Sunday, September 13, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Treasurer's Report 2014
2014 Treasurer's Report - Includes credits, debits, monthly overview, and itemizations
Sincerely,
Margo Kenirey
Treasurer, IWHOA
Sincerely,
Margo Kenirey
Treasurer, IWHOA
Friday, April 10, 2015
2015 IWHOA President's Letter
April
7, 2015
To
the homeowners of Ingleside Woods Subdivision
Our
2015 annual meeting for the Ingleside Woods Home Owner’s Association (IWHOA) is
scheduled for Tuesday, April 28st from 6pm sharp to 7pm sharp
in the Fickling & Company building at 2960 Riverside Drive. Please park
in the back parking lot and come in the back door. I will make sure the
door is open by 5:30 pm, so that we will not have a situation similar to last
year with the doors being locked and people having to wait outside. We will need 47 of our 140 homeowners to be
in attendance or to submit the enclosed proxy in order to have the quorum
required by our By Laws in order to conduct any business.
Our
annual meeting will be conducted in accordance with “Robert’s Rules of
Order”. Thus, our meeting will be
orderly and our participants courteous.
Everyone will have an opportunity to propose a motion, to speak in
support of or in opposition to any motion (for a maximum of 3 minutes per
person) and any matters that are brought before the group will be decided
democratically. If any homeowner has
parliamentarian experience, I especially invite you to attend and assist. Enclosed please find the agenda for this
meeting.
As
we will not have a significant amount of time to take and respond to specific
questions or concerns of an individual nature at this meeting, please send all
your individual questions and concerns to us for review prior to the
meeting. You can do this by mailing them to Ingleside Woods
HOA, P.O. Box 7234, Macon, GA 31209 or by email to inglesidewoods@gmail.com.
A
copy of your timely questions and a response to those questions by the Board of
Directors will be provided to everyone during the meeting. This
information will also be posted to our blog at www.inglesidewoods.org,
where the IWHOA budget, expense itemizations, By Laws and Restrictive Covenants
may also be viewed.
We
are in need of a volunteer for the position of Treasurer for our association as
our long term and faithful Treasurer, Margo Kenirey, has purchased a new home
and her home in our subdivision is for sale. All volunteers for Treasurer will be properly
vetted as we have several thousand dollars in our bank account. Nominations from the floor will be accepted
for the position of President. (I agree
to serve only until the homeowners of Ingleside Woods desire a change in
leadership.) Our current Secretary is
Michelle Stanley.
Enclosed
please find the Treasurer’s report for the IWHOA for 2014. Please review it carefully to insure that you
understand how your dues are being spent.
Please call or contact me if you have any questions and/or concerns with
anything in the Treasurer’s report.
Also
attached, please find a list of those property addresses whose owners are $200
or more in arrears on the payment of their HOA dues. I and no other person made
the decision to publish this list to indicate those residents who are not
contributing financially to the betterment of our community. Property liens will be filed against the
homes reflected on the list beginning July 1, 2015 if the full amount owed is
not paid by then. (Your name is not on this list if you are only delinquent on
your 2013 and 2014 dues and you still owe 2015.)
Every
property owner in Ingleside Woods is a member of the IWHOA by virtue of their purchase
of property in Ingleside Woods. The only exception is Mr. Hadaway’s
property at 3111 Stinsonville Road, as that home was here before there was
an Ingleside Woods. All other homeowners
are members and must pay dues, as those properties were deeded subject to
recorded By Laws and Restrictive Covenants by the original developer of
Ingleside Woods, David Thornton. If you didn’t know this, it is your
fault alone.
The
reason that Mr. Thornton recorded these Restrictive Covenants for all phases of
Ingleside Woods was to maintain the visual appeal, value, aesthetics and the
resale potential of properties in the subdivision. Restrictive Covenants help all of us maintain
the value in our homes and in our community as a whole. These benefits continue to exist today in
support of all of our Restrictive Covenants.
Speaking
of Restrictive Covenants, several of our homeowners appear to be unconcerned that
there is a Restrictive Covenant prohibiting the parking on the street of any
vehicle for more than 8 hours at a time and a prohibition against the parking
of trailers and boats outside of their home’s garage (or otherwise not screened
from view from any street in the subdivision). I have mailed post cards and made personal
visits to those homes where I have observed non-compliance with these
particular Restrictive Covenants with varying degrees of success. (If you can’t park in your garage because of
“stuff” or cannot go up your driveway, or have too many vehicles for your
garage and driveway combined, it is not the fault of the IWHOA.)
Consequently,
at a recent meeting of your IWHOA Board of Directors, it was decided that a
fine of $1 per day per vehicle or trailer will be implemented beginning July 1,
2015 for violations of the prohibition against the parking of vehicles on the
street for more than 8 hours and for the parking of any trailer or boat on any
lot when that trailer or boat is visible from any street in the subdivision.
This
grace period will give ample opportunity to those homeowners not yet in
compliance with the Restrictive Covenants, to make arrangements to become
compliant. Accumulated unpaid fines
will result in property liens in favor of the IWHOA. As your President, I will monitor
compliance and seek to increase the dollar amount of fines if a fine of only $1
per day is not effective in achieving compliance.
Tenants
and property owners alike must comply with all applicable Restrictive
Covenants. If you rent your property or
have roommates, please make sure that you inform your tenants or roommates of
all of our Restrictive Covenants for the betterment of the entire subdivision. Any tenant behavior resulting in fines will cause
those fines to be assessed against the homeowner.
If
you would like to see any changes made to the recorded Restrictive Covenants of
Ingleside Woods, please first obtain the approval of Mr. Thornton’s son, Tim
Thornton of Thornton Real Estate, and then obtain the signatures of 75% of the
homeowners in Ingleside Woods. This is
the only process with which I am familiar for our Restrictive Covenants to be
amended. I know this not because I am an
attorney, but because I can read. If you
have never read your By Laws or your Restrictive Covenants, please do so now.
If
you would like for our Restrictive Covenants to be ignored and unenforced and
for the dues of non-paying homeowners to remain uncollected, you will need to
elect a new President. It is my intent
to achieve compliance with all Restrictive Covenants and to collect delinquent
dues as permitted by law.
Lastly,
it is my desire for mutual consideration and courtesy among the homeowners of
Ingleside Woods. Provide no cause for your neighbors to have the
slightest irritation or aggravation because of your actions or those of your
family, children, pets or guests. (For
example, if you have a dog and you leave it outside 24/7 to bark and irritate
your neighbors, I really don’t know why you have a dog.) Seek ways to avoid any action or activity that
your neighbors might consider a disturbance, an inconvenience, an eyesore or a nuisance.
If
you will not be able to attend our annual meeting, but you desire to insure a
quorum and desire to entrust me with your proxy, please sign, date and mail the
enclosed proxy back to me at my address below or to the P.O. Box of the IWHOA.
Sincerely,
David
J. Griffin
David
J. Griffin, President for the moment
Ingleside
Woods Home Owner’s Association
506
Double Oak Drive, Macon, GA 31204
Email:
inglesidewoodshoa@yahoo.com
Home:
478-474-0465 Cell: 478-747-0222
Agenda for IWHOA meeting Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from 6pm to 7pm
Ingleside Woods Homeowners Association
Annual Meeting
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Place: 2960 Riverside Drive , Macon
AGENDA
1.
Call
to order
2.
Determination
of quorum
3.
Minutes
of previous annual meeting for adoption
4.
Treasurer’s
report
5.
Committee
reports (if any)
6.
Unfinished
business
7.
New
business
8.
Homeowner
questions
9.
Adjournment
Significantly Delinquent Dues owed to IWHOA, April 6, 2015
Significantly Delinquent Dues owed
to IWHOA, April 6, 2015
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Above
please see a list of those property addresses whose owners are currently $200
or more in arrears on the payment of their HOA dues. The total amount shown on this year’s list is
$3,350. This is a significant reduction
from last year’s list of severely delinquent dues of $200 or more which totaled
$6,425. (We wrote off $300 of last
year’s amount due to a foreclosure.)
As
we have already offered all the owners of the above properties an opportunity
to make payment arrangements in a demand letter dated, March 6, 2015, the
filing of a property lien will also include all allowable late fees, interest
charges and court filing fees.
As
of April 6, 2015, due to their receipt of the aforementioned demand letter, we
have had three severely delinquent property owners make promises to pay their
dues in full prior to July 1, 2015. I
have omitted those property addresses from the above list because of their
stated promise to pay. Between them, these
three property owners owe an additional $1,000 in dues. If those promised payments are not received
by the date mentioned, liens will be filed on those properties as well.
Every
property owner in Ingleside Woods is a member of the IWHOA by virtue of their
purchase of property in our subdivision. The only exception is Mr.
Hadaway’s property at 3111
Stinsonville Road
I
and no other person made the decision to publish this list of property address
and amounts owed to indicate those residents who are not contributing
financially to the betterment of our shared community. Property liens will be filed against the
homes reflected on the above list beginning July 1, 2015 if the full amount
owed is not paid by then. (Your name is not on this list if you are only
delinquent on your 2013 and 2014 dues and you still owe dues for 2015.)
–David
J. Griffin, President for the moment, Ingleside Woods Home Owner’s Association
Saturday, March 14, 2015
I finally found a copy of my "President's Letter" from 2014 and I think it bears repeating here.
April 28,
2014
Dear fellow
residents of Ingleside Woods Subdivision,
I am the
current president of the Ingleside Woods Home Owner’s Association (IWHOA). My contact information is at the bottom of
this letter. I will be happy to serve
until someone else wants this job. Nominations and volunteers are welcome from
the floor at our upcoming annual meeting.
I am, however, the sole reason this annual dues statement is late this
year, as I am a notorious procrastinator.
The other
officers of the Association have been ready for several months to get the dues
statements out, but they have been waiting on me in order to include this cover
letter. There are several topics that I
would like to discuss and they are, in no particular order, severely delinquent
dues ($50 a year is not a burden), cars exceeding the 25 MPH speed limit within
our subdivision, dogs barking excessively, cars being parked overnight on the
street, boats, trailers and basketball goals, Margo Kenirey’s (our Treasurer) change
in duties for our association, our need for two new HOA officers (Vice
President and Secretary) and our need for HOA volunteers for the Decorating and
Communications committees.
Most of
this letter can be summed up by my desire for mutual consideration and respect among
our neighbors. Seek ways to avoid making
yourself a nuisance. Provide no cause
for your neighbors to have the slightest irritation or aggravation because of
your actions or those of your family, children or guests.
Every
property owner in Ingleside Woods is a member of the IWHOA by virtue of their
ownership of property in our subdivision.
The only exception is Mr. Hadaway’s property at 3111 Stinsonville Road
We need
everyone’s dues to be paid timely for the common betterment, enhancement and
beautification of our community. You may
have noticed, for example, the recent plantings in the common areas. Please read the included budget to see how
your dues are being used. Margo put a
lot of time into preparing these statements. If you have any concerns with the usage of
your dues, please give me a call.
The speed
limit for our community and most every residential area is 25 MPH as
established and enforced by Macon-Bibb
County
I’m sure that
speeders feel that their lives, needs, schedules and appointments are more
important than their neighbors’ own sense of well being and safety. Any driver exceeding residential speed limits
is oblivious, inconsiderate and dangerous.
Can I share an event to illustrate my point?
I don’t
know if you’ve ever attended a visitation for a 5 year old boy killed by his
speeding, inattentive neighbor. I have. The little boy was dressed in his favorite
Atlanta Braves t-shirt and baseball cap.
His parents were inconsolable. I lacked
the guts to attend the little boy’s funeral.
Exactly how
important is it that you arrive at your destination one to several minutes quicker? Is it worth the life of a child? Could you not just leave for your destination
one or several minutes sooner and then drive in a lawful, sane, rational and respectful
manner? And it is not just our
subdivision that has a 25MPH speed limit.
Most streets leading to our subdivision also have a 25 MPH speed limit
and there are 4, 5 and 6 year old boys and girls who love their families living
among us and all around us. Please share
this with all your drivers.
Barking
dogs are a ‘pet’ peeve of mine as I believe that companion animals belong
inside the house with their people most all the time. They should not be left outside predominately
or continuously so that they become a nuisance to your neighbors. Dogs bark. I get it.
But, they would bark less if they were inside your home where they can
serve their primary function as your companion animal. Dogs and cats are not yard ornaments and
deserve the companionship of their responsible owners out of the elements of
rain, cold and heat. If you live near an
irresponsible pet owner, please contact the Sheriff’s Department.
As a
reminder from our restrictive covenants (see http://inglesidewoods.blogspot.com/)
“Section 6(c.) Prohibited Uses: No trailer, camper, motor home, boat,
boat trailer, jet ski…, race cars, school or other buses, trucks
or commercial vehicle over one ton capacity or tractor (other than a small
garden tractor), shall be permitted on any lot for any purpose unless housed in
a total enclosure (i.e., 4 walls and a roof) screening it from view from
any street right of way and all adjacent property. Neither shall any vehicle or equipment be
kept, stored or parked for more than eight (8) hours on any street right of way
within said development or on any lot contained therein. Section 14(f.) Miscellaneous: No basketball
goal nor backstop shall be placed between the house and the street or
streets on which the house abuts.”
Margo
Kenirey has long been a faithful supporter of IWHOA with her time and talents
as our Treasurer. Since my knowing her
and having first hand knowledge of the time she invests in our HOA, I have felt
that she should be on the HOA payroll. She
refuses to accept any compensation. She
has devoted countless hours to faithfully record and deposit our dues, timely pay
the bills of the HOA and present accurate and timely invoices and spreadsheets
for our members, budgets and bank accounts.
Margo has
requested that she be allowed to step into the background as a non-voting
member of our group of officers while continuing to faithfully maintain our records
and bank accounts. Margo has asked that we appoint another officer to assume
her current duties as a voting officer for our association. Margo will continue to be our Treasurer and
for this I am extremely grateful.
Also, Rachel Fortuna has submitted her resignation as our Secretary as
they will be moving from our subdivision.
I am grateful for Rachel’s service to our organization and their family
will be greatly missed in our community.
Thus, we are now accepting nominations and volunteers for the positions
of Vice President and Secretary of the IWHOA.
We are also
accepting nominations and volunteers for the Decorating and Communications
committees. Decorating sees that our
seasonal and holiday decorations at the front entrance and common areas are displayed.
Communications is in charge of the IWHOA
blog (see above link), IWHOA facebook page
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/301825423905/) and twitter
(https://twitter.com/inglesidewoods).
Please choose to invest a little of your time for the betterment of our community.
With that
being said, I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to the Landscaping
Committee consisting of Art Butler, Neila Young and Garnell Horwitz and to the
Welcoming Committee consisting of Lily Bradley and Michelle Stanley for all of their
evident hard work and tireless efforts on our behalf.
Our annual
meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 3rd from 6pm sharp to 7pm
sharp in Fickling & Company building on Riverside Drive P.O. Box 7234 ,
Macon , GA 31209
If you find
this letter politically incorrect, offensive, unpleasant or just condescending,
please come to our annual meeting and elect a better president. My wife and I would appreciate that very
much. Until that time, please feel free
to contact me at any time for any HOA need or concern that you might have.
Sincerely,
David J. Griffin
David J.
Griffin
Email:
davidjamesgriffin@yahoo.com
Home:
478-474-0465
Cell:
478-747-0222
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