My wife Kim and I have lived in Arroyo Grande for the past 20 years. We raised three children who all graduated from Arroyo Grande High School and then various California colleges since that time. We moved into our Cypress Ridge home in the Fall of 2022. We have owned the lot in Cypress Ridge since 2014.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in finance from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, I moved to Chicago and worked in a range of a range of auditing and distribution center positions at Baxter International. While at Baxter, I earned an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Illinois. In the early 1990s, I changed industries and spent the next 30 years in senior management positions with various logistics and supply chain firms. The common objective in these roles was to deliver cost savings, improved product quality and environmental benefits for a wide range of products moving from point-of-manufacture to consumption.

I retired in early 2020 after seven years as Vice President of Sales and New Business Development from Atlanta, GA based Tosca Services, a global leader in reusable packaging solutions. As part of the company’s leadership team, I participated in four board meetings each year. I also served as President for a two-year term of an industry non-profit association. I am now consulting for Tosca as well as a small medical products company based out of Scottsdale, AZ. I currently volunteer at Pismo Preserve to maintain its network of trails and enjoy playing tennis several times per week.I look forward to serving on the Board. I will bring a fresh voice to Cypress Ridge with an objective to improve our community for all of its residents. As a resident, I am focused on addressing the challenges that we face together and the opportunities that we have to further improve our community.

My wife Maureen and I purchased our home in Cypress Ridge in 2006 and have been full time residents since August 2008. I retired from a 35+ year public sector career in parks and recreation in December 2008, which included serving as the Department Director for the cities of Manhattan Beach and Pleasanton. During our time in CR I have served as a member of the committee that reviewed policies for dogs in the community; was asked by a previous Board to be the lead negotiator with the former golf course owner regarding a proposed resort project; and have chaired the Picnic Area Committee, which facilitates resident use of the community park, since its inception.

I was originally elected to the CR Board of Directors as a write-in candidate in 2018 and reelected to a second term in 2020. During that time, I was annually selected by my colleagues to be the HOA Board’s Vice President, also serving four months as the Acting President. I was actively involved in securing a long-term agreement with the golf course owner to provide irrigation water for our common areas and, along with former Board Member John Kenny, helped to acquire and improve the front entry parcel off El Campo Road which serves as the gateway to our community. I have a strong interest in upgrading our common area landscaping and replacing the aging playground equipment in our parks. I consider it a privilege to serve the property owners of Cypress Ridge and strive to be a source of accurate information concerning issues that affect us all.

Master’s Degree, City and Regional Planning, CSU, Fresno Fresno and Kern County Planning Positions Kern County Planning Director/ Development Services Agency Director Land Use/Environmental Consultant Chairman, Cypress Ridge Community Enhancement Committee.

Many years of experience involved with private property regulatory affairs, consensus building, managing an agency budget and communicating with the public in a transparent and objective manner is well-suited for the role of being a Board Director.

I am honored to serve with the Board and HOAMCO in planning for the future and protecting and enhancing the value of our home and community investments.

 Mike Palmer – Treasurer

Mike and his wife Christy have lived in the San Luis Obispo area since 2016 and have been in Cypress Ridge since 2024. Mike is a retired CPA and has served in a Chief Operating Officer role for several 200+ member law firms in California and Texas. He also served on the Board of a 10,000-member international trade association for six years, including one year as its President.

Before Cypress Ridge, Mike served on the Board of San Luis Country Club Estates HOA and became its Treasurer in 2016. In 2018, he was elected President and served as both President and Treasurer until relocating to Cypress Ridge. Mike also served on the Finance Committee for the San Luis Obispo Country Club for six years.

Mike’s HOA accomplishments include simplifying financial reporting, banking relationships, and investment management as well as conducting Request for Proposals (RFPs) for security, landscape contractors, drilling contracts, and completely relandscaping the street facing common area and the main entry gate area. He also prepared the annual budgets and reported on budget performance at regular Board meetings.

Mike supports holding Board meetings in an open and inclusive manner and his highest priorities are maintaining a beautiful, safe, secure, and friendly community with a financially strong HOA.

Cypress ridge is a great development and I would like to help keep it that way. My neighbors have been nothing but great and the neighborhood is safe. I love people and you might know me because I walk and ride my bike daily in Cypress Ridge.

I’m a retired junior high teacher that mainly taught in Clovis Unified near Fresno for most of my career. I still teach part-time to keep active. I would like the opportunity to represent the residents of Cypress Ridge on the board! I will do my best to keep our neighborhood a great place to live!