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.)

Or if you absolutely can not be there for medical or travel reasons.
VIA ZOOM at: Redacted for security purposes.
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Our next Country Club Vistas II Board Meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 16 from 9:30 – 10:30, following with 30 minutes of Q & A for members in attendance. It will be held in-person at: Friends in Deed, Room D, 301 W Camino Casa Verde (across from entrance to CCV1)

For those attending the meeting, we will be accepting donatons for our local food bank.

COMMUNITY-WIDE GARAGE SALE Scheduled for Friday – Saturday, November 11 – 12, 8:00 a.m. to Noon.   (Coordinating w/CCV1 to encourage additional buyers.) We will be posting in NextDoor, Facebook and Craigslist.  Remember CCV2 will only place signage at our entrance. Each participating neighbor will need to place a sign, with balloons or other designation to draw people to your home. 

SAVE THE DATES: The Spring Garage Sale is scheduled for Friday – Saturday, March 17 – 18, 8:00 a.m. to Noon.

SPEED KILLS.  Now that our Winter Residents are returning, there will be an increase in traffic for vendors/visitors/etc.  Please remind those coming to your homes to respect the 25 MPH speed limit in our neighborhood.  Many of us aren’t able to scurry across the intersection to avoid a speeding vehicle, so we need everyone’s cooperation.

WEED CONTROL. The monsoons are over and it’s time to get out and clean up our yards, pull and/or spray weeds.  As a courtesy to your neighbors, please give ADVANCE notice to adjacent homes when you or your landscaper will be broad spectrum spraying your yard. Many of our residents are sensitive to the toxins used to kill weeds and would appreciate a heads up to ensure they are safely in their homes with windows and doors closed during the broad spectrum spraying.

Our Country Club Vistas II Board Meeting was held on Thursday, October 20 at 9:300 a.m. It was held in-person at: Friends in Deed, Room C

You may also join via Zoom:
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The Board approved the following Nominating Committee at today’s meeting:
· Martha Crowell, Chairperson
· Lucy Elsmore
· Allen Elsmore
· Helen Russo
· Nancy Steele
· Deborah Whitecotten
If you are interested in running for one of the three open board positions, please send your resume to Martha Crowell at: mcrowell3@yahoo.com, or drop off a hard copy at her home: 121 W Calle Frambuesa.

Our next Country Club Vistas II Board Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 15 at 10:00 a.m. It will be held in-person at: Friends in Deed, Room A, 301 W Camino Casa Verde (across from entrance to CCV1)

You may also join via Zoom:
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In response to YOUR requests, you will have the option of participating in our next Annual Members’ Meeting either IN PERSON or VIA ZOOM. The meeting will be held on Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. (We will have disposable masks for those attending the meeting in person. This meeting is open only to members of CCV2. The Secretary will verify membership at the door.)

IN PERSON AT:
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.)

OR:

VIA ZOOM at : Redacted for security purposes.
If you do not have the info please contact the secretary.
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Dear Country Club Vistas II Community Members

You may or may not be aware of a situation that presented itself to our community this last month. We recently had a Down’s Syndrome minor who was enrolled in school living in a home here at CCVII.  The mother and son were refugees living here temporarily until the Immigration Court made a ruling on their case.  The mother wanted her son to attend school to keep his abilities stable. The matter was presented to me by the homeowner, a relative of the minor and minor’s mother. I initially gave permission for this unique and temporary situation. I felt that it was the right thing to do in my heart and gave permission to the family so they could avoid more difficulties. 

It soon became clear that this was not as simple as allowing this disabled minor and his mother to stay with their relative, an owner in our POA.

Currently, this minor and his mother are no longer living with the owners’ sister. For those association members involved and for those of you who wondered, they have found another safe, and satisfactory housing situation. At this point the Down’s Syndrome boy is attending school. Additionally, the home owner has expressed her apologies and wants to make sure she is following the CC&Rs.

Many of you have expressed concern over the last two weeks regarding this situation, and due to several factors, I was unable to respond directly or individually to you, for that I apologize.

First, I do apologize if I appeared defensive regarding this situation. I felt I had made the right decision and needed to protect the child, and then felt I needed to protect myself and my own position, thinking I had done the right thing. 

Secondly, I would like to extend an apology to anyone I may have hurt. Again, my position was that I had made the right decision concerning the child, and I wanted to see that child safe and in a non-disruptive situation, as that is always the best way to have a positive impact on any child with a disability. 

When I signed the letter allowing this, I did not realize I had crossed a line nor that it would cause such a problem. I have held the position of president in many organizations, and in many diverse types of organizations, and making decisions like this would have been part of my job. I have learned that is not the case here and am happy to continue learning how best to serve our POA and work with our Board Members.

Our POA Board has been working hard to connect and work in a positive way with our POA and community. We have successfully stayed connected through Covid and we will continue to work hard to make Country Club Vistas II a place we are happy to call home. We have so much to be proud of: a lot of new members, houses are never on the market long, we have lower dues than we had a few years back, we are working with Pima county to maintain our roads and alleys, we have more neighbors connecting with each other than we have had in the past, and we are always working on ways to stay in touch with the membership.  If we slip up, we own it. And today, I am owning it. I slipped up and wanted to let you know I never meant to hurt anyone or miss the CC&R’s rule.

I hope to see as many of you that can be there at our annual meeting in January. We are still zooming, due to more Covid variants, but need your attendance to complete our business for the membership. I hope you all have a happy December and can enjoy your holidays. I am enjoying watching all the decorations going up and cannot wait to see the winners in our CCV2 decorating contest.

Sincerely, 

— 
Delores Krop
fPresident
Green Valley Country Club Vistas II