The July 2022 Sunland North newsletter has been published:
Category: Communications
Two items of interest
Third quarter assessments
Third Quarter Assessments ($849) are due no later than July 1. Assessments received after that date are subject to a late fee.
https://sunlandnorthownersassociation.com/homeowner-fees/
Bees
Sara Miller, our Natural Habitat Coordinator, received a question about bees.
“I’m responding to [a] question about the feasibility of leaving part of the natural habitat area unmowed to provide flowers and food for the bees. You might have noticed that we don’t often mow the natural area. Typically, we mow it three times a year. There are often many flowering plants present by the time we do mow, and those provide good food for the pollinators. We try to time the mowing so that we are able to 1) ensure that the biomass present in the grass doesn’t risk providing fuel in case of fire and 2) eliminate blooms of any noxious weeds before they are able to set seed. We have poison hemlock in our natural area and one mitigation measure includes properly timed mowing.
I appreciate [the] suggestion… about trying to help the bees, and I’m certain they do benefit from the wild flowers that grow in our tall grasses.”
Sunland North June 2022 Board Agenda
Due to scheduling conflicts, the June 8 Sunland North Board meeting is being moved to Thursday, June 16, and due to a lack of available rooms, the meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. A revised agenda and link to the meeting will be sent via email on June 12 or 13.
Monthly Board Meeting of Sunland Division 17 Owners Association
Thursday, June 16, 2022, 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., to be held virtually via Zoom.
2:30 Call to Order; Verification of Quorum
2:40 Review and approval of May 2022, Board minutes
2:45 Old Business
Moss abatement contract
Committee vacancies
Financial Review
Nominating Committee
Mailboxes
3:00 New Business
IRS Form 1099s for contractors
Annual Meeting packet information
4:00 Officer, Committee and Coordinator Reports
President Update — Gerry Hatler
Secretary Update — Lawrence Charters
Treasurer Update — Betty Gwaltney
Vice President — Shirley Legg
Board Member at Large — Mike Johnson
Architectural Control Committee — Mike Johnson, acting
Insurance Committee — Susan Hamman
Developed Landscape — Tom Steffen
Exterior Maintenance and Inspection — Mike Paine
Natural Habitat — Sarah Miller
Communications and Outreach — Kathy Gross
Sunland Water District Update — Tom Hamman
4:20 Homeowner Comment Period
If possible, please submit comments electronically, in advance.
4:30 Adjournment
Sunland North beautification assistance requested
The local irrigation district gave Sunland North several trees to plant along our border with Woodcock Road. These young trees get thirsty during the dry months, and volunteers are needed for July and September (other months are covered).
Volunteers are also needed to do trash cleanup along Sequim-Dungeness Way and along Woodcock Road on Monday, June 6. Meet at Woodcock and Blakely at 10 am. Trash bags will be provided, please bring gloves. If you have a high-visibility vest, please wear it. We will have a standing volunteer day for trash cleanup on the first Monday of each month.
Contact me at information@sunlandnorth.org to volunteer for either opportunity, or to dispose of the collected garbage if you have any room in your trash can.
Sarah Miller, Chair
Sunland North Natural Habitat Committee
Finishing work on roundabout
Work has restarted on the Sequim-Dungeness Way — Woodcock Road roundabout. The work is projected to last from April 27 through May 5, depending on weather, recalcitrant Canada geese, and maybe an invasion of militant gerbils. There may be traffic delays.
If you want to avoid the construction, the attached map (based on Google Maps) shows three different paths into and out of Sunland North:
Yellow — take a right on Woodcock Road to the first intersection, turn left (north) on Taylor Ranch Road, and you will end up on Sequim-Dungeness Way heading north. From there you can continue on to Anderson Road, Three Cays Road-Old Olympic Highway, and, eventually, Port Angeles. Or, in reverse order, reach here.
Red — take a right on Woodcock Road and continue as it loops south to Holland Road. From there you can reach Port Williams Road, where turning right (west) will take you into Sequim, or turning left (east) will take you to Schmuck Road and, possibly, a herd of elk.
Green — head south and up Blakely Blvd to upper Sunland. Turn west (right) onto Fairway Drive, and it will loop around to end at Taylor Road. Take a right on Taylor and that will take you to Sequim-Dungeness Way and, eventually, Sequim.
Above all, exercise patience.
Sunland North April 2022 Board Agenda
Note: While Washington State health officials are permitting meetings, please note it is recommended that unvaccinated folks avoid such meetings, and everyone should wear a mask when in such gatherings to protect others. Clallam County is currently seeing a moderate to high rate of COVID-19 infections. https://www.clallam.net/coronavirus/
Monthly Board Meeting of Sunland Division 17 Owners Association
Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., at The Gathering Place, 135 Fairway Drive
2:30 Call to Order; Verification of Quorum
2:40 Review and approval of March 9 and March 29, 2022, Board meeting minutes
2:45 Old Business
Arborist survey of trees in natural habitat area
New chair of Architectural Control Committee
New chair of External Maintenance
3:00 New Business
Moss Abatement work for 2022
Do-it-yourself reserve study
4:00 Officer, Committee and Coordinator Reports
President Update — Gerry Hatler
Secretary Update — Lawrence Charters
Treasurer Update — Betty Gwaltney
Vice President — Shirley Legg
Board Member at Large — Mike Johnson
Architectural Control Committee — Mike Johnson, acting
Insurance Committee — Susan Hamman
Developed Landscape — Tom Steffen
Exterior Maintenance and Inspection — Mike Johnson, acting
Natural Habitat — Sarah Miller
Communications and Outreach — Kathy Gross
Sunland Water District Update — Tom Hamman
4:20 Homeowner Comment Period
If possible, please submit comments electronically, in advance.
4:30 Adjournment
Sunland North meetings, website
January 14, 2022
This message has two announcements. First, the February 2022 Board meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. We have had a number of members express concerns about meeting in person, especially given the county’s very high rate of virus transmission and strained health services. Accordingly, the February 9 in-person Board meeting will be moved to Zoom (and telephone), with the Zoom link and agenda sent out a few days before the meeting.
Second: the Sunland North website will undergo maintenance, including a visual redesign, this Saturday. If all goes well, the majority of the work should be completed over several hours, with nips and tucks taking place over subsequent days. If things go badly, it will take longer. The work is designed to overcome security and integrity issues with the software that runs the site, and constraints on how things appear. In other words, this is a non-trivial change.
Below are two images, one of https://sunlandnorthownersassociation.com today and one of how it should look post-maintenance. The content should be the same, but the navigation is consolidated in a vertical menu on the right, images will be a bit larger, and it should be much more secure and work much better on smartphones and tablets.
Today:
Post weekend:
If you have any questions about either the Board meetings or the website, please feel free to write secretary@sunlandnorth.org
Sunland North Owner Directory
January 12, 2022
Attached please find the Sunland North Owner Directory. It is in order by street address, on the assumption that it is easy to do a document search to find someone named “Smith” but not nearly as easy to find the name of the person who lives across the street.
Sunland Division 17 is required by law to keep a current listing of the names, addresses, phone numbers, and other contact and emergency contact information of our residents. This need was tragically reinforced last year with the collapse of the condominium in Florida last year, and the numerous wildfire, flood, tornado and other disasters, most of which resulted in great uncertainty as to the identity of residents at any given time. For these and other reasons, please keep us informed of the names of all residents, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and emergency contact information. If you drop your landline telephone, or change the number on your mobile phone, or get a new email address, or change your emergency contact information, please inform us via the Owner Contact Form on the Forms section of our website,
This directory will have errors, as some information will be out of date. Please use the contact form linked above to send us corrections.
Finally, please note that this information is confidential, and should not be shared with non-residents, or used for any purpose other than neighborly and Sunland North official business.
[If you are a Sunland North owner and did not get a copy of the directory, please write to secretary@sunlandnorth.org]
Annual Christmas Parade 2021
December 10, 2021
Please join your neighbors in our neighborhood Christmas Parade. We encourage you to decorate your golf carts, cars, bikes, etc and parade with Santa and his elves. This year includes both Division 7 (Hilltop) and Division 17 so it should be even bigger than last year’s!
