Copper Basin Newsletter 08-13

COPPER BASIN Neighborhood Newsletter A newsletter for members of Copper Basin Homeowners Association, December 2014

Squirt Park Annual Meeting Unfortunately, squirt park repairs haven’t The 2015 Annual Meeting will be held at progressed as far as we would have liked. We Prospect Elementary on February 19th at had 7:00pm. Please join us to discuss community issues including the budget, upcoming projects and to elect two new Board members. two bids for repairs ($95,000 and $125,000), but Board Vacancies they were both pulled because they both Are you interested in running for either of the needed to add additional costs. two spots on the Board of Directors? These The Board is still working on this and deciding are 3-year volunteer positions and require what the next step will be. We will have more attendance at monthly meetings, as well as information for you soon. discussions between meetings.

Or you could volunteer for the Architectural Playground Committee. The Committee has two current We’re looking at bids and plans for replacing members appointed by the Board, and one the playground between Havasupai St and Red empty seat. Rock Dr. If you’d like to be part of choosing new equipment, please contact the Board to join If you would like more information about any the Playground Committee and to help choose of the opportunities, please contact us at the replacement structure. [email protected].

The existing playground is unsafe and will be HOA Budget and Dues removed soon. The Board approved the 2015 budget at the December Board meeting. We will discuss the budget at the 2015 Annual Meeting. If you would like an advance copy, please contact us at [email protected].

Christmas Decorations All the holiday lights and decorations our neighbors put up look great! Despite the early snow, we’ve been lucky to have warm weather for hanging them and to walk around Volunteers and enjoy them! Thanks for making our Have you noticed all the fun events that other community look festive! HOAs put on? Movie nights, fall festivals and community garage sales? It would be great to add some of those fun things to Copper Basin  If you will be staining your fence, please too! To do that, we need volunteers to help check AMI’s website to make sure you have the set them up. If you can help with welcoming right stain color. new neighbors, planning events or something else, please contact us! Board Meetings If you would like to be more involved in what Spring Maintenance goes on in our community, please come to the Winter is the time we look forward and think monthly meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of the about changes we’d like to make in the New month at 7:30 PM in the Prospect Library. The Year. As you Board provides

a homeowner Q&A session at the beginning of make your plans, please consider these each meeting. questions: If you just want to know what the Board discussed, you can find the Board meeting minutes posted on  Does your home need a paint job? Most AMI’s website about a week after the meeting: homes do after about eight years. Considering http://www.amihome.net/copperbasin/Home the age of most of our homes, painting ownerResources.aspx. probably either needs to be done or will need to be done soon. This can be a big expense Contact Information (several thousand dollars), so please put that in We know there is a lot going on in the your budget too. Also, you’ll need to submit an neighborhood that you may have questions ACC request form and receive approval before or comments on. The Board of Directors starting the work. would love to hear from you. Our first line of  Are you planning any other communication is our Neighborhood improvement projects? If you are, please Manager, Julie Harrington. consult the ACC Guidelines on AMI’s website. You’ll need to submit a request form and Please also check out Copper Basin’s receive approval for things like exterior Facebook page and Nextdoor’s website. They architectural changes, or removing trees and are great resources for everything from bushes. setting up a car pool to finding out about  Do you want to spray your trees to public safety. There’s an abundance of prevent plum growth? If you don’t want to information on local activities in the clean up plums all summer, you might want to community here as well. consider spraying your tree to keep them from growing in the first place.  Was your lawn adequate last year? If you had weeds or other problems, please consider changing your fertilizer or watering schedule to make sure your lawn looks nice. Association Management, Inc.  Does your median get enough water? If 1310 N. Main Street | Meridian, Idaho not, please contact our neighborhood manager 83642 Phone: 385-9650 x 209 | Fax: 381- to let them know of any problems. They will 0252 contact our maintenance company and get the Emergencies: 385-9650 ext. 1 problem fixed. Email :  Does your home have 1 tree per 40’ of [email protected] frontage on the medial strip? If not, please put Website: www.amihome.net that in your spring budget to have new ones planted. Neighborhood Manager: Julie Harrington