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Newsletter
Vol. IX, No. 3 May/June 2006
COMMUNICATIONS
Your Communications Committee is making
headway in revamping our Windmill Harbour website to make it more
informational, interactive and user friendly. You will see some major changes
in June, so stay tuned. In the meantime, all residents should email Dee Eaton
at PAI (d.eaton@paihhi.com) their email
addresses so that we may set up a data base for notification purposes (i.e.
hurricane evacuation, Island re-entry, etc.) This directory will be for
confidential communications and community events and will NOT be shared with
any outside entity.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Please be on the
lookout at the end of May for a revised Emergency Management brochure.
Residents are strongly encouraged to read the brochure, make the advance
preparations that it recommends and to be sure to take the brochure with them
in the event of an evacuation.
DECALS
Often it is overlooked
that golf carts need to have decals. Such decals can be picked up at the
Security gate house any weekday from 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The same holds true
for cars that may not yet have their 2006 decals.
LANDSCAPING
Barry Uber, Chair of the Landscaping Committee, met with
members of the community who live near the lagoons to apprise them of actions
being taken and landscape options around the lagoons. Aquatic plants will be
planted, a willow at lagoon 3 will be replaced, and the west end of lagoon 3
will have fill and plants added. Second Nature is working on a lagoon
maintenance plan and recommendations for additional trees. Speaking of trees,
the Landscape Committee reports that a tree at 64 Sparwheel has been determined
to be healthy. If any resident is concerned about the health of a tree on their
property, common property or on a non-resident neighbor's property, please
contact PAI at 842-1133. For hurricane preventive maintenance, it might be
necessary to replace or prune trees, but remember that no tree may be removed
or pruned without approval! If you order a tree service to come into WH, it
will be turned away at the gate by Security unless the proper forms have been
completed and prior approval given.
AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Don't the new brick walkways look beautiful? The reason I did not give
advance notice in the March/April newsletter is because it was voted at the
March 28th Board meeting to finish off the walkways this year rather than delay
them until next because of the rapidly escalating costs of the project. The
speed bump by the back gate is being surveyed to see whether it was built
higher than the Board-approved three inches. Savannah Hardscapes will correct
its height, if that is the case. Road repairs on Harbour Passage East will
start in the first week of May, as will curb repairs in Old Ferry Point. There
is still a problem with some flooding on Sparwheel, so Peter Sprague, Chair of
the Maintenance Committee, will have a section of the drainage system cleaned
out as soon as possible in case a blockage exists. Other storm drains are being
repaired and grids replaced as needed.
SPRING CLEANING REMINDER
If you haven't power washed the mildew off your house yet (please take
a good, hard look with an objective eye), then you will be receiving a notice
from the Compliance Committee to please do so or receive a fine.
PARKING
Tom Rooney, Chair of the Parking Committee,
announced that the ARB has approved four different (less expensive) plans for
off-street parking on POA common property. The revision eliminates expensive
concrete rollover curbs on three sides, allowing bricks instead. The POA Board
approved the committee's "criteria and implementation of off-street parking,"
so Windmill Harbour now has standards for construction of off-street parking.
POWER LINES
Did you notice that on the outside of Windmill
Harbour, along the berm, Palmetto Electric removed the old power-line poles? We
now have full underground power on Jenkins Island. *** Marcia Cornell is
signing off for now. Email me news at acornell@hargray.com or post information
on our website www.windmillharbour.org. or post information on our website
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