents in attendance
- Question on how to follow up with houses who have not fixed things year-over-year
- Resident: complaint on yards that have weeds and overgrowth, why aren’t we doing walks more often
- Resident: suggestion that each street have volunteers to walk more often
- Resident: put comment box at end of street for telling on people
- Idea to form “maintenance team” that can help
- Ask for volunteers in newsletter and on facebook
- Add as item when Dave sends letter about sheds
- Resident: question about gardens, specifically that one house on Parkland
Resident Participation
Question about rentals
- Who pays yearly dues, owner or renter?
- Should be owner, but we can’t really enforce that either way
Question about moving all communication to email
- It just isn’t realistically feasible
- We can ask title company for new home owner’s email address to start building database
- It’d be nice to send a welcome packet and invitation to meeting
New Welcome packet to include
- by-laws
- invitation to next meeting
- call out for website
Fire house on Andover
- Explanation of insurance troubles
- There is a ‘for sale’ sign
Streetlight down on Dayflower, city is finally fixing
Discussion on sidewalks being fixed
Further discussion on walkthrough and by-laws concerning trash cans and satellite dishes
Next Meeting: Tentative Around end of August
Meeting Adjourned: 7:35