OLD SEMINOLE HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC.

Board Meeting
16 June 2009
At SHIP Bldg, North Florida Ave.

Call to order by Pres Jeff Harmon at 6:30PM

REPORTS OF OFFICE
Agenda item #1: Presentation of Minutes -&- to approve an additional item.
What was stated was a vote to approve minutes but there was an additional set of
minutes per the Agenda.
The Board met on 4 June, the day after the Articles of Incorporation for the Consortium.
Board approved last month's (May) minutes. I don't think anyone realized that there were
another set of minutes that may have just been motioned-2nd-Approved..No one had a
chance to question what was contained in “EB Meeting”. Whatever it was also was
approved without discussion.

Treasurer Report - Cathy Simon

$58,869.70 in C.D.
$ 8,171.99 in C.D.
$ 3,551.98 in Money Mkt acct.
$ 1,083.48 in Pay-Pal but now $592.89 (no explanation on why diff)
$ 5.17 in savings
$ 4,262.55 in checking

Website: Cathy has asked Shawn to post Expense Reimbursement Forms on the
OSHNA site similar to Jeff's vouchers. Shawn said he hadn't posted the form yet.
However it's there as of 06/20/2009.
Go to about → Forms ->Expense Forms

Cathy stated she had 2-tubs of treasurer material and wants to know if some of it can be
destroyed. Evan stated that most of it is years of receipts paid for bills and bank
statements which he thought were no longer useful.

Ingrid Smith (member) asked if it wouldn't be prudent to save those for the audit, just in
case an item had a trail coming back to those receipts.. & how was the audit coming?
Cathy remarked that we had a CPA: with whom OSHNA has an “Agreed upon
Procedure”.

Cathy noted the CPA will audit from Oct 2007 to current and auditor needs profit and
loss balance sheet for every month prior to YR 2008 and there is none that she can find.
Evan confirmed YR2006 records are missing and part of YR2007. Cathy needs balance
sheet P&L report thru Dec YR2008 and intends to email Susan to see if she has back up
of records (per Eric’s suggestion since Susan was Treasurer during that time). She
agreed to contact Susan for info.

Rick Fifer (member) commented from audience that OSHNA has not filed tax returns
and that they are required if revenue exceeds 25 thousand per year. It would be a
mistake to destroy records. ERIC was emphatic that the old treasurer materials should
NOT be destroyed. Cathy agreed to store them in her attic.
Jeff says the tax attorney Mike Nolen advised OSHNA is not paying taxes however
everyone should file with the IRS regardless, even if you are under or over $25,000.00.
Cathy agreed upon the procedure of contacting Susan for info and go from there.

Treasurer Report was approved.

New Business:
Crime Awareness Chair – open
Jeff says Shawn Hicks volunteered to take the position. Board voted and approved.
Shawn stated he intended to re-create the committee/website.
(But didn’t go into any detail).

Operation Empowerment –
Guest: Lisa Montelione (woman from this non-profit program) spoke.
Program established in YR2004 is a non-profit 501(c)3 writing program developed to
teach children to properly write an essay and to improve basic writing skills. They work
with under served schools and the lowest under performing schools. In the schools
serving S.H. area are three of the lowest High Schools in order: Middleton, Leto, &
Chamberlain.
It is a good Samarian program to bring up FCAT writing test scores from a point to a
th th
point and a half and they target 8 graders and 10 graders in the H.S. Elizabeth
Brown is the school district State of FL educator making the decisions working with Ms.
Lomex side by side in the school district who is supportive for any help at Middleton H.S.

They meet with writing staff and do an assessment of the previous year’s performance
and decide how to help. Sometimes it is teaching the staff properly or the students or
sometimes both. They evaluate every essay a student writes and educate the
neighborhoods on their performance to look for support and fund raising for grant
process or donations by opening up a home or back yard for fund raising events.
They are looking for support from the community volunteer wise and money wise.

Jeff says they already give money directly to the schools and recently did to Hillsborough
H.S. It was noted that Middleton needs support desperately and possibly a Bungalow
Alert could be put out there to organize a fund raiser. Someone asked how many
schools is the program currently helping. Lisa said 6-High Schools, 6-Middle Schools, &
3-Charter Schools. Someone asked how much per child is this costing? Lisa said
approx $35.00 per student for 1-year of the program. Someone asked how many
students are there at M.H.S. Lisa said approx 504.
Jeff said the board would discuss further and thanked her for coming.
She thanked everyone for their time and left the meeting.

Neighborhood Grant Application from the County

rd
Deadline is late July, Jeff thought the 23 .
Greg Barnhill (member) has been the only member of OSHNA to enter an application.
Greg said it was for Green space and to create a Butterfly Garden at the round-about
near the river at Patterson Park as well as having a children’s play ground area of some
sort.
Jeff said the board will decide which request will be granted to submit. Evan said Greg’s
application has been the only one thus far and asked that it be passed. Motion made by
nd
Evan & 2 by Doreen.->Unanimous.

Email Motions – there were none.

Old Business – Dirk Peters (member)

Jeff announced Dirk to speak on matter of eliminating the three members from
the last board meeting in May.
Dirk thanked Jeff for the opportunity to speak on the agenda and read from a
prepared statement. He said recent actions of the three key members of the
association he felt go back to the 2008 election process and that he felt it was
more personal although what happened affected all of us not just the board
members. Dirk stated, “The Expulsion does not serve the Membership” & that
the ”action affects all of us.” He noted different OSHNA articles #6 sections 3 &
4 affecting the good name of OSHNA and in his opinion the news media articles
have done more damage to the good name of OSHNA than what any 3 members
had done. He felt the actions taken were discrimination of “the worst kind plain
and simple, I don’t like you” and that it may not be right how the 3 members
conducted themselves with what did happen but it reached a level where it was
more personal and the three members were not allowed due process and should
have a fair hearing which was not granted to them. He further stated,” that the
OSHNA can't be the Plaintiff, Judge and/or Jury” !

Dirk felt the matter was done terribly and that OSHNA should take the high road
and allow their membership to be reinstated. He asked that the board discuss it
per his request. He said: “The expulsion was subjective and set a bad
precedent.”

Jeff stopped Dirk and interjected that the board did talk about it thoroughly and
didn’t take the decision lightly. He said they offered to talk to the three members
several times and they chose to leave the board meeting when confronted and a
2nd time when mediation was offered, the three members said No.

Dirk said he disagreed with expelling them. Jeff said it was personal to both
sides. Jeff said he has “taken a lot of personal stuff and it has been hard to
take.” (that is a quote). He said let’s cut to the chase; they attended OSHNA’s
open 501(c)3 meeting, then when asked about their 501(c)3 meeting they don’t
want to talk about it to them. Total silence is all Jeff and the board has gotten on
it. Jeff said they were called crazy by the three members during the 19 March
board meeting when the subject was brought up to them.

Bill Hunter said in regards to the due process the board agreed there would be
no suing and it was never on the table to sue. He said “you cannot give due
process if they refuse to even talk to you, they were given the opportunity.”

Then Rick Fifer (member) said, he felt it was so offensive with the expelling of
members and it was wrong if OSHNA was going to go in that direction and the
point was that a lot of things have happened in the past but that no one has ever
been expelled from the association and it a disturbing precedence.
Bill Hunter then said, he had no problem with the creation of the foundation itself
but the problem was in the manner that it was done. He said: “They stole work,
time and money from OSHNA.” (a quote)

Rick then stated Randy should have distanced himself (sooner from the c3
committee) but still not in the best interest of OSHNA and the neighborhood to
expel members.

Then Shawn spoke, he said; speaking for himself personally and not for the
entire board as far as re-instating the membership of the three, he was willing
with two methods.
Option-1: He said: “ask us to sue them in Civil Court” “If we loose we apologize
and give back their membership” “If we win, there are ethical issues with Susan
Long and for Randy.”
Option-2: “Which goes back to the original demand letter stating they return
stolen property and apologize”. Shawn said it was personal and he would prefer
they comply with the demand letter.

In response to Jeff's remark that the board was not suing the SHF founders &
where was everyone getting that? Dirk then said, the demand letter is a pre-
cursor to a lawsuit and everyone knows that. That is how a demand letter is
taken and that he has been involved with such documents as a recipient and as
the giver.

Jeff then said, we understand how that can be taken however we are not going
to sue over this.

Dirk then said, 5-years from now when the board says anyone stole something
then the answer is to expel people and it was the principle of how this happened,
about the process of how this happened. What if the next Board didn't like him
(Jeff) and wanted to expel him?

Jeff then said, “No one did this easily”. “They did more harm taking the
information from OSHNA.” “Had they reached out and said this is what we are
gonna do, it would have been better, but they didn’t.” (That was a quote)

Ingrid Smith (member) then said, the board each time had given the three a swift
kick/jab first prior to a request. Example: removing Randy from THAN & then
sending a demand letter. The OSHNA Board mtg in which mediation was
brought up, with the Demand Letter deadline the following day -the same day in
which the membership letters were received and then took further aggressive
steps that just added to the level of dissatisfaction as if to provoke a non-
responsive outcome.

Jeff than said, “We must protect the organization” Then he stated something
about the formation of a separate Neighborhood Watch group -something that he
had never heard of before and was puzzled by it.

Then Dirk brought up the Mike Massimini (member) and the numerous legal
problems he has been involved with & yet he's a committee chair where at that
point evoked from Helen Harmon (member) "oh, Come on."

Eric Krause then interjected that the board tried to have an open dialog via email
with them and reserved space on their agenda but that the three members
dictated how the agenda would be for all and the date.

Dirk, then informed Eric that he had received the email in questions (ie from SHF
to OSHNA) and it was his opinion that the tone of the emails was business-like.

Eric then said: two members were out of town and the board gave a response
back with what they wanted to present. Since that time, there has been no
response back from SHF and that it takes a meeting in the middle to continue
asking how can you talk to someone when they don't ever respond?

Then Doreen DiBona said: It takes an attorney to respond. SHF should obtain
their own attorney so they could respond to our attorney. Our attorney has had
no response.

Jeff then says they need to respond.

Then Bill Hunter said, “Three people have stolen from OSHNA and I am more
disappointed than mad about it all” (that was a quote).

Jeff said the issue was over in discussion and they needed to move on. They all
said what they had to and felt it was now up to SHF to respond if they intend to.

Then Kacy Curry states aloud: “Point Of Order” twice. She is ready to end the
topic.

Ingrid pointed out that Dirk had been given the floor but had been interrupted (by
Jeff), so shouldn't it (the floor) be returned to Dirk? Then Dirk insisted to speak
on the issue one last time where Jeff cautioned him he would only get 2 more
min and then it would be over.

Dirk then read from paperwork:

Florida Real Estate Commission:
2008 Disciplinary Activity Report
(both attached)

Violation: guilty of fraud, misrepresentation, concealment, false promises, false

pretenses, dishonest dealing by trick, scheme or device, culpable negligence, or

breach of trust in any business transaction in violation of s. 475.25(1)(b), F.S.,

guilty of failure to comply with the duties of the brokerage relationship in violation
 of s. 475.278, F.S., in violation of s. 475.25(1)(q), F.S. Penalty: fined $1,000 plus

costs, attend two 2-day FREC meetings.

Dirk further stated: All the legal findings against a current OSHNA member (Land
Use committee chair) named Mike Massimini saying that if the board felt
OSHNA’s good name was being damaged then they should consider the
damage of this member and that it was only fair to treat every member in the
same way.
Dirk said;” it was probably no surprise to the board members of the Massimini
information" (quote)

Provided attached reports:

1) Florida Real Estate Commission

2) Report to the United States Congress, Office of Inspector General- Dept. of
Housing & Urban Development,

Enclosed in that report are in-fractures against him to submit to the board and

then Dirk walked up to Jeff handing the documents to him, which Jeff took. Then

that part of the discussion was over. (both documents attached)

Communications Committee Report – Doreen DiBona

Doreen says her committee has been working the past two months on the membership
cards. Helen found card stock online for $553.63. South Print who prints The Advisor
can print stock with black (no color) Qty of 1000 but for $30.00 more can print with
OSHNA’s blue color for total of $282.00. Doreen would write the member letters herself
on her own computer with her printer & ink for the accompanying “welcome new member
or welcome re-new member” at her expense. She stated having a new printer and the
ink she’s using is cheaper but if it becomes too expensive she would ask the board for
reimbursement if needed.

Rick asked if Tampa Bay Federal Credit Union still waived membership fee for being a
member of OSHNA, something that was set up by Bill Hunter years ago. Evan stated to
Rick that he still had his TBFCU account from when that was set up and was still not
being charged any fees. Rick noted that no one had contacted BGOSH regarding other
businesses participating.

Shawn spoke up and said that was exactly the intent with the cards as a marketing effort
as well, shows that being a member has its benefits. Membership has more benefits
with area business deals and the OHSNA logo to be displayed on the business doors to
reach out to other non-members.
Approval for stock, printing costs, & postage for $900.00 by the board passed to
proceed.
Motion-Bill Hunter ->2nd-Christie ->Unanimous

Website Committee – Shawn Hicks

He reported the website is still under construction and he spent 12 hours on it the past
weekend. Arron his co-committee worker had been out of commission but is now ready
to help. Shawn has sent passwords to the board members to get into the new site but
it's in "lockdown" and it is running behind the old one until it goes public which he
anticipates being in Aug.
He needs board comments and Helen’s since she is The Advisor Chair so she also has
a password. The new site will be same name but with dot-org and not dot-com.
End of report.

Ingrid was recognized by Jeff and she asked to go back to Doreen’s report for an update
on the membership numbers.
Doreen stated that (1) person resigned, (2) people joined under their own names where
their spouses had already been members by proxy and she had no idea why that
occurred and that the overall renewed rate continues to rise.

Doreen then stated she is finding it more difficult to devote time to the numerous
Bungalow Alerts and they were “getting to be too much” (that is a quote). She said the
only time she found to work on them and send out was late at night before she would go
to bed and it was getting later and later towards midnight. She would continue to do
them for now but wanted her concern to be known for possible future assistance with
this task. She also would not consider consolidated Alerts because it was much easier to
to send them out as they were requested.

Highways & Bi-ways – Angelo Rao (chair, member) wants out. Resigning as Chair.
Kacy Curry spoke on his behalf saying there was no report.
Angelo is stepping down as chair. Myron Griffin (member) asked if there was going to be
a posting on the vacancy? Kacy said that she already had someone that was on the
committee in mind for it.

Historic Preservation – Ann McDonald (Chair, member)

Ann was at the beginning of the meeting but stood up during the heated discussion with
Dirk’s time on the agenda speaking, looked disgusted and announced she would have to
leave the meeting. Jeff asked her to stay a bit longer and he would allow her committee
to go next however, she wasn’t interested and left.

Jeff stated that Ann had to leave the meeting and she will email her reports to the board.

Land Use Committee – Mike Massimini – not present.

Jeff spoke on behalf of Mike advising the Bright House barbed wire issue with the VRB
was denied.
Rick stated that Bright House had put up the bared wire 11 years ago without a permit.

Home Tour – Eric Krause

There was nothing to report per Eric.

Neighborhood Involvement – Stephanie Chernin (Chair)– not present.

Jeff read Stephanie’s report of a new Porch Party titled “Beat The Heat Party” sometime
st
in July which will be hosted by a 1 time resident new to the neighborhood of 2 years.
A Bungalow Alert will be sent out with details on the party.
Lake Roberta – Carol Sivard (Chair) – not present
Greg Barnhill reported the master plan meeting was at his house recently with 12 people
in attendance.(2 June) They are working with Parks & Recreation for a master plan for
plantings around the lake so they are not mowed down in the future.
Greg said one person who lives on the lake is trying to set up a web presence. The
county has an Adopt-a-Lake program, however, it's for manmade lakes & LR is
considered a natural body of water. Working with the city to create a program similar to
the county's. Myers Printing donated flyers announcing that lake meeting.
There is a Beautification Meeting currently being conducted this night at Carol’s house.
Carol submitted a budget of $275.00 partly for a sign to be made with OSHNA logo on it.
They intend to post signs around LR announcing Meeting: when/where/etc..

Myron Griffin (member) stated he removed overgrowth of plants growing on top of the
H.T. sign and discovered the top portion of the sign is starting to show deteriation on the
flat surfaces with rot. He said it needs attention before it gets worse and will cost more
to repair.

Shawn stated that his home construction project is now completed and left over is a drop
edge he would donate that is 9-10 feet long that could work for the H.T. sign.
Myron was pleased with the offer and thought it might work. Shawn said he would
contact Myron and Greg later to work on it. Jeff stated he wanted to see it himself also.
The $275.00 request was passed by the board for this committee.

Play Group – Nothing to report – No committee members present (per Jeff)

Bylaws – Bill Hunter

Bill has recently brought the bylaws issue back up by talking with long standing
members of the committeee for discussion once again. He will report more in near
future.
Otherwise, nothing new to report.

Library Committee – Evan St. Ives

Evan said the library committee can be dormant at times but he intends to keep it alive
and more visible to everyone by writing an article each month on the OSHNA website
with info and any updates that may occur.
He also stated that a person in the neighborhood contacted him via email saying she
was interested in the library committee, he sent her info and she is now a new
committee member.

Historic Sign – Carlos Gomez – not present. No report

501(c) 3 Committee – Evan St. Ives

Evan reported the 501(c)3 was applied for. The name is Old Seminole Heights Historic
Preservation Consortium or OSHPC. It has its own set of articles of Incorporation
standing with the IRS and The State of FL. No active domain names registered. He said
that it was “not an active entity yet”. Evan said they wanted to avoid any “pit falls” to
avoid any “Previous mistakes to work in concert with the foundation (SHF) not in
competition” OSHPC was the original name considered. Everyone on the committee
has expertise and the committee has written a letter to OSHNA to be able to use the tree
logo however, modified a bit using (3) houses instead of the current (1) to represent
each three portions of Seminole Heights. Evan stated, that does not mean the (3)
different neighborhood associations. Representation is East, West, and Central Core
Seminole Heights.
Evan says they contacted Diana Duvall who designed the original OSHNA logo and she
has agreed to design a new logo for the OSHPC. He also stated Diana was very
humbled and pleased that she would be asked to take on this task.

Evan reported OSHNA does not control the newly created Consortium but is affiliated.
There are (5) officers, (4) which are OSHNA members and (1) that is not a member of
the board ”Inter-related with OSHNA board but not controlled by OSHNA” board.
OSHNA board members passed to move on that.
Evan said the defining of how to use the name “preservation” was discussed by the
committee. He made it clear “preservation” did not mean as in preserve historic
buildings, structures, of that nature but as in preserving a way of life and support of
Seminole Heights’ sense of community.
End of report.

Information & Outreach – Shelia Gobes-Ryan (member, co-chair) (present)

Shelia said CJ Reynolds had been out of town for sometime and they plan to get back
together to move the committee issues forward.

T.H.A.N. Rep – Jeff Harmon

Jeff reported the All American Cities award is being presented this weekend. Folks are
just arriving into town from all over the country to attend. He plans to attend Thurs for
the presentation and through the weekend. So far he is the only one going and there
are two more tickets OSHNA approved to pay at the last meeting for any other board
member that would want to also go.

Bill Duvall (member) spoke -said T.H.A.N had 20 scholarships that were all going.
Rick asked if OSHNA would have materials, Jeff said no. Rick also suggested OSHNA
offer sponsorships for members to increase neighborhood activism. Rick suggested the
folks at the Oaks of Riverview and a bungalow alert. Jeff Harmon stated he would
contact the leaders at the Oaks.

Jeff also said the Neighborhood Conference is coming up in St Pete next month and he
also plans to attend to represent OSHNA. Again, other tickets are available if anyone
wants to go.

B’Gosh Rep – vacant. Nothing reported.

Letters incoming – none.

Letters outgoing – none.

Announcements: Jeff said none and stated the meeting was to be adjourned when
Greg raised his hand and wanted to discuss the recent denial by the board of his request
for $132.00 towards new hooker patrol signs to replace the 7 year old ones in bad
shape.

Shawn spoke up immediately and stated he said Yes not No to the request but there
were conditions that needed to be met. Shawn stated that Greg’s group needed to have
continuity of the neighborhood watch groups with known coordinators to be allotted any
funds. Shawn contacted TPD and was advised of a neighborhood wide floating grid.
Crime watch is separate and needs to come through the board’s existing leadership, if
not then maybe we need to help create one.

Greg stated that there was money allocated by OSHNA to the 14 different crime grids
and only 9 of the 14 had not used the money therefore, Greg felt the $132.00 should be
allowed for his request. Shawn definitely disagreed with Greg on the procedure and
restated that he said Yes to his request as long as those asking have been through
qualified training and that he would figure out some way in the OSHNA budget to include
the signs (this after Jeff requested the $132.00 from the board to allow it).
Jeff said Shawn being the new crime watch chair will work it out so the money can be
provided and he would leave it up to him.

Shawn then asked Greg if he still needed the signs because he understood that the SHF
had already provided funds towards new signs. Shawn said he read this on the SHF
website. Greg did say the request was in with the SHF and they did agreed to purchase
but he does not have the signs.
Greg said that two of the signs got lost, they fell off the vehicle due to not being
magnetized any longer.
That statement enraged Helen Harmon who turned around in her seat towards Greg and
stated aloud, “You lost two of our signs and Did Not Tell Us?” (These were loaner signs
that Jeff and Helen allowed Greg to use.) Jeff had stated earlier they paid for them out
of their own pocket.
Greg responded to Helen saying it was not like he purposely lost them, it happened.
Helen said again, “Well you could have at least told us that you lost them”. Of which
Greg said to Helen, “Ok Helen, two signs got lost, there I told you”.

Jeff restated that this issue will be taken up with Shawn for replacement Hooker Patrol
signs to be provided.
At that point Jeff stated the meeting was over and adjourned, time was approx 8:35PM.

Submitted by: “Member Minutes Now” in attendance.