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FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | AUGUST 2016 7 The votes to fill two seats on the HOA Board will be counted Tuesday, Aug. 2 and results announced the following day at a special community meeting. Five residents filed to run for the positions. They are Jeanne Glanville, Dennis Gray, Jerry Monahan, John Noonan and Fred Weck. There are two votes per household and the top two vote- getters will be elected. A third position came open after the election process was started with the untimely death of Board Secretary Jean Sandoval (see story below) and the Board decided to appoint the third-highest vote getter to fill that vacancy. The first two openings were created by a provision in the CC&Rs that reduced the number of seats filled by the builder, K. Hovnanian Homes. For 10 years after the first Four Seasons home was sold, the builder appointed four members of the seven-member Board; now that number is reduced to two. The new members will join President Len Tavernetti and Vice- President Claudeen Diaz and give homeowners a majority on the Board for the first time. The builder will retain its two seats until build-out. The election outcome may not be known until the special meeting, because of the District Delegate system required by the CC&Rs. The delegates act much like members of the Electoral College in U.S. presidential elections, with an important difference. Unless a majority of the households in a district vote, its ballots are not opened and that district's delegate casts all the district's vote as he or she sees fit. It is quite possible a single delegate can decide a close election unless all districts reach quorum. In districts that reach quorum, the ballots are counted and the delegate is required to cast the district's entire voting power in the same ratio as those in the count. Ballots were mailed in late June and could be returned by mail or hand carried to the management office. They had to be in the hands of the inspectors by Aug. 2. ~ Leighton McLaughlin HOA Board Secretary Jean Sandoval was killed in an auto accident in late July as she drove from a granddaughter's soccer game in Riverside. As she was turning from Placentia Lane to Main Street, her car was struck broadside by a pickup truck. Her untimely death created an opening on the HOA Board, which was already in the process of holding a special election to fill two seats vacated by builder K. Hovnanian Homes. The remaining Board members decided to fill her seat by appointing the third highest vote-getter in that special election. Sandoval was a very active member of the Four Seasons community. In addition to her time on the Board, Sandoval served as chair of the Emergency Preparedness Committee (she developed the Resident's Emergency Handbook), as secretary of the Landscape Committee and a member of the Ad Hoc Rec Center North Committee. As a Board member she was liaison to the Emergency Preparedness, Ad Hoc Lodge/Spa Building Interior Renovation, Landscape, Safety and Facilities and Rules and Regulations Committees. She was a retired registered nurse with 31 years' experience in nursing, nursing education and project management with Kaiser Permanente in California. She held a bachelor's degree in nursing, a master's in nursing education and a certificate as a legal assistant/ legal nurse consultant. She was elected to the Board in April, 2015, on a platform of improving communication between residents and the Board. She began holding "Meet with Jean" sessions monthly to hear questions and concerns from residents. She responded to them in a column in the Breeze called "Communication Zone," which supplied answers from the Board and management staff. She grew up in Laurel, Montana and originally planned to be a veterinarian, but when it came time for college, she opted to take care of humans rather than animals. She entered the nursing program at Montana State and finished at Long Beach State. She got her master's degree from Cal State Dominguez Hills. She said she found Four Seasons, "beautiful." Before moving here she looked at other 55-and-up communities, "But none of them were as nice." While running for the Board she said she hoped to keep Four Seasons the top- of-the-line community it is. "I'm ready to try – we'll find a way," she said. ~ Leighton McLaughlin Former Board Member Jean Sandoval In Fatal Crash HOA Election Winners To Be Announced Aug. 3 Board Secretary Jean Sandoval

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