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A WORD FROM THE PRESIDENT of Bollinger Hills Homeowners Association
Welcome to a New Year! As we leave 2012 behind us, I would like to thank all those who
supplied the homeowners association with their e-mail address this past year. With your
help, we were able to reach our goal of sending the Bollinger Hills Newsletter and Special
Broadcast Announcements to you electronically via e-mail. If you know of somebody in our
neighborhood who hasn’t received a Newsletter, please encourage them to send their e-mail
address to the HOA so they too, can receive the Newsletters and Announcements. Also, to
assure that you receive future publications, please make sure your e-mail address is up-to-
date with the association. All requests should be sent to: [email protected].
In addition to achieving our goal of sending our Newsletter out to you electronically, our
dedicated team of Board Members, along with the help of our attorneys, have successfully
finished updating and revising the Homeowners Association’s CC&R’s and Bylaws.
Lead Stor y Head l ine
IN THIS ISSUE
In this issue:
Organ iza t ion Name Newsletter Date Volume 1, Issue 1
Bollinger Hills Homeowners Association
Post Office Box 449
San Ramon CA 94583
www.bollingerhills.org
Volume 2013 - Issue 1 - February 2013
Bollinger Hills Neighborhood Newsletter
By Victor Petersen
BHHOA President
NEXT BOARD MEETING
February 13, 2013
7:30 PM
Bollinger Hills Cabana
Board Meetings are
held at 7:30 PM on the
2nd Wed. each month (check www.bollingerhills.org
for any date changes)
All Homeowners Welcome!
President’s Message..........….....1 - 2
BHHOA on Facebook........... ......2
Holiday Lighting Contest ..... ......3
VOTE: CC&R Revisions.............4
Landscape Corner………...… ....5
Neighborhood Beat .....................6
Money Matters & Financials..…...7
Neighborhood Bulletin Board..… 8-11
Contact Us..................................12
www.bollingerhills.org
Feb. 2013 issue Page 1
2012 Bollinger Hills
Annual Holiday Lighting Contest
The Results are in!!
The Annual Bollinger Hills Holiday Lighting Contest
judging took place on Friday December 21st
Look inside for the selected final winners.....
See winners, Page 3
See PRESIDENT, Page 2 for more
Happy
New Year
From the
Bollinger Hills
Homeowners
Association
Bollinger Hills Homeowners Association
The process of revising these documents took a few years,
and we are pleased to report that the final revisions are
complete and ready for your vote. If you haven’t already done
so, please read through the literature that was mailed to you in
January and return the Voting Ballot to the HOA by February
20th. If you don’t have the time to read through all the
material, a short summarization of the main changes was
provided with the documents.
Your Vote is Needed! We need at least 50% votes (50% +1)
to adopt these revisions. If we don’t receive your vote, we’ll
have to turn to alternative methods to obtain your vote.
Voting is as easy as 1 2 3 ...
1) Simply cast your vote on the yellow BALLOT sheet.
2) Enclose it in the yellow SECRET BALLOT envelope.
3) Place it in the pre-addressed / pre-paid envelope provided
and mail by Feb. 20th.
Remember to include your Name, Signature, and Address.
You can also drop it off in the Ballot Box at 309 Mare Lane
until Feb. 27th; Votes will be counted that same evening. For
complete details, see the “PLEASE VOTE” article by
Terry Cunningham on Page 4 of the Newsletter.
PRESIDENT Continued from page 1
By Victor Petersen
BHHOA President
Feb. 2013 issue Page 2
On a lighter note, the winners of the 2012 Bollinger Hills An-
nual Holiday Lighting Contest have been chosen. Our devot-
ed judges cruised the neighborhood on the evening of De-
cember 21st to admire the impressive holiday lights dis-
played in Bollinger Hills. Thank you to those who took the
time to decorate their homes and show their holiday spirit.
As usual, there were many homes worth recognition. Check
out the selected final winners on Page 3 of the Newsletter .
If you do not see your home listed, try again next year. We
love to add new contenders to the list of winners!
Look for the next issue of the Newsletter in May 2013. Until
then, if you’d like to contact me, please send an e-mail to:
Sincerely,
KEEP IN TOUCH
Bollinger Hills Homeowners Association is now on Facebook!
You can find us by going to www.facebook.com and entering Bollinger Hills HOA in the Search Box.
Or, you can go through the Facebook link provided on the home page of our website: www.bollingerhills.org.
Add our website to your Favorites List for quick access.
Proud to be the only self-managed HOA in the Tri-Valley area managed
by dedicated volunteers and professionals from our own neighborhood.
Victor Petersen
President, Bollinger Hills HOA
Page 3
Attention All Homeowners:
We hope you are enjoying the convenience of reading the Newsletter IN COLOR from your Computer, Laptop, Smart Phone,
Tablet, iPad, or whatever......ANYWHERE. You no longer to be home to read about the latest news in Bollinger Hills.
Don’t forget - You can also check out all Newsletters (past & present) on the HOA Website
www.bollingerhills.org.
Add our website to your Favorites List for quick access!
We’d like to give thanks to everyone who cooperated with this exciting change by providing their e-mail addresses to the HOA.
Please remember to contact us should you have a change in your e-mail address.
To receive future issues & special broadcast announcements, send your name & e-mail address to: [email protected]
Feb. 2013 issue
23 Arapaho Circle “White Christmas”
2690 Derby Drive “A NOEL Christmas”
313 Mare Lane “Colorful Christmas in the Redwoods”
60 Mesquite Lane “Motorboat Santa”
2731 Mohawk Circle “Starry Starry Night”
2784 Mohawk Circle “Icicles & Lollipops”
2783 Morgan Drive “Musical Christmas”
2828 Morgan Drive “Holiday Frosty”
2981 Morgan Drive “Mickey & Tigger 2”
2994 Morgan Drive “Roof Top Santa”
2447 Paddock Drive “Ferris Wheel Christmas”
2470 Paddock Drive “Rudolph, Mickey & Friends”
50 Sage Circle “101 Dalmation Holiday”
26 Seminole Circle “Frosty in the Forest”
30 Seminole Circle “Frosty in the Forest”
.
Bollinger Hills Annual Holiday Lighting Contest
2012 Winners
Holiday Light Judging took place on Friday Dec. 21st.
There were many homes lit up during the holidays with impressive displays.
The following were selected as the 2012 Winners:
A big Thank You to those who lit up their homes!
Your holiday lights made our neighborhood shine with holiday spirit.
Mark your calendars for the next Holiday Light Contest in December 2013. Judging date to be announced in November.
If you have any questions, please contact Victor Petersen at [email protected]
By Terry Cunningham
BHHOA Treasurer & CC&R’s
Feb. 2013 issue Page 4
* * * * * PLEASE VOTE * * * * *
BOLLINGER HILLS REVISED CC&R’S AND BYLAWS
In January, all Homeowners received a large envelope with many documents to review before you vote.
We encourage you to read them carefully.
Those of us who have worked on the revisions have lived in Bollinger Hills for a sum total of over 100 years, and every
one of us is a homeowner with a strong interest in the quality of this neighborhood. We have worked countless hours
for several years to revise them. We have discussed almost every sentence on every page in meetings and with our
lawyer at Hughes, Gill, Cochrane P.C. We believe we have improved and simplified the Covenants, Conditions and
Restrictions therein.
With that said, we need 50%+1 votes to adopt these new documents to manage your association. Please mark your
ballot and mail it to us before February 20, 2013 or deliver them before February 27, 2013 at 6:00pm when we will
count the votes. If we do not have the number of votes necessary to achieve a quorum, we will need to extend the
process and go to additional costs to obtain the required number of votes.
Please vote as follows:
Mark your ballot for both the bylaws and CC&R’s as FOR or AGAINST with an “X” in the boxes provided -
Place the ballot in the smaller envelope. (Do not mark anything else on the ballot and do not mark any-
thing on the small envelope).
Place the smaller envelope into the larger envelope that is addressed to Bollinger Hills.
Print your name, sign your name, and print the address of the voting home in Bollinger Hills on the larger
addressed envelope.
Mail the larger envelope to Bollinger Hills before February 20, 2013 (address is on the envelope) or hand deliver it to
309 Mare Lane before February 27, 2013 (place it in the container/box on the front porch) . You can also bring it to
the meeting for counting the votes on February 27, 2013 between 6pm and 8pm.
Thank you for helping us with this very important process. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Victor
Petersen at [email protected] who will be happy to talk to you in person or on the phone. If you cannot
reach him you may send an e-mail to [email protected] and Terry Cunningham will get back to you.
Thanks again for helping us with this important project.
By Susan Friedman BHHOA Landscape Chairman Owner of Susan Friedman Landscape Architecture
Landscape Corner
Feb. 2013 issue Page 5
The Winter Thaw – Things to Do in Your Garden
Here is What To Do - or What Not To Do - to get your yard back in order after the weather warms:
Do’s
Continue to cover frost sensitive plants before a predicted freeze.
Inspect your irrigation system thoroughly the first time you turn it on this season.
Repair your irrigation system right away to avoid leakage, geysers and water waste.
Prune frost damage from your plants and replace dead plants in March when soil and air temperatures are warmer, and plants
are actively growing.
Apply organic fertilizer to your lawn, trees, shrubs and perennials to help them wake up in the spring.
Rake dead limbs and leaves from your garden to allow soil to breathe more easily and warm more quickly in the spring.
Inspect your lawn for bare or brown patches and spread a layer of topsoil and overseed on the spots.
Don’ts
Turn your sprinklers on during a freeze.
Prune frost damaged plants until the active growing season. Premature pruning can result in weaker
new tender plant growth that will not survive even a minor frost.
Leave standing water and leaves in fountains and ponds since this will breed mosquitoes.
By keeping your yards in tip-top shape, you protect your investment and keep up the value of your
property. Late winter/early spring is a fun time to get outside and give your garden a wake-up facelift.
This past winter delivered an exceptional number of freez-
ing nights. On many mornings, green lawns were trans-
formed into frosty, white carpets, and rooftops looked like
gingerbread houses with white icing. Frost also settled on
plants, which may have caused damage to the cellular
structure of some leaves and citrus fruits and placed
stress on newly planted trees, shrubs and perennials.
In addition, irrigation systems may have experienced some
damage due to water freezing, which expanded and caused
emitters and lines to pop and break. With the freezing weath-
er, you most likely experienced more plant loss and irrigation
breakage than you have had in a while.
NEIGHBORHOOD BEAT– What’s going on in Bollinger Hills
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Page 6
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“The Need for Speed”: Speed Control that is.
It has been noted that the traffic on Morgan Drive is sometimes far above
the posted speed limit. It is mostly noticeable in the morning as people are
racing off to school and/or work and also in the afternoon as they return.
Some folks on Morgan Drive have a difficult time backing out of their own driveway due to the fast-
approaching cars. This poses a danger to everyone involved.
Here are some ways you can help keep our streets a safe place:
Watch your speed AT ALL TIMES. The posted Speed Limit is 25 mph.
If you have a Teen that drives, please mention this article and remind them about driving within the speed limit.
Be courteous to other drivers. Remember, most of these people are your neighbors.
Give yourself extra time. The 1 or 2 minutes you save by driving over the speed limit through our residential
streets is NOT worth the potential harm it could cause to others as well as yourself.
CC&R and Bylaws Revisions: In January all homeowners received documents in which
to vote for the revised CC&R’s and Bylaws. Please remember to send in your Voting Ballot by the dead-
lines. Mail your completed Ballot by February 20, 2013 in the pre-addressed envelope provided OR
hand-deliver it to 309 Mare Lane by February 27th, at which time the votes will be counted.
PLEASE VOTE. We are counting on you to return your ballot.
Special Events: The results from the Bollinger Hills Annual Holiday Lighting Contest are in. Check
out the winners on Page 3.
.
If YOU have a neighborhood incident or news you’d like to report, please send an e-mail to our Newsletter Editor, Leslie Lumpkin at: [email protected].
By Leslie Lumpkin
Newsletter Editor
Feb. 2013 issue012 issue
Feb. 2013 issue
$ $ $ $ $ Money Matters $ $ $ $ $
Financial Summary as of 01/31/2013
The above is a list of investments. Cash balances are invested in treasury bills and notes, money market funds and
certificates of deposit to eliminate all capital risk. We fully fund our reserves each year to maintain cash for capital im-
provements and major repairs.
Dues are due on the first day of each January and July. They are delinquent on the 31st of each of those months as
stated in the COLLECTION POLICY. It is important that each homeowner pay his/her dues promptly to enable our As-
sociation to continue providing service at low cost and to avoid charges for untimely payments.
Each year all 538 homeowners pay a total of $258,240 to manage the association and maintain the facilities in Bollinger
Hills. We need the funds to cover expenses of the association and to provide for repair, replacement and capital im-
provements in the neighborhood. If you would like to have input regarding where these funds are used, please contact
the Board of Directors in writing at P.O. Box 449 San Ramon, CA 94583 or send an e-mail to them through the ‘HOW
TO CONTACT US’ link on the BHHOA website at www.bollingerhills.org. You can also send your comments to me at
the same address, Attention: Terry Cunningham or e-mail me at: [email protected].
We continue to look for ways to save your funds by developing systems where savings can be made without sacrificing
your enjoyment of our neighborhood. We are sending out the Newsletter and Budgets by e-mail. Victor has reduced
the costs of lifeguards at the pool by reducing the number of lifeguards during cooler weather. This year I would like to
find a less expensive way for you to pay dues. We have revised our CC&R’s and Bylaws after 12+ years to bring them
into compliance with state laws. You can help save money by voting for adoption of those documents. If we do not get
enough votes, we will need to extend the voting period and work to obtain votes from those who have not sent in their
ballots. If they are not approved, we will need to spend additional funds to obtain reasons for the NO votes, revise the
documents and re-submit them to you for approval. PLEASE VOTE.
If you have an idea for cost savings or improvement for the association, please forward your ideas to me to review with
the Board to see if we can implement them.
INVESTMENT
Comerica Checking 32,756.75
Comerica Money Market 110,736.55
ING Money Market 289,004.33
Total 432,497.63
By Terry Cunningham
BHHOA Treasurer
Feb. 2013 issue Page 7
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To the Residents of Bollinger Hills,
My name is Henry Perezalonso. I am writing this letter on behalf myself, my wife Christine and daughters, Ava (6), and Addison (4).
We are very interested in purchasing a home in your neighborhood. We currently live in San Jose, and for almost a year I have been
commuting to work at the Town of Danville.
Over the past year we have spent a lot of time in the San Ramon Valley and through our frequent visits have learned what this valley
has to offer our family. There is a great sense of community, people are friendly and care about where they live. We are not a family
who wants to simply live in a neighborhood; we want to be a neighbor.
We are an active family, I am a Marine Corps Veteran working in recreation and Christine is a junior high school teacher. We are
both very involved through our church, daughter’s school and our local youth sports leagues. We want to give our girls a good life
through the community we live in, so we don’t want to settle on moving just anywhere. We have chosen Bollinger Hills because we
love the area and we want to be close to our family who live and also love it there.
This isn’t a real estate form letter trying to drum up business or a scam. This is a family, the Perezalonso family, who wants very
much to live in your area. We also throw a great Oktoberfest, complete with lederhosen, bratwurst, käsespätzle and Spaten. So if
you’re considering selling your home or if you know anyone who is, please let us know. We would love the opportunity to purchase a
home in Bollinger Hills.
Looking forward to the possibilities!
Henry, Christine, Ava & Addison Perezalonso
(408) 835-1501
We are working with the Perezalonso family to help them find a home in Bollinger Hills. If you are thinking of selling your
home or if you know of anyone that is, please let us know.
Thank you for your consideration.
Mike Continillo
Cell: 925-519-0794
www.myvillaproperties.net
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Contact Us: Mailing Address: P.O. Box 449, San Ramon, CA 94583 Website Address: www.bollingerhills.org
Director, Officers & Committee Chairpersons:
President
Victor Petersen
828-5664
Vice President
John Youngblood
830-1872
Director
Janet Miller
829-3410
Director
Jeff Kehr
244-1718
Director
Ron Kalich
829-3244
Treasurer
Terry Cunningham
355-1309
Recording Secretary
Leslie Lumpkin
CC&R’s
Terry Cunningham
875-9046
Architecture
Marv Miller
415-0847
Cabana Rental
Marlo Fregulia
556-0747
Maintenance Coordinator
Patrick Teffs
785-5661
Pool Committee
Victor Petersen
828-5664
Traffic Committee
Bill Rivera
829-5036
Landscaping Committee
Susan Friedman
806-0643
Pool/Park Keys
Terry Cunningham
875-9046
Newsletter Editor
Leslie Lumpkin
Feb. 2013 issue Page 12
Bollinger Hills
Homeowners Association
P.O. Box 449 San Ramon, CA 94583
