June 2011 Newsletter

SUNLAND DIVISION 17 OWNERS ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER

June 2011

• The Sunland Division 17 Owners Association section of the Sunland North website provides various Association documents and forms. Visit www.sunlandnorth.com; Click on the COMMUNITY INFO tab; then select OWNER INFORMATION; from this page click on the blue CLICK HERE above the picture; enter user name is SUNLAND and password is NORTH.
• The Assessment amount for 2011 as of January 2011 has changed to $444.00 per quarter as approved at the Sunland Division 17 Annual Meeting held last August. Some automatic bill payments are still set to pay $420.00 per quarter. (This was last year’s assessment amount.) In addition, personal checks are for the incorrect amount. Please confirm you are paying correct quarterly amounts and mail all quarterly assessment payments to P. O. Box 1655, Sequim, WA 98382. Assessment payments are due in January, April, July and October. If you are not current on your assessment payment, please mail your payment today. Owner payments to the Association are deposited on approximately the 10^th of each month.
• The Sunland Division 17 Owners Association has an email Please send correspondence to ownerinfo@sunlandnorth.com. Please allow 30 days for written response to correspondence. Send an email to this new address if you are interested in receiving correspondence by email instead of U.S mail.
• We are often asked about the insurance policy for the Association. If you have questions about insurance, please contact our insurance professional, Dianna Kaspar, at CAU Insurance. Her telephone number is 800-228-1930, x 7181. The Association Master Insurance policy expires May 1, 2012.
• As a reminder, if you have landscape concerns or notice an area in need of attention, contact Lee Cox, landscape liaison, in writing. Mr. Cox walks the community regularly with the landscape service provider. Per the terms of the landscape contract, no work is conducted on any Owner plantings and no work is conducted behind Owner installed gates or fences.

Please do not dispose of yard waste in the common areas or open space areas. Removal of personal debris will be at the responsible owner’s expense.

•  Sunland Division 17 Owners Association has a new Exterior Maintenance Inspector. Richard Helmenstine, a Sunland North homeowner, has volunteered his time and efforts to sustain the beauty of the community. He is taking an active role in conducting the bi-annual maintenance inspection and facilitates repairs while operating within the Association’s budget. You may see him walking the neighborhood and working with contractors to complete various exterior maintenance items. Please allow him and other contractors to work efficiently and without interruption. If you have an exterior maintenance item, please complete the Exterior Maintenance Request form (found on the Sunland North website) and submit in writing to P.O. Box 1655, Sequim, or email to ownerinfo@sunlandnorth.com. Written requests received will be inspected and/or repaired within 30 days. You will be notified if work conducted may disrupt your home. Thank you Mr. Helmenstine!
• Concrete cracks and paint touchup and repairs are the most common reported exterior maintenance items. In order to operate with the Associations Repairs and Maintenance budget, repaint and paint trim touch up schedules and concrete quality guidelines have been created. The following addresses are scheduled for a trim repaint by the end of July. Please allow the painters/maintenance company to complete their work uninterrupted as to keep costs down. Remove any items that may encumber their work area around the exterior of your home. Homes completed in 2003-2005 qualify for repaint of trim and both the repaint trim and complete repaint schedules are based on the year homes were constructed. Complete repaints are scheduled to begin in 2014.

Cascadia Loop Trim Repaints: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 51, 61, 71, 330, and 340.

Blakely Boulevard Trim Repaints: 431, 441, 451, 471, and 481.

A list of exterior maintenance items that are the responsibility of the Association to maintain can be found on the Exterior Maintenance Request form on the Owner’s section of the Sunland North website.

• If you plan any changes to the exterior of your unit, please submit the Exterior Change Proposal checklist in writing to the Association by mail or email and allow 30 days for written approval. Changes include any installed work such as fences, gates or modifications to any patio surface. Please send these requests to the Association, not to the landscape liaison.
• Please be a curious, respectful neighbor and a responsible pet owner. All pets in Sunland North are required to be leased will outside of the home. Thank you to all owners who are courteous and dispose of pet waste in the appropriate trash containers and not in the common area. Your care and attention is greatly appreciated by all who share this space.
• As a reminder, you may receive an invoice from Sunland Water District assessing a fee for a water meter installed at your home. This is an expense of the individual homeowner as it is unit specific. All homeowners of Sunland and Sunland Division 17 can expect to pay for water meters installed on their water connections within the next seven years as required by Sunland Water District. Contact the Sunland Water District if you have any questions.
• Please do not adjust the landscaping sprinkler timing systems. These are to be adjusted for proper landscape maintenance by Parsinen Landscape Maintenance only. If you have suggestions as to possible adjustments you would like to make to your timing system, contact Lee Cox in writing.
• The Annual Meeting of Sunland Division 17 Owners Association will be Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 10:00 at the Sunland Golf & Country Club poolside room. The meeting agenda can be found posted on the owners section of the Sunland North website after July 28, 2011. Please forward any questions or topics for discussion to Division 17 Owners Association Board of Directors in writing to ownerinfo@sunlandnorth.com or P.O. Box 1655, Sequim, WA 98382 by July 18^th, 2011.
• If you are interested in joining the Sunland Division 17 Owners Association Board of Directors, or would like to nominate someone for position, please mail or email your notice to Division 17 Owners Association by September 1.
• We have received inquiries as to the transition date for Sunland Division 17 Owners Association from Declarant Control to the Owners. This information is stated in Section 3 of the CC&R’s. Based on current sales volume, we anticipate transfer of the Associations operational functions to occur in 2012. We are preparing for a smooth transition to an all-Owner Board of Directors.
• Lee and Emily Cox would like to announce the date for annual Sunland North potluck picnic scheduled for Friday August 12, The host and hostess this year will be Lonna and Marion Baugher. Please save the date and join this fun event. More information will follow, so keep an eye on your mail box.