March 1970:
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June 1970:
| Discussion continued re: problems with drugs/alcohol. The “girls” objected to the adults smoking and drinking beer at the pasture, and not being able to attend Board meetings. All agreed to “shape up.” |
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| Motion passed to accept three horses for summer grazing from the waiting list for a monthly fee. Horses to have Vet cirtificate and “release for liability and insurance.” |
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| Received letter from tax board (unavailable). Voted to amend two bylaws, but didn’t spell out. |
August 1970:
| Pasture fee now $90. per year. |
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| President called all members about vetting, shots, worming and general horse health. |
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| Motion passed that dues be paid by September, and include proof and dates of shots and worming with Vet’s name. |
October 1970: (Minutes were not sent to membership,
instead letters were written to convey info.)
| The Board was informed of horses coming in and leaving by members. |
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| Taxes: still hadn’t filed correctly [from what I can gather]. |
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| President said EBMUD lease stated that no riding or feeding of horses on El Toyonal and WCC Rd. unless permission is given by parents and four Board members. |
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| Add to by-laws: Strongly recommended that members feed their horses at least three times a week. |
November 1970:
| Board member Bruce Wilson moved. He was replaced by Bob Bolt. |
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| President had Buckeye Ranch remove a member’s horse from the pasture. Reason was not given. |
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| Motion passed: If person on waiting list is contacted, but does not want to enter at this time, they may keep their place on the list. |
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| Question: Should new members be boarders or voting members? |
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| Listed names of families who had not paid dues. |
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| By-law change: Elect new officers in January of each year. |
January 1971:
| Motion passed: Re-elect current officers for the following year. |
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| Motion passed: Continue to wear/carry ID to the pasture. |
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| Lens gave estimates for building new stalls. |
August 1971: “…bring your own beer and
salads.”
| Planned GM picnic. | |
| Motion passed: Stall rental charge $1. per day. Stall to be cleaned out when horse is removed. |
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| Motion passed: Sign up sheet for stalls with signature. “With no signature horse can be removed.” |
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| Motion passed: Limit the amount of horses to 28. |
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| Motion passed: Dues to increase to $100. per horse and $10. per family. |
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| Motion passed: If EBMUD offers “land across the street” from OHA pasture for free, OHA to accept. |
December 1971: (It appears that a nominating
committee of two or three presented names that the
Board voted on to fill Board
positions.)
| Motion to change insurance to a policy with CSHA. Motion denied. Voted to stay with the present policy at the time due to cost (un-named). |
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| Change of officers: Marilyn Haynes to fill John Whinnery’s place. |
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| Motion: Charge $1. Per day for sick horses in stalls for the first 15 days, then .50 a day after that. Motion seconded, but not stated as passed. |
August 1972:
| Board nominees: Paul White, Bob Bolt, Rita DeWitt, Loren Furtado, Becky Kemsley, Bob Lewman and Middleton O’Brien. |
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| A horse owner living out of state was sent a registered letter stating that he pay his dues, or his horse would be removed from the pasture. |
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| Horses numbered 22 and one “boarder.” Four openings available. |
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| Hay charge of $10. per horse added to the dues of $100. |
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| Picnic planned for September. |
November 1972:
| New officers to be seated 1/1/73. Pres.: Bob Lewman, V P.: M. O’Brien, Treasurer: Loren Furtado and secretary: B. Kemsley. |
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| Motion passed: that the waiting list be handled by the President. |
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| Purchased six tons of group hay for the winter following the filling of the open horse spaces. Decision based on money. |
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| Motion passed: Keys to the upper and lower gates be made available to proprietary members at their own expense. |
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| Rule revisions passed: 1) “No horses should be left loose or unattended in the feeding area.” 2) Rule change to “remove the specific prohibition of guest horses.” (Pending EBMUD approval based on their lease). 3) Amendment: “care of horses by a non-member must have the approval of the President and Vice President.” 4) Eliminate key rule: “Keys may be made generally available to proprietary members.” |
January 1973:
| EBMUD (W. T. Hartman) provided materials for fence and gate repairs to be completed by OHA. A group was designated by the President to assess the needed repairs and form a work party. |
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| A guest was hurt at the pasture. A discussion of liability ensued. Decision to contact the insurance agent to get clarification of liability. |
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| Calendar placed in barn to track when horses were being fed. |
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| Mr. Hartman (EBMUD) sent a letter in response to question about guest riders (information not given). Motion passed to request a change in the grazing lease to read: “that the rights and use of the demised premises shall be limited solely to the lessee and its members and their guests and further limited to the pasturage or grazing…” |
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| Goals and objectives questionnaire was sent to all members. |
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| Motion passed to reorganize junior members. Shannon Phillips volunteered. |
February 1973:
Letter to membership from the President:
| Pasture (upper) could house 21 horses for 12 months. Number in the pasture was 29. Supplemental feeding necessary to offset AUMs. All members were asked to feed extra and keep track of how much for presentation to EBMUD. |
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| The ring pasture and pavilion area were added to the lease for purpose of building a ring and off-road parking. Land was fenced. Families were asked if they wanted to contribute $50. a piece to have a ring graded. 19 of 20 responses wanted a ring. 17 agreed to pay $50. |
May 1973:
| Completed fence repair work party. |
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| Awaiting liability information. |
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| Motion passed that the President hire a contractor to complete the ring. |
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| Motion passed: All members have ID tags. Replacement cost .45. “EBMUD will be checking for these tags.” |
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| EBMUD permits to ride to Briones became available. |
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| Discussed high cost of feeding, and putting rock or drainage material on the stall floors. |
August 1973: “…the fence has to be replaced
as we have been getting some campers.”
| OHA now has a five year lease. |
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| Motion passed that OHA protest a possessory interest tax that was added when the lease increased from one to five years. OHA applied for an informal hearing. |
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| Motion passed to raise dues to $120. For 9/73 payment (still at once yearly). |
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| Ring pasture was graded. |
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| Six tons of rye hay purchased. Every to take turns feeding. |
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| Planned annual picnic. |
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| Question: Should elections be held in September or January? |
January 1974:
| OHAs hearing re: taxes was negative. Motion passed that OHA paid the amount (based on that of a business holding a similar lease) and included a letter of protest. |
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| Motion passed (rule?) that horses not be left in the ring pasture. |
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| Motion passed to build holding pens behind the existing stalls. Members notified of pending work party. |
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| Motion passed to join EB Trails Council. |
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| EBMUD granted permission to clear trails including cutting up trees. |
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| A family requested that their membership be put in the name of their son-in law. Request denied as this violated rules on proprietary membership. |
February 1974:
| Laurie Allen replaced Paul White on the Board. |
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| Motion passed (not stated) to hold GM meeting separate from a picnic to keep business-like atmosphere. Also to elect Board at the same time. |
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| Discussion included chronic neglect of a horse and feeding schedules. |
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| Hitching rails put in by Lens and Vic. |
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| Motion passed to permit controlled grazing in the ring pasture as designated by the President. |
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| Motion passed that the ring would be 100’ by 200’. |
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| Discussed method and plans of building ring and holding pens. |
September 1974: GM
| New Board: Bob Lewman, Becky Kemsley, Loren Furtado, LucilleArnon, Laurie Allen, Lens Cogdell and Mike Hurley. |
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| Motion passed: Stop collecting $2. a night for stall use (somewhere along the line it rose from $1. to $2.). |
January 1975:
| Discussion re: timing of new horses coming in before old have vacated the space. Board reiterated the “thirty day precident.” A member had 30 days to ‘dispose’ of an extra horse. Extra feed was to be given for the overlap. |
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| Member was contacted by mail and telephone re: her severely neglected horse and payment of dues. She paid her dues, but continued to neglect the horse. “Under civil code 18341835 she should sell to a new owner or destroy.” Motion unanimously passed that the President “get” the member to sell her horse. |
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| Motion passed (rule?)that the OHAs pasture be restricted to the members and their guests. Motion followed requests from two persons to join for use of trail access and, or ring use. EBMUD (Bill Hartman) agreed to back OHAs decision on this matter. |
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| Motion to have a separate second horse list to have priority when spaces are available. Decision was not stated. |
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| Reiterated: All requests for sponsorship be directed to Bob Lewman (President). |
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| Regional Parks backed down on their closing of trails to horses. Only trails around Jewel lake and the Nature Area were closed to horses. |
August 1975: GM
| Right of way through Long’s pasture and on the upper fire road to Tilden was granted to four people by EBMUD. They were instructed to carry special permits. |
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| Meeting with EBMUD: ” OHA is the only community horse pasture living up to it’s lease. Both Castro Valley and Moraga’s have members who don’t keep their horses in the community pasture, but do use the arena. Since EBMUD views community pastures as “public relations” rather than strict lease agreements, and is willing to consider new lease terms; should OHA have more liberalized rules?” Motion passed to rewrite the lease permitting OHA more leeway in expanding membership to associate members. |
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| Lower pasture addition (185 acres) became available.The Board recommended accepting the pasture with the following contingencies: 1) Both pastures under single organization except winter feeding. 2) Keep basic fees equal. 3) Present members have option to move to LP. New members would be assigned there. 4) Members could ride in either pasture. 5) LP to carry 8-10 horses (no less than 8). |
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| GM meeting held in August to decide on the LP. |
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| Ring almost fenced. |
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| Repair of burned out barn (?) to be completed. |
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| Decision to charge for two bales of hay to anyone not turning in the amount of supplement feed given by the due date. |
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| Unanimous vote to accept the LP (then called the Pear Orchard). |
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| Dues were paid by family not by horse at the time, so second horses did not bring in income for OHA. |
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| All members were expected to put in 8 hours of work on the new barn, or pay $25. To hire someone in their place. |
October 1975:
| Minutes named those that had and had not completed work on the barn, and who had paid the non-work fee. |
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| The ring surface was not considered adequate. Estimates for a sand surface were obtained. The cost was prohibitive. |
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| Motion passed: “Each new member to pay $10. (equal to 4 hours work) which can be retained by OHA if the member (or his substitute) does not put in 4 hours of work on a designated work day.” |
April 1976:
| Set up two vet clinics – rhino, sleeping sickness, worming (the second for a second sleeping sickness shot). |
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| Dogs: A letter from EBMUD asked to have dogs under control especially around the ring, corrals and trails. “No dogs allowed on EBMUD land near Inspiration Point, where riders must carry permits while riding.” |
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| Mentioned: “At least one member from the LP should be on the Board.” |
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| Horse shoe pit planned. |
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| Matching locks put on gates. |
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| Motion re-passed (rule): Limit of two horses per membership. |
September 1976:
| New trough and gate put in LP. |
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| Planned GM meeting for October ’96. |
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| Fees raised at some point to $130. per horse in the UP and $190. per horse in the LP (discrepancy was due to the higher cost of AUMs in the LP) – this included the cost of hay. Fees were to be adjusted contingent on new lease. |
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| Hay bought – 6 tons for UP and 2 tons for LP. Work party to unload hay. |
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| Estimate was obtained to rototill the ring due to excessive rocks and hard surface. |
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| Reminder to lock gates and to not bypass locks. Another to not leave horses in the ring pasture. |
October 1976: GM
| New Board: Laurie Allen, Lucille Arnon (secretary), Lens Cogdell (VP), Mike Hurley (Pres.), Richard Brown, Parker Smiley and Lorraine Force (treasurer). Bob Lewman to remain EBMUD liason. |
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| Motion to make special arrangement for the treasurer to remain on the Board following four years of service. Motion to remove the term limit was denied, motion to have an officer not be on the Board was denied. Motion to retain by-law (4 year term limit) passed by general membership. |
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| Now 28 horses in UP and 8 in LP. |
November 1976:
| Motion passed that the President keep all records. PO box was set up at that time. |
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| Retiring treasurer suggested opening a savings account for excess funds. |
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| Rule: “When a member plans to permanently remove a horse from the pasture, the member must state this intent in writing (giving particulars) in a note to the President.” This rule came about due to a member believing that they were due a refund after removing their horse. The Board could not remember what had been said previously, so they made this rule. |
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| New lease was expected to even out the AUM costs in the UP and LP. |
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| Discussion re: talking to EBMUD about crossing at San Pablo Dam Rd., report of a washout of a road in the LP, and charging the previous LP tenants rent for a cow and calf that remained in the LP. |
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| Planned to cut a trail from the LP to the ring pasture. |
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| Planned to obtain manure from Grizzley Peak Stables to put on the ring surface. |
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| Planned spring shot and worming clinic. |
January 1977: “The two beef cattle were
rounded up, finally, and removed from the lower pasture.”
| Trail between LP and ring pasture almost finished, planned to put in gate soon. |
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| Ring discussion continued. Suggestions included adding wood chips, shredded branches and manure from Grizzley. |
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| Motion passed to make and post signs reading “clean out stalls” and “community hay – no private feeding.” |
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| Motion passed to let community feeders have a bonus flake for each feeding that was campleted. Instructions to use wheelbarrow and spread hay at wide distances were included. |
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| Planned to have work party to replace holding corral fence. |
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| Car was broken into near the LP gate. |
May 1977:
| Drought continued lowering the available AUMs. More feeding necessary. |
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| At the time insurance did not cover ring use by outsiders in any capacity. |
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| EBMUD lent a spray tank for OHA to spray purple and artichoke thistles. |
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| Culvert at creek in LP (madrone canyon) remained washed out. Discussed with EBMUD. |
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| Hay order of 9 tons to be unloaded by members as a work party. |
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| Horse health: Poor attendance at last vet clinic. Board issued a reminder that given the rules “a member of the Board may require a member to present veterinary certified evidence of good health for their horses.” The minimum standard was considered worming twice yearly and three basic shots – tetanus, influenza and encephalitis. |
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| Rule: “Every member MUST provide minimum health care for their horse, either at the pasture clinic, or within two weeks of it (if using other vets).” Copies were required to be sent to the Health Care Chairman. Rule was to be strictly enforced from that time forward. “Before a horse is eligible for another year in the pasture, his health certificates will be checked on.” |
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| Members were notified by mail: “If you cannot participate in scheduled work sessions, please send $25. in lieu of 8 hours work.” Motion passed: Each member, when signing up for a year’s pasture in advance, to pay an extra $25. which will be refunded if a member does 8 hours of work on designated workdays throughout the year. Made due to a few members doing most of the work. |
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| EBMUD: 1) Was not receptive to crossing on San Pablo Dam Rd. 2) Re-issued passes to certain riders for use of the steep trail into Tilden. |
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| Letters written by members resulted in a creek crossing between the Botanical Gardens and Lake Anza. Also a request was written to improve Nimitz Way for horse use. |
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| Trail ride planned (these had been ongoing throughout the years). |
August 1977:
| Emergency meeting due to severe drought. |
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| Bought 12.5 tons of hay for both pastures. |
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| Gate between ring and LP completed. |
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| EBMUD had not acted on repair of the road in the LP over the creek. |
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| Continued to spray star thistle at EBMUDs request. |
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| FIRE DANGER: New lock placed on Inspiration gate that was accessable by OHA key. Reminder to lock gates correctly without bypassing locks. |
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| Planned GM meeting to be in LP (where enclosure water trough is now). |
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| Drought required dues to rise and have to be paid early – dues rose to $200. per owner plus $25. refundable work fee. |
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| Put stop to new horses filling empty spaces (now 22 in UP and 8 in LP). |
September 1977: GM
| Motion passed: the association will take over supplemental feeding and will purchase only first grade alfalfa. |
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| Motion passed: LP members assigned specific feeding days. UP members fed whenever they were at the pasture and signed a sheet in the barn. Extra work credits went to those who “did more than their fair share of the feeding.” |
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| Feeding amounts determined and stated based on the weather. Outline of feeding procedure: “Put whole bale in wheelbarrow, move to location before breaking bale. See that each horse has at least one pile (more are better) – and that piles are placed at least two horse lengths apart (to prevent kicking). Motion passed (suggested by Lens) that the horses be fed at the same time every day – after 3 o’clock. |
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| Planned to build a hay shed with a stall in the LP. |
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| Mary Anne Wallace replaced Laurie Allen on the Board. |
November 1977:
| Discussed possibility of building a new hay barn for the UP. |
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| Plans submitted for LP barn. |
April 1978:
| Vet clinic and trail ride planned. |
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| Liability insurance tripled in cost across a number of companies. Motion passed: Cancel insurance and join CSHA, taking their insurance policy offer. |
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| EBMUD okayed plans to build LP barn (cost paid by OHA). |
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| Bob Lewman pursued talks with Robert Nuzum of EBMUD to fix the culvert in the LP. |
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| All members were instructed to place sticker in their cars to communicate with rangers and police who patrolled regularly. |
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| Motion passed to request from EBMUD to add 5 horses (for total of 34 in both pastures). |
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| Discussion to buy a community horse trailer. |
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| Discussed allowing a woman from Long’s to use the ring in exchange for harrowing. Motion passed to have a six month trial period if insurance covered said woman and her horse. |
September 1978: GM (Door prizes were regularly drawn for at
GM meetings.)
| New Board: Mary Anne Wallace (VP), Parker Smiley, Bob Lewman (Pres.), Jane Binder, Vic Johnson (treasurer), Jim Gaynor and Es Anderson (secretary). |
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| Members to notify President whenever horses are off of the pasture. Members to write on postcards monthly all personal supplement feeding amounts. |
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| Motion passed that the LP get 1/3 of the hay order rather than ¼ as in the past. |
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| New barn completed in the LP. The Andersons and Wallaces were thanked for the concentrated work. |
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| Members encouraged to call EBMUD reangers when encountering tresspassers by the new barn. |
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| Jane Binder suggested requesting a public phone from the phone company. |
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| Plans submitted by Lens to build the UP barn. Motion passed to fund the project. |
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| Discussed possibility of Associate membership. Motion passed that the Board discuss before presenting to GM. |
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| Dues per horse decreased to $150. |
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| Proposed amendments to by-laws at GM meeting (not acted on): 1) ” “There shall be proprietary (voting) members, sponsoring members (non-voting), and family (non-voting members. Each proprietary member having one vote.” 2) “A sponsoring member must be a legal owner, jointly or commonly, with a proprietary member of a pony or horse which shall be but one sponsoring member per pony or horse. Sponsoring members will be ineligible to become officers or serve on the BOD.” 3) “Proprietary and sponsoring membership is open to all applicants who are legal owners of a pony or a horse. Applicants for a proprietary or sponsoring membership must be over 21 years of age.” |
October 1978:
| AUMs at 288 per year (one per horse per month) = 24 horses per year. At that time there were 21 members and 31 horses. Members directed to report supplemental feedings monthly on the basis of one ton of hay equaling 3 AUMs and one ton of grain at 5 AUMs. Vic suggested that each Board member call three people monthly and get the feeding amounts and check health certificates. |
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| Hay order of 12.5 tons was noted as difficult and time consuming. |
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| Telephone possibility tabled due to prohibitive cost. |
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| Put together committee to revise by-laws. (Noted that this task had been ignored for some time.) |
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| Shot clinic discussed: At that time rhino was optional. Board to look into one vs. two sleeping sickness shots before the next clinic. |
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| One person in charge of salt blocks. |
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| Trailer buying idea got few responses. |
November 1978:
| Discussion of by-law revision continued. No decisions made. |
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| Members were to be polled by phone to determine which shots they wanted given, how to worm – tube vs. paste, who wants rhino and collection of feed reports. |
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| Looked into radio phone for the pasture – cost prohibitive. |
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| Hay delivered. UP fed in the mornings, LP between 4-5pm. |
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| Woman who used the ring in exchange for harrowing completed the 6 month trial period. The association passed to continue letting her use the ring, but that she would have her own padlock. |
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| Associate membership question was again discussed brought on by nearby horse people wanting to use the ring. Discussion included charging a monthly fee for use of the ring. Discussion tabled. |
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| Motion passed to ask CCC department of Public Works to trim brush at WCC Rd. and El Toyonal. |
January 1979:
| Payment for hay was reduced due to some moldy hay. |
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| UP feeding discussed as one person (Bob Lewman) was doing the majority of the feeding. Jane volunteered to write a schedule after contacting members. Feeding to continue in the AM. |
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| Vet clinic set up. Paste wormer was considered insufficient since it did not kill bot flies. |
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| Discussion of neglected horses arose from a horse dying while members were on vacation [as best I can tell]. General agreement that members going out of town should arrange for another member to be responsible for their horse(s). Attached: No one to remove a horse for more than two days without notifying the president. |
March 1979:
| Waiting list consisted of 29 people. |
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| Vic urged that “the pasture be used by people that ride their horses, not a parking place for unused horses. He suggested that the Board take the responsibility of asking those who seldom ride to move their horses elsewhere.” |
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| Motion passed: Moratorium on addition of new horses. (Now 28 on pasture, 31 paid for.) |
May 1979:
| Site of the UP (red) barn was graded by EBMUD. |
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| Motion passed to increase the AUMs from 288 to 324 (this required 20 tons of hay to supplement – raising dues to $195.) |
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| EBMUD stated that OHA must work to control spreading weeds, or they would do it commercially and charge the association. LP members had pulled star thistle for three years – some still remained. Fiddleneck and artickoke thistle had appeared only recently and regular pulling had pretty well eliminated it. All agreed that only spraying could eliminate the large amount of fiddleneck in the UP. Bob L. put together a weed spraying work party as EBMUD gave 10 days to complete the job. |
July 1979:
| Three people sprayed 50 acres in four hours to kill weeds in UP. |
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| EBMUD wrote a letter stating that all dogs in the pasture be leashed. A letter was written back by LP members to request that their dogs be unleashed while feeding or checking horses. No response as yet. |
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| Only three members had completed 8 work hours that fiscal year. |
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| Ring surface discussed again. Harrowing had fallen through. Agreed to poll membership re: allowing outsiders to use the ring for $50. per year. |
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| Planned GM meeting. Bob Nuzum to attend to explain AUMs to membership [seemed to be a monthly discussion without member participation]. |
September 1979:
| Bob Nuzum stated EBMUDs preference of horses to cattle on the land. He also prepared membership to be ready to pay 2 to 3 times more for rent the following year (related to price of beef). At that time dues were $240. per horse per year. |
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| Motion passed (rule?) to split payments into two yearly installments. |
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| Motion passed that the annual work deposit be $50. For 10 hours from $25. for 8 hours. |
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| Motion (decision not stated) that if members put in more than 10 hours of work, they be able to draw out $5. per hour of extra work done. |
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| Motion passed that a work list board would be posted and members would sign off and date as jobs were completed. Work parties were no longer mandatory. |
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| Motion passed (rule): “Junior members of families may apply for membership in their own name and go on the waiting list after they reach the age of 21.” |
October 1979:
| Discussed feeding in the UP [again]. Suggestions.: People who do not feed on their day pay $5. or $10. At that time 7 people were feeding rotating nights. Suggested that member feedings be rotated every two months. Members who could not feed in their turn would find a sub (another member) and pay them $5. for their time and gas. |
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| Discussed plan for feed troughs at the UP. |
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| Work hours raised to 12 per year per family – apart from feedings. |
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| Shot clinic to be in spring only, as fall requirement only included worming and optional rhino. Members were responsible for their own worming arrangements in the fall. |
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| Motion passed to give Davey Tree man his own key for chip delivery to the ring. |
