From President Jake Barth

Greetings from the HOA Board. We hope everyone is doing well through these trying times of COVID; if anyone needs assistance, please reach out through the Baneberry HOA webpage and we as a Board will see what we can do to assist our neighbors 

I wanted to take this opportunity to update the community on the upcoming annual Baneberry Community Meeting.  If this was a normal time in our lives we would be scheduled to meet in March to vote for two positions coming open on the HOA Board, go over our community financials, and address questions raised by community members.  For the sake of safety, the Baneberry Board, in conjunction with a recommendation from MJS, has determined to delay the meeting until the MAY/JUNE time frame.  The thought process on the delay was that more residents would have an opportunity to receive the COVID vaccine and the weather will be warmer, so if we needed to hold the meeting outdoors to comply with social distancing that option would be available.  So stay tuned for an update of a date soon for our community meeting.

As many of you have already noticed, our community was updated with a streetlight at the front entrance and I wanted to give a shout out to the Baneberry HOA Vice President Mark Scofield for his hard work which allowed this project to be completed.  That light increases the safety of turning into our neighborhood after sunset and undoubtedly increases the safety of the front entrance.  Mark and I have been gathering estimates to permanently repair the front entrance. We are expecting this task to be completed in the coming months, so stay tuned for notice that the main entrance is being closed for a couple of days to let the material settle and to use the Roscoe Road entrance during that time. 

Lastly, I wanted to remind our residents about parking on non-paved surfaces in the neighborhood.  There are only a few houses that continually park a car on the grass or dirt patch that has been created from parking repeatedly next to their driveway. This action violates the rules of the neighborhood and overall reduces the aesthetics of our neighborhood by the damage it causes to the grass in the yard. The reasons HOA’s exist is to ensure homes and yards are taken care of, which increase the value of everyone’s property, so please comply with the rules. Violation letters will be sent, followed by fines if rules are continually being broken.