Just a reminder: If you’d like to help serve your Lakewood community, then consider joining the HOA Board. The deadline to file for this year’s election is 5 p.m. this Monday, March 31. Two board positions are becoming open. See the previous post on the subject and complete the Google form. Thanks in advance!

Are you interested in serving your Lakewood community? Consider submitting your candidacy for the Lakewood HOA Board of Directors by 5 p.m. March 31.

A board member must be a Lakewood property owner in good standing (no delinquencies or violations of the HOA’s covenants, conditions and restrictions, aka our CCRs), serve a two-year term starting June 2, attend monthly meetings and occasional work sessions, participate in community events, lead and support projects that improve communication and transparency in Lakewood, and become familiar with the CCRs. Two positions are becoming open.

If interested, please complete and submit this Google form, which asks these questions:

• How long have you lived in Lakewood?
• Why are you interested in serving on the Lakewood HOA board?
• What qualifications do you bring?
• What experience have you had with a board of directors?
• What else would you like to share with the HOA Board?

A nominating committee chaired by HOA Board Member Dave Brockman and consisting of homeowners Beth Brooks, Thomas Nelms and Julia Taylor will review nominations.

The board will then review submitted biographies at its April 7 meeting and select candidates for homeowners to consider on a ballot at the HOA annual meeting scheduled for May 12 at the Lakewood Clubhouse.

Ninety-six homeowners responded to a recent survey that sought to gauge awareness and interest in one of Lakewood’s primary governing documents known as the CCRs (Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions), with an eye toward possible changes. The results are presented in detail here.

The Lakewood CCR Review Committee found that only 5% of respondents objected to updating the CCRs, and 96% were receptive or are open to developing alternatives to lawsuits to enforce them.

The committee plans to take these next steps in response to the survey:

• Prepare specific communications about the widest areas of violation concerns such as trash cans, parking restrictions, and deferred home and yard maintenance.
• Update, consolidate and clean up the deed restriction documents to make it easier for homeowners to understand their obligations and requirements.
• Produce an easy-to-understand compliance and enforcement policy that communicates the consistent steps followed in every enforcement process.

“The CCR Committee and the HOA Board thank all the participants for taking the time to respond,” said Lakewood homeowner Jim Burns, who chairs the committee. “The Lakewood CCR Review Committee remains hard at work with our efforts to serve the common community goal of maintaining the integrity of our neighborhood and collectively maintaining the value of our homes. The input received is invaluable and crucial in helping to understand the true concerns of the homeowners and to provide guidance for our next steps.”

Although some of the response information has been consolidated in the presentation, a detailed report has been provided to the HOA Board where each response is presented exactly as given by the homeowner. (Homeowner identities are not revealed in the presentation.) Individual homeowner responses and contact information are treated as confidential. Homeowners were invited to respond to the survey in the recent mailer about the special assessment ballot.

Learn more about the CCR project here.

The proposed $100 special assessment for street and pool repairs has passed. Lakewood homeowners approved it by a vote of 201 in favor and 22 opposed. The HOA board announced the vote tally Monday night in a community gathering at the Lakewood Clubhouse.

Please take the survey on Lakewood’s Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions, or CCRs, that was included in the recent HOA mailing about the proposed special assessment. You’ll find the survey linked from a QR code on an enclosed card. Point the camera on your mobile phone to the QR code to see a website with the survey, and click on that website.

Your feedback on the CCRs, which are our community’s primary governing documents, will help the new CCR Review Committee complete a thorough review of CCR processes. The survey is brief and should take less than five minutes to complete. Learn more about the CCR project here.