Westside at Buttercup Creek
Westside news Volume 4, Number 10
Official Newsletter of the Westside at Buttercup Creek HOA
October 2013
HOA Annual Meeting and Elections 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
The Issue of Street Parking By Darrell Park, HOA President HOA members (and please pass this on to your friends and neighbors), Due to much discussion in the HOA recently surrounding parking issues, I talked some more with our HOA attorney to make sure things were clear. What it really comes down to is that since we don't own or have any control over the streets, we really can't enforce anything. Even if our CCR's clearly said absolutely NO parking in the street, it could not legally be enforced by the HOA. Some other HOA's may have private streets that the city does not own which would allow HOA enforcement. We, like most other HOA's are not in that situation. However, with the parking guideline in our CCR's, we can call that a violation all we want and try to remind people to follow our rules. We just can't force people to do anything or fine them. There is no problem though sending them our one page parking violation letter that explains the benefits of not parking on the street and encourages them to follow that guideline. Anything that is against city laws should be reported Copyright Š 2013 Peel, Inc.
to the city. So yes, it is a violation, but it's a violation that we cannot fine or force compliance. Here is the letter we send out when a street parking violation is reported: Dear Neighbor: In our collective efforts to make the Westside at Buttercup Creek HOA a safer and higher quality environment in which to live, we would like to ask everyone to please park all vehicles in their garages or driveways rather than in the street. Children and pets can easily dart out from behind a parked car into the path of a vehicle. Vehicles parked on the street can be a hindrance to emergency service vehicles when the difference between life and death can be just a minute or two. When parking in the driveway, please ensure you do not block the sidewalks with parked vehicles. This will enable walkers, joggers, children on bikes, etc. to remain safely on the sidewalks. We realize that this may cause a minor inconvenience to everyone (Continued on Page 2) Westside News - October 2013 1