11 August Board Meeting Minutes

Date: Monday, August 11, 2025 @7:03 pm

Location: Havre de Grace Police Dept. 715 Pennington Avenue, HdG

Attendees: President - Christopher Ward; Vice President – Jacki

Baker; Alan Samuels – Treasurer; Cindy Irizarry -

Secretary; and Members at Large: Elisa Cuapio; Bill

Simone; and Dan Yaeger; Gregory Stephenson, Esq. and

Patricia Stephenson, Esq., new counsel

Several homeowners were in attendance (approximately 16).

OPENING:

1- Quorum established and meeting was called to order at 7:03 pm by

Chris Ward, President.

2 - Pledge of Allegiance recited.

3 - Chris asked for approval of the previous meeting Minutes of Board

meeting held on July 7, 2025. Cindy informed the Board of an

amendment to the Minutes that she was unable to circulate before the

meeting having recently been ill and in the ER. Motion was made by Alan

to accept the Minutes with amendment and seconded by Jacki; all

members in favor of acceptance and Motion passed.

4 – Chris thanked Steven Horant of Heather Way for the flags and poles

donation to the community for the Goforth entrance.

5 - Chris opened up the floor to homeowners in attendance to hear their

concerns and answer questions. ( from 7:14 to 8:05 pm).

OLD BUSINESS:

1 – Compliance. Due to time constraints, matter tabled.

2 - Chris and Jacki discussed possible donations in the future to add

memory benches to the park.

3 – Board discussed date of possible Halloween Party at the Park.

Various dates were discussed.

4 – b. Chris advised that the second assessment installment is on track

to be mailed and electronically delivered to each homeowner. In the

future, assessment billing will be done by email unless homeowner

specifically request paper billing. Chris advised that payments are

already coming in already thru Clover. HPS has captured $18,000 of our

funds at present. c. tabled. d. Elisa gave status of the website portal and

her efforts to date. Discussed security issues; maintenance costs and

calendar to be implemented. Harford Digital, website creator, estimate

$2200 for all links, no monthly maintenance costs, etc. Chris called for a

Motion to hire Harford Digital. Motion made by Elisa, seconded by Dan;

all in favor; Motion passed.

5 -6 Tabled due to time constraints.

NEW BUSINESS:

1 – 1. Chris advised receipt of Petition from Jessica Grode (not in

attendance) requesting a Special meeting to discuss the Community

Park/Tot Lot. Dates were proposed but in the absence of Ms. Grode who

specifically asked that the meeting be coordinated to meet her schedule,

a date will need to be determined after discussion with Ms. Grode.

1 - 2. Dan Yaeger discussed with the Board a proposal for virtual

meeting allowing attendance by homeowners. Dan suggested we have a

trial period with listen only link with drop in comments. Discussed

platforms such as TEAMS or Google Meet.; Dan made a Motion for a trial

period; seconded by Alan; all in favor; Motion passed. Dan will be in

charge of this task and set up for the next meeting.

At this time, the meeting was adjourned to the public and the Board went

into an Executive session to discuss legal issues with their new counsel.

The meeting adjourned at 9:25 pm.

Next Board meeting is scheduled for September 8, 2025 at 7:00 pm.

FootNote: The enumeration in these minutes and past minutes align with the Agenda

for each meeting.

ADDENDUM TO THE MINUTES REGARDING EMAIL VOTE BY BOARD

MEMBERS ON SEPTEMBER 4, 2025.

Issue prompting Motion: The Board voted at the August 11, 2025 Board

meeting to do a trial run at a virtual platform for the September 6, 2025

community meeting thru Google Meet or Teams. However, Bob

Schwartz has ramped up his continued, deliberate and calculated attacks

on Board members by posting manipulated video to fit his narrative on

the Bayview Estates FaceBook page and continued threats of legal action.

This prompted targeted members of the Board to ask whether it would

be in the board’s best interest from a legal position to have virtual

recorded meetings viewing the threats of lawsuit against the Board by

Bob Schwartz?

Upon advice of counsel, the Board was advised not to engage in virtual

recorded meetings.

Accordingly, Jacki made a Motion to defer virtual recorded meetings to

be taken up by the Board in January 2026. The Motion was seconded by

Cindy. Chris circulated an email to all members regarding this matter

and requesting a vote. Dan and Elisa voted “nay” and Bill, Cindy, Jacki,

and Alan voted “yes”. The Motion passed by majority. It should be noted

that Dan Yaeger sent an email to all members of the Board on this date,

stating “I will accept the outcome of that vote”.

On September 5, 2025, following this vote, Dan Yaeger sent an email to

the Board with the attached “resignation letter”. Mr. Yaeger then had

his wife post his resignation letter on a community FaceBook page which

encompasses three separate HOA’s .