Many of us are now using Zoom. Some are using their mobile phones and may not be aware that all the background noise can interrupt a meeting. So we thought we would share how to mute your phone. Video conferencing apps such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Hangouts, etc. are turning out to be more vital now than ever. You can participate in your meetings from any part of the world. Fortunately, those apps have taken care of little details in their apps. While too many people using it is absolutely great, it can get overwhelming. Thankfully, a majority of these apps offer a mute option. In this post, we shall tell you…

Question/Comment: We can use our user name and password to contact  you and connect to Surf Pines Home Page but we cannot vote.  HELP! Answer From Tom Smith SPA Secretary BOD: Thank you for your inquiry. Go to top of the e-mail from The Inspectors of Election (TIE), who has been retained by the SPA’s Board of Directors (BOD) to confidentially manage SPA’s vote.  All documents are available on this voting site, you just received, just below the date. There is your user name and password. This is a private third party managed vote done by the inspectors of election. So instead of going to our web you go to theirs (just…

This is the free conference call system that we have used on SPA’s BOD meetings. Now with recommendations that we stay at home we wanted to share with our members an easy way to stay in touch. As many of you are finding this time of self quarantine makes it so difficult to keep in touch with your friends and loved ones. We started using an online conference system and found Freeconferencecall.com was free and had all the whistle and bells that the high priced systems have like Go to Meeting. We have used this for your board of Directors meetings the last few meetings and find it relatively easy to use…

As you may have heard, we did a complete redo of our Surf Pines Web Site. This new system managed by MuniCode a national company that specializes in municipal and local government software and is in use all over the country including Gearhart and Cannon Beach. Many who have logged on indicate that this new site is intuitive and will offer easy access to our association information and works with our new blog. However, your old log in will not work with this new site. The primary reason is that all of your passwords were secured and we could not transfer them to the new site. So far we have 80 people…