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26 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | APRIL 2023 Finance Committee With spring coming, we will start to see our HOA funds being used to accomplish many landscape projects that will keep our community beautiful and vibrant. Volunteers on the committee work very hard to make sure expenses do not exceed our budget and still accomplish the necessary maintenance. Take the time to look around our community and see what is happening each day. It is such a beautiful place to live. During the Finance Committee's regular monthly meeting, the financial statements for January 2023 were reviewed and recommended for Board approval. In addition, the committee reviewed seven expenditure proposals, and reviewed investment recommendations to move maturing investments to higher yield FDIC insured instruments. Highlights of the January financial statements are: Total Cash is $11,758,891 including operating cash of $2,095,120 (checking and CDs) and reserve assets of $9,663,771 Our total year-to-date income is $12,901. Homeowners are welcome to join us at the Finance Committee's regularly scheduled monthly meetings held on the last Tuesday of each month. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, April 25 at 1 pm. I would encourage all residents to become more familiar with the finances of our fantastic community. We would love to hear about your concerns and encourage you to share them with us. Attending a meeting only takes a little time and will give you a better understanding of how we operate. Come and join us in making this a thriving vibrant community. Our meetings are held in the RCN Conference Room. If you have any questions or concerns contact me at joleneaudit@ gmail.com. ~ Jolene Cooley Landscape Committee By the time this column is published it will officially be spring and hopefully the weather will have warmed up. We will start walking different portions of our community every Friday morning to look at our plantings. I suspect there will be a number of plants that may have suffered from the long cold spells we experienced this winter. In an effort to keep our HOA costs down, we may give some of the plants time to see if they can come back from any frost damage. Please be patient as Park West rotates through the community to trim any frost-damaged plants. We will be assessing plants to determine if they need to be replaced versus trimmed. It's easy to forget that California is a semi-arid state with frequent droughts given all the rain we've had this past winter. However, we need to remember our water levels are still below where they should be. As a result, we will continue to look at areas where we can remove turf and replace with drought-tolerant plants to help conserve water and also maintain the beauty of our community. All decisions we make with regard to plantings take into consideration its cost, hardiness for our climate, suitability for the location it's planted, and the amount of maintenance required to keep plants looking healthy and beautiful. We are always looking for new committee members to join our team. We walk different areas of the community to look at plants to determine if any need extra maintenance or replacement. If you like to walk and enjoy looking at our plants and trees, please feel free to join us on a weekly walk. You do not need to be an experienced gardener. Please contact Kathryn Hughes of FirstService Management to find out where we are meeting on Friday morning as meeting places constantly change. Residents are also welcome and encouraged to attend our monthly meetings every third Tuesday of the month at 1 pm in the RCN. ~ Brenda Steckler, brendasteckler@gmail.com BE PREPARED: Emergency Preparedness is a balancing act. Things go sideways quickly if you are caught unprepared. In order to be prepared, you must be able to store extra supplies and equipment. You will need space do this. This means that you try and guess what you may need so you know what to store. The recent train derailment in Ohio and the 100-year snow storms in California are a reminder of this. These are two different incidents that had opposite results. The derailment damaged tank cars carrying hazardous gas, resulting in an evacuation of nearby residents and businesses. The record snowfall resulted in a largely unwanted shelter-in-place. In the event of an emergency, everyone who lives to the south of Interstate 10 between Beaumont Avenue and Highland Springs may have problems accessing their property. Closed off-ramps and freeway lanes result in detours on city streets. When there are too many people trying to detour outside of our gates, we are almost trapped here inside Four Seasons. Cal Trans roadwork and even an extra long freight train recently made access to Sixth Street in Beaumont almost impossible. You need to have enough supplies at home to keep yourself safe and comfortable before necessary repairs can be made. If you leave your home, you should have a go-kit with plenty of food and water in it. Many of you have attended Neighborhood Watch presentations from Cal Trans, the city of Beaumont and Union Pacific Railroad. Each of these companies and organizations told us that they are doing the best they can to keep the traffic flowing. The problem is that they all act independently from one another. A little bit of cooperation may help alleviate a potential problem. We meet on the third Tuesday of the month in the RCN Conference Room at 10 am. Our next meeting is Tuesday, April 18. ~ Michael A. Mendoza, srmendoza@verizon.net Emergency Preparedness Committee

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