TARAWOOD Special Dependent Taxing District NO. 32
MEETING MINUTES
May 9th, 2023 – 3103 Tarabrook Dr, Tampa, FL 33618
Trustee Osborne called the regular meeting of the TSDTD to order at 7:53 P.M. Trustees attending included: Stoney Morgado, Bob Terri, Ben Golson, James Osborne, James Carey, and Daniel Cinquegrano. A quorum was obtained. Property owners Terry Macklemore and Clive Jaffe was in attendance. Clive discussed some sparks coming out of the back of our street sweeping service. Terry asked to be reminded about the website, times of monthly meetings, and paying dues to Tarawood Civic Association, of which the board advised her.
SECRETARY’S REPORT:
Trustee Osborne read the meeting minutes from April 11th, 2023. A motion was made by Trustee Terri to accept the minutes. Trustee Golson seconded.
TREASURER’S REPORT:
Our account balance as of 3/31/2023 was $21,821.58, with an ending balance of $22,028.51 as of 4/30/2023.
The following bills have been accrued since the last meeting outside of the below regularly scheduled payments.
- $100 To Allan Bestides for reinstall of street sign at the Lake Magdalene entrance
Trustee Terri made a motion to approve the above payments, seconded by Trustee Golson. The board unanimously approves. All recurring, budgeted payments are approved and continue to be paid when due outside of regularly scheduled meetings (voted upon Jan 23.).
OLD BUSINESS:
Trustee Osborne makes motion to have the annual FY24 budget meeting to be scheduled immediately following the regularly scheduled monthly meeting at 8pm on July 11th. Trustee Terri seconds. Trustee Osborne to advertise the budget meeting AD in the TBT.
Trustee Terri received clips from Trustee Morgado. Trustee Terri proposes a payment of $100 to subcontractor Alan for the replacement of the street sign at the Lake Magdalene entrance. Trustee Golson seconds.
Trustee Terri provided an update that Team Fischel/sister company has not gotten back to him regarding the directional boring project. Trustee Osborne made motion that we look for a new company. Trustee Bennick seconds and agrees to start the search. We have sent the prior schematics that were created to Trustee Bennick, so those can be utilized by the new company.
Trustee Golson has created a new project suggestion form which is to be sent to property owner Scott Rubenstein of the Tarawood Civic Association, to disburse to his mailing list in the community. The purpose being to solicit new project ideas from the community to add to the upcoming FY24 budget.
NEW BUSINESS:
Trustee Terri has updated that subcontractor Allan Bestides has repaired/re-installed the street sign at the Lake Magdalene entrance. Payment was approved for the work.
Trustee Terri has had issues with A&B Aquatics and timely performance of quarterly pond maintenance (they did come and perform quarterly maintenance in April). Currently paying A&B $725/quarter. Trustee Terri discussed alternative pond treatment service. He will resend to each trustee for review a bid from Bay To Bay Environmental for comparison of pond treatment services.
Trustee Bennick received bid for directional boring of $5,194.20 for Starlink Construction Utilities, which is significantly less than bids received in the past from Team Fischel. They advised they do not do the permitting, which would be up to us. Trustee Morgado advised that it is $50 for the base permit and that we need to provide the engineering plans to the County. Trustee Morgado has expertise in drafting plans and will do so and send to County to get permitting started. Once permitting has been completed the board will vote for project approval.
Today 4/25/23, our Lawn service provider, Mark Cowart with Big League Lawn service, notified Bob Terri that as he was driving by Tarawood he observed the sprinklers running today. The common area’s sprinkler system is in disrepair and is partially non-functional so it shouldn’t be on. He approached the common area at the corner of Ehrlich and Lake Magdalene and made a few observations. There were alterations made to the PVC to hose connection added to the common area’s sprinkler system. The alteration was to add a threaded hose attachment. There was a hose going from the sprinkler and over a neighbors wall. Mark Cowart disconnected the hose and threw it over the neighbors wall, turned the sprinklers off, and turned the power off.
Based on those observations, we were of the opinion that the Tarawood homeowner at 13601 Wilks drive had tapped into the Tarawood irrigation system and was using it for personal use which is stealing from the common area water.
Trustee Cinquegrano added a lock to the electrical box and provided a key to bob. We discussed sending an official letter to all neighbors using a legal service or our neighbor who is a lawyer stating that using common water without prior authorization will result in legal action.
We discussed changing the key lock to a combination lock in future to provide to service providers.
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A motion was made by Trustee Osborne to approve all new business items. Trustee Terri seconded. The board unanimously approves.
A motion was made to adjourn by Trustee Osborne and seconded by Trustee Terri. The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
James Osborne
Secretary