PINE RIDGE 3 SOUTH

Dear Friends and Neighbors:

A group of your fellow Pine Ridge 3 South condo owners have gotten together to address quality of life issues within our condo community.  It is our hope that you will be willing to join with us to turn our Knotty Pine Circle community into a place we can all be proud of.  We hope to do this by setting way to interact with each other to bring about a community that we will all be proud and comfortable to be a part of.

To keep you informed, we have set up a Blog that you can access on your computer on a regular basis.  You can comment on this blog as well. We will be publishing minutes from Board meetings and the financial documents you are entitled to review. You can access this by typing in: www.pineridge3south.blogspot.com.  If you don’t have a computer, please go to any library to keep up with what is going on in our condo on a regular basis.

1.      We believe that a small group of people have become entrenched in Board leadership and that they sometimes lose sight of the democratic processes and cares of the community around them.  We will be proposing a new slate of candidates for your consideration in time for this year’s upcoming elections.  Some of this slate will include the best of the current Board and some will be new folks bringing new energy and new ideas.

2.     It’s time to bring Pine Ridge 3 South into the Twenty-First century: We will be putting all Board and Condo records on line so that any owner can access them whenever they feel the need.  There will be no secrecy about condo actions or finances.  We propose to have computers available to all residents in the clubhouse for condo and personal business.  We will train any member in their use.  We will provide wireless access to the internet to the entire community. We will publish all club activities and the schedules of any of our community’s group’s activities.

3.     Our Community Landscaping needs help:  Despite the protests of the current administration, the grounds have deteriorated rapidly over the last decade.  We are out of compliance with city regulations for tree canopy.  We are given mis-information about what we are permitted to do with our landscaping.  We have plans to correct this.

4.     Our sprinkler system is broken:  Rather than spending $8800 on curbing for the front of the property, perhaps the sprinkler system, broken for a long period of time, should have been repaired.

5.     Move the annual membership meeting to January when the largest group of owners are present: At the annual meeting the membership can raise any and all issues (according to documents) and cannot be out-voted by the Board who can only, at this meeting, vote as individuals.