Wyndmere Homeowners Association

Greetings to My Wyndmere Neighbors

Jul 23, 2003

I am your new Homeowner?’s Association President. Having been an active member of our neighborhood group since 1993 when Jo and I built our home here, I have some definite ideas about what I would like to see us all accomplish this year. Within the next week or so I will get with the other elected officers of our group so we can review this year?’s budget once again, review and distribute the minutes from our most recent meeting on June 26th, and set some agendas for our coming meetings.

Ideally, I?’d like to hold 3 meetings this year. Since we have so many new folks in the neighborhood, I hope these meetings will allow us a forum to meet and greet one another. I plan to schedule the meetings for different nights of the week, so perhaps more of us will attend. At this point attendance is very low, and more of us must participate and communicate if we are to keep an attractive and safe neighborhood.

In that regard, perhaps a neighborhood survey would help us have more productive meetings. I, for one, think we should have some guest speakers from the city tell us about the new DeSoto Comprehensive Plan, the new Streetscape Plan, the new Capital Improvement Plan which will affect our streets, etc. Are there other speakers you would like to hear from/question?

Additionally, we must collect our ?“dues?” so we can maintain the common areas of the neighborhood. We historically have about 80% of our neighbors who contribute to our budget, and that?’s terrific, but I?’d like to learn why the others do not pay. This year dues have been REDUCED to only $180 or $0.49/day.

Other issues to discuss include: approving by-laws and becoming a formal homeowner?’s association, speeding in the neighborhood, by both adults and teens alike; dogs which historically run loose in the neighborhood even though it?’s against the law, and requiring ourselves to use plastic trash cans and not trash bags so the ?“natural critters?” who live with us don?’t spread our trash all over the neighborhood...and lastly, asking our neighbors to take in their trash cans the same day as the trash is picked up.

If we want our neighborhood to remain outstanding, we must think and act outstanding as concerned neighbors who work together for the common good of Wyndmere.

If you would respond to this memo by e-mailing me your address, I?’d appreciate it.

Rich Buickerood
972-230-4712
zoodirector@sprintmail.com


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