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2024 HOA Election Applications

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09/02/2024

The Bella Vista 2024 Election Committee is now accepting applications for 2 HOA Board positions. 

Current HOA Board members Lela LaHa’s and Don Wittmer’s 2 year terms are expiring on October 31, 2024. They have both expressed the desire to run again for the 2 open positions. 

We are accepting candidate applications until SEPTEMBER 16 12:01 PM. Candidate applications received AFTER that deadline WILL NOT be accepted. 

If you want to run for a HOA Board position, please let us know and we will send you a candidate application form.

Ken Madeja and Charlie Breier have agreed to join the 2024 Election Committee. Bella Vista HOA Election Day is Wednesday October 30.

Street Agreement

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09/22/2023 A quick update on the process of the ”Street Agreement”. 

  • The Village drafted the “Street Agreement”
  • Village Trustees voted to approve
  • BV HOA received the “Street Agreement” documents 
  • BV HOA sent the documents to an attorney for review
  • BV HOA asked for an in-person meeting to discuss various points/issues in the “Street Agreement”
  • BV HOA and Village officials (Lucas Rickelman and Matt Eastman) met in-person and discussed all points/issues
    • Main discussion points included “double #17” (in agreement), street cleaning, agreement duration, Coral Gables Court coverage
  • BV HOA has signed the agreement and has delivered the signed copy to Village Hall for Village final processing and redistribution to all. 
  • The final copy of the document is posted on the Bella Vista Website.

Main Discussion Points:

  • Double #17 – clerical error, simply initialed 
  • Street Cleaning – BV added to the Village’s regular schedule 
  • Agreement duration – standard timeframes for Village agreements
  • Coral Gables Court – (long discussion), never in scope (from the Village’s standpoint) as Coral Gables Court was NOT constructed/inspected/approved as a “village street”. It doesn’t matter what was “agreed to” in our Quarterly HOA Meeting with the Mayor, as the Mayor didn’t understand “what she was dealing with”. Their stance is… “it is a big driveway”. They could not be convinced to “add it” to the “Street Agreement”. 

I believe we got what we thought we would get, plus street cleaning. The maintenance of the streets is now in the hands of the Village of Bolingbrook. 

If you have any questions, let me know. 

If you want further discussion with the Village, give them a call.

Snow Removal Contract

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07/03/2023

The HOA Board has voted to partner with Green Earth to provide Snow Removal services for all of Bella Vista. This is a 3 year contract, with a “1 month cancellation” clause. 

Here’s was the process:

  • Contacted 4-5 companies. 
  • Held review meetings to discuss proposals
  • Discussed multiple “Snow and Landscaping” service bundles (as some like/require that model)
  • Analyzed the “apples-and-oranges” of proposals contents, potential additional services’ costs, and company profiles
  • Analyzed annual budget projections versus projected aggregate cost of services for companies
  • Discussed Green Earth’s (current vendor) historic performance, year-to-year service improvement, approachability and resident feedback 

Over the last 3 years, the HOA has received both positive and negative feedback from residents regarding Green Earth. Honestly, I believe that would be true with any vendor the HOA Board selected/hired based upon the last 2+ years on the Bella Vista HOA Board. We are a community of 77 townhouses (maybe ~130 residents), some residents voice their opinions (either way) and others simply pay their assessments and are thrilled they don’t need to shovel driveways, sidewalks and/or porches. 

As with any vendor, the HOA Board continually monitors services, discusses performance, analyzes costs and makes adjustments to best serve Bella Vista.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please let us know. Thanks.

Quarterly Meeting

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June 28, 2023

Please join us for the quarterly meeting Wednesday July 26 7:00PM at the Clubhouse. 

As always, if you have any questions/concerns for the meeting, please send them to us by July 24 so we can research and discuss an appropriate response ahead of the meeting. Any “live questions/concerns” may be deferred until the Board has a chance to research and discuss. 

Thanks and we hope to see you there.

Sealcoating Friday

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06/13/2023

Here is the sealcoating schedule for this week:

FRIDAY June 16th for Coral Gables, Borego, Balboa and the Clubhouse INCLUDING guest parking spaces and the Clubhouse.

Cars can be parked on the street overnight. The HOA has coordinated with the Village of Bolingbrook for overnight parking. This means… please get the car OUT Thursday evening or VERY EARLY Friday morning. 

Best practices are… to bring it back in (at the earliest) Saturday EVENING or Sunday morning. Please comply with this request for the good of the driveways. 

Please inform your neighbors, as not everybody reads emails or looks at the website.

Please note, driveways with cars on them MAY NOT be sealcoated this year. 

If you have any questions, please let us know. 

The HOA Board

Sealcoating Schedule 2023

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Here is the sealcoating schedule for 2023:

Friday June 9th for Mandalay, Bella Vista and Solara. 

Friday June 16th for Clubhouse, Coral Gables, Balboa and Borego. 

Friday June 23rd for rain date.

Cars can be parked on the street or in guest parking overnight. The HOA will coordinate with the Village of Bolingbrook for parking. This means please get the car out Thursday evening or VERY EARLY Friday morning on your designated date. Please tell your neighbors as not everybody reads emails or the website. 

So why on Friday? 

Monday – garbage goes out  

Tuesday – garbage gets picked up

Wednesday – the day before mowing day, still drying

Thursday – mowing daySaturday – not as good as Friday

Sunday – vendor doesn’t work 

If you have any questions, please let us know. 

1st Quarter 2023 HOA residents meeting

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01-04-2023

You are cordially invited to the 1st Quarter 2023 HOA residents meeting on Wednesday February 1, 2023 at 7:00PM at the Clubhouse. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please email them to the HOA Board before January 30th, so we have time to properly discuss before the meeting.  

See you there! Thank you.

Mike Hohlman Campaign Event

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10/17/2022

The Nomination Committee offered to communicate information for the candidates. The following is an invite from Mike Hohlman. 

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Recently I was told by several Bella Vista residents that a post was put on the “Friends” of Bella Vista Facebook site by a resident named Ray West. The post contains false information about “the new person” running for the board which is an obvious reference to me.  

Since my wife and I do not participate in Facebook, I am offering to meet with the residents of Bella Vista to discuss my concerns and your issues going forward. I will be at the clubhouse from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm this Wednesday, October 19.  Please feel free to join me and your fellow neighbors.

Mike Hohlman

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A Few Things

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09/16/2022

White Flags – These are potential areas for topsoil and seed applications for the fall growing season. We will prioritize the candidates based upon “current grass quality” and cost, when the estimates come in.

Street Lights Issues  – Two Mandalay street lights are out. An electrician has been called. Possible fix next week, but we are at the mercy of their schedule in this new era.

Solicitors – We were visited by two ladies from Campbell Marketing trying to get customers to switch to Verizon. They were told to leave Bella Vista and they reluctantly did. 

HOA Election – If you want to run for an HOA Director position, read Lela’s email, give it careful thought and then submit your nomination. 

Reserve Fund Investment – Please read Don’s email about it. The policy has been posted on Bella Vista website under documents.

Sprinkler Heads – If there are any problems, let me know. We assume they all work perfectly unless we are told otherwise. 

Concrete Work – Hopefully we are starting some concrete sidewalk and mailbox work soon/today. Concrete contractors have been very unresponsive, so we won’t believe it until they show up. 

Clubhouse Signin / Use – We have discontinued the “signin requirement”. Please use good judgment in the clubhouse, as it is YOUR clubhouse. Please clean up and turn off lights when leaving. We can see security footage of all areas, so we do know who you are. 

Fall Landscaping Cleanup – We do NOT know when this will happen yet.

If you have any questions, let us know.

New Directors Titles For Coming Year

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11/8/2021

According to the HOA by-laws (Article II, section2.14, page 29) the Board shall elect from among its members a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer.

Subsequent to the meeting your directors decided that for the coming year the title assigned to each director will be as follows:

Pat Lee President

Lela Laha Secretary

Don Wittmer Treasurer

As we have indicated previously, we will continue working as a team and your questions, suggestions, comments and criticisms can be sent to any one of the directors and the answers will represent a majority view.

Election Results

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10/27/2021

Patrick Lee was reelected as a Director via “voice vote” at the HOA Annual Meeting held on October 26,2021. Patrick’s nomination was the only submission received by the nomination committee by the deadline of Oct 10, 2021. During the meeting, President Don Wittmer asked for “nominations from the floor” (as per By-Laws). There were no “nominations from the floor”. Since the current By-Laws do not address a process to deal with an “uncontested election”, the board decided under the authority of “By-Laws Exhibit B Article 1 1.2 C” to simply ask for a “voice vote” and document the results in the official meeting minutes.