HOA Meeting Tuesday, May 7th 7pm

The next Maple Woods HOA Meeting will be held at Fire Station #81, Maple Valley on May 7, 2013 7pm.  

Reminder Annual Homeowner Meeting and Board Elections

Maple Woods Homeowners Association
Board of Directors

In Regards To Voting/Quorum

Dear Maple Woods Homeowners,

The packet for this year’s annual meeting does not have a ballot in it.  It has been planned that this election will take place at the meeting.  This is to make sure that everyone who has an interest in joining the board has an option to be nominated and voted on.  Obtaining a quorum is always difficult and if a quorum is not met we will have to call a reconvened meeting.  An election will not be held without a quorum of the association. 

There has been a very poor response on potential Board members for this year’s election given the "climate" in the neighborhood.  We needed to make sure that everyone who wants to be represented in this election is able to be and not deal with an issue of someone not meeting the deadline for our printing and mailing of the meeting notices to the homeowners.  If you are unable to attend make sure to get your proxies to our Property Manager or to any board member.  These will then be provided to our Secretary as detailed in our governing documents. 

Thank you again for your time and please make sure to vote.

Maple Woods Association

Board of Directors

Nominated for election to the Board of Directors as of 4/9/13

Annual Homeowner Meeting and Board Elections

Dear Maple Woods Homeowners,

Our Association’s annual homeowner meeting is April 30th, 2013 and will be held at Maple Valley Fire Station #81 22225 SE 231st Street Maple Valley, WA 98038. Three board positions are up for election this year. As always, the term is for two years.

Per our Association’s governing documents, to run for election you must be a homeowner in good standing with our Association. If you are interested in running, please complete the enclosed questionnaire and fax or email it to our property manager Jennifer Karpowicz This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , 253-852-1417 fax 716 W. Meeker St Suite 101 Kent WA 98032) by April 7th. Candidate questionnaires will be posted to our website www.maplewoodscommunity.com for homeowners to review before voting. You will also find a board member information document that describes board member duties as well as an Oath of Office document that you will be asked to sign if elected. Please return questionnaire only.

In the meantime, encourage your neighbors to plan ahead to attend the meeting or make arrangements to get their proxy counted. We hope to have a quorum for our annual homeowners meeting this year!

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Notice To Maple Woods Homeowners

Dear Maple Woods Homeowners,

Regretfully, we are forced to respond to the continuing and purposeful rhetoric, inaccuracies, and politics being forced on our community by the Maple Ridge BOD and their associates.    Rather than forcing these intrusions on your peace and interrupting your ability to enjoy our wonderful community, unlike Maple Ridge BOD we have instead attempted to focus on the things we are supposed to focus on as a Board; namely maintaining common areas and maintaining the daily business of the Association.  

The Cost Sharing Agreement is but one of many issues facing our community.  We have taken what we feel is a logical course of not creating and sustaining a political crisis around this agreement as Maple Ridge BOD and associates unfortunately continue to do.  

We have very recently proposed binding arbitration to Maple Ridge and this very fair and economical proposal remains open today.  Yet, instead of agreeing to this very fair request the Maple Ridge BOD refuses to agree, and instead wants to try to convince you that despite their unilaterally walking away from a legal agreement in 2007 / 2008 to share costs for certain areas in our community that somehow two separate and very competent legal firms are wrong, as have been at least four previous Maple Woods BODs, and that walking away from a legal agreement and community commitment is the right thing to do and justifiable.

Let’s consider for a moment that the Maple Ridge BOD position is absolute and correct as they continue claim.  Then why not support resolution and agree to fair and equitable binding arbitration rather than this continued politicking?  

In response to the Town Hall Style Meeting now being proposed directly to Maple Woods homeowners (through yet another SPAM mailing from Maple Ridge), Maple Woods homeowner’s might logically ask why only one side is holding this meeting?  Why does the Maple Ridge BOD now apparently endorse a Facebook site that was created under the advocacy of the Hicks’ under the guise of creating a forum for “community discussion” but instead exists only to criticize anything and everything done by and in our community?   Is this the type of behavior we want and support?  Someone did the right thing and the previous Facebook site was shut down because of the negativity, divisiveness, and at times general nastiness.  Do we now support continuing this type of intrusion on our peace and ability to enjoy our community with non-stop rhetoric?

Unfortunately, the volume and steady stream of inaccuracies demands a balance to the record.  We have been forced to respond and you will see this in your mail next week.  We apologize in advance, yet there is no other objective means to provide facts to balance the record other than a point-by-point response.  Until then, please join us and support an end to this unnecessary and non-productive dialogue between neighbors and request that the Maple Ridge BOD join us finally to work toward resolution.  

The Maple Woods BOD continues to support resolving the Cost Sharing Agreement and openly invites the Maple Ridge BOD to binding arbitration.  Please join us in this request, and ask that the Maple Ridge BOD “walk-the-talk” of resolution and join us in our offer to fair, equitable, and balanced binding arbitration.

Respectfully,

Maple Woods Homeowners Association Board of Directors