2024 Annual Meeting

June 18, 2024

Agenda

• 5 min: Welcome and Introduction – Paul Porrini
• 10 min: Treasurer’s Report – John Chang
• 5 min: Motion for New Board Members - Paul Porrini
• 5 min: Ballot Results – Mishua Hicks
• 10 min: Security Update – Vandana Sathe
• 10 min: Lawsuit - Paul Porrini
• 5 min: Firewise - Paul Porrini
• 10 min: Open Forum Q&A, Adjourn

2023-24 Board Members

Key Activities

Installed and monitored Flock cameras

Managed security patrol

Removed dead trees and brush

Cash management

Managed complaints of CC&R violations

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Election of Directors

Election:

Motion from the President & 2nd by the Secretary. APPROVED, None Opposed

• Havish Koorapaty:

Havish Koorapaty is a joint owner of 21468 Continental Circle in the Parker Ranch neighborhood along with his wife, Prasanti Uppaluri. They have two children, Anay and Avyay Koorapaty as well as parents that often reside with them. Havish is an engineer working in the field of mobile wireless communications at Ericsson in Santa Clara. Havish and Prasanti have been residents of Saratoga since 2009 and moved into the Parker Ranch neighborhood in Nov 2023.

• Nia Turin:

Nia Turan is a joint owner of 12327 Farr Ranch Road in the Parker Ranch neighborhood along with her husband, Sed Turan. They have two elementary school aged children, Sofia and Sonia Turan and a gorgeous blue parakeet. Nia and Sed both grew up in the Bay Area and moved to Parker Ranch in 2020. They recently finished their big home remodel and built a new ADU for their parents who partially reside with them now. After going through their big remodels, Sed transitioned from the Tech industry and is now working in the home remodel business. Nia is currently with Alphabet's self-driving car.

Security Patrol Renewal

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Ballots Received: [_49_] Quorum of 39 met

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Ballot #2: Security Patrol Continuation

• Approve: 26 ~ 53% APPROVED
• Reject: 23 ~ 47%
• Abstain: 0

Parker Ranch Security Measures

Flock Cameras:

• Installed at 4 entrances to Parker Ranch (PR) Neighborhood close to the Parker Ranch neighborhood signs
• Renewed through April 2025.
• As some of you may already know, the way these cameras work is as soon as a stolen car or a car with stolen license plates enters/exists PR from any of the 4 entrances, the local police get an instant alert about it. We can also search for records of an automobile with some known information (license plate, car make etc.) that entered PR for upto 30 days.
• The city of Saratoga has also deployed the flock cameras at 7 Saratoga city entrances since fall 2022, and per the crime reports, the police have been successful thus far in immediately apprehending criminals as soon as they entered the city space.

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Security Patrol:

• Since the community voted for keeping the security patrol, we will continue having a daily patrol
• However, the board will look into switching back to the previous security patrol company as a lot of residents have indicated they liked their service better than the current company. To keep the security expenditure the same, we may have to agree on slightly reduced patrol hours.

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Security For July 4th:

• 3 private guards from the current security company will be manning Parker Ranch from 6:00pm to 11:30pm. In addition, we will have the regular security patrol from 6pm till 3:30am.

Lawsuit- Hartmann vs. Parker Ranch HOA

• The Board was notified of the filing on May 17, 2024.
• The lawsuit alleges the Board failed to take appropriate action and enforce the CC&Rs against the Hartmanns’ neighbors, and the Hartmanns seek a Court order forcing, among other things, the Board to preclude the neighbors from operating what Hartmann believes is a school.
• PR HOA answer due July 5, after which discovery will ensue.
• First Court hearing is October 15, 2024. Trial likely later part of 2025 (at the earliest)
• HOA insurance carrier has accepted coverage and assigned counsel
• Estimated total defense costs: $1,000 deductible against damages and $5,000-10,000 for an outside HOA counsel
• Impact on future insurance coverage, insurance premiums and member annual assessments, unknown at this time.

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Firewise

• Framework for action
• Can join Old Oak Way Firewise community to start
• Does not require enormous effort
• Educational re: wildfire
• Peace of mind
• Community building
• Access to funding
• may be given preference if wildfire safety grants are available
• Insurance discounts
• 2022 and 2023 CA rules gives residents up to 7-18% discounts who harden their residence and/or live in a Firewise community

Open Forum, Q&A