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Dear Fellow Pine Ridge Homeowner,
Your HOA Board of Directors wish you well as we head toward the end of a very
troubling and challenging year.
We wanted to take this opportunity to bring you up to date on the activities of the HOA
during 2020 and give you a preview of some activities for the upcoming year.
First, regarding annual dues for 2021. There will be no increase in dues for the upcoming
year. Applying extremely prudent fiscal policies have enabled the HOA board to continue
supplying the services our community has come to expect while adding some new ones that will
be discussed below.
As a community we are faced with the reality of having to uproot and replace many if not
all of the ficus shrubs that border our community. While we will continue to battle the white fly
infestation, the unvarnished truth is that at some time replacement shrubs will have to be planted
and in doing so it is anticipated that much of our underground sprinkler system will also have to
be replaced. While it is difficult to supply an exact figure for this project it may be close
$1,000,000. Over the past few years your Board has been adding funds into a “Reserve” account
to help underwrite the expense of this project and minimize the need to request for a special
assessment, when that day of reckoning arrives.
Now, we would like to share some positive developments that your HOA Board has been
able to implement so far in 2020.
We know that some residents were concerned about challenges to your associations’
annual election procedures. Our Legal representatives have assured your Board that the HOA is
in full compliance with both Fl statutes and the Associations’ original documents.
Next, some of you may have noticed that “Dog Waste Collection Stations” have been
installed at strategic locations on the perimeter roads of Pine Ridge. We were able to elicit a
grant from the City of Coral Springs to help underwrite the cost of these stations, and for that we
sincerely thank the City.
As a result of complaints of traffic noise, etc. on Westview Drive, your Board has
requested that the City of Coral Springs conduct a “traffic study” on that road with the objective
of having some sort of “traffic calming” method to be deployed.
Your Board has also created two new committees to assist the community in certain
administrative tasks. The fining committee was established (as permitted by our original
documents) to help motivate those homeowners who persistently fail to adhere to advisories that
they are not in compliance with HOA rules. The committee will have the authority to
“implement” fines upon such recalcitrant violators as permitted by Fl statute(s). A second
committee, “The Document Review” committee has been established to review our original
HOA documents with the objective of making recommendations for changes to our original
Documents as they deem appropriate. Both committees are made up of volunteer Homeowners
and no Board of Directors member serve on either committee.
The next initiative we want to advise you of is the establishment of a “Secure Website”
for our association. This site will enable only home owner’s access to specific privileged
information such as meeting minutes, financial statements and meeting notices.
The final initiative we’d like to share with you is our plans for the upcoming holiday
season. Based on the positive feedback we received from many homeowners from our efforts last
year, as well as requests for an enhanced display in the future, we have engaged a new Company
to both celebrate the Season and lift all of our spirits after this most difficult year. We truly hope
you enjoy what we will have in place as we celebrate the year-end Holidays .
Best wishes to all.
Be well- Be Safe!
Your HOA Board of Directors
We cordially invite all of you to join us on our monthly HOA Board
meetings the Second Thursday of each month via ZOOM
Zoom Access:
You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Feb 11, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Pine Ridge Monthly Board Meeting Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Sp9xwQj0Rd6dGiiwSPupuw
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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