Board Meeting and Public Hearings: June 2023

The next meeting of the OCSA Board will be at 8:30 PM Tuesday June 13. The sole item of business will be consideration of “Action 44”, the proposed amendments to the Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions, in light of feedback received from our members during the two public hearings on

• Tuesday June 6 at 7:00 PM
• Saturday June 10 at 1:00 PM

The Board meeting and both public hearings will be conducted via Zoom. All Oakbridge residents are welcome to attend. E-mail secretary@oakbridge.community for the link.

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Updating the DCR

All homeowners in Oakbridge are automatically members of the Oakbridge Community Services Association (OCSA), and those homes and lots are subject to both the Oakbridge Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions (DCR) and the Supplementary Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions (SDCR). These documents were put in place by the developer in 1979, when this whole area was just a big open field, and have remained in force, unchanged, for the last 44 years.


An OCSA committee has been working diligently at a proposal to update them, and its recommendation (“Action 44”), along with an explanation of it and a “rendered” version of what the DCR would look like if the changes were adopted, plus the current wording of the DCR and SDCR, may be viewed on line at https://oakbridge.community/documents/

The OCSA Board of Directors wishes to obtain feedback on that proposal from the membership and has scheduled two meetings for public commentary and suggestions. They will be held remotely, via Zoom, at 7:00 PM on Tue. June 6 and at 1:00 PM on Sat. June 10. To obtain a link to either meeting, e-mail secretary@oakbridge.community. You may also send comments on the proposal to that address.


Based on those comments, the Board will finalize the wording on the proposed amendments and submit them to the members (you, the property owners) for ratification. That requires the assent of at least 75% of our 145 households, or 109 homeowners, and will be conducted via a petition drive. More information about that will be forthcoming after the public hearings, but our hope is that we can collect many of them at the annual 4th of July neighborhood picnic.

Please take advantage of this opportunity to be a fully informed and active participant in the affairs of the community in which you live.

An 8-minute video overview of “Action 44”, describing what it does and why, can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/FiC_3jNliZM

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2023 Annual Meeting Minutes

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May 16, 2023 Meeting Minutes

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Special Board meeting to consider amending Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions

Oakbridge special Board meeting to consider amending Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions, Wed. May 24, 8:30 PM.

All residents of the Oakbridge Neighborhood (145 single-family homes) are automatically members of the Oakbridge Community Services Association (OCSA), and your property is subject to the Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions (DCR), which was put into place back in 1979, when this whole corner of town was just a farm field.

Things have changed in the intervening 44 years, and an OCSA committee has been working on a set of amendments to the DCR. Their recommendations will be presented to the OCSA Board on Wed. May 24 at 8:30 PM via Zoom.

ALL RESIDENTS OF OAKBRIDGE ARE INVITED TO ATTEND!

To get the link to the meeting, e-mail: secretary@oakbridge.community

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Annual Neighborhood Meeting 2023

Oakbridge Community Services Association

2023 Annual Meeting • Thu. Jan. 5 • 6:30 PM

All Oakbridge Community residents are invited and encouraged to attend the Oakbridge Community Services Association annual membership meeting on Thu. Jan. 5 at 6:30 PM at the Midtown District Police Station, 4020 Mineral Point Rd.; enter using the doors nearest the flagpoles. You can also attend and vote from the comfort of your own home via Zoom. E-mail secretary@oakbridge.community for the link, which will not be sent out until the day of the meeting to avoid Zoom bombers.

If you are unable to attend the meeting yourself but wish to have your voice heard and votes cast on your behalf, you may designate a proxy by contacting secretary@oakbridge.community no later than Wed. Jan. 4.

2023 being an odd-numbered year, 4 seats on the Board of Directors will be up for election to a 2-year term. If you are interested in running for one of those seats, ask for a “Declaration of Candidacy” form by contacting secretary@oakbridge.community no later than Wed. Jan. 4. Directors serve without compensation and are expected to attend about half a dozen meetings a year.

Here’s the rest of the agenda:

  • 6:30 – Call to order
  • 6:31 – Overview of the agenda
  • 6:32 – Introduction of Board members and other officers
  • 6:34 – Announcement of proxies
  • 6:35 – Introduction of, and brief remarks by, candidates for the Board of Directors
  • 6:45 – Explanation of election procedures
  • 6:49 – Polls open for election of Directors
  • 6:50 – Guest speaker #1, Realtor Wendy Dalgety
  • 7:15 – Officer reports on activities during the previous year
  • 7:35 – Guest speaker #2, Alder Nikki Conklin
  • 7:49 – Polls close for election of Directors
  • 8:00 – Open discussion
  • 8:25 – Announcements
  • 8:30 – Adjournment

The first meeting of the newly elected Board will commence 5 minutes after the adjournment of the annual meeting. All community members are welcome to stick around for it; it will also be available via the same Zoom link. At that time, the Board will elect its officers for the coming year. The Treasurer and Secretary are not required to be Board members. The Board will also appoint the 5 members of the Architectural Review Board. If you are interested in serving in any of those positions, please e-mail president@oakbridge.community.

Brief history (optional reading)

Back in the 1970s, Madison developer James V. Burkhard set out to create 3 new developments in the southwest corner of the city: Oakbridge Apartments, Oakbridge Condominiums, and Oakbridge Community. The latter, comprising 145 private, single-family homes fronting on Oakbrook Circle and its 4 cul-de-sac courts, are the territory covered by OCSA. As a condition and benefit of purchase, each owner of one of those properties is automatically a member of OCSA and entitled to 1 vote at the annual meeting; if a property is owned jointly, the co-owners must decide among themselves how to cast any votes to which they are entitled.

OCSA has been set up as a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. The only decisions required of the 145 members are whom to elect as Directors and whether to amend the governing documents. All other OCSA business is handled by the elected Board. The primary responsibilities of the Board are care and maintenance of the common areas, preservation of community architectural standards, and organizing community social activities.

The Board is required to adopt an annual budget and present it to the members at the annual meeting. That budget was adopted at the Nov. 10 Board meeting and will be reviewed on screen during the annual meeting.

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