The Board agreed to have a stenographer come to the annual meeting to take the minutes.

The Board agreed to provide blank sheets of paper to the membership at the annual meeting in order for them to write down any questions or statements that they would like to have addressed by the chairman.  This technique had been used the year before and was found to be very effective, because it would allow members who would otherwise not participate in the meeting to become involved.  This will not prevent any member who chooses from getting up and addressing the assembly.

The Board agreed to hire an attorney from Fairhope to be the parliamentarian at the meeting.

The Board agreed that due to some potential confusion caused by sending a second set of proxies caused by an error in the printing of the first set, that the office would send a third letter of clarification to the membership.  The problem with the first proxy was that there was no place for the member's signature, member number or unit & lot number.  Members are to be encouraged to make sure that their vote counts.  If someone turned in the first proxy without the above information, he or she should send in another one.  If the member cannot remember whether or not the necessary information was on the proxy, the member is encouraged to send in another one.  The proxy with the latest date will be the one that is counted.  If the member wrote the appropriate information on the first ballot, it will be counted, if there is not a newer one.

The Board agreed to have the auditor count the votes this year.  This was done in order to provide assurance to the membership that every effort is being made to count their votes properly in view of the proxy mix-up.

The Board discussed some parameters for the compensation package for a new general manager.  This included a basic salary range of 55K - 65K, vehicle or vehicle allowance, insurance, retirement package and so on.  The compensation will be further negotiated with the eventual candidate.

Because of the year-long attack against several Board members that has been carried out in public through Baldwin County Press and at various meetings, the Board authorized the association attorney to take civil action against some of the people involved.  There have been numerous accusations that have been made based on deliberately distorted information or out and out lies against the president, his family and other members of the Board of Directors.  The purpose appears to have been to discredit these individuals in preparation of a motion to be presented at the annual meeting to remove one or more Board members.  The president said that in all the years that he has been involved in community affairs in Lake Forest, he has never seen such a mean-spirited campaign by an opposition group.  He said that people have written anonymous letters to his employer, which were naturally discarded.  The same kind of letters have been written about Ed Kirby, the Vice President.  The Board voted 7 - 0 with 2 abstentions to file a lawsuit immediately against those involved in the campaign.  Mitch Davis, Ed Kirby, B.T. Cocke, Ray Drake, Carol Hall, Sarah Coxwell and Carl Kauffman all voted to authorize the lawsuit with Henry Lawson and Willie Robison abstaining.