McKenzie Townhouse Association
The annual meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 12 at 7:00pm in the EWEB Community Room. As always, we will be discussing any major member concerns and electing the 2010 board at this meeting, so make sure you come and participate! Thank you!
Please click below for a link to the map of EWEB rooms. The meeting room building is the North building, which is to the left of the main customer service entrance from the parking lot. An agenda will be added shortly.
Hello everybody,
Please be reminded that the pool closes at 9pm, children must be accompanied by an adult, and that there is a maximum of 2 guests per unit.
There has been a suggestion that the board vote for an adult day or hour, when adults can quietly swim without competing for pool time with children. What do you think? Leave a comment and let us know. Thanks! 
-Robb
Hi all,
The next board meeting will be Sunday the 18th at 6:30pm.
There has been some concern about the pool. I honestly have no idea what happened to it, I live right next to the pool and one day it was fine and the next it looked like toxic waste. I can only imagine that something got put in the pool that shouldn’t have been put in the pool. I won’t speculate any further.
We are working on a solution and as of right now are still planning to open the pool after memorial day. I will post any updates as necessary.
-Robb
We had a great turn out at the annual meeting when compared with meetings in recent years, but we still have a long way to go towards getting everybody more involved. At the meeting we summarized recent events with our transition in property management companies. We also outlined our goals for the coming year, primarily, painting and roofing. We also discussed our plans to get the community more involved in major decisions at McKenzie Townhouses, including providing and voting on paint colors here on the McKenzie Townhouses blog.
That said, here is your new board for 2008:
Robb Norton (President)
Jason Wright (Co-President)
Dena Turner (Secretary)
Jinoo Hwang
David Zeiss
Hello everybody,
Just a last minute reminder about the meeting. It is being held Wednesday night at 7pm at the EWEB Training Center. That is the middle room in the north building (just next to the customer service building). Please see the attached PDF file for a diagram of the building.
In addition, I do plan to run for board membership again. My main priority as a board member is to save money for projects that will directly increase our property value. I want to make sure that we have enough money for the major projects that we need to get done, namely painting and roofing, and some emergency reserves to prevent special assessments from ever being enforced at McKenzie Townhouses.
I want to make sure the day-to-day affairs are in order and that the property will manage itself with little supervision from the board and owners.
I want to make financial planning a part of board business, and I want to budget and set goals for real improvements to the property. One such idea includes setting aside some funds in a reserved account to build a community center at maturity. I am working with a financial adviser to see if these ideas are possible.
I want to make sure that we begin a massive effort in painting as soon as weather permits.
In addition, I want to keep our costs low so we have financial flexibility and the ability to save money for these major projects. By keeping our costs low we can invest what funds we do have in major projects that will increase all of our property values, and we can see our HOA dues as an investment that will pay real dividends rather than simply management and upkeep fees.
I hope I can count on your support at the meeting. See you there!
Kind regards,
Robb Norton
Ray Shirtcliff (property manager) at R.A.N.S. Property Management has begun management of the McKenzie Townhouse Association. As of November 1st, all dues should be sent to R.A.N.S. Property Management, 2473 Dale Ave., Eugene, OR 97408. If you have any questions or maintenance concerns, call 541-344-2738 or e-mail ranspm@aol.com.
The annual meeting for the members of McKenzie Townhouse Association will be at 7pm on December 12, 2007. The meeting will take place at EWEB. Specific details to follow.
Elections will also be held for the board at this meeting. If anybody has any interest in running for a position on the board, this blog would be a great place to announce your candidacy and tell everybody a little about yourself. If you are having any trouble getting set up to post to the blog, just send me an email at rnorton@mckenzietownhouses.com and I will help get you started.
Best regards,
Robb
Jinoo has sold both of his units and will be moving on shortly to greener pastures, so we’d like to take this opportunity to thank him for his service on the board and wish him the best in things to come.
Jinoo was an invaluable part of the effort by the board to organize and get things going around here after Tony moved on. Even though Jinoo had a new career and he knew that he was going to be moving on soon he still spared no effort in his quest to make sure that the McKenzie Townhouse Association was on the right track.
So, from everybody, thanks for all your time and effort! It was greatly appreciated and won’t be forgotten.
Some of you may have noticed an oven sitting outside the dumpster recently. Yet others of you may have noticed a couple of monitors sitting outside a different dumpster. These things were never picked up for a reason, dumping these types of items in a standard dumpster is not only impractical, but it’s illegal. RANS Property Management has taken care of the problem this time, but if this type of dumping continues we will need to seriously consider tracking down the people dumping these items and making them pay for the removal. If anybody knows who dumped these items in the dumpster areas, please tell them not to do it again in the future.
In the meantime, here are some great alternatives to leaving your appliances and computer monitors in the garbage area:
Take it to the dump for a small fee. Don’t know how to get it to the dump? Talk to your neighbors! There are many trucks around here.
Post it on Craig’s List (eugene.craigslist.com) for free. You’d be surprised the kind of garbage that is really useful to some people, and most of them are willing to come and pick it up!
Make sure to take a look at the laminated list on the dumpsters to know what you shouldn’t be dumping!
Regards,
Robb Norton
The McKenzie Townhouse Association’s website is finally live! This is going to be a great place to get the latest information from the board and interact with other members of the McKenzie Townhouses community to let them know about events, concerns, and projects. I know there have been a lot of changes going on around here lately, so stay tuned for updates on exactly what has been and what will be going on.
If you have any questions, please feel free to leave comments on the blog, or if you have something you’d like to discuss with me in particular, just drop me an email at rnorton@mckenzietownhouses.com.