I recently received a radon report from the Minnesota Radon Project. I thought I would share this information with our LACR community.

I found out about radon gas when I first moved to this state. I decided to test my basement for a long term test which is recommend type the Minnesota Radon Project.

So for 357 days I left the radon detector in my basement undisturbed. I finally sent the radon detector back to the project for reading. It's best to have a long term test since concentrations can vary from day to day, season to season, and year to year. Inside a house radon can vary from floor to floor and even room to room within a floor.

The Finding
The average radon concentration was 2.2 pCi/L in my basement.

What radon concentrations are safe?
Radon is a radioactive gas that can cause lung cancer. In a high radon area like Minnesota where the average home has 3 pCi/L, more people die from radon-induced lung cancer than from many other cancers; include those of skin, brain, bone, throat, stomach, and liver. The US Environmental Protection Agency recommends that you should take action to lower the radon in any living space that exceeds 4pCi/L. Most US houses have radon concentrations below 2pCi/L. Most houses with higher radon can be modified (mitigated) to lower their radon to below 2/Ci/L for a reasonable cost. This recommendation is based on the best available scientific evidence that indicates that your chance of getting lung cancer increases by 30% if you live for 20 years in a radon concentration of 4 pCi/L. The higher the radon concentration, the higher your lung cancer risk.

Test Your Home

If you want to test your home or find more information, please visit The Minnesota Radon Project website.


Chris Kovacs

January Meeting

The Crow Landings II Home Owner Association
Meeting Started at 7:15

Meeting Frequency

Dan's one year term will be up on May 1. We will be voting the next time for a treasurer. Good to have "Quick Book" experience. The treasure need not be aboard member. The difficult part is already setup.

Signature Homes still has a large account balance due which should be
collected at the time of closing. As the Title company now notifies the Home Owners Association (HOA) when
closing.

Monument Costs
Power and Irrigation was being charge for both monuments (Crows
landing I and II) to our association. This has been corrected. Rob is
investigating billing our costs to the other HOA.

Extra Funds
Use of extra funds will be discussed at next meeting. A neighbor-
hood BBQ, staining mailboxes, and a Spring cleanup dumpster was discussed.
Work could be provided via Community Service from local High School students. Mailbox staining for example.

Email Status
Please provide/update your email addresses. This saves the HOA time and $$$ for postage and provides better communications. For email inquires and email updates for the HOA, use "lacr.board@gmail.com"

General Questions to the HOA:

Christmas Contenst
And the winner of our first annual contest is:
Congratulations to the Emersons for winning our first
annual holiday decorating contest. Thanks to everyone
for participating.

Home Tax Re-assessments
Due to the housing slump, Sarah will be providing online steps
to have your home re-assessed for taxes. It's important that we
all keep our neighborhood in prime condition to keep the re-sale
value high.

Architectural Control Committee (ACC)
Oakland homes still controls the ACC. They due however, pass the
plans to the HOA board for joint approval.

Discussed HOA Accounts
Lock Box - The association uses a banking service to collect
the account funds. Reminder the payment address
is:

Association Payments: ($171.00/6 Months)
TLCR II Homeowners Association
HB132
PO Box 75248
St. Paul, MN 55175-0248

The board encourages to pay every 6 months. This simplfies
the accounting process and the number of checks processed by
the bank and keeps our costs down.

No plans to increase fees.

Insurance fees which the HOA requires is $875 per year

Garbage Contract.

Please do not put extra Garbage out for pick up.

Dogs Issues
Discussion was brought up regarding owners and their dogs. Please
pick up after your dogs. Please do not allow your dog to "go"
in your neighbors yard. Complaints have been made about lawn
"burns" from dogs urinating and other messes. It's frustrating
for a home owner that takes are of their lawns only to find the
lawn burned and they don't have any pets.

Park Easement
Discussion was brought up regarding the park easement at the end
of 21st Street. Could be put a picnic table, or seat at the fork
in the path. This would need to be brought up to the city, since
they are responsible for this area.

Meeting Adjourned at 8:20

Closing Comments

We have a winner!

Congratulations to the Emersons for winning our first annual holiday decorating contest. Thanks to everyone for participating.

Happy Holidays!

Garbage Pickup

Just a reminder that garbage pickup will be on Friday Dec 28th next week.

Holiday Contest

Thanks to everyone in the neighborhood for their fantastic holiday decorations. It is nice to drive down the street and see all the houses glowing. Chris took photos of all the houses which you can find in the gallery. We narrowed the field down to three for purposes of voting - so cast your votes (on the right) for your favorite who will receive $50. One vote per household (batteries not included, some restrictions apply).

House #1



House #2



House #3

Holiday Decorating Contest

Happy Holidays!

To start off the holiday season, the TLCR II Home Owners Association would like to announce the first Holiday Home Decorating contest.

The selected winner will receive $50.00.

We will select the top three houses and put them up for a vote on this site on December 17th with voting closing on the 23rd. As this notice is going out via email and we are missing the following families email addresses, please enlighten them!

Kovacs
Williams
Lim
Fuller
Johnson
Wettschreck
Alvarez
Mankowski
Peyerl
Welsh
Dorland

Rob, Dan, and Chris

Quarterly Meeting

The 2008 neighborhood meeting calendar has been set. We will be sending reminders out 2 weeks prior to each meeting.

Meeting Dates:
January 8th
April 9th
July 10th
October 7th

Special topic of note is that Dan Wilmot (Treasurer) has his one year term expire May 1st so we will be holding an election for his replacement during the April session.