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24 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | MAY 2026 Conservancy Committee Finance Committee The financial statements for February 2026 were reviewed and recommended for Board approval. In addition, the committee reviewed expenditure proposals for various recommended projects in the community. We also reviewed investment recommendations to move maturing investments to higher-yield, FDIC-insured instruments. Highlights of the February financial statements are below. Homeowners are welcome to join us at the Finance Committee's regularly monthly meetings held on the last Tuesday of each month. Our next scheduled meeting will be May 26. The Finance Committee reviews and discusses many issues that you may have questions about. Residents are welcome to attend our meetings to become more familiar with our finances. At the beginning of each meeting, we allow three minutes per homeowner not to exceed 30 minutes in total for comments. Our meetings are held in the RCN Conference Room. ~ Jolene Cooley Our scheduled inspection walk for April was canceled due to weather conditions. Therefore, the walk of the eastern portion of Edison Easement and the Sam's Canyon Meadow has been rescheduled for May 6 at 8 am. We will start our walk from the east end of Green Creek Trail. We welcome all interested residents to join us. ~ Howard Ochi Actual Budget Variance % OPERATING REVENUE (fees, interest, revenue) 552,965 547,800 5,165 0.9% OPERATING EXPENSES UTILITIES 48,461 62,011 13,550 21.9% LAND MAINTENANCE 86,892 100,085 13,193 13.2% SWIMMING POOL/SPA 11,324 10,859 (465.43) -4.3% COMMUNITY SERVICES/EVENT 8,570 3,065 (5,505) -179.6% COMMON AREA 72,180 73,963 1,783 2.4% ADMINISTRATION 164,987 188,071 23,084 12.3% SPRINGDALE EXPENSES 10,072 10,504 432 4.1% FRONT YARD EXPENSES 43,169 46,755 3586 7.7% TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES 445,656 495,313 49,657 10.0% NET INCOME/(LOSS) 107,308 52,487 54,821 104.4% Fire Blankets: Fire blankets have been around for many years but they have recently become popular as they are now being made with new materials. ey work by smothering the re by denying it oxygen. I thought that these were for emergency-responder use only because I had only seen them in an emergency kit. I recently went to a training where they were given away. We were instructed to use them in the kitchen on the stove. We can all probably remember the Old Western programs where a campre would be used for cooking. I remember seeing them are up and the camp cook would throw an old blanket over it to stop the ames. I read a 2013 article from a Dutch company saying that re blankets should not be used for grease res. Flash forward 13 years and the re blankets are said to be okay for grease res. I suppose that the improvement in re-retardant materials had something to do with this. e blanket is put to use with a three step process: 1. Pull the tab releasing the blanket. 2. Open the blanket and cover the re. 3. Keep the blanket covering the re for 30 minutes to be sure that the re is out. Fire blankets are used on stoves or small res. Fire extinguishers should be used on larger res. You may also need to extinguish any ames that escaped the reach of the re blanket. e re blanket is favored in commercial kitchens because it does not require any special clean up of chemicals like you have when you use an extinguisher. ~ Michael A. Mendoza, srmendoza@ verizon.net Community Awareness

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