The July 2020 Board Regular Board Meeting will be held Thursday July 9 at 7pm. It will be conducted online, hosted by PDS’s GoToMeeting account.
Homeowners are invited to attend, as usual. Please contact community manager Lisa Riesland to register and obtain the login information.
This is an online-only meeting.
Homeowners are invited to attend. Please contact our Community Manager Lisa at [email protected] for details.
Date: Thursday May 14, 2020
Time: 7pm – Open Session
It’s hard to find a meeting location that is affordable, reasonably close by, available year-round, and with adequate facilities. The meeting location we’ve used for the past year significantly raised their rates once we changed management companies, and the accommodations were often noisy and accompanied by problems with building access. We met for a long time at nearby schools, but they’re closed (or difficult to get access to) in the summer and we often had problems getting the rooms unlocked.
So, starting with the March 2020 meeting, we’re going back to the Avondale Civic Center located at 11465 Civic Center Drive in Avondale, along Avondale Blvd just south of I-10. Their rooms are spacious, easy to set up, generally have overhead projectors and WiFi availability, good bathroom facilities, and a guard who ensures we have access and provides a level of facility security we don’t have at other venues.
Almost as hard as finding a place, is finding a date where all of the five board members are able to attend. People are busy! To help us maximize board participation, we might shake it up a bit and meet in different weeks of the month, but it’s shaping up that Thursdays are more available for most of us. That’s why you’ll see the March meeting is the second Thursday of the month.
See this page for more information about the meeting location and other details.
Two meetings this month. Read this announcement!
There will be a Special Board Meeting for the Rio Crossing Homeowner Association this Saturday, November 16 at 11am at the Ramada adjacent to Roma Avenue at Roma Park.
The topics are:
Some of these topics were taken from the planned agenda for the Regular Board Meeting, in order to ensure that Wednesday’s meeting would be completable on time.
All homeowners are invited to attend.
The Regular Board Meeting for the month of November is scheduled for Wednesday November 20, 2019 at 7pm at the Palm Valley Community Center. Note this is being held on the third Wednesday of the month.
The draft agenda is available here. Note that some of the topics from this Regular Meeting are now scheduled for the Special Meeting noted above.
The regular monthly meeting of the Design Review Committee will meet at 6:30pm, just before the Regular Board Meeting.
Note date change! Meetings now on Wednesday!
The August Regular Board Meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 starting at 7pm. Meetings are now held at the Palm Valley Community Center, located at 14145 W Palm Valley Blvd, approximately a half mile west of Litchfield Rd.
A draft/preliminary agenda is available to view/download here, and is subject to change.
If there are pending Architectural Requests, the Design Review Committee will meet starting at 6:30pm, just prior to the Board Meeting. Homeowners with pending requests are encouraged to attend.
If you have been attending meetings at the Palm Valley location, please note a room change: go right once you’re inside, we’ll be in the conference room. (Previously we were to the left in half of the meeting room area.)
The Regular Monthly Meeting of the Rio Crossing Homeowner Association Board of Directors is scheduled for Thursday May 23, 2019 at 7pm. The meeting will be held at the Palm Valley Community Center. See this page for location and directions.
All homeowners are invited to attend.
If there are Architectural Requests to be reviewed, the Design Review Committee will meet beforehand at 6:30pm. Homeowners are also invited to attend this meeting, and those with Requests pending are particularly encouraged to participate, since if there are questions – you’re right there, and it saves everyone time!
Unfortunately, there was not a quorum of board members for the April meeting, so no association business was completed. A Special Meeting was held Saturday May 4 to complete a limited agenda of important items. See the email here for details about this and other timely topics.
This Thursday, April 25, is the next regular meeting of the Rio Crossing Homeowners Association Board of Directors.
The Board Meeting starts at 7pm; the Design Review Committee meets before the board meeting, starting around 6:30pm.
The location is Palm Valley Community Center near Litchfield Road and Palm Valley Blvd at 14145 W Palm Valley Blvd.
You can see the draft agenda for the April meeting, and the draft minutes from the March meeting.
Anyone interested in the February board meeting info?
It’s next Thursday, February 28, 2019 at the Palm Valley Community Center. Directions and more information are in this morning’s “New Board Meeting Venue” post and the Board and Committee Meetings page. There’s also a map from Rio Crossing to Palm Valley Community Center (PDF doc).
The Board Meeting starts in open session at 7pm. The Design Review Committee meets before the board meeting, and typically starts around 6:30pm.
Want to know what we’ll be working on? Take a look at the draft/preliminary agenda.
And remember, you can also read the draft minutes from the January meeting.
We have selected a new meeting venue – and it starts next week! From our web’s Board and Committee Meeting page:
Meetings are now held at the Pine Valley Community Center near Litchfield Road and Palm Valley Blvd. Drive south on Litchfield Road, turn right on Palm Valley Blvd. Go west along Pine Valley for about half a mile; the community center is on your left (south side of Palm Valley Blvd). The facility isn’t that large, so come in the front door and look for signs.
From the Board and Committee Meetings page
There’s a caveat to the address: Some GPS systems have reportedly given a route to the Palm Valley Blvd intersection with McDowell Road. This is incorrect!
Go to the intersection of Palm Valley and Litchfield, and turn to the west. The community center is about half a mile, on the left/south side of the street.
Palm Valley Community Center
14145 W Palm Valley Blvd
Goodyear, AZ 85395
Here is a PDF route map from Rio Crossing to Palm Valley Community Center.
We met at the Barbara Robey Elementary School for some time. Unfortunately, we had numerous issues of trying to schedule around school closures and working around their special events, not to mention that they frequently failed to unlock entry access to the courtyard to facilitate people getting to the meeting.
We have, on a couple of occasions, even met at the deli patio at the local Basha’s store.
The Mojave Room at the City of Avondale’s Civic Center was a nice facility, and while not unreasonably far, it was a 12-15 minute drive. The other main issue was the cost, since the city charges a premium rate for night meetings.
We had one meeting at the Estrella Mountain Community College campus, but parking was definitely an issue, and the facility, while “nice enough” once we got in, had issues with security access problems, and lack of cell and/or WiFi coverage.