Neighborhood Grant Approval! May 2012
Our community is privileged to have received a Neighborhood Matching Grant in the amount of $14,260.00.
The program awards funds to eligible neighborhood-based organizations for projects that will make neighborhoods better places to live, work, play, and shop. The program helps strengthen neighborhood organizations, while encouraging increased neighborhood participation.
Our grant is being used to install water meters and irrigation systems to sustain the improvements we made to our entrance last year.
HOAs are considered commercial property for utility purposes, thus the cost of the 2 water meters alone is $4300.
The grant will also provide us with new entry lighting and the application of special reflective paint on the curbs, all of which will enhance our neighborhood identity and increase safety for our residents.
Grant recipients are required to match the funds given. Matches must be directly related to the project, and may be in the form of cash, volunteer labor, or in-kind donations. Some of our neighbors who are small business owners are contributing their services as in-kind donations in the amount of $3500. That leaves us with $3,630 to contribute.
That amounts to 176 hours of volunteer labor. A dozen of us have already contributed time – we welcome even more of you! Please consider joining with your neighbors to do improve the value of our entire neighborhood.
Contact me – Andi White 704.531.1646 – to pledge your fair share for this project and other projects we hope to get funding for in the near future.
May 8th, 2012 Recap
Board Members Present:
Brett Osborne, John Anderson, Andrea White, Kim Christenbury
Number in Attendance: 20
Residents Signed In: 20
HOA President called meeting to order at 7:05pm.
City of Charlotte Code Enforcement stopped by to introduce themselves and provided us with information as to how they can assist us in the community.
HOA DUES/TREASUER REPORT –
John gave a VERY brief report on the state of our HOA and says WE ARE GOOD! Most of the community is current with dues and the few that aren’t have either expressed that they will be catching up soon or are being pursued legally.