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To all my precious neighbors – I’m am so happy to share the news that Dixie Shores Association now owns all our common areas! We have done it!!
Steve, the attorney, shared the news and document with us yesterday. The judge reviewed and approved our request. Steve will now file the document with the county and we will move to merge Dixie Shores Association with our registered name Dixie Shores Community Association, Inc. I anticipate that being completed within the next few weeks and Steve has confirmed that we can get the rest of this done with our remaining retainer monies, which are roughly $1,200.
To that end, I want to personally take the time to thank, once again, all of you who stepped up to the plate and provided the funds to retain the attorney. We could NOT have done it without you. You filled a gap that the rest of us could not do at the time, and I thank you for your willingness and kindness to do so.
This now puts us in a position to improve all our common lots (how exciting!!) and to enforce the private use of our dock area. I trust this will also compel all neighbors who have not yet joined the association to do so, as all decisions about the common lots will be made by the members of the association through the voting process. Let’s do this together!
Other updates:
Financial
We are currently at 101 members in the association and it continues to climb. There are 285 property owners out here, so we still have our work cut out for us. That means only 35% of the owners are currently a part of the association – PLEASE talk to your neighbors and make sure everyone is joining. It’s only an annual fee of $40 per ownership. They can make a check payable to Dixie Shores Association and mail to 291 N Shoreline Dr, New London, NC 28127 or drop in the mailbox at that property as well. It is a locked mailbox so it’s safe. (We have closed down the PO Box!!)
We currently have $4,173.66 in our account. $3,258 of that is designated for the Dock Fund and $355 is designated for the Road Fund, and a big shout out to Robert King for contributing $100 to help pay for our mowing service!! This leaves a balance of $460.66 to cover the expenses of our neighborhood for the rest of the year. We shut down the PO Box to have a small amount of monies returned to the association, but this will not be enough to cover the electric bills, domain/email service, and the mowing service for the rest of the year….so the mowing service will be next to go, unless more neighbors join. It’s important for all property owners to know there is an actual expense for us to keep up our common areas and if we want to all enjoy them, we need to all participate!
If every property owner paid the $40 membership fee each year we would be able to cover ALL the expenses for the association AND have over $6,000 to use towards improving our common areas….think about it.
Dock Fund Committee
We are still waiting on the engineer to make some final tweaks, and then the plans will be submitted to the county so we can get our new pier installed. Hoping to see that this week.
Road Fund Committee
We’re also still looking for people to volunteer for the Road Fund Committee!
Dixie Shores Neighborhood FaceBook page
I’ve had several people reach out to me concerning the DS neighborhood facebook page and it seems there is some confusion. Please know that this FB page is not associated with the Dixie Shores Association at all. It was created by one of our neighbors, Robert King, as a way for all neighbors to be able to communicate in a safe place. (Thank you, Robert!) To this end he has taken great care to “screen” requests to join, making sure that only property owners are on there. To be allowed access, he is requiring some questions to be answered that he can verify, BUT they must be answered completely in order for him to approve. If you are aware of neighbors trying to get access, please help them understand this process and that it is not tied to the association.
September Meeting
Finally, it appears our meeting in September will be the transitioning meeting where the Dixie Shores Association board will step down and the Dixie Shores Community Association will take over. This will be an exciting meeting as we start to make decisions about our forward movement, and we need as many neighbors as possible to attend! Please mark your calendars for September 2nd at 11am. The meeting location is still to be determined, but we'll keep you posted.
Thanks for being such wonderful neighbors and I’m looking forward to our continued success in making Dixie Shores the best neighborhood on the lake! Onward!
Rose Hammer
Dixie Shores Association
President
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