Cherry Creek Vista South Neighbors,

Please note a CORRECTION in the Homeowners meeting:  While the meeting is next Thursday, that date is the 16th and not the 14th.  The usual time of 7:00 pm at Cottonwood Creek Elementary.

Sorry for the confusion,
CCVSHOA Board

Dear Cherry Creek Vista South Neighbor,

Happy New Year and welcome to 2014!  We will be holding our next HOA board meeting on Thursday, January 14^th at 7:00 pm at Cottonwood Creek Elementary. 

Every January the current board holds elections for officers and members at large whose term has expired.  It is a great time to get involved with your neighborhood Homeowners Association as a member, meeting attendee for neighborhood information or just a part-time volunteer for events.   All neighbors are Welcome. 

During this board meeting we will be discussing the following items:

1.      Review and voting on minutes from previous meeting

2.      Analysis of current budget and finances

3.      Dialog with regard to Dues

4.      Discussion on events for 2014

5.      Conversation around potential changes for HOA bylaws from previous Covenant meetings in 2013 and type of neighborhood communication to distribute to said information and materials

6.      Open/new items for discussion

Please join us at this upcoming meeting if you would like to provide input or send us an e-mail at ccvistasouthhoa@gmail.com.

Regards

The CCVSHOA Board

Cottonwood Creek Elementary - Veteran’s Day Patriotic Program - Monday, November 11th 2:30 pm

Veteran’s Day, Monday, November 11^th     

 

All Veterans and active military are invited to attend a Patriotic program performed by the Cottonwood Creek Choir. The afternoon performance is at 2:30 and the entire school will take part in recognizing our neighbors, family, and friends who are Veterans and active military. Please come join us as we celebrate those who serve our country. 

Cherry Creek Vista South HOA Meetings

Dear Fellow CCVS Homeowner,

As you may have read in a previous communication from the Cherry Creek Vista South (CCVS) HOA board, we are currently reviewing options for changes to the structure of our HOA to improve the way in which we support our neighborhood through community building activities and the way in which we manage our protective covenants.  At our board meeting earlier in September we had a handful of neighbors join us for a conversation on this topic.  What we heard from these neighbors was that we needed to (1) more clearly articulate the issues facing our HOA and proposals for changes to address these issues and (2) open this discussion to a broader set of neighbors for input.  This letter is a start to addressing the first request and we plan to organize a series of meetings to address the second request (more on the dates and times later in this letter).

To help you understand the impetus for the changes we are proposing, we think it is important to give a brief description of how our HOA works and some of the challenges it faces.

• The regulatory environment in which we operate has changed – New HOA regulation put forth by the Colorado DORA (Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies) has presented Colorado HOA boards with new challenges regarding the administration of property and covenant management.   We are still reviewing the new regulations and how they affect us.
• Our covenants are not consistent – The HOA represents seven distinct filings on record in the Arapahoe county land book.  While there are many similarities in the various covenants in place for these filings, they are not entirely consistent.  This lack of consistency makes managing these covenants very difficult.
• Our HOA board is a volunteer group with no professional management support – Our board is made up of volunteers from our neighborhood representative.  As such, we lack consistency over time in the way our HOA affairs are managed as the board turns over.
• We lack the tools to effectively communicate with the neighborhood – Consistent and effective communication from the HOA board to the neighborhood is difficult given the limited tools we have.  This leads to a perceived lack of transparency and limited engagement with the HOA.

                                                                                

To address the issues outlined above we are proposing the following broad changes to the way in which the HOA operates going forward:

• Consolidate and create a consistent set of covenants across the seven filings to enable more efficient and effective management of covenants in our neighborhood
• Engage a professional property management company on a permanent basis (one has been retained on a test basis this year) to drive consistent management of these covenants and to improve communications with the community
• Increase HOA revenue to cover the cost of engaging the property management company while continuing community building activities

To further work through the details of these changes and to make sure we incorporate input from a broader representation of our neighbors, we will be holding three “discussion sessions” and invite any CCVS HOA dues paying members to join us at these sessions.  We will be holding these sessions on the next three Wednesday or Thursday evenings of October 9^th, 17^th and 23^rd at the Starbucks on Arapahoe and Clinton (Northeast corner, in the Home Depot Parking lot) from 6:30 – 8:00 pm.  During these sessions members of the HOA board will be present to discuss further details solicit input for crafting the final solution we will take to the residents in our neighborhood for a formal vote.  Please join us for one of these sessions and help to spread the word so we can get as much input as possible.

Lastly, in preparation for these discussion sessions, we have posted on our website at www.CCVSHOA.com a copy of the existing covenants for the seven filings with a summary of the differences among those filings and a copy of the proposed new covenants.  Please review in advance of the discussion session you intend to attend.

Regards,

The CCVS HOA Board

Upcoming HOA Board Meeting - Wednesday Sept. 11th

Dear Cherry Creek Vista South Neighbor,

We will be holding our next HOA board meeting is this Wednesday, September 11 at Cottonwood Creek elementary.  During this board meeting we will be discussing potential changes to our HOA bylaws.

Specifically, we will be discussing alternatives for altering our community covenants.  We have found the protective covenants we have in our neighborhood are not consistent across filings and as such are difficult to manage and enforce.  In order to make enforcing these covenants more efficient and effective we will discuss creating one filing for all of the different filings in Cherry Creek Vista South homeowners Association. We will have a draft of the changes available at the meeting and will post these on our website subsequent to the meeting

In addition, the board has contracted on a trial basis with an outside property service to help with enforcement of our protective covenants.  To date we have been pleased with the results of using these services and believe it would valuable to engage in a full time contract with this company.  However, the ongoing cost to use such services exceeds our current annual budget from dues collected.  To be able to pay for these additional services we would need to raise are dues from the $25 annually that has been in place since the incorporation of the HOA. 

During this week’s meeting we are interesting in soliciting input from our fellow homeowners on the potential changes mentioned above.  Below are some of the potential changes we would like to discuss:

·      Creating mandatory dues

·      Establishing more clearly defined rules

·      Enabling better enforcement of the protective covenants

·      Incorporation of a group buy for garbage pickup that would result in a discounted price

Please join us at this upcoiming meetig if you would like to provide input or send us an e-mail at ccvistasouthhoa@gmail.com.

Regards
The CCVSHOA Board

2013 Murphy Meet

 

Registration is now OPEN!

Click here to register

The 2^nd Annual Murphy Meet

Saturday, August 24^th

9:30 am – 1:30 pm

CCV Pool/Cottonwood Park

Kids adventure race, food, swimming, band performance,
silent auction, unicycle performance, face painting and
a visit from the local fire department!

 For more information visit www.murphymeet.weebly.com

If you would like to volunteer for this event click here

If links above do not work, go to  www.murphymeet.weebly.com to register and for more information

Movie Night Vote

CAST YOUR VOTE FOR MOVIE NIGHT

 

TAKE TWO

It has come to our attention that Walt Disney Productions has announced restrictions for outside showings for the months of July and August.  What this means is that we cannot show any Walt Disney movies for our scheduled Movie Night on Saturday August 17^th at Orchard Park (behind CCVS pool and to the east of Cottonwood Creek Elementary).

Please note the new selections of movies that are available.  If you are interesting in casting a vote for one of the available movies, please: 

1.      Go to www.ccvshoa.com  

2.      Choose one of the four listed movies on the right hand side of the page

3.      Cast your vote

Voting begins today and will close on Monday July 15 at 9:00 pm. 

Thank you,

CCVS HOA Board

CAST YOUR VOTE FOR MOVIE NIGHT

 

Movie Night will be Saturday August 17^th at Orchard Park (behind CCVS pool and to the east of Cottonwood Creek Elementary).  If you are interested in casting a vote for one of the available movies, please:

1.       Go to www.ccvshoa.com  

2.      Choose one of the four listed movies on the right hand side of the page

3.      Cast your vote
 

Voting begins today and will close on Friday June 28 at 9:00 pm. 

Thank you,

CCVS HOA Board