Green Valley Foothills Townhouses IV December 2019 Thoughts From the President December is here and it’s the time to wish everyone Happy Holidays. After careful deliberation, the Townhouses IV Board approved our 2020-2021 Annual Budget. It reflects a 14% increase in our Annual Assessment to cover increases in our operating expenses and to build our Maintenance Reserve Fund. The detailed budget will be sent with the Annual Assessment invoice shortly. You also will be receiving separately the Election packet with the names of the Nominees and the materials to vote for Board members for the 2020-2022 term. Please remember to sign the Ballot envelope as your vote will not count if it isn’t signed. You will meet the candidates at the January 23rd Pot Luck. As you gear up for the busy winter months, please give a thought to lending a hand to our various groups: Landscaping, our Membership activities and even our office documents. The more we help each other, the more we can accomplish to keep Townhouses IV humming. Pitch in and Help THIV! We know you’re all busy, but think about finding a little time to serve as a committee member for THIV. The standing committees are: Nominating and Election Committee Architectural Committee Documents Committee Member Services Committee Finance Committee Landscaping Committee Maintenance Committee Descriptions of the duties of each committee can be found on pages 19 and 20 of your Bylaws.
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Green Valley Foothills Townhouses IV December 2019
Thoughts From the President December is here and it’s the time to wish everyone Happy Holidays.
After careful deliberation, the Townhouses IV Board approved our 2020-2021 Annual Budget. It reflects a 14% increase in our Annual Assessment to cover increases in our operating expenses and to build our Maintenance Reserve Fund. The detailed budget will be sent with the Annual Assessment invoice shortly. You also will be receiving separately the Election packet with the names of the Nominees and the materials to vote for Board members for the 2020-2022 term. Please remember to sign the Ballot envelope as your vote will not count if it isn’t signed. You will meet the candidates at the January 23rd Pot Luck.As you gear up for the busy winter months, please give a thought to lending a hand to our various groups: Landscaping, our Membership activities and even our office documents. The more we help each other, the more we can accomplish to keep Townhouses IV humming.
Pitch in and Help THIV! We know you’re all busy, but think about finding a little time to serve as a committee member for THIV.The standing committees are: Nominating and Election Committee Architectural Committee Documents Committee Member Services Committee Finance Committee Landscaping Committee Maintenance Committee Descriptions of the duties of each committee can be found on pages 19 and 20 of your Bylaws.
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You will have an opportunity to sign up for a committee at the Potluck on January 23 and again at the Annual Meeting on February 27, or you can contact the current chair of the committee, listed in the front of your directory.We are especially in need of a chair (or co-chairs) of the Member Services Committee. This committee arranges for the new member coffees, the Ladies Luncheon in December, the Potluck in January, and the Annual Meeting in February.Committee service is a great way to meet your neighbors, so please sign up and help out!
THIV LANDSCAPE NEWS AND REPORT Congratulations are due to the Felix Landscaping crews. The company just won first place as the the Readers’ Pick in the Green Valley News and Sun for Best Landscaping Company in Green Valley. Way to go! Congrats from Foothills THIV.
CLARIFICATION OF YARD WASTE GUIDELINES Most of us do a pretty good job of maintaining our sites, but it is often necessary to pull weeds or trim bushes and remove dead cacti. There are two types of yard waste generated by this activity. Some is picked up in normal trash collection and the rest is collected by Felix Landscaping.
Private property yard waste includes items removed from your front yard and your patio to your back wall. All of this waste can be put into your garbage pickup container. Do not take it to the pickup areas located on the map in your directory. Any cacti or other things with thorns or spines must be placed in boxes and taped shut to protect the people who collect the trash. NOTE: If you hire landscapers to do work on your property, let them know they are required to haul away their cuttings.
Common ground yard waste includes anything located outside your front yard and patio area. We encourage you to help reduce costs by also maintaining some of the area beyond your rear wall. Common Ground Yard Waste should be placed in one of the 17 collection spots indicated in the center pages of your directory and is picked up by Felix Landscaping on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month, unless a holiday lands on either of those days or inclement weather precludes such an arrangement. The November newsletter incorrectly stated that pickups would be the first and third Mondays.You may have noticed that much needed and appreciated extra cutting and trimming is being done by some superior volunteer angels well-known to and with permission of the THIV Landscape Committee. If you would like to be an angel, too, contact Marilyn Kern, 520-399-0440 or 520-429-2101.
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January Potluck Be sure to mark your calendars for our Thursday, January 23rd Potluck. Think tropical and bring a dish for a luau! This will be a very fun event with live musical entertainment that will have you laughing and tapping your flip flops. Watch for the flyer advertising this event coming to you by the end of the year.
Have you ever wondered what’s on the other side of the holes you see in the saguaros? A saguaro boot is the hard shell that a saguaro cactus creates to protect the wound created by a bird's nesting hole.[The bird pecks through the cactus skin, then excavates downward to hollow out a space for its nest.[2] When the saguaro dies, its soft flesh rots, but its woody infrastructure lasts much longer. So does the hollowed-out callus whose roughly boot-like shape gives it the name of "saguaro boot.
Recent Visitor to 561 Rueda Sherrill Herter sent this photo of a young bobcat who paid her a visit recently. Sometimes young bobcats are mistaken for ocelots, but the pointed ears and fewer, less bold spotting are things to look for. Ocelots are very rare and not expected to be found in Green Valley.
