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Avalon HOA Monthly Newsletter (Nov 2024)

Oct Gate Code # 4196 (valid for 2 months)

Pedestrian Gate Code 589#

 

Avalon HOA Community Manager from Inframark

 Ms. Brandy Wasserman is the Community Manager assigned by Inframark to support Avalon HOA. In order to make it convenient for Avalon homeowners, Brandy will be at Seven Meadows Clubhouse from 1.00 PM to 5.00 PM on Thursdays. She can be reached at brandy.wasserman@inframark.com, and on 346-205-2075.

If you have previously registered on Seven Meadows website, your Avalon HOA membership is added to the Seven Meadows registration, and you can toggle between the HOAs with a single user id and password. If you have not yet registered, please contact Inframark customer center who will help you register on both Seven Meadows and Avalon. All contact details for Inframark are below:

·       communitymanagement@inframark.com

·       Customer Care 281-870-0585 (Mon to Fri 7 AM to 6 PM) excluding holidays

·       Main Offices – 2002 W. Grand Parkway North Suite 100, Katy TX 77449

·       Owners’ portal – https://home.inframark.com

Avalon HOA has a new Treasurer

As all of you know, Mr. Brian O’Kelly has been serving Avalon HOA as Treasurer in 2023 & 2024. He also was the Director of Lakes, Gates, and provided oversight for the IT work associated with Avalon’s website. Over the years, he worked very hard to help Avalon HOA in many ways and contributed significantly. In order to pursue the next phase of his retirement, he decided sell his house in Avalon and move to Hot Springs leaving a big void for the HOA. Fortunately, Ms. Rebecca Lun has graciously volunteered to help, and assume to role of Treasurer. 

Wine Down Wednesday

Avalon HOA’s Social Event Committee is organizing their last event of the year -

Wine Down Wednesday featuring wines that pair with Thanksgiving and Holiday foods will be hosted by Avalon's HOA Social Committee on November 6th from 7pm to 9pm at 23310 Two Harbors Glen in Avalon Estates. Please RSVP to LizThomas0306@gmail.com

Best Practices for Halloween Holiday

Halloween is a very enjoyable Holiday for all ages. While kids have fun dressing up in scary outfits, walking the neighborhood trick or treating, adults have equal fun in helping them, and decorating the houses as they deem fit. Kids might be in a very excited state and may be running from house to house and crossing the streets without paying attention to the vehicles moving around. So, please consider driving extra slowly and carefully in the sub-division throughout the evening. Quite often communities like Avalon attract kids and young adults from outside which creates a safety and security risk for Avalon. So, please do not give out the gate codes to outsiders, and coach your kids to do the same.

Seven Meadows HOA Elections for the 3 open seats on the Board

As you are aware, there are 3 open seats to be filled on Seven Meadows HOA Board through elections. The Annual Meeting when the election results were planned to be announced was postponed to November 21, 2024. The Absentee Ballots filled out properly and cast by 5.00 PM on Oct 24th are fine and will be counted. However, homeowners who may have responded yes to option 1 (which was for quorum only) and cast their votes for candidates are not valid.  These homeowners will have to attend the Annual Meeting on Nov 21 to cast their ballot correctly, which will override the incorrect Absentee ballot previously cast.

If you have not been able to cast the Absentee Ballot either electronically, or by sending it in e-mail, or dropping it at the Clubhouse, you can still cast your vote by taking the correctly filled out ballot to the Annual Meeting, validating your home ownership, and cast your vote. If you are unable to attend, you can give your proxy to another homeowner, who can cast the vote on your behalf. Please await a detailed email with full instructions from Seven Meadows HOA in this regard. Avalon HOA strongly encourages you to take this action to ensure Avalon’s representation (i.e., vote in favor of Mr. Atma Ram) on Seven Meadows HOA Board

If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to communications@avalonsevenmeadows.org with your contact details so that someone can contact you.

New process for obtaining approvals for external repair/ improvement projects

With the transition to Inframark, the process for submitting ARC/EMR requests, and obtaining approvals has changed. Avalon HOA website cannot accept any requests. You need to log into your Inframark (Vantaca) account and initiate new request - ARC request by paying $25 fee online or by check to Inframark. This fee is separate from the fee involved for ARC request review/processing fee, which will be billed to your homeowner account. Please contact the Community Manager, Ms. Brandy Wasserman brandy.wasserman@inframark.com, and on 346-205-2075 if you have any questions.

Updates from Avalon HOA Landscape Director

A serious viral infection called Rose Rosette Disease has recently appeared in Avalon and surrounding communities. Spread by a tiny, virtually invisible mite, the disease is usually fatal without early detection and aggressive intervention. Homeowners are asked to cooperate in HOA efforts to stop the spread of the disease. Please inspect your roses for telltale signs of the virus: abnormal new growth, often bright red in appearance before turning gray or black, on extremely thorny canes (see attached picture). In its early stages, the disease can be managed by removing the affected branches, pruning well back to normal, healthy canes, disposing of all trimmings, and spraying with neem oil to kill any lingering mites. Pruning shears should be disinfected with a dilute bleach solution after each cut. Roses exhibiting extensive damage should be removed altogether. RRD is more prevalent in weakened or stressed plants, so keep your roses well-watered and regularly treated with fungicide or horticultural oil. 

The Avalon HOA would like to thank the many homeowners who have heeded our courtesy tree trimming notification. Several of our most overgrown streets are markedly better. For those homeowners who have yet to act, please be advised that violation letters will be going out in November. Avalon deed restrictions call for all trees to be trimmed to maintain a 14-ft clearance above streets and an 8-ft clearance above sidewalks. Regular trimming of our street trees will protect pedestrians from injury and ensure safe passage of emergency response vehicles. Small trees should be raised incrementally to avoid the necessity of overly aggressive and damaging tree trimming in years to come. We ask that each homeowner does his or her part to maintain a premier community for all Avalon residents.

Key Homeowner responsibilities (some Dos & Don’ts’s)

All Avalon homeowners are key stakeholders and partners of Avalon HOA. All of you have a value-added role to play to keep Avalon a premier community in Katy area and sustain the high home values. To this end, each of you have responsibilities in helping the HOA with the following:

·       Volunteer to help the HOA & HOA committees. Your contributions help and enhance the whole sub-division in a number of ways

·       Ensure that your contact information is up-to-date at all times on Avalon website and with Inframark. If not, you will not receive important HOA communications.

·       Vehicle registration and EZ tag registration is a self-service facility through Avalon website. Do not contact Inframark for any changes

·       Report Street Light issues to Center Point (on Tel # 713-207-2222) to www.centerpointenergy.com/outage . When you report, please have the white, stenciled 6-digit Pole number from the pole with you to report.

·       Do not undertake any projects (construction or otherwise) without filling out the ARC request and obtaining the necessary approvals.

·       Adhere to the speed limits within the community. No speeding within he gates

·       Regular maintenance of front & back yards to ensure that the sub-division continues to be a premier community in Katy area, and sustain high home values

·       Do not throw any yard debris or trash into the Lakes or Storm Drain system

·       Do not use sprinklers from 6.00 - 8.30 AM, and 5.00 - 9.00 PM so that the sidewalks do not get wet and create a safety hazard to the walkers & joggers

·       Do not block the sidewalks with your vehicles

·       Trim the street trees regularly. Avalon covenants require a clearance of 8 feet above sidewalks and 14 feet above the roadbeds

·       Maintain your bulkheads, and fill all the holes to ensure that the dirst behind the bulkheads is not eroded

·       Report any unusual activity to the local police, and Inframark

·       Discourage, and caution non residents from fishing in Avalon Lakes

·       Help your neighbors, especially non-native English speakers to become aware of Avalon HOA policies and processes

·       No parking of any vehicles within 200 ft of all the gates, on entry & exit sides

·       Use the Trash & Re-cycle bins. Do not put your trash in bags on the sidewalk, remove the bins after they are picked up, and store them so that they are not visible from the street. 

If you have any questions or comments on the above, please reach out to the Community Manager brandy.wasserman@inframark.com, and on 346-205-2075 or any of the HOA Board members.