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Heritage Pines CDD swears in three supervisors, elects officers and adopts amended 2023/24 budget
Summary
At its Dec. 10, 2024, meeting in Hudson, the Heritage Pines Community Development District administered oaths to three newly elected supervisors, elected board officers under Resolution 2025-01 and adopted an amended Fiscal Year 2023/2024 budget under Resolution 2025-02, each by unanimous vote.
The Heritage Pines Community Development District Board of Supervisors met Dec. 10, 2024, at the Heritage Pines Country Club meeting room. District Manager Chuck Adams administered the Oath of Office to newly elected supervisors Arthur Rhodes (Seat 1), Stephen Putman (Seat 2) and Michael Walsh (Seat 3).
Adams reviewed filing requirements with the Commission on Ethics and noted that incumbent board members must complete four hours of ethics training by Dec. 31, 2024; Putman is exempt from that deadline because he did not previously serve on the board. Adams also reviewed Form 1 filing, the Sunshine Law prohibition on off-meeting communications and Form 8B voting-conflict disclosures.
On a motion by Michael Walsh, seconded by Carol Vaughan, the board adopted Resolution 2025-01 electing officers: Kathleen Lonergan as Chair; Arthur Rhodes as Vice Chair; and Michael Walsh, Carol Vaughan and Stephen Putman as Assistant Secretaries. The resolution also removed Janice Benedetti from the roster. The motion carried unanimously.
District Manager Adams presented Resolution 2025-02, an amended Fiscal Year 2023/2024 budget that reflects a major equipment expense for a new lawnmower. The board increased the "Operations and maintenance - Contingencies" line item by $20,000 to cover potential journal entries; Adams said unused contingency funds will remain in surplus fund balance. He also reported the CDD expects a refund of $1,298 from the Tax Collector’s Office. On motion by Michael Walsh, seconded by Stephen Putman, the board adopted the amended budget by unanimous vote.
The board also accepted unaudited financial statements as of Oct. 31, 2024. Adams said a BankUnited Insured Cash Sweep (ICS) account was established; the initial advertised interest rate of 4.75% has fallen to about 4.25%. Arthur Rhodes moved to accept the statements; Carol Vaughan seconded and the board approved the acceptance unanimously.
The board approved the Oct. 15, 2024 regular meeting minutes as amended; edits included changing prior references from "Gatz" to "Hurley" and correcting an instance of "Walsh" to "Rhodes," among other to-do-list edits. The board set its next regular meeting for Feb. 18, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., and scheduled a 1:00 p.m. workshop that day to brief newly seated Supervisor Putman and interested parties on CDD functions.
All formal motions recorded in the minutes were adopted unanimously. The meeting adjourned at 2:34 p.m.
