Hello neighbors!  

We had a great turnout at the annual meeting, and I thank all those that attended, and missed those who were unable to come.  Helen Reynolds did a great job getting a coffee and cookie table provided to keep us all well-nourished as we met.  Thank you, Helen!

While we were out in the room, our Election Committee was squired away in a back room counting the ballots and tallying the vote.  This years Chairperson was Martha Crowell, and she was supported by Allen and Lucy Elsmore, and Helen Russo.  After the results were tallied, the top three elected to serve on the Board of Directors were: Nancy Steele, Don Wallenfang, and David Hershey.  Congratulations to all, and thank you, members, for participating in the election this year.  

Officer reports were given, and that was followed by a Membership driven question and answers.  Weeds and sheds were the biggest topics.   We have had so many volunteers this year, it’s been amazing to see the increase of participants in the goings on around here!

We also had two guest speakers at our meeting: Commander Doug Kenyon, from the Sheriffs Auxiliary Volunteers and Corey Guerin, from the Department of Forestry and Fire Management.  

One thing that we should all put on our calendar now is the next Community Wide Garage Sale, in conjunction with Country Club Vista’s 1.  The Spring date has been set for March 17 and 18.  

We are also implementing a 3^rd Friday Social.  These are opportunities to get together with other neighbors.  Helen Reynolds described the idea as a monthly gathering, 3^rd Friday, from 3-5.  She’s volunteered to host the month of March, so, March 17, from 3-5 pm, and neighbors bringing an appetizer and a bottle of whatever to help that months host. 

As a reminder: please do check the CC&R’s before starting any projects!  Most of the time, your projects are not a problem, but, like the old adage, better safe than sorry!  We hope you will be utilizing the Architectural Improvement form found on the website.  If you have any questions, you are always welcome to reach out to the Architectural Chair, Don Wallenfang, or any other Board Member.

If you have any questions, just reach out to one of us or your block captains.  There is a list of contacts on the website.    Happy January all….stay warm!

Jenny Hensley
President, Country Club Vistas 2

Our first Board of Directors meeting after the Annual Meeting just held will be January 20, 2023. Friends In Deed, Room D at 11 AM.    The board will elect officers and appoint committee chairs among other business.

Dear Country Club Vistas II Community Members

Thank you all for taking the time to come out and be with us this year. It’s been a cold week, and the couch feels like the place to be on these cold and cloudy days.

The past 12 months can be described as transitional. We had vacancies arise on the Board, and we have had the pleasure of welcoming old and new board members who stepped up to help us with making sure the community was well represented and functioning.

During this last year, we remained committed to respecting the variants of Covid, and we continued to Zoom our meetings as necessary. Thank you, TC, for coordinating those. Being a good ol’ boy from Texas, he managed to wrangle as many of our membership to the meetings as he could.

As we are members of the Green Valley Council, I have been attending Presidents Roundtables hosted by GVC. These are wonderful opportunities for me to represent you in the community. Often these are learning opportunities that enhance our POA. As a by-product of those meetings, we can look forward to guest speakers to come out to our POA meetings. Each month, Helen Russo, our Green Valley Representative attends the GVC Rep meetings, and after most meetings, she writes up a report that is sent out by Nancy Steele. We appreciate the work that she is doing for us, and the time she takes for that. GVC is a great resource for us and they continue to develop programs for the community, as well as being our biggest advocates in Pima County government.

One of our goals this last year was to inventory and review what the POA has had in storage: we were able to organize the contents of a storage unit that our POA rented for years. After going through the unit, we agreed to cancel the rental unit as it was no longer necessary. The contents being primarily old Holiday decorations that had long outlived their usefulness.

We have much to celebrate in our neighborhood: several new faces have moved here and call Country Club Vistas 2 home. We see more and more that folks are remaining year-round, which is of course helpful for many reasons, security being one. Thank you all for keeping our community such a lovely place to live. As we add more homes and families to the neighborhood, we see more and more the reaching over the fence attitude of helping one another as needed. One neighbor who comes right to mind is Henry Ramirez. You can’t go a day without seeing Henry and his truck in front of a neighbors house, or in the alley, helping to clean up what so many of us struggle with these days. As many of you know, our Architectural Committee is kept busy with neighbors moving in and out and needing to make changes. A form will be added to the website to help accommodate this.

Bill Baitinger still maintains the front entry, all year, and as always appreciates any help he can get. My goal is to secure a second person to be as committed as Bill has been. Many hands make light work.

Lots of action at the garage sales this year. It was great to see so many of you participate and when we coordinated with Country Club Vistas 1, it created even more traffic to our sales. We will be doing this again in the future.

Monsoons: brought rains and weeds and much appreciated water. I encourage you to have a plan this year to minimize the growth of weeds. Mike Simpson, Environmental Chair, and has great ideas as well as resources to help with that. If you are not here year round, you are still responsible for maintaining your lot and alley. Reach out to a service provider, Henry Ramirez is just one that I can think of, and put together a plan to stay on top of that.

We have another new neighbor volunteer, Helen Reynolds. She was at our November meeting and put her hand up to decorate the front of our entrance for the holidays. Not an easy job considering we work with windy and rainy conditions, on top of making it look nice without using electricity. We had many wonderful compliments. Helen also volunteered to host at her house the Country Club Vistas 2 New Years Eve party and it was a hit! Thank you for coordinating that, and stepping into the Social Committee.

Our neighborhood is going through a change: many new faces are moving in, and we should all be mindful of keeping an eye out for each other. If you see a need, and can help, it likely will be very much appreciated. For example, Lisa Brightman noticed a woman rushing towards La Canada… well, it turns out she needed to get to her appointment before the place closed, so Lisa offered her a ride and away they went. It may not seem like much to the helper, but to the receiver, it meant a huge difference in her day and household. We are blessed to live in community that offers us the chance to reach out and lend a hand, or reach out and find a friend. Lets continue to work hard and remember to say hello to each other on the streets. We found a great place to retire to, let’s keep that going.

Respectfully submitted, Jan 18, 2023 Jenny Hensley
President, Country Club Vistas II

Our 2023 Annual Members’ Meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Room D at 10:30 a.m. This meeting is open only to members of CCV2. The Secretary will verify membership at the door.

FRIENDS IN DEED, Room D
301 W Camino Casa Verde
(Southeast corner of La Canada and Camino Casa Verde — across the street from CCV1 entrance.)

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