Next HOA Board Meeting
The next Board Meeting will be January 12 at 6:30 P.M. in our park.
Neighborhood Get-Together
We had a great time meeting new neighbors and getting reacquainted with all of our neighbors who attended.
New City Garbage Cans Present a Big Problem
In our bylaws, it states that after the trash has been picked up by the city the garbage cans should be “in back or out of sight.” We understand that since the bylaws were written, we have been given these huge garbage cans by the city and are very difficult if not impossible to store in our tiny garages. We do, however, ask you to set it to the side of your house behind your fenced in area. This will at least hide it a little bit. It is a violation of our bylaws to just leave it in front of your house.
Board Looking To Future Improvements
Our board members have discussed several ideas for future improvements as funds become available. Some of those ideas are listed below.
Replace fences bordering any street or common area.
Development of the vacant lot at the end of Lewiston Street to be a park, or a Parking Lot, or a Community Vegetable Garden or something else entirely. Your ideas are welcomed.
Assessment Improvements Completed
In the past two years many of you have struggled to get your assessments paid so that we can improve our neighbor-hood. You are to be congratulated!
We have repaved our roads, put in new streetlights, replaced aging and broken street signs, replaced our fence that was falling apart and upgraded our park.
On top of that we have repaired or replaced our irrigation system, our sign lights, and our retention pond inlets. (That ugly orange fence is finally been taken down.)
We, the homeowners, are the only ones that can only make improvements. The city has no responsibility to maintain anything within the borders of Grant Station.
Property Inspections Begin Again
Many homeowners keep their homes and yards looking absolutely fabulous! It is obvious many homeowners care how their homes appear. They are to be congratulated.
There are others, however, that often need a little encouragement to maintain their homes. It is to this end that the board has reauthorized the management company to make monthly inspections of our property and to send out reminders to those homeowners.
We are aware that because of hardship some people simply cannot do the work required. We want to know this as well, so that we can help. We cannot know that someone needs help unless it is asked for.
Together we can improve the look and feel of Grant Station. It will give us a further sense of pride and raise our property values.
Neighborhood Watch
Neighborhood Watch is in need of “block Captains” to head up the organization on their street. We need Block Captains to head up the roster of people on their street to keep an eye on our neighborhood. We need 40% participation from our homeowners to maintain our designation as a “Neighbor-hood Watch Community.”
Some Homeowners Have Decided Not Pay their Fair Share
For one reason or another there are homeowners that have decided not pay their special assessments or do not pay their monthly dues. Which is their legal obligation. This puts a huge burden on those that do pay and slows down progress of any improvements or repairs. There are homeowners who have not paid their dues in years. This is a very serious legal situation.
The Board of Directors has authorized the Management Company to hand over the worst offenders to our lawyer to use whatever means is necessary to get these homeowners to make good on their responsibilities, like most other homeowners already have.
This is uncomfortable for the Board of Directors and seems an un-neighborly thing to do. But then so is not paying your fair share. If homeowners have financial difficulties please contact All About Management to work out a neighborly payment plan and avoid the pain and embarrassment of having a lien put on your house or forcing us to foreclose on your home. We are eager to work with anyone having legitimate financial problems.