Oakes Estates Advisory Inc
"For the Betterment of our Community"
Oakes Estates Advisory, Inc.
PO Box 111046
Naples, FL 34108-1146

 

 

OAKES ESTATES ADVISORY, INC.
Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes from June 3, 2008

Directors present: Karl Fry, Denny Baker, John Nicola, Tim Witherite, Bob Walker, Hiram Garcia, Jim Rice, Ron Joeckel. Meeting was called to order at 7:10 with a quorum present.

Approval of May Minutes: after Denny Baker reminded the board of the correction to the name of John to Nick Casalanguida. John Nicola made a motion to approve the minutes as corrected and Ron Joeckel seconded the motion and the motion carried.

Treasurer's Report: John Nicola reported that our bank balance is $6,863.70. Denny Baker suggested putting some of the monies in a CD. John will research this and get back to the board at the next meeting. John also stated that he had received six returned post cards back from the 300 plus that were mailed out to home owners for new membership or membership renewals.

Standing Oaks PUD Update: Noah Standridge attended the County Planning Committee meeting on May 15th and stated that the developer had negotiated with our neighborhood in good faith. There will be a County Commission meeting on Tuesday, June 24, 2008. Volunteers, possibly Noah will attend and report back to the OEA Board at the next meeting.

Report on Oakes Blvd: Light removal and County plans - Bob Walker will reinvestigate the time frame for the 30% plan on Oakes/Immokalee which had been set for completion by the end of July and report on the completion date of the proposed bridge and NorthBrooke/Valewood extensions.

Neighborhood Garage Sale Discussion: Agenda item continued from the May meeting will be tabled until September.

Discussion of resident concern regarding noise and potential crime to residents residing at the end of Oakes Estates streets which is Logan Blvd: Bob Walker recommended to notify the Commissioners office and Karl Fry will call to see if there is enough justification to find ways of deterring crime, such as planting bushes or placing some type of barriers to help eliminate this problem.

Update by Committees' Chair:
      a. Neighborhood Park - Jim Rice reported that the park will be completed by the end of July. It will include a slide, swings, pavilion, bicycle/walk path. Fishing will be permitted, but the area to fish from is still to be decided on.

      b. Children's Safety and Community signage - Karl will speak with Lisa Absher to see if she needs help in these projects. A new member, Jenny Bohaychyk (jennyp099@hotmail.com) volunteered to help and Tim Witherite made the motion and Ron Joeckel seconded to have Jenny Bohaychyk be authorized to work on these two committees and attend County meetings as deemed necessary.

New Business: Karl suggested that a group set up a meeting with Commissioner Henning and Mr. Feder from DOT to lay out steps to take to reduce the speed limit on Oakes Blvd. and possibly reclassifying it as residential.

Discussion to suspend July or August meeting: After discussion it was decided that July's meeting be cancelled unless there is critical business that comes up. Tim Witherite made the motion and Ron Joeckal seconded. Motion carried

Adjournment: Bob Walker made a motion to adjourn, Ron Joeckel seconded at 8:00 p.m. and motion carried.

Respectfully submitted by,

Celia Garcia
Temporary secretary

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OAKES ESTATES ADVISORY, INC.
Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes from April 1, 2008

Directors Present: Denny Baker, Terry Iamurri, Bob Walker, Tim Witherite, Ron Joeckel, John Nicola, Hiram Garcia, Jim Rice and Noah Standridge. Meeting called to order at 7:10 p.m. with a quorum present.

Denny Baker called the meeting to order. Denny then asked if the Oakes signs were put up for this meeting. There was discussion of them not being put out. Then the discussion went to who picked them up last time. No one came forward. The consensus was the county must have picked them up. Jim Rice confess to a big April Fools and admitted he has the signs. We all laughed, Jim got us.

Approval of March Minutes: Denny Baker made a motion to approve the minutes and Jim Rice seconded and the motion carried.

Treasurer's Report: John Nicola reported that our bank balance is $6702.52. He collected $975.00 this month in dues and we now have 55 members paid. Denny suggested we might want to send out a postcard mailing to remind residence again about dues. It was shelved until next months meeting to be placed back on the agenda.

Standing Oakes PUD: Because our letters of support have gone out to the Planning Commission and Board of County Commissioners, Denny Baker reported that Karl Fry does not feel it mandatory for many of us to show up at the Thursday, April 17th Planning Commission meeting or the Tuesday, May 27th BBC meeting. Noah Standridge volunteered to make the meetings with Karl Fry in case of any changes the developer may present.

Pine Beetles: Noah Standridge reported that Fred Kauffman contacted him regarding the pine trees that are stressed by beetles in our neighborhood and what could be done besides cutting the infected trees down. Noah suggested a Fertilome product to be sprayed upon the trunks of the trees that are infected. However, the consensus was that even this may not solve the beetle problem and an completely effective solution is not known at this time.

Neighborhood Park: Jim Rice reported the county is waiting for approval of a minor permit to get the work started. May 1st is the date they are proposing to start the initial work and it should be completed in approximately 90 days. Jim Rice will contact Dick Schmidt regarding where the water shut off is before work begins.

Community Water: This is simply a fact finding mission at this time and we are trying to obtain as much information as possible, to next communicate with our residents, & to gauge interest in the board pursuing county water further. Tim Witherite reported he got rough estimates from two county approved companies to bring county water to our neighborhood. Q. Grady Minor and Associates estimated price per lot between $12,000 to $15,000 and WilsonMiller estimates the price per lot at $14,408. This would not include impact fees or the cost to run the line from the street to your house. Noah Standridge made a motion that Tim contacts the county utilities to see that it is feasible for us to get water and to get the financial aspects of what kind of amortization would be implemented. Jim Rice seconded and motion carried with Ron Joeckel against.

New Business: Roland from First Congregational Church said they are waiting for Grady Minor to resubmit plans to the county. The county indicated that because of the stacking requirements, the church would not have an ingress/egress point along the new Valewood Extension. Preliminary drawings indicated that the only ingress/egress points will be along Autumn Oaks Lane.

Adjourn: Tim Witherite made a motion to adjourn, Bob Walker seconded at 8:00 p.m. and the motion carried.

Respectfully Submitted by,
Terry Iamurri

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OAKES ESTATES ADVISORY, INC.
Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes from March 3, 2008

Directors Present: Karl Fry, Denny Baker, John Nicola, Terri Iamurri, Barb Collins, Bob Walker, Tim Witherite, Jim Rice, Noah Standridge, Ron Joeckel, and Lisa Absher.

7:05 p.m. Meeting called to order. 33 people including board members present for the annual meeting.

Approval of Minutes: Jim made a motion and seconded by Bob to approve the February minutes and the motion was carried.

Treasurer's report: Amount in the checkbook totaled $6,316.10 again, but will have subtractions to cover the annual meeting mailings. We expect to add to it again with the addition of annual dues that will be coming in.

Current Issues:

1. Standing Oaks PUD, nothing new. Reviewed pictures of proposed medians on Oakes Blvd for traffic calming. Medians will be landscaped
2. Valewood Light - removal of the light at Oakes Blvd. around July. Waiting for the rezoning of the church property off Autumn Oaks which is going slow and probably will be a year from July before new light and opening at Valewood Drive. To turn west on to Immokalee the residents of Oakes Estates will have to access from the light at Target.
3. Neighborhood Park. Initial work and talk started four years ago with an initial budget of $250,000. The work was discontinued because of $60,000 shortfall of funds.

Introduction of Commissioner Henning
Commissioner Henning was contacted concerning the lack of funding for our neighborhood park. With his help we have now been approved the additional $60,000 we need to finalize, complete with a shelter, path and trash cans.

Commissioner Henning asked if when dealing with the permitting agency with the local government, would we pay an extra 10% to get permits done in a quarter of the time or an extra 20% to get the permits done in one half of the time. The answer was yes unanimously. We were asked our opinion of a possible pier into the gulf at Vanderbilt Road for fishing, recreation, and educational opportunities at the north end of town. It was discussed that there might not be enough parking for that kind of project and it might be something that could bring more crime to the area. It decided that more study should be done before jumping into a decision. Vanderbilt Road project is coming along well and is projected to be finished in late 2008 or early 2009. Discussed that the changes on Immokalee and Oakes Blvd will bring us closer to get residential zoning and 35 mile per hour speed limit. It was asked if it would be possible in the future for Golden Gate acreage forever be zoned rural. Commissioner Henning did not foresee any changes to that.

Karl brought to our attention that commissioner Henning will be running for re-election this year and has worked very hard for us as a partner since he has been in office and that we would support him again.

North Naples Fire Department: We need to communicate with them about our traffic calming plans, including medians.

Questions From Residents:
Asked to see proposed medians for Oakes Blvd. We are proposing 7 altogether and the plans were shown to all. Most agree that the plans as shown will add to the property values in our neighborhoods. The proposed plans for Standing Oaks PUD were also shown to everyone and discussed. There is no notice as to when it is going to the planning commission. It is felt that we have at least 2-3 years before any actual work will take place.

Children's Safety: nothing new at this time

Community Signage: discussion about getting an easement from the church on the northwest side of Oakes Blvd, and the proposed fire station on the southwest side of Oakes Blvd for the possible community signs. They would add to the community and further our objective of obtaining traffic calming on Oakes Blvd.

New Business: Fatima Karagoz and Hiram Garcia were nominated for admission to the board and the motion was made by Bob and seconded by Tim and the vote was unanimous, making our members 13.

Motion to adjourn at 8:47 pm by Barb and seconded by Jim and the motion carried

Respectfully,
Barbara Collins, Secretary

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OAKES ESTATES ADVISORY, INC.
Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes from February 5, 2008

Directors Present: Karl Fry, Barb Collins, Tim Witherite, Ron Joeckel, Bob Walker, Denny Baker, Terri Iamurri, John Nicola, and Jim Rice.

7:03 meeting called to order by Vice President Denny Baker, with a quorum present. President Karl Fry was delayed and arrived in time for the second half of the meeting.

Approval of agenda: Denny made a motion to approve the proposed agenda with the addition of an update on the light on Oakes from Bob Walker. Motion was seconded by Barb and carried.

Approval of January minutes: Jim made a motion and seconded by Denny to approve the January minutes and the motion was carried

Treasurers Report: Was phoned to Denny from John that the amount was the same as last month $6,316.10

Neighborhood Park: Karl contacted Commissioner Henning about the $60,000+ needed to finish the project and our commissioner researched and identified a possible source of funds from the Del Sol park which is not being built. Additional funds are needed to provide basic neighborhood park requirements such as a shelter, garbage cans, playground equipment, etc. It was discussed that the crosswalk and flashing lights on Spanish Oaks Lane at the park would further our goal for traffic calming.

Children's safety: Lisa and Vinney were not present to provide an update.

Standing Oakes PUD: After several board members read revised PUD documents and confirmed that all our requests were honored by the developer, our formal letter of support was approved by the board members, to be forwarded to Ed Finn of Allen Concrete within the next 24 hours. The next step is to send this to the planning commissioners and county commissioners prior to each body's hearing of this re-zoning request.

Community Water: Tim Witherite is still waiting to talk to a contact at Wilson Miller for a final update as to how much it might cost the homeowners to bring county water (not sewer) to Oakes Estates. He discussed the cost with someone from Standing Oakes PUD and was told the price was going to be very high. They will have to tap into water off Vanderbilt, down the bike path. It is likely that prohibitive cost will make this a dead issue.

Logan Blvd: Karl spoke to Tim Nance about our concerns to keep the streets closed at the east end to Logan Blvd. Even successfully changing the long-range plan is no guarantee that future county leaders will not re-open the issue, although there would be little benefit from connecting any of our streets. We as a group will have to be ever vigilant to do as we have done in the past to fight against any attempts to connect our lanes to Logan Blvd.

Status and Schedule of Traffic light changes at Northrooke, Oakes, and Valewood: Bob Walker called Mike Green in the Transportation Department at the county for update on the light situation at Northbrooke Drive, which is a precursor to removal of the lights at Oakes Blvd. They are waiting for permits that should be done in two weeks. There is a request from Northbrooke retail center to start bridge widening after Easter. The plan is to move the Oakes Blvd light to Valewood in July but are not expected to have the jog from Immokalee Rd to Autumn Oaks to Oakes Blvd until mid 2009.

The church property has not been rezoned yet. There are plans showing entrance and exits to the church, one each from Autumn Oaks and Valewood Drive. Motion to approve the preliminary plans that Bob Walker will be working on to build the church from Jim Rice and seconded by Karl. The plans will be given to Chuck and sent by e-mail to all on the Oakes e-mail list. Discussion of getting speed limit to 35 will come sometime after the removal of the light at Oakes Blvd.

Annual letter: The changes to the annual letter were read by Denny and a motion to approve by Bob and seconded by Jim and approved to send out the letter to all we can on our current mailing list. We had a motion from John and seconded by Denny to approve up to $400 for mailing the annual letter. Barb will go to Kinkos and get them sent out.

Adjournment: Motion to adjourn at 8:12 by Denny and seconded by Barb and the motion carried.

Respectfully Submitted,
Barbara Collins, Secretary

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OAKES ESTATES ADVISORY, INC.
Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes from January 8, 2008

Directors Present: Karl Fry, Barb Collins, Tim Witherite, Denny Baker, Jim Rice, Bob Walker, Ron Joeckel, Lisa Absher, Noah Standridge, and John Nicola. 7:06 meeting called to order, with a quorum present.

Approval of agenda: John made a motion to approve the proposed agenda and Jim seconded and the motion carried.

Approval of December Minutes: Jim made a motion to approve December minutes and seconded by Denny and the motion carried.

Treasurers Report: John Nicola reported the balance is $6,316.10

Standing Oakes PUD: There were some revisions from John Nicola and Denny Baker and the letter was read and explained. It was decided that a letter of support to be addressed to the Collier County Planning Commission will not be sent until the PUD document showing drawings and information is sent to us to preview. The letter was discussed and the wording changes for everyone to agree on. Motion to approve changes in the letter by Barb seconded by John and the motion carried.

The light at Oakes will come out in April and only an eastbound turn will be available from Oakes Blvd. Traveling westbound on Immokalee, a left turn will remain available south onto Tarpon Bay Blvd. It might take a year and a half for the "jog" to be completed from Oakes Blvd to the Valewood Drive traffic light via Autumn Oaks.

Neighborhood Park: Is in the bidding process, contractors coming back with higher bids than we have money in the budget. They will re-bid in hopes cost will come down. Permits have been acquired. We will have a full updated report next month. Noah will report on the language and limitations of the budget. OEA is to provide $250K limitation language from the parks policy to Commissioner Henning, to assist him as he looks for additional funds to complete our park.

Children's Safety: There has been no new communication since November. There will be a further information gathering coming. There are new people at the transportation department, David Bucheit will be contacted, concerning traffic calming - a child safety measure.

Community Water: Update from Tim and Denny - Jeff Wilson form Wilson, & Miller will look at cost of bringing water to Oakes Estates residents. They will contact the company bringing water to the Standing Oaks PUD.

New Business: We did not collect membership fees for 2007 and it was discussed that fees will be reinstated as communicated in the annual letter for 2008. The fees are $25.00. Karl to meet with Tim Nance to work on the ongoing concern of keeping streets closed going east towards Logan Blvd. There is concern with future changes in county personnel that we need to keep remain vigilant in ensuring that none of our lanes are connected to Logan Blvd. Bob Walker will call transportation to see when the actual opening to Valewood Drive from Autumn Oaks will occur.

Adjournment: Motion to adjourn at 8:34 p.m. By Barb and seconded by Jim and motion carried.

Respectfully Submitted,
Barbara Collins, Secretary

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