CAT MOUNTAIN VIEW
DECEMBER 2015
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 12
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
I would like to wish you all a safe and joyous Holiday season. I hope you end the year with family and friends celebrating and planning for a wonderful new year. Our annual HOA Holiday party is set for Sunday, December 6, 2015 from 5:00-8:00 PM. More details can be found in the social committee news & events page. Come out and meet some of the new residents of the community, bring a dessert to share and help with our Santa Paws collection for area animal shelters. Also, we are always looking for volunteers to help plan, decorate, serve or clean up afterwards. If you are interested in helping please email our Social Committee Chair, Charlene Casillas at charcasi@aol.com We are reviewing bids for repair of our wall along Twin Valley Drive that collapsed in the October storms. Our infrastructure study completed last spring identified this wall as a potential point of failure. The torrential rains caused the wall to fail into the street. I would like to thank Jesse and his crew that moved several tons of rock out of the road and put up caution tape and cones so that it was easily visible by traffic. We will continue to monitor walls and take appropriate action. This issue also includes a nomination form for anyone who would like to serve the community on the Board of Directors. Please consider serving, it is rewarding in many ways to know what a great job the Cat Mountain Board has done over the years compared to so many neighborhoods who have chosen to subcontract the management to corporations that really don’t care about the community but rather how to grow their revenue. Homeowner’s dues will not increase for 2016. After careful review, the board elected to maintain dues at $47.00 per month.
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Your new coupon books will arrive in December and if you have direct bank payments, you should make adjustments accordingly. Short term rentals continue to be a problem in the area. Two nearby homes that had been cited for violations many times in the past 4 months are now on the market. The owner has concluded that trying to run a STR2 in this area is a bad business proposition and that it is not good for the neighborhood. Our covenants restrict any short term rental less than 6 months, so we haven’t had a problem in Cat Mountain and don’t anticipate one. Don’t forget you can stay updated on happenings in the neighborhood via our “Cat Mountain Community” Face Book Page or by joining our neighborhood on NEXTDOOR. com. There is good local information as well as police related information available to you on the site. Currently we have email and phone numbers for less than half the neighborhood. We have had some emergency situations recently that have required us to contact homeowners in an area of the neighborhood but we could not go door to door. It is very important that each homeowner updates Jesse with their current email and phone contact info. Our policy is not to sell or share your information with anyone and it will only be used for HOA business. Again, I would also like to thank Jesse for all his hard work throughout the year! He makes my job easy. If you need anything, just let him know. Best Regards, Bryan Harter Cat Mountain HOA | President
Cat Mountain View - December 2015
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