Category: Notices

Hello Fellow Homeowners!
Following are 2 items for your consideration. The first is the announcement about our upcoming Social. Hope to see you there!
The second is a message from our Grounds & Weeds Chair.

Desert Meadows 3 Social
Wed., July 7, from 4 PM to 6 PM
Abrego South Center
HAPPY HOUR
Please come, meet new neighbors and long-time owners you have not seen recently.
It has been too hot for food preparations. Please bring a “happy hour” snack or finger food to share.
And, bring your choice of beverage with you.
Social committee will have available: ice, water, ice tea; napkins, plates and 8 oz. cups.
Do you have a new homeowner in your neighborhood? Please talk with them and encourage them to attend. Maybe offer to bring them with you.
Your committee at work,
Lynne, Shirley, Mary

Message from Grounds & Weeds:

Rain is coming and so are the weeds! If you don’t mind using a chemical weed preventer, you might consider spreading some Preen (available at True Value, Ace Hardware, etc.) or other brand of weed pre-emergent as soon as possible.
I like to rely on rain to get it into the ground, but you also can use a hose to soak it in. It won’t prevent every weed, but it can make a big difference — as many of you already know.
Thank you!
Hugh Cox
Grounds & Weeds Chair

Greetings to our Fellow DMIII Homeowners

From your HOA Board of Directors

The Unapproved Minutes of the Special Meeting held June 9th to appoint new Board Members and Committee Chairs can be found on our website, desertmeadows3.com. The website has been updated with additional contact information.

To summarize, 2 new Board Members were appointed and 2 Committee Chairs were appointed. Below is a list of all Board Members and Committee Chairs to date.

The Grounds and Weeds Committee is still in need of a volunteer to serve with them so please, if you have any interest at all, contact one of us.

President – Bill Mulesky
Vice President – Randy Drenning
Secretary – Debra Woolley
Treasurer – Tom Marek
Board Member – Mike Norman, Chair of Nominations Committee
Board Member – Hugh Cox, Chair of Grounds and Weeds Committee
Board Member – Johnnie Powell, Member of Grounds and Weeds Committee

Chair of Architectural Committee – Suzanne Stadler
Architectural Committee Members – Randy Drenning, Morris Brown, Dan Cady
Chair of Audit Committee – Mary Wood
Member of Audit Committee – Jeanie Richardson

Social Committee Members – Mary Wood, Shirley Girod, Lynne Connolly

Hope to see you at the Social on July 7th from 4-6pm at Abrego South. Details of that will be out soon.

The next regular Board Meeting will be August 11th at 3pm at Abrego South.

Thank you and have a great summer!

Dear Community Member: 
Your Risk as the Coronavirus Careens Out-of-Control
Green Valley and Quail Creek are basically Senior communities. Therefore, most residents are very aware of their vulnerability to the Coronavirus. If we seniors are following the guidelines of wearing a mask, washing our hands and are not gathering in groups, then “risk” becomes the most vulnerable point in our protection. We all experience risk when we go shopping, pump gas, handle money, when a friend invites us to dinner, on and on and on. Everyone needs to consider how much risk they are willing to take. Because we live in a community of Seniors, we residents ought to be able to significantly reduce the spread of the virus in our community!

Pima County’s Voluntary Curfew
Pima County has recommended a voluntary curfew running from 10 PM to 5 AM. The curfew started on November 23, 2020 and will run through the end of December. For most of us in Green Valley this should not be a hardship as most of us are “early” to bed and “early” to rise. And though the sun has not yet risen, remember do not leave your house for your morning constitutional before 5:00 AM. For those of you who are planning to raise your glass one more time, remember you need to be sober to take yourself home by 10 PM. Although the curfew is voluntary, barring essential or emergency activities, if everyone practices social distancing by observing the curfew, then we can help reduce transmission of the coronavirus.

Pima County and Arizona Covid-19 Dashboard Statistics
In the last week of November, the total number of people in Arizona who have tested positive for Covid-19 is 325,995 and the number of deaths is 6,634. In Pima County, the number is 38,668 positive cases and 682 deaths. The death rates for the county and state are comparable, at .017 for Pima County and .020 for Arizona.

Free Covid-19 testing is available. “Pima County has opened sites offering free testing to anybody in the community, ages 5 and older, without a doctor’s order and even if you do not have symptoms. These sites offer the PCR test that can let you know if you have an active Covid-19 infection and may be able to spread the disease to others.” There are locations for both walk up and drive thru testing.

See the Pima County website for location information:The web page address is https://webcms.pima.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=169&pageId=575060.You may also find the page by going to the Pima County website, click on Health, then click on Education and Outreach, then Pima County Combined Covid-19 Information and Resources, then Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19 Information & Resources), then Pima County Covid-19 Testing Centers. This is a cumbersome process, so you may want to bookmark the Pima County pages you use regularly.

Desert Meadows III HOA Board Vacancy Notice OCTOBER, 2020

At the end of this year there will be four (4) vacancies for Directors.

Some of the vacancies will be Officer positions. In accordance with the HOA By-Laws, after the Director vacancies are filled, the Directors then vote for the Officer positions – President, Vice President, and Treasurer.

We are asking that any member who is interested in serving on the Board (including winter members) with or without experience in serving on Boards, to submit your name to the Nominating Committee by Email – gvdesertmeadows3@gmail.com, by October 15,2020.

The purpose of your HOA is to serve the members by maintaining and enforcing the CC&Rs & By-Laws which you approved, for maintaining our property values. All candidates should be in good standing with the HOA CC&Rs and By-Laws.

Please be a volunteer that will help your HOA and neighbors.

Thank You,

Board of Directors – Nominating Committee

Green Valley Desert Meadows III, Inc.
PO Box 271
Green Valley, AZ 85622
Website:  desertmeadows3.com
Email:  gvdesertmeadows3@gmail.com

May 15, 2020

Dear Desert Meadows III Homeowners,

The Coronavirus is still an issue but Gov. Ducey is slowly lifting constraints on businesses. Time will tell how that will go and what measures will be necessary to try and keep everyone safe as we rebuild our economy.

GVR facilities have not yet opened for meetings so we are still ‘on hold’ for our Board Meetings which means minutes can’t be approved and nothing can be voted on until we can hold a meeting again.  In light of that we thought it prudent to at least bring you up to date on some of the unresolved issues and questions that were brought up at the annual meeting back on February 19, 2020.

If you read the unapproved minutes from the annual meeting (on the website) you’ll see that there was a candidate who was elected by the members but found ineligible to serve due to CC&R violations.  The violation concerned building permit compliance and involved Pima County. After much research and several phone conversations with several departments at Pima County an error on their part was discovered on their final permit which they apologized for and immediately corrected. The CC&R violation keeping this elected candidate from serving was based upon inaccurate information from Pima County. If you would like further information I can provide names of Pima County employees I spoke with, as well as, the date the error was corrected and who corrected it.

We then consulted with GV Council regarding the situation, the perceived violation, and the Pima County error/correction on the final permit. Upon their advice, we informed the candidate that he was found not to be in violation of the CC&R’s so his election to the board by the members stands and he is eligible to serve on the board. He has not yet been elected to a specific position on the board as that takes a vote of the board members and we are not yet allowed to hold a meeting. GV Council also advised that if we want to avoid a similar situation in the future we will need to amend our CC&R’s to include a garage size limitation on new building of, and/or modifications to, single family residences. Any amendment of CC&R’s will have to go to a vote of the members.

At this time there are still six members with unpaid dues for 2020. Notices of the unpaid dues and fines assessed were sent out on 04/02/20.

Most of the yards here are beautifully maintained, however, there are a few yards and alleyways with very overgrown weeds, bushes, and trees, and dead and wilting wildflowers and plants.  We strongly suggest you get those cleaned up. If you don’t get them under control now while it’s still dry they will totally be out of control come monsoon season. Our Grounds and Weeds Committee will start issuing non-compliance notices again after June 1^st so you still have a couple of weeks to tidy things up.

There was another concern involving parking on the roads. They are county owned roads. The county has no ordinance involving moving your vehicles from one side to the other or limiting how many days in a row you can park your vehicle on the road as some larger urban areas do. However, upon advice from GV Council, we can enforce the parking and/or storing of the types of vehicles allowed, such as limiting the number of days an RV can be parked for loading and unloading, or restricting the use of trailers within Desert Meadows III, etc.   Refer to CC&R 4. A-F. The CC&R’s can be found on the website.

At this time, we are in the process of addressing the violation involving falling stucco on a property in disrepair and the overgrown weeds on that same property.

There is a new form on the website that you can print off, fill out, and give to a board member to lodge legitimate complaints.

The majority of members have always been and remain in compliance with our CC&R’s. Thank you for doing your part in keeping our neighborhood tidy and protecting our property values.  You truly understand what it means to be part of an HOA and its purpose.

We are still in need of volunteers. The vice president position on the board is still vacant.

We hope you will remain healthy throughout this social distancing experience.

If you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Respectfully,

Board of Directors
Green Valley Desert Meadows III, Inc.

You can contact our federal representatives by clicking on the following links:

Contact Senator Kyrsten Sinema

Contact Senator Martha McSally

Contact Representative Anne Kirkpatrick

March 31, 2020

Hello Neighbors!

This Coronavirus disease is a nasty one. Hope you are all well and practicing social distancing when you do have to venture out for essentials. I thought it appropriate to remind everyone what “Social Distancing” means according to Pima County. This information can be found on their website at webcms.pima.gov under Health, then go to Education and Outreach, then Coronavirus (COVID-19).

AVOID:
Group Gatherings, Sleep Overs, Play Dates, Concerts, Theater Outings, Traveling, Athletic Events, Crowded Retail Stores, Malls, Workouts in Gyms, Church Services,
Visitors in Your House, Non-Essential Workers in Your House, Mass Transit Systems.
Keep at least 6’ – 8’ between yourself and others when you do go out.

Most of these activities were shut down several weeks ago but I can’t stress enough how even having a gathering in your home could be detrimental to your health right now. Please stay safe and use common sense.

Gov. Doug Ducey has issued a statewide stay-at-home order which goes into effect tonight, Tuesday, March 31st at 5pm and lasts at least until April 30th.
In order to slow the spread of the Coronavirus, we are asked to remain home except for trips out for food, medicine, and other “essential activities”.
The order does permit walking, hiking, running, biking, or golf, as long as, appropriate distancing practices are used.

In terms of enforcement, the order does not require people to provide documentation (as in other countries) or proof to justify their activities but does allow officials to issue warnings before citing someone. Those who ignore warnings could face a Class 1 Misdemeanor.

Please remember, Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness that can spread from person to person. This is a rapidly evolving situation and the Pima County Health Department is closely monitoring any new developments.

Two COVID-19 hotlines have been set up to answer questions from the public and healthcare providers about testing, symptoms, and other virus-related topics.

For general information about COVID-19 including news, testing, prevention, and cleaning guidelines, call 2-1-1 from 8am -8pm daily.

Healthcare providers or people who have questions about symptoms they or their patients are having can call 1-844-542-8201, anytime.

ADVISORY from Pima County:
If someone in your family has tested positive for COVID-19, keep the entire household at home and contact your medical provider.

I would also like to remind you of “nuisance noise” or “quiet time” hours. Per Pima County Sheriff’s Department, they are from 10pm to 7am daily. Let’s be considerate of our neighbors who are trying to get much needed rest in these uncertain and stressful times.

As for Board Meetings or HOA business, things are pretty much on hold for now. When things start to return to “normal” again, we’ll post new dates on our website, desertmeadows3.com, and will notify you via email. Until then, stay home, stay safe, and stay healthy.

Any questions or issues please don’t hesitate to contact me. Thank you.

Respectfully,
Debra Woolley
president@desertmeadows3.com
360-601-2018

February 19, 2020

Dear Desert Meadows III Residents:

Spring is just around the corner and that means weed season will be upon us before we know it. This is a good time to make sure your yard is and will remain weed free. Pre-emergence treatment of yards is a good route to go or be ready to kill or pull those invaders later.

For Winter Visitors who will be departing as soon as it gets hot here and a little warmer up north it’s recommended you make sure your property in DM III is cared for before departing, as well as, during your absence. It’s more difficult to take care of weed problems, etc. when you aren’t here.

Currently nearly all yards look weed free. However, letters may be going out to a few violators before March 1st. If you receive a letter you will have 30 days to take care of whatever the problem is.

Please don’t forget about the alley behind your home. Each household is not only responsible for their yards but also responsible for half of the alley/access road directly behind the property. They need to be kept weed free as well.

Most everyone has been doing an excellent job and you are thanked and
commended for that.

This is an effort to politely and gently remind/inform every one of the requirements of the new CC&Rs passed last year. We are volunteers attempting to do difficult jobs to ensure that Desert Meadows III remains a beautiful and pleasant place to live. Also to keep home values rising.

NOTE: The next general inspection of yards and alleys will take place the first week of April. In the meantime periodic spot checks will be done. Please be responsible for continual maintenance of your property. Feel free to call me if you have any comments or questions (305-906-1854).

Sincerely,

Stan Baxter, Chair, Grounds and Weeds Committee

Desert Meadows III HOA Board of Directors