The Hickory Woods Board of Directors met Wednesday to review a number of requests for Additions, Alterations or Improvements. Most of these concerned plantings around homes. There was also a request for the addition of a generator and another for an extension of a patio. The completed requests submitted were approved, a couple of requests needed additional information.

The Board decided that replacing dead plants or changes to the plantings within the existing mulch beds do not require the homeowners to submit a request for Addition, Alteration or Improvement as long as the existing mulch beds are within 15 feet of your unit and were originally created by Alliance when your home was built.

Homeowners may request (via Additions, Alterations or Improvements form) additions to the existing mulch beds but should be aware that Alliance, as part of the Homeowners Association contract, may not tend to or maintain these additional garden areas. So you will have to accept responsibility for maintaining these yourself.

Over the next several weeks many of the Board members will be traveling for vacations, therefore meetings with the full Board present will not be possible. However, to keep things moving we will do our best to review requests and handle other business. We ask that you help us with this by communicating with us through our email address:

bod-input@hwcommunity.info

If you cannot scan in your request or the associated materials, send a message to us and one of the Board members will get back to you and help you with your submission.

Many of you have asked when the landscaping behind the clubhouse will be installed. We have been promised that this work will be performed in May, once the new homes which closed during the winter without landscaping are completed.

In other business the Board met with a couple of residents who propose that we install an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in the clubhouse. They provided a quote from the same company the supplies AEDs to the town of Londonderry and explained what the units are and how they are used. Additional investigation into this proposal will be performed before the Board makes a decision on this proposal.

Sincerely,

The Hickory Woods Board of Directors