Tag: Meeting

July 2020 Board Meeting

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.

2019 Annual Member Meeting

The Annual Member Meeting for the Rio Crossing Homeowners Association is being held this month.

Date: Wednesday September 25, 2019

Time: Meeting starts at 7pm. Sign-up begins at 6:45pm. Meeting should last under an hour.

Location: Palm Valley Community Center, 14145 W Palm Valley Blvd, Goodyear, AZ. About half a mile west of Litchfield Road.

Members of the association — owners of lots in Rio Crossing — should receive an envelope in the mail with ballots, candidate information, and meeting information some time the first week of September. All members are encouraged to submit a ballot by mail to ensure that the association achieves a quorum (minimum number of votes + attendees to conduct business). See this page for more details.

Help Us Find a Meeting Venue!

Update: We’ve booked a meeting room at the Palm Valley Community Center for the February meeting. Assuming all goes well, we’ll meet there for the foreseeable future!

We’d like to find space near Rio Crossing to accommodate 10-20 people one night a month — typically the fourth Thursday from 6:30pm to 9:30pm — for a reasonable price.

Usually there’s under 10 of us: 5 board members, our community manager, a recording secretary, and maybe 2-3 homeowners or guests. Occasionally if there’s a hot topic being discussed, we’ll have 5-10 guests, and we’d like to be able to easily accommodate a “crowd” of up to 20 for the rare occasion that something really interesting comes up.

If you have any experience with places nearby, please use the contact form to send us some details.

Background/Experience

We’ve had problems so far with every recent meeting venue for board and annual member meetings:

  • Barbara Robey Elementary School was inconsistent in getting the room and gates unlocked, and occasionally moved us to other rooms without notice; plus, as a school, they’re generally not available during summer months.
  • City of Avondale Civic Complex has nice space with WiFi and overhead projection – but they’re a far distance, and the most expensive (higher rates at night), running just over $200/meeting.
  • Estrella Mountain Community College – which we just met at this month – didn’t have the doors unlocked to the Conference Center, no lights in the foyer. There’s no WiFi (only for students/faculty), and the cell coverage inside is spotty/weak.