Voters Approve Sale of Voyager Property
The ballots for the sale of the Crystal Lake property and the sale or lease of the campground were tabulated on Monday, January 11, 2010. The results are as follows.
Sale or lease of the campground – 416 yes votes and 107 no votes; Sale of the Crystal Lake Property – 405 yes votes and 116 no votes. The board will proceed accordingly.
The Board of Directors would also like to thank those members that took the time to complete and return their ballots.
VOYAGER VILLAGE POA ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING MINUTES
June 21, 2008
Pursuant to Article XIII, Section 1 of the Bylaws of Voyager Village Property Owners Association, Inc. President Dave Anderson called the 2008 annual membership meeting to order at 1:00 p.m. at the Community Center at 4506 County Road A, Burnett County, Wisconsin.
The Election Committee Chairperson, Don Uecker announced there was a quorum of 10% present as required by Article XIII, Section 4 of the Bylaws of Voyager Village Property Owners Association, Inc. Required quorum was 129 members registered in person or by proxy. 160 members were registered in person or by proxy.
The president introduced the board of directors: Elra Johnson - Vice President & Board Liaison to the Architectural and Environmental Control Committee and the Entertainment & Recreation Committee; Jerry Gobel - Treasurer & Board Liaison for the Audit & Finance Committee; Karen Carlson - Director & Board Liaison for the Arts & Crafts Show and the Village Players Community Theater; Vin Berger - Director and Board Liaison for the Insurance Committee; Tom Heenan - Director & Board Liaison for the Trails Committee; Mike Maloney - Director and Board Liaison for the Golf, Golf Handicap and the Greens Committees.
Dave announced that Mike Maloney’s son recently lost his battle with Cancer and Mike was unable to be at the meeting because he was attending an event in the Twin-Cities to raise funds to help defray costs for medical treatment associated with his Son’s illness.
Dave stated that Vin Berger has served two consecutive terms as a Director and on behalf of the property owners and the Board of Directors, thanked Vin for his 6 years of dedicated service Voyager Village.
Elra Johnson also thanked Dave Anderson for his 6 years of service to Voyager Village.
Mark Crowl, Director of Marketing; Andrea Neubich, Controller; Steve Johnson, Golf Course Superintendent and Linda Nordstrom from the POA office were introduced by the president.
Dave Anderson asked for a motion to approve the 2007 annual meeting minutes as printed.
Caroyl Long of Winter Hill 34 requested the minutes be corrected to reflect the treasurer’s statement that the financials were not correct. Jerry Gobel, treasurer responded saying that the schedule of revenues and expenses by facility was not audited.
Jerry Gobel made the motion to approve the minutes as corrected. The motion was seconded by Karen Carlson. It was the consensus of the membership to approve the 2007 minutes as corrected.
Committee Reports: John Freese, chairman of the Architectural and Environmental Control Committee noted that approximately $2,600.00 was spent cleaning up trash dumped on lots and common area within Voyager Village. Approximately 40 tires at $10.00 per tire were picked up along with appliances and other items. Rose Anne Berg, Trails Committee asked for volunteers to help with the trails.
Treasurer’s Report: Jerry announced that the financials were mailed with the annual meeting information and they are also on the web site. Jerry proceeded to explain the audited balance sheet, audited income statement and statement of cash flows.
Bob Lee questioned the section 179 depreciation expense. It was noted that Voyager opted to take accelerated deprecation expense to reduce our tax liability. Dennis Larson asked if we could have purchased more equipment. Answer – no as we already used up section 179.
As there were no more questions, Bob Lee made a motion to accept the treasurer’s report as presented. A member seconded the motion and it was approved by the membership.
General Manager Mark Crowl proceeded to thank the board of directors and the management team. He presented Dave Anderson, Vin Berger and Jerry Gobel a token of Voyager’s appreciation.
He announced the Twerps will be here on July 19 at Kilkare Lodge for a beach party. He thanked Arts and Crafts for their donation to fund the band and money to purchase watermelons for the event.
Mark requested that members storing their canoes on the canoes racks at the various locations within Voyager get an i.d. sticker from the POA office.
Dave Anderson proceeded to explain the schedule of authority limitations, organizational charts, primary corporate objectives and primary policy statements. He stated that a correction in the schedule of authority limitations under number I – hiring general manager changing the approval required from the G.M. to the Board.
He noted the primary policy statement had been a work in progress. A revised primary policy statement and exhibit A was handed out in the morning when members registered for the meeting.
Lee Jorgenson made a motion to approve the schedule of authority limitations as corrected, the primary corporate policy, and the primary policy statements and exhibit A as revised. The motion was seconded by Bob Lee. Discussion was held on exhibit A – the requirements for approving. It was noted that the requirement for approving would be a majority of persons registered in person or by proxy at an annual meeting.
Under the primary policy statements - Employee Related - the wording “and shall be subject to any employment contracts” was questioned. It was noted that Wisconsin is an “at will” state.
Discussion continued under General – “All Board members, management and other employees that are privileged to receive sensitive information are required to execute a confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement.” There was concern that the board would not be able to discuss with members information they feel they have a right to.
Dave Anderson called for a vote on the motion:
While the voting slips were being counted, Don Uecker announced the results of the election to the board of directors as follows: Mark Chaklos – 171; Robert Ellson – 279; Jerry Gobel – 309; Brian Langdon – 164 and Lawrence Lindberg – 256. Robert Ellson, Jerry Gobel and Lawrence Lindberg were elected to the board of directors.
The results for the motion to approve the schedule of authority limitations as corrected, the primary corporate policy, and the primary policy statements and exhibit A as revised were announced by Don Uecker. The motion passed with 130 votes for the motion. 72 were necessary for adoption. 142 votes were cast with 11 votes against the motion and 1 illegal vote.
There being no further business to come before the membership, the meeting was adjourned at 2:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted
Linda Nordstrom
Recording Secretary
