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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />June 12, 2006 <br />Page 11 <br />Mr. Marquardt indicated that we need to recognize that homeowner's associations have not been <br />chartered in this Village consistently at all. The Aintree North Homeowner's Association does <br />not have a Village-mandated charter. They do not have any way to compel people to pay <br />memberships or anything. Many of the areas in the Village that we may be considering for like <br />treatment have no homeowner's association at all. There is not any good way to distribute this <br />other than to say that if we are going to do this as a standard, we ought to decide and do it as a <br />standard across the board. <br />Mr. Saponaro indicated that we will have to have a plan as we approve these things. The plan <br />should be in place so that when we get residents calling at 8:30 at night saying I love the sign <br />there but I read the Minutes, you spent all that, when is mine going up, we can say, listen, here is <br />our plan. We know that over the next 5 years that we have a plan that we are going to create <br />entranceways, these are what we are going to target, just like we do with streets and sewers and <br />everything else. We have to have a plan in place. <br />Mr. Marrie stated to Mr. Marquardt that if we are going to do that universally around, then <br />because you don't have a chartered homeowner's, you can't really bill them or assess them, then <br />the other ones that do have homeowner's should not be assessed also. <br />Mr. Marquardt indicated that it is not consistent. You will run in to problems either way. <br />Mr. Saponaro stated that we should recognize that this is a little bit of a different situation. <br />Obviously, we need to handle this. This is bringing this to a head right now and we have to deal <br />with it. What will make a difference in the long run is how we deal with it now in terms of all <br />over the different neighborhoods in the Village. <br />Mrs. Mills indicated that originally Aintree North put up those two. Mr. Maxquardt clarified that <br />it was put up by the developer. It was never cordoned off as a common area. There was no <br />homeowner's association written into the deeds on the property so it is strictly a voluntary thing. <br />We also have the problem of cul de sacs which the Village never addresses because they belong <br />to nobody except the Village but the homeowner's association goes in and tries to maintain the <br />thing. Again, you have no mandatory way of raising funds. It is strictly a voluntary thing so you <br />get maybe a third of the residents that kick in to try and do something. The Village has left this <br />open. Those entryways are on private property instead of being designated as common <br />homeowner's association property. If you are going to do that and have the cul de sacs like that, <br />but it just was left open. There are other cul de sacs in the same situation. <br />Dr. Parker indicated that in Hanover there is an easement that allows for that sign even though it <br />is technically private property, they built an easement into that corner there so they had to allow <br />for it. Dr. Parker added that we agreed to do this, it is just a matter of how to move ahead with it. <br />Mr. Metzung indicated that we have always agreed that we were going to do this, especially with <br />Beautification, but this may be the most elaborate one we do. The other ones will be more <br />modest only because of sight. This is the model.