Terry is taking a vacation, so the Office will be closed for 3 days, next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The Office will reopen on Thursday, August 11th.
We will be checking the drop box daily; you can deposit your dues payments there. We may have someone in the Office but not from 8am-5pm.
We will be mowing the property next week.
On Monday, we will mow behind the Office and around West Mountain Lane. On Tuesday, we will mow the remainder of the West side. Then on Wednesday, the East side.
The FBI Dallas Division has received reports of a recent wave of scam attempts targeting senior citizens in North Texas, particularly in the Sherman and Denison areas.
Callers with foreign accents identify themselves as FBI agents and typically tell people they have won a lottery and must pay “taxes” in advance via commercial money transfer companies to receive their winnings. These phone calls are fraudulent, and call recipients should hang up immediately. The FBI has no affiliation to any lotteries and does not call members of the public demanding money.
Additionally, a scam phone call may seem legitimate because scammers can spoof caller ID information. It may appear the call is coming from a legitimate FBI phone number or from Washington, D.C. The FBI strongly encourages anyone contacted by a caller who says they are with the FBI to verify the information with the Bureau. The main telephone number for the FBI in Dallas is 972-559-5000; contact information for other FBI field offices can be found at www.fbi.gov.
In similar scams, callers have claimed to be with the IRS, DEA, or another government agency. As above, be suspicious and verify the caller’s information with the appropriate agency. There are many versions of this government impersonation scam, but they are all variations of the same tactic. This type of scam has been around for years and targets people across the country.
In some instances, after the victims stop sending money, the scammers continue to contact the victims via e-mail purporting to be high-level FBI executives threatening arrest on money laundering charges unless more money is sent.
If you are a victim of a phone or e-mail scam, you can file an online complaint with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Filing a complaint through IC3’s website allows analysts from the FBI to identify leads and patterns from the hundreds of complaints that are received daily. Compiling and analyzing these complaints can lead to stronger cases and help zero in on the major sources of criminal activity. The IC3 then refers the complaints, along with their analyses, to the relevant law enforcement agency for follow-up.
The Federal Trade Commission—the nation’s consumer protection agency—offers the following advice to avoid falling victim to lottery scams and other telemarketing frauds:
Here’s a link to the 1st and 2nd Quarter Report for 2016 which highlight things the HOA has done this year.
Below is a photo of the fence the HOA had replaced in late 2014; the old fence to the right was literally falling down. As you can see, the new fence was perfectly straight, except for the dog-leg to clear equipment. The HOA paid $7,000 for this new fence. Subsequently, we have had the fence repaired a few times after people have backed unto it and caused minor damage.
But the damage below looks to be intentional. It took some level of force to bend the fence post like this, which appears to be at bumper height. As far as the fence is pushed over, it also took some force to do this. If anyone knows who did this, please call the Office. Whomever is responsible needs to get this fixed. We are trying to make our community look better and increase our property values; things like this only bring them down.
While we do not live in Highland Park, there is no reason for residents to cause damage like this.
Despite several notices sent out to all residents about broken glass and uncapped syringes in trash bags, we had an incident this morning where one of our maintenance guys received a 2″-2 /12″ cut on his leg because a homeowner put broken glass into a plastic trash bag. Common sense would indicate that broken glass should be contained in a manner so as not to injure another person and failing to do so is willful negligence. The homeowner admitted they put glass in the bag, something they normally would not do.
As a reminder, all broken glass, bottles, window panes, mirrors or other broken and jagged glass materials MUST be in a box that is securely taped closed. We have sent out sufficient warnings; any further instances of broken glass in plastic trash bags will result in an appropriate fine to the responsible party.
If this was not bad enough, from the very same street where the broken glass in the trash bag originated, we had another trash bag with 5 or 6 uncapped syringes and needles used with Insulin pens. This is also negligent and one of the guys got stuck by an uncapped syringe.
I am diabetic and I understand the concept of a bio-hazard. Not only do I cap all of my used syringes/pen needles, I also put them in a coffee can and secure the lid. It is the reasonable and responsible thing to do. And yet, we have had several instances of our residents not even bothering to put the cap back on the sharp end. This is a Health and Safety violation and can result in fines pursuant to Texas Property Code, Section 209.006.
The July 28th Pipeline is posted.
To keep the city’s water supply at a safe level and to comply with the city’s whole sale water purchase contracts, the following restrictions apply at all times:
Allowed:
The Drought Contingency Plan may, depending on need, also prohibit all or some of the following non-essential uses (water use that does not directly benefit or maintain health, personal cleanliness, or firefighting purposes):
For more information, call 972-237-8377 or 972-237-8154.
As a reminder to all, cable TV installations must have the cable buried. Many of these installations are done by subcontractors who apparently never complete the burial process for the cables. Maybe they are supposed to have another contractor come back and bury them; doesn’t matter, they must get buried or they will be cut by the mowers. We have contacted Time-Warner plenty of times to have these cables buried but have been met with an “I don’t care” attitude.
There are far too many cables running across the common areas, across sidewalks, etc.. Yesterday, one of our mowers severed 2 cables in 2 different areas that were sticking up high enough to get into the blades. If you have a cable TV installed where your cable run on top of the common area to your house, please call the cable company and have them bury the cable.