Category: Information - page 20
We have changed the PayPal buttons to the right to reflect the changes in HOA assessments and which include the credit card fee that PayPal charges us.
Reminder: For those who use Bill Pay through your bank, please remember to change it to the 2017 amounts of $162 (with security light)or $172 (without security light)
Please make sure that your outside water faucets are properly wrapped to prevent freezing during the low temperatures over the weekend. Townhouses which have outside washer-dryer hookups also need to either heat the room or make sure the pipes are properly insulated.
Make sure that you disconnect any hose attached to the faucet before thermally wrapping them. The water that remains between the hose connection and the actual valve (which is inside the wall) will freeze and fracture the pipe after the valve itself; learned that the hard way.
Home Depot, Lowes and other home stores sell foam faucet covers fairly cheap, like $3 each.
Mary Hartman, Board Secretary, has resigned effective November 29, 2016. Mary was kind enough to take on the role of Secretary following the death of Dotti Tunnell in June 2014. We would like to thank Mary for her years of service to the HOA community. The Board has decided to wait until the 2017 election before appointing a Secretary, since we appoint officers following the Board elections. In the interim, we will have an acting Board Secretary to handle those duties.
At the December 1st Board meeting, the Board appointed Bea Beltran to fill the remainder of Karen McCrary’s term following her resignation in June 2016. We would like to welcome Dr. Beltran to the Board; her term will end in March of 2019.
We have had a few folks ask when the new dues go into effect. The answer is they go into effect on January 1, 2017, as this is the 2017 budget. If you paid your December dues at the new amount, you will get a $14 credit for over payment of 2016 dues.
We also have had folks asking what constitutes a “security light” to qualify for the $10 discount on dues. What we call a security light is a fixture that is mounted on the end of the buildings near the peak of the roof line or mounted on a pole. Both must be tied into your electrical service to get the $10 off per month.
Motion sensing lights or other lights under the carport or porch areas do not qualify as a “security light”.
Below are examples of what we refer to as a “Security light”.
Several residents have told us that they received a card similar to the one below, asking them to purchase some plan to maintain the water supply lines entering their property. The card does quote a GP Municipal Code, 26-71(b), which states:
Sec. 26-71. – Requirements and exceptions as to easements.
(b) Exceptions. Water lines on private property that are required to be metered or fitted with detector checks at or near the property line shall not be dedicated to the city and the property owner shall bear all maintenance responsibility on the customer side of the meter or detector check.
Were these properties stand alone homes on an individual lot, this would have some validity. However, the HOA owns and maintains the land beneath which the water lines run and the HOA repairs leaks in these areas. The HOA responsibility goes up to and including the water cutoff valve; on the other side of the cutoff valve becomes homeowner responsibility. This is usually a 1 or 1.5 foot piece of pipe.
If you get one of these cards, you do not need to purchase this “protection”. Here is an example of this card. We have redacted the owner’s name and address for privacy.
- Open Board Meeting, December 1, 2016, at 7 PM in the Association Office.
- Agenda for the meeting: (Subject to change)
- Resolution to allow voting by electronic means (allowed by statutes)
- Executive Session to follow
- Agenda for the meeting: (Subject to change)
Study Aims to Align Military, Community Missions at Redmond Taylor Army Heliport
Joining Forces, a Regional Joint Land Use Study (JLUS), will identify and recommend communication and land use strategies that support continued military capabilities. The cities and counties surrounding Redmond Taylor Army Heliport, located on the northwest side of Mountain Creek Lake, will work with the facility to plan and carry out specific actions that will promote compatible community and economic growth.
Insight and input from Grand Prairie and Dallas residents are vital to the success of the study around Redmond Taylor Army Heliport. Short surveys at www.JoiningForcesNTX.org ask about compatibility issues like noise, safety/security, environmental resources and communication/coordination as well as how residents would like to learn about and stay involved in the study.
Land uses that can be incompatible when they occur near a military installation include urban growth, energy development, the presence of wildlife or water and land uses that restrict air space or create a threat to security.
The regional study coordinated by the North Central Texas Council of Governments also includes communities and military operations for Naval Air Station Fort Worth, Joint Reserve Base, Fort Wolters Training Center in Mineral Wells and Camp Maxey Training Center near Paris. Installations are nominated for a JLUS by the military, and the study is funded by the Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment.
To learn more and provide input, visit www.JoiningForcesNTX.org or contact staff at 817-695-9240 or info@JoiningForcesNTX.org.
Also sent with the above information is a factsheet and a map of the area in question:
Office
Closed on Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25, in observance of the holiday.
Trash
We will pick up trash on Friday, November 25th.
Keep Wipes Out of City Wastewater System
Do you use wet wipes that claim they are flushable? These wipes are actually not flushable and can cause harm to plumbing and wastewater systems because they do not disintegrate after flushing. Instead, they wrap around other flushed wipes and debris, damage pumps at the wastewater plant, and have to be removed from wastewater screens and lift stations.
Wipes also create clogs in main wastewater lines and customer lines that have to be manually removed because fats, oil and grease deposit on them.
Toilet paper disintegrates almost immediately, but the strong-fiber wipes cause havoc in city wastewater lines and at wastewater plants.
When using flushable wipes, please throw them into the trash, and do not flush them down the toilet. This keeps the wastewater lines clear and helps avoid costly clog removal at your home and the wastewater plant.