Mapleton Mobile-izers

Board Elections for President, Secretary and Management Committee Chair

Inside this Issue:

• HHS Corner

• Minutes of the Winter Quarterly Meeting of the MHA

• Minutes of the General Meeting of the MHA

• Exec Speaks Out

• Spring Elections

• HHS Corner, by Jeff Yegian

Congratulations to all of us, and especially to you, the residents of Mapleton Mobile Home Park!  After years of discussion and work, the Park is now under your control.  The City's role is now scaled back to a simple monitoring of permanent affordability, so you won't be hearing from us in the future.  We're confident that under your management the Park will continue to provide enjoyable and affordable housing opportunities for Boulder.  Thanks again for your hard work, patience and support.  Farewell and let us know if we can do anything to help.

Housing and Human Services Staff

Jeff Yegian

Homeownership Programs Manager

Division of Housing

303-441-4363

Minutes of the Winter Quarterly Meeting of the MHA

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Mapleton Home Association Quarterly Meeting, October 24, 2004  5:-6:00 p.m., Unity Church Folsom & Valmont.  Meeting began at 5:10

MHA President Mark Reeder opened the meeting by reading the rules of the Quarterly meeting and then announcing the agenda.  The Agenda was voting on the new MHA By-laws and updates by Thistle Community Housing.

Mark told the residents that the new MHA By-laws had been passed out to the residents of Mapleton Mobile Home Park two weeks earlier so they all received a copy.He then thanked Mapleton Park resident, John Hollin, for the extensive work John performed in going over the By-laws and pointing out those areas that needed to be revised. Next, Mark thanked the members of the Executive Board, Steering Committee and Management Committee for the time they took in revising the Bylaws.    

Mark opened the floor to discusion of the Bylaws.

A question was asked about the number of people on the Executive Board.  Mark answered that five people were on the board, including, President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Management Committee Chairperson.  At the upcoming April election, residents would be voting for a Management Committee Chairperson for the first time.

Resident Ben Jensen then explained that the new By-laws reflected the change from the original intention of the by-laws to be used for a Limited Equity Co-op and the need for Buy-laws to be used for inclusion in the Thistle Community Housing Community Land Trust.

When there were no further comments, Mark closed the floor for discussion.  Ben Jensen then motioned for a vote on approving the new By-laws for the Mapleton Home Association.  Jonathan Machen seconded the motion.  Mark called for a show of hands in support of the motion and then for a show of hands against the motion.  The motion passed.  Don Lucas then asked that the minutes show the motion passed by unanimous acclamation.

Mark then turned the floor over the Etta Habegger and Bill Windsor of TCH.

Etta gave a brief overview of the new leases and rent tiers.  She stated that TCH was working hard to get the new leases available by February.  In addition, she stated there would be a floating timetable for the leases to become active.  Residents who signed their leases right away could expect their new rent to be effective as early as March 1st.  Residents who took their time could see their new rents begin as late as May 1st.

Respectively submitted by Nick Tamm, the Secretary of the MHA

Minutes of the General Meeting of the MHA

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January 30th 2005

President Mark Reeder called to order the general meeting of the MHA at 5:05pm Sunday, January 30th, 2005 at Wash House Plaza in the Park.  The only order of business was voting on the new By-laws for the Mapleton Home association.  According to the current By-laws, new By-laws must be approved in two consecutive quarterly or general meetings of the MHA.  The new By-laws had been passed by unanimous consent at the January 23rd Quarterly Meeting.  Mark opened the floor for discussion.  There was none.  he then asked if someone would call a motion to vote approval or denial of the new By-laws. MHA Secretary, Nick Tamm, called a motion to vote approval for the new By-laws.  Resident Gene Langlois seconded the motion.  The motion passed unanimously . The new By-laws were approved a second time and became the official By-laws of the MHA.

Mark Reeder adjourned the meeting at 5:15.

by Mark Reeder

I will be stepping down as President of the MHA this April.  This is my third term as President and I suppose I’ve pretty much worn out my welcome by now.  Or as Debbie Kranzler once said on a project we were working on, “I guess we’ve done about as much damage as we can.  It’s time to bow out gracefully.”

Seriously, being President of the MHA has been one of the finest jobs I have ever had.  It was one of the easiest too.  With all the fine volunteers and the great work they did, I didn’t have to do much more than attend a few meetings and bang the gavel at the Quarterly Meetings. 

Now, one chapter ends and a new one begins.  We are officially part of the Thistle CLT, and we are managing ourselves.  For the last 9 years the residents have worked through their homeowner’s association to make this dream come true.  It has been a long time but the rewards have been worth the work.  I want to thank all the people from Mapleton Park, Thistle Community Housing and Housing and Human Services Staff, City Council members and Boulder’s City Managers of the last nine years for their help and support in making this project a reality.  The number of people and the thousands of hours put into this project are the reason it was a success.