Please remember to bring in your Homeowners Insurance renewal Declaration page for 2017 to the Office so we can add a copy of it to your member records. It is a requirement of the CC&R and protects both you and the HOA.
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)
Christmas – The Office and Maintenance will be closed from Friday, December 23 through Monday, December 26th. We will reopen the Office and Maintenance on Tuesday, December 27th.
New Year – The Office and Maintenance will be closed from December 30 to January 1, 2017. The Office and maintenance will reopen on January 2nd. We will pick up trash on Monday, January 2, 2017 as usual.
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.
The December 1st Pipeline is now posted.
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”.
Yesterday, we repaired a leak on East Mountain Creek Court; the day before, we repaired another leak on East Mountain Lane.
Below are photos of the one fixed yesterday.
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.
Register for the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event on Dec. 3
This time of year can include lots of cooking, cleaning and decorating! If you have leftover cooking oil, grease, cleaning supplies, batteries or other crud, bring it to our FREE household hazardous waste collection event 9-11 a.m. this Saturday, Dec. 3, at the Development Center, 206 W. Church St.
Registration is required. Visit www.gptx.org/WQ/HHW or call 972-237-8055 to register and learn more about what kind of items are accepted.
Remember that oil and grease can clog drains when poured down the kitchen sink. So if you are planning on doing a lot of cooking this season, pick up a FREE funnel (while supplies last) to help pour used grease and cooking oil into a non-leaking container (such as an empty coffee container or detergent bottle with a lid) to bring to the next HHW collection event. View a list of locations to pick up a funnel at http://bit.ly/WaterSmartFunnels.