Annual meeting set for Feb. 10

Please mark on your calendars to attend the neighborhood’s annual business meeting:

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, at 7 pm. at #7519

This is the once-yearly meeting in which we will do the following things:
- Discuss and approve the planned budget for 2008
- Elect board members for 2008
- Discuss other issues of interest to the community, including: ICC update, potential new parking regulations, environmental issues and more

Please plan to attend. This is your chance to make a difference in the community! Board positions that will be up for election include President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. Think about running for the board and helping keep our neighborhood a wonderful place to live.

You can check http://weatherbydrive.blogspot.com any time to read minutes of past board of directors’ meetings, get ICC updates, and so on. There will be one additional meeting of the current board of directors prior to the Feb. 10 annual meeting; date and place will be posted on the website once it is set.

Finally, just because I have your attention, I just wanted to let everyone know that SGSTA is on the verge of signing a retainer agreement with attorney Harry Lerch of Bethesda, to help us in our fight for more money regarding the ICC. Lerch specializes in real estate issues and will be the one represent us in front of the Board of Property Review next time the State schedules one for us. The tentative agreement we are working on means that Lerch would get 25% of any additional monies (above and beyond the $102,000 we have already been granted) he is able to get from the State. If we do not win any more money we do not owe him anything other than reimbursement for incidental costs such as photocopying, expert witness fees, and the like. I am working with his office to quantify how much these incidental costs might be so that we do not spend too much money on them.

Any questions, email me at awitze@gmail.com or call 301-466-7760. Or talk to the other board members: Art Carter (president) or Steve Edgar (treasurer). Thanks!