The Gull's Call - Jan/Feb/Mar 2024

AssociationNews Bay Colony by Amanda Meng, Association Manager G REETINGS TO YOU DURING THIS BRIGHT TIME OF year! May you experience the light of laughter, the warmth of love, and the joy of gratitude this season and beyond. The association is pleased to announce that the Private Sewer Lateral (PSL) Project is moving forward. This is a great opportunity for you to get involved in your com munity. If you are interested in joining the PSL committee, please contact your Association Manager. Bay Colony needs your help. There are currently no active committees for architecture, landscaping, or mainte nance. Would you like to see changes in your neighbor hood? Would you like to be the one who gets things done? Join the Bay Colony volunteer team. Please submit an email to Management at BYC@harborbay.org if this sounds like something you may be interested in. A friendly reminder to please respect the parking rules in Bay Colony. There have been a lot of issues with cars park ing in non-designated parking areas including in fire lanes and even in front of fire hydrants! Please be aware of the parking designations and if you do happen to be parked in front of a fire hydrant, your car may be towed without notice. Please review the Bay Colony Rules & Regulations for more information. Monthly Board of Directors meetings are still available in hybrid format, meaning that homeowners have the option of attending meetings in-person at the Community Center, 3195 Mecartney Road, or attending meetings remotely via RingCentral. We encourage all homeowners to attend our Bay Colony monthly Board of Directors meetings to stay up-to-date on current events. Bay Colony meets every third Thursday of the month at 6:00 PM. Winter meeting dates are scheduled January 18th, February 15th and March 21st this year. These meeting dates are subject to change. Check the calendar at harborbay.org/calendar for meeting dates, times, agendas and other information related to the meetings.

Bay Isle Pointe by Felicia Jalen, Board President A ND SO BEGINS A NEW YEAR. A BIG THANKS TO the Board of Director volunteers. It continues to be a pleasure to serve on a board that works as a team. The board is cohesive and forward looking. We strive to be good stewards of our property values and make decisions that are based on our by-laws and CC&Rs. Thank you to our Treasurer, Paul Beusterien, who is our go-to guy! Paul is also on the Community Board and serves as the quiet voice in the room we all look to when we really need some direction. Secretery, Jon Hamilton, is always helpful with his engineering background, which is also useful with his work on the Project Architectural Committee (PAC) and CLASS. Ann Stonehouse is our Vice President, and the only board member that has younger children. It is really good to have her insight as we work to maintain our playgrounds, recreational parks, and safe well-lighted paths. Jan Rosa, 2nd Vice President and member of the Landscaping Committee, has wonderful ideas and insights and provides historical consistency. We continue working to improve the landscaping. I hope that everyone has noticed. We have established maintenance standards for existing landscaping, and are also slowly but surely replacing plants and trees that have aged out. Our goal is for Bay Isle Pointe landscaping to be aesthetically pleasing while being frugal with water. Please be aware, State of California Bill AB 1572 has mandated no more water wasting grass in median strips and other areas (other than recreational grass spaces) across all of Harbor Bay Isle. This will take effect by 1/1/2029. We will be working to set standards for grass replacement designs in Bay Isle Pointe, while harvesting EBMUD rebates. The Project Landscape Committee members are: Dave Kercher, Rod Harris, Jan Rosa, Laurie McLachlan-Fry, Ann Cross, Matt Ellinwood, and myself, Felicia Jalen.

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