There will be a Special Board Meeting held Saturday, May 4, 2019 starting at 11am. It will be held at the south-east Ramada at Roma Park.
We did not have a quorum of directors for the board meeting scheduled for April 25, and a few items need some attention before the May Regular Meeting. As usual, homeowners are welcome to attend. Please bring your own chairs and water.
The Call for Special Meeting with topics to be covered can be read here.
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.
This Saturday, we’ll be grilling up some hot dogs and pumping up the bouncy castles at 5pm, and at 7pm we’ll fire up the projector for “Ralph Breaks the Internet!”
Open to all Rio Crossing residents and their guests. Come on out and meet your neighbors while the weather is still nice.
It’s a valid question:
What has the Rio Crossing Homeowners Association done for me lately?
Read a review of the last year’s activities and significant events, which includes the following major sections:
It’s an 8 page document with several “before and after” pictures of maintenance activities, and discussion of the many efforts that took place throughout 2018.
Your association bylaws say:
1.5 Financial Records – An annual report consisting of at least a balance sheet and an operating (income and loss) statement shall be made available to all Members within 60 days after the close of each fiscal year. The annual financial report shall be prepared by a certified public accountant and shall be on an audited, reviewed or compiled basis, as the Board determines.
Rio Crossing Homeowners Association Bylaws, Section 1.5
We have received the annual financial report for 2018, and it is available for all to read here. It was a “compiled basis” report. (This article describes the difference between compiled, reviews, and audit reports.)
The annual financial report for 2017 was an audit report, and is available here.
Rio Crossing is having another community garage sale event Saturday, March 30. Posted on Yardsales.net and shared to Facebook.
The “advertised times” are 7am to noon, but you’re welcome to start earlier and stay open later.
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.
January’s board meeting is this Thursday at 7pm.
Note the new location: Estrella Mountain Community College at Dysart and Thomas, in room C-120 of the Estrella Conference Center.
The Design Review Committee will meet at 6:30pm, just before the board meeting.
See the draft agenda and a map of the campus showing the new location.