Wood Glen
Official Publication of the Wood Glen Property Owners Association
April 2014 - Volume 8, Issue 4
HOWDY WOOD GLEN! The Annual Wood Glen Spring Festival While I write this article, the Social Committee is April 12th from 2pm to 4pm at the Amenity Center. Come out and join your neighbors and have some fun. Neighborhood events contribute to making Wood Glen a wonderful community. They are fun, and they allow us to meet our people that may not live right next door. Also coming up is the spring fire ant baiting. As a neighborhood, twice a year Wood Glen baits the front yard and common areas to control fire ants. Neighborhood-wide fire ant control programs are more effective at controlling fire ants than individual home owners taking on the problem on their own. By simultaneously going after them throughout the neighborhood, the ants can’t just reinvade your yard from your neighbors. The neighborhood wide treatment is scheduled for the week of April 7. The bait works best if irrigation systems are off and the fire ants have adequate time to gather the bait and return to their mounds. But, we can’t treat back yards without your help. Wood Glen provides fire ant bait at no cost so you can treat the backyard. Just stop by the Amenity Center between 9:30am and 12pm on April 12th with your hand spreader and pick up some fire ant bait and spread it around your back yard. If it is raining April 12th, the an alternate day for picking up fire ant bait is scheduled for April 26th. As the weather warms up for the spring, we all like to spend more time out doors. As you take your pets for a walk, either along the sidewalks or through the greenbelt, please pick up after them if they go to the bathroom. There are elevated trash bins conveniently located at trail heads for disposal. City ordnances prohibit allow animals to defecate in public areas or private property other than your own, unless the feces Copyright © 2014 Peel, Inc.
is immediately removed and disposed of (Article VI, Section 8-137). During the February Board Meeting, the Board met with several vendors to begin work on replacing sections of the wall. The builder we selected, Reconstruction Experts, provided a competitive bid while also taking extra steps to secure the property during the work. While some of the other vendors we met with proposed installing the orange mesh barrier that is often seen at construction sites, Reconstruction Experts proposed erecting a solid barrier around the work site to not only prevent children and pets from getting out and near Old Settlers, but to prevent the people traveling along Old Settlers from seeing into back yards. Hopefully this will allow residents along the wall sections being replace to continue to enjoy their yards while the work is performed. We have worked with Reconstruction Experts to develop a multi-year plan to address problems with the wall. The plan involves prioritized replacement of various sections of wall throughout the neighborhood over the next several years. While this may look somewhat random, the sections selected for this year are those in most need of replacement. One of the major problems with the existing wall is inadequate foundation. To correct this, the rebuilt wall sections will have a continuous foundation along their length, which will require digging a trench along the wall for the foundation. Unfortunately, this will be disruptive to the plants and trees near the wall. By now, the home owners in the sections being replaced this year should have been notified, and should have had an opportunity to meet with the engineer, the builder, and an arborist to discuss the impact of the wall on their property. Wood Glen Property Owners Association Newsletter - April 2014 1