HOA DUES FOR 2012

[WHFHA's membership and board met March 3 and adopted the association fee set out below. A yearly fee will be needed to establish and maintain that landscaping and to maintain administration subdivision covenants.]

WINDY HILL FOREST HOMEOWNER’S ASSOCIATION
DUES NOTICE FOR 2012

Payment Due Date: Due No Later Than May 31, 2012


2012 Assessment: Fifty Dollars ($50.00) if paid before June.
Resident owners get a discount if they pay on time. Landlords get a discount if they supply payment and contact info for themselves and their tenants by May 31, 2012.2012 Assessments Paid Late: One Hundred Dollars - $100.00!
Actually, the official assessment is $100 but the board is motivating timely payment by granting a discount for fees paid by May 31, 2012.

Make Check Payable to:
Windy Hill Forest Homeowners Association, Inc.

Mail Check to:

Windy Hill Forest
PO Box 1704
Smyrna, GA 30081

Hand Deliver Check to:

Slot in Top Left box in USPS Mailbox near 1406 Springleaf

Paypal.com:

You send the fee via paypal.com to windyhillforest@gmail.com

**In 1985 the Windy Hill Forest Homeowner’s Association recorded a declaration of covenants affecting its townhomes and their owners. It made the Association responsible for maintenance of common grounds and the lawns of each homeowner. That declaration included the right to assess $216 for lawn maintenance for 1985, and the right to annual increases of 5% of the prior year amount. The WHFHA Board of Directors has calculated an ongoing annual increase of 5% of the prior year amount from 1985 forward, and for 2012 the maximum that could be assessed is $766.

The Association’s policy is to entrust proper lawn maintenance to the Association members (which is consistent with Article IX of the WHFHA Bylaws - a copy is attached and is available at www.windyhillforest.com by clicking the “WHFHA documents” link). Instead of assessing $766 for lawn maintenance, the Association is assessing $100 per townhome for the entire 2012 year, and giving early payers a discount down to $50 per townhome. Resident Owners that get their payment in by May 31 can claim the discount. Landlords need to pay and to supply current contact info on themselves and their tenants by May 31. Otherwise the full $100 is due.

By paying the 2012 Assessment, owners are consenting to the Article IX bylaws, including the duty to take proper care of their lawns. If you are an owner that neglects lawncare or insists on having the Association care for your lawn, then please pay $766 to WHFHA right away, so lawn-care arrangements can be made.

Failing to pay has consequences. Members, please understand that the Association is no longer dormant. It is in good standing with the Georgia Secretary of State, it has had annual membership meetings at which a board of directors and officers were elected, and it has every right to make this assessment. A member that is delinquent in paying is subject to interest, late fees and attorney fees – those fees can add up to many hundreds of dollars and end up being filed as a lien on the member’s home. Further, the Association reserves the right to contact a delinquent member’s mortgage company to give them a chance to cure the delinquency before a lien is filed. Also, under the bylaws, a delinquent member delegates his voting rights to the Association. We look forward to your support and cooperation.

[Excerpts from bylaws & covenants follow - to enlarge, click on image and wait for downloading to complete.]

Etiquette for Dogs & Humans Both

Our community is blessed with many conscientious dog walkers who clean up after their pets. Keep in mind that there are 2 dog stations in the subdivision with clean up bags and a waste can:

Here on Springleaf Circle


and here on Matthews Street


These are suggested points of etiquette:

1. We are fortunate that the Windy Hill HOA IV community provides the grounds near the 1505 property. Let's go out of our way to keep that area clean.

2. Keep pets out of the flowers.

3. Be polite. People are on their honor with respect to dog etiquette, and to our credit the majority obliges. No one should be indignant, vulgar and outraged that a handful will fail to clean up after pets.

4. Please drive with care, speeding on Springleaf is both offensive and dangerous for the many walkers and pets.

2012 Annual Meeting

1:15pm ON SATURDAY, March 3, 2012 at
THE SMYRNA COMMUNITY CENTER

The above place and time is set as WHFHA's 2012 annual meeting. The meeting is supposed to be in Room #5 on the second floor, but you may want to confirm this with the front desk on the day of the meeting. We will elect directors, discuss fee and repair policies and ongoing projects.


UPDATE:  The meeting was held and the minutes follow.

WINDY HILL FOREST HOMEOWNER’S ASSOCIATION (“WHFHA”)

MINUTES OF MARCH 3, 2012 MEETING

Minutes taken by Attorney Mark P. Groves, acting secretary of the meeting.

The 2012 annual meeting was held March 3, 2012 at 1:15pm at the Smyrna Community Center. This meeting was held as part of written notice given on Feb. 22, 2012 to all 89 homes in WHFHA and the required quorum of 9 homes was exceeded. Notice was also published at the WHFHA entrance and on the windyhillforest.com website.

It was moved, seconded and unanimously resolved:

I. that the minutes of the March 5, 2011 annual meeting be approved.

II. that the following persons be elected by the membership to serve as the WHFHA Board of Directors:

Rochelle Martin, Susie David

Mark Groves, Carmine Lombardi

Sandy Vazquez

III. that the 2012 annual dues be set at $100 with a $50 discount for timely payment, with the Board having discretion to set conditions for non-resident owners to obtain the discount in return for current contact information for themselves and their tenants; and further that the board consider a 2013 increase to $120 with a $60 discount for timely payment.

Various discussion of subdivision matters occurred but no other resolutions were adopted.

/s

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Mark P. Groves, acting secretary

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