Westside at Buttercup Creek - September 2013

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Westside at Buttercup Creek

Volume 4, Number 9 September 2013Official Newsletter of the Westside at Buttercup Creek HOA

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Two out of the five board positions are up for election this year. The election takes place at the annual meeting which will be held at the Cedar Park Public Library on October 14th if we have over 500 homeowners at the meeting either in person or by proxy, or at the Cedar Park Police Station on November 11th if there were not enough attending the October meeting. Sign in starts at 7pm and the meeting will begin at 7:30pm. Each HOA member should have already received by mail the Annual Meeting information which included the ballot/proxy. You have the option to fill out your ballot and send it in if you are unable to attend the meeting. We hope that this will encourage more participation in the process. You also still have the option to write in someone who you chose to be your proxy and represent you at the meeting if you would rather do that. We have three candidates running for the two board positions. They are Denny James, Walt Conlin and Dawn Harris. At the annual meeting the candidates will have a few minutes to present themselves before voting. You can read more about them by going to the HOA website at www.westsidehoa.org.

Cave Day is September14th. It’s a great opportunity to go into and explore some of the great caves in our area. Go to www.texascaves.org for more information.

Every year our HOA has an annual meeting. This meeting is different from our regular monthly board meetings in that we review the yearly expenses and budget, have a general report on how the HOA is doing from the President, and hold elections for the board positions. We also have the different committees give a report and have an open discussion with the attending homeowners. EVERY HOA member should be at this annual meeting.

Our annual meeting this year is scheduled for October 14, 2013. However, you might be surprised to know that according to our HOA Bylaws, if we do not have at least 40% of our HOA members in attendance, we have to reschedule the meeting for another time. That means that we need over 500 members in attendance or by proxy in order to conduct the business of the annual meeting. As you may have already guessed, this has never happened. The rescheduled annual meeting must then take place within 10-30 days of the original meeting date. At the rescheduled meeting, whoever is there in person or by proxy is sufficient to conduct the business of the meeting.

We would love to have over 500 members at our annual meeting. As much as we hope that it will happen, we understand that it probably never will. With that in mind, the board prepares for the annual meeting, but also prepares for a regular monthly meeting as a backup. If we don’t have the 40%, our rescheduled annual meeting will be on November 11, 2013.

HOA Annual Meeting and Elections

Annual Meeting

Information

Cave Day

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Westside at Buttercup CreekBOARD OF DIRECTORS

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advertising dollars make it possible for all Westside at Buttercup Creek residents to receive the monthly newsletter at no charge. No homeowners association funds are used to produce or mail the newsletters. If you would like to support the newsletter by advertising, please contact our sales office at 512-263-9181 or [email protected]. The advertising deadline is the 8th of each month for the following month's newsletter.

President, Darrell Park [email protected] V. President, Dennis Domanski .... [email protected] Director, Phil Crochet .................... [email protected], David Jackson [email protected], Natalie Woods .................. [email protected] Website .......................................www.westsidehoa.org

MANAGEMENT INFO

NEWSLETTER INFOEDITORRandy Woods ...................... [email protected]

PUBLISHER Peel, Inc. ..................................................... 512-263-9181 Advertising............................... [email protected]

Do you want to help out in the community but don’t have a lot of time? Join one of the following Committees and help out as much or as little as you want.

Cave Preserve ............ Darrell Park [email protected] .....Randy Woods [email protected] ..............POSITION AVAILABLE ....................................Landscaping.................Jerry Bordic ...... [email protected] ......... Natalie Woods ...... [email protected] Watch ...Phil Crochet [email protected] ............................ Jay Clover [email protected] ..............POSITION AVAILABLE ....................................

COMMITTEES

Celeste Starr Schulz - Property ManagerGoodwin ManagementOffice: 512-852-7922

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Candidates for the Two Available Board Positions

Two out of the five board positions are up for election this year. The election takes place at the annual meeting which will be on October 14 if we have at least 40% of our homeowners at the meeting either in person or by proxy, or November 11 if there were not enough attending the October meeting (see Annual Meeting Information Article). We have three candidates running for the two board positions. They are: Denny James, Walt Conlin and Dawn Harris.

Walt ConlinHad a career in business, 18 years with Xerox, 7 years with

Corporate Accounting and Director of Corporate planning with American General Corp, 7 years public accounting, and 3 years in public relations with the American Cancer Society, I am a Vietnam Vet - USAF - 1965-1969, and a Graduate of Eastern Washington State University.

I am a proud resident of our beautiful community. We are lucky to have so many wonderful things going for us here. We are in Williamson County with the quality Leander School District, we have a low crime rate, excellent shopping all around us, a new hospital, and the best of all worlds in access to highways to go north, south, east or west, and for those that want to get away from it all we are in the foothills in NW Austin. Over the past few years we have set the pace as one of the fastest growing communities in the whole USA. I live here by choice and love it.

My commitment to the residents of Westside is to be dedicated to preserve, protect, and do what is in the best interest of our community, and to have an open ear to our neighbors concerns that I can represent you in meetings concerning activities of the board to keep Westside a preferred place to live.

Dawn HarrisHi, I'm Dawn Harris and I'd like to serve you as your HOA Board

member. My husband and I just moved to Westside in September 2012, but we've been homeowners for many years.

I believe the purpose of an HOA should be to protect its members and their investment in their homes. There are several issues that need to be addressed such as on-street parking, watering restriction compliance, fence maintenance, brush clean up and more. I take pride in our neighborhood. I want to help ensure that future growth, updates, and maintenance continues to make us all proud to call Westside home.

Professionally, I hold two certifications in project management and I manage a team of consultants that specialize in delivery transformation. That basically means we are constantly looking for better ways to do things. I co-lead a women's ministry at my church and I've served as a Boy Scout troop committee member and Merit Badge Counselor. I recently spent four weeks in the Philippines as a

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Denny JamesProfessionally I have spent the majority of my career working

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Each month a section of this Article will be reviewed to help homeowners be better informed. The complete set of Bylaws and CCR’s were given to you when you closed on your house, but can also be found at the HOA website which is www.westsidehoa.org.

Section 2. Reasonable Enjoyment. No nuisance shall ever be erected, placed or suffered to

remain upon any Lot in the Property and no Owner or Occupant of any Lot in the Property shall use the same so as to endanger the health or disturb the reasonable enjoyment of any other Owner or Occupant. The Association's Board of Directors is hereby authorized to determine what constitutes a violation of this restriction.

Comment:Reasonable Enjoyment is a very vague statement, which

means that it can be interpreted many ways. The bottom line is, don’t do something that would make things uncomfortable for someone else. If you do, then you risk making bad neighbors and having to correct whatever it was. In the past, this has not only included structures, but also noise. Late parties and barking dogs are a good way to violate this section. As is noted in the section, the Board of directors has the authority to decide what qualifies as a violation.

Article X of the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions

and Restrictions FOR WESTSIDE AT BUTTERCUP CREEK

haunted trail?As many of you may have noticed, last year we didn’t have

the Haunted Trail in October. There simply were not enough volunteers. We are in the same situation for the trail this year. A new committee is needed to wake the ghosts and ghouls. The committee that ran the Trail from 2008 to 2011 reports that during the two nights in 2011 they literally counted 1500 visitors walk through the Trail!!

The HOA is in desperate need of volunteers for not only the Haunted Trail, but many other things. Please look at the contact section of the newsletter and get in touch with someone about helping out in an area that may interest you.



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ATTENTION: Teenage Job Seekers is a list of kids in the neighborhood who would like to work for you by doing things like babysitting, dog walking, pet sitting, house sitting, yard mowing etc… If you are a kid in the neighborhood and would like to add you name to the list, just have one of your parents send your name, age, contact info and jobs that you do

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The Fall Neighborhood Garage Sale will soon be here! Saturday, September 28th is the date. The sale will run roughly 7am – 1pm. This is a great time to get increased traffic to your driveway. The neighborhood will post signs in advance of the event to help bring in the buyers. Conduct your own sale or team up with neighbors for added impact. Your attic will thank you.


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