Dear Lakewood POA Property Owner(s),
In the mailings sent by your Lakewood POA board of directors the first and second week of March 2020, you will find the culmination of work performed by your Lakewood POA board of directors to modernize our Bylaws and Covenants. In response to concerns from your fellow community members, after 30 years, it was time to refresh our Bylaws and Covenants and Restrictions. The board has worked steadily over the past 24 months, with guidance from Husch and Blackwell, our HOA/POA attorney experts, to make very minimal changes to the Bylaws, and to a larger degree, update, modernize, and add to the Declarations of Covenants and Restrictions, resulting in the enclosed 7th Amendment.
The current rules in place help your Association board of directors form rules for managing our Association business and affairs, and the updates to the Bylaws and 7th Amendment to the Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions will not change that. However, the updates to the Bylaws give your board of directors the clear ability to establish fines for violations of vacant and adjoining lots in addition to properties and common area facilities as listed in our current Bylaws. Additionally, the board of directors seeks to have the established right to recoup the costs of actual attorney fees, should the Association have to enforce specials assessments against lots or lot owners. The new language in the Bylaws would grant us the ability to do so, should that arise for our Association in the future.
The 7th Amendment will require careful reading and we recommend starting with the final draft provided to us by Husch and Blackwell. This final draft clearly highlights all changes, and additions to the 7th Amendment by your board of directors, incorporating the 6th Amendment, and feedback from our September 14th, 2019 Town Hall meeting, as well as numerous comments on our website and emails we’ve received the past 24 months since beginning this process.
Finally, the ballots provide clear language and the ability for each lot owner to vote on each proposed amendment separately. To pass, and become part of the 7th Amendment to our Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions, each amendment will require 75% support of our community. On April 18th, 2020 at 9:00am at the Lakewood residence of Amy Volkmann, our Board Secretary, we will have volunteer community witnesses present to assist with opening of the ballots and please return the completed ballots in the enclosed envelope no later than April 1st, 2020.
For ballot counting on April 18th, Amy’s address is 1762 19th Drive.
Thank you for your cooperation and input as we’ve worked diligently to make Lakewood one of Adams County’s premier vacation communities.
Respectfully,
Eric Koppa
President
Lakewood POA