9/13/2016 Update

Randy Roeh from Hancock Forest Management provided some additional details about the proposed spraying. Due to concerns raised by Crystal Village homeowners, Hancock has reconsidered plans to use herbicides on Gold Hill West G and Gold Hill West A units.  See Randy’s letter below for more details.

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Hancock gave CVHA notice of planned herbicide application near our community to happen sometime between Sept 5 2016 – Oct 14 2016.

See links below for more details from Hancock.

Hancock Herbicide Application Map

Notice of Hancock Spraying

Links to data sheets on the herbicides are below.

Randy from Hancock wrote that “these herbicides are the least toxic (signal word Caution or Warning) and that we apply them at  significantly lower rates than allowed by the label for each chemical.”

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Alligare Imazapry 4 SL_SDS

Crystal Village is under DNR fire protection and DNR just issued a statewide burn ban.

Outdoor burning, including campfires in fire pits and the use of charcoal briquettes, is banned on forestland under DNR fire protection as of noon, Wednesday, August 17 2016.

Outdoor gas grills are allowed.

More details here:
http://www.dnr.wa.gov/WildfirePrevention

Please inform your family and guests of the burn ban.

The board of directors will be placing signs at the villages this weekend.

Thanks

Next CVHA Board of Directors Meeting is Aug 20 @ 9:00am

16175 Crystal Drive E

Homeowners are welcome to attend.

There was a recent bear sighting in CV1.

Please keep you eyes open, kids safe, and garbage inside.

A paper copy of the  summer newsletter should be arriving in your mailbox around this time. It is also available in the CVHA online document archive

Summer Newsletter 2016

Crystal Village has some nice common area for homeowners and guests to enjoy. See a map of the common area as well as trails and access points below.

Click the map to see a bigger version. Sorry for the low quality of this map. It is accurate but doesn’t look great. If anybody has better skills and could make a more clear map, I’d happily replace this one.

Thanks.

Thanks to  Jeff Barth, Diane Gebenini, and Mark Pedersen for their work removing a lot of the scotch broom. Thanks Jeff for organizing the event.

Over the last month many CVHA board members and their families worked to have trees removed that were endangering the water system and cleaned up scotch broom that was creating fire hazard. The water system tree removal project is about 60% complete. Thanks for the hard work folks!

Thanks to Paul McNabb and company who hauled 80% of the brush away for disposal in Scott’s yard. Scott, Gary and their wives hauled the limbs from CV3, Limbs from Rainbow Lane, and scotch broom. All the limbs and scotch broom were burned at Gary, Scotts’ and Gerry’s place. No chipper rental will be needed this year. These volunteers saved every homeowner money with their effort and it is much appreciated. Without this volunteer work we would need to hire contractors. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

There is still more scotch broom clean up to do this year and any help from the community members would be greatly appreciated. Scheduled work parties don’t seem to work for most people’s schedules. If you can help at any time, please contact us and we can work around your schedule.  cvhapres@gmail.com.

Sighted near the middle of CV3 yesterday afternoon.  Might want to keep an eye on your cats and small dogs.

The 2016 Annual Meeting Notes are available for homeowner review. Feedback welcome anytime. The notes will be voted for approval at the 2017 annual meeting.

The 2016 budget is also available for review. There was one change from the annual meeting. Electric bill was missing from the draft available at the meeting and it has been added in.

Both docs are available in the CVHA Online Document Archive.

The annual meeting is Saturday Jan 16 @7PM at the Greenwater community center.  See you there.

Agenda:

1. Approval of 2015 Annual Meeting minutes

2. Water Manager’s report

a. System status

b. Cross Connection Plan implementation – Homeowner responsibility

c. Water Use Efficiency Plan progress

i. Meter installation progress

ii. Water conservation, homeowner responsibilities

iii. Detecting water leaks in homeowner’s water line

iv. Begin meter reading

3. Treasurer’s Report

a. Independent audit report

b. Current financial report

c. Discussion of lien protocols and misc. fee schedule

d. 2016 proposed budget

4. Reserve fund planning

a. Washington State Dept. of Health financial planning template

i. Operating and Emergency budget

ii. Reserve for capital items that will need to be replaced within the next 6 years.

iii. Reserve for capital items that will need replacement 10 years or more from now.

b. Funding plan s

5. Community communications

a. Newsletters / mailings

b. Blog / email notifications

c. Summer Picnic, select date

6. CVHA work parties

a. Need more volunteers or plan to contract out work

b. Dangerous tree removal, common area maintenance, grant search, independent audit, archiving, etc.

7. New Business

a. Discussion from the floor

b. Board member election

i. Call for nominations from the Floor, call for vote

ii Announce results and seat new Board members