Creekwood Clean Up

At the May 25th Creekwood Master Board Meeting, the Board approved the following items to clean up our community and fulfill requirements for maintenance of common area amenities:

• The Pool House will be cleaned and painted by Pro Clean for aprox. $300
• The light pools at the recreation area will be painted by Adams Paint for approximately $95 per pole.
  
• An application will be filed with Manatee County to obtain a matching Grant for approximately $2,500 to provide improvements in the community. Suggested improvements included a Veteran's Monument at the Recreation area, benches along Creekwood Blvd., a new light for the Basketball Court, some general landscaping improvements
  

Creekwood Master Board Meeting tonight.

Regular Scheduled monthly meeting of the Creekwood Master Board is tonight, May 26th, at 5:30 pm at the AMI offices, 9031 Town Center Pkwy, Bradenton, FL. As always, this is open to all Creekwood homeowners.

Summer Storm Predictions are in!

The predictions for the 2009 Summer Storms came out today form NOAA. In short, there is a 50% chance of an average year. Gotta love the precision on that estimate. Here is the meat and potatoes quote from the NOAA website:

"Forecasters say there is a 70 percent chance of having nine to 14 named storms, of which four to seven could become hurricanes, including one to three major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5)."

Below are links to the NOAA news release and corresponding reports.

NOAA.org - "NOAA Issues Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook, Encourages Preparedness"

CNN.com - "NOAA predicts 'near-normal' Atlantic hurricane season"

Reuters via Yahoo.com - "NOAA sees average 2009 Atlantic hurricane season"

Here is the forecast for the nation from AccuWeather.com
"AccuWeather.com 2009 Summer Forecast"

Creekwood Master Board Response to Westbrook I Secessation Petition

This past weekend homeowners in Creekwood received in the mail a response by the Creekwood Master Association President, Michael Walley, to the signature gathering efforts of Westbrook I residents interested in secession from the Master Association. The letter disputes many of the statements made in a Question & Answer info sheet distributed to Westbrook I homeowners by the secessionists. Both Mr. Walley's response and the initial petition flyer are available here on the Creekside at Creekwood website. Please read all 4 pages and share your thoughts on the Creekside message board.

Creekwood Town Hall Summary

Last Saturday, May 9th, the Creekwood Town Hall was held at Braden River Library. It was quite an event. Clearly the 2 main issues were 1. AMI as the management company for Creekwood and 2. Efforts of Westbrook I to secede from Creekwood. These 2 issues comprised the majority of the discussions at the meeting, with it becoming quite heated.

1. Many homeowner's expressed their discontent with AMI as the CMA management company, specifically focusing on lack of communication from AMI. The Creekwood Master Board (CMB) assured those present that the bidding process for the property management contract would begin in earnest this summer. Previously at the March 24th Creekwood Master Association (CMA) meeting, Creekside submitted a written letter of complaint regarding AMI to the CMB. If you would like to share your thoughts on this please visit the Creekside Message Board.

2. There is a group of residents in Westbrook I seeking to break away from Creekwood based on their disapproval of recent actions of the CMB. Clearly a major issue for these homeowners is the maintenance of the Community Pool with some of the attendees from Westbrook I calling for its removal. As expected the CMB was highly resistant to such secession discussion as this would be quite a large change in expenses for all homeowners throughout Creekwood. This would increase the cost for the remaining homes in the CMA for all expenses as they are spread among fewer homes. Michael Walley, president of the CMB, pointed out that as the sub associations do not have any claim to any common property such as the monument walls, stormwater drainage system (lakes), recreation area, open grass areas, lighting, etc., there would be extensive costs to the sub association purchaser of any of these items were they to be divested by the Master Association. There was little discussion of the legal expenses that may be incurred to handle this issue. If you would like to share your thoughts on this please visit the Creekside Message Board.

Fossils found in Creekwood Lake

From the Bradenton Herald a few weeks ago:

Fossil-rich Creekwood lake offers teachable moments
Friday, Apr. 24, 2009
By RICHARD DYMOND

Click the title for the full article.

Since the article, some of the fossils have been identified by a local museum official as being from ancient Dugongs, a relative of the manatee, dating back even further than the 10,000 years discussed in the article and ancient sharks. Click here for some more info about ancient Dugongs in Florida and here for info on fossil hunting in Florida.

If you haven't noticed the signs already...

Creekwood Town Hall Meeting to be held this Saturday, May 9th, at the Braden River Public Library at 10:00 AM. This is open to all Creekwood Homeowners to attend. Hope to see you there.

Creekwood Clean Up

At the July 28th Creekwood Master Board Meeting, the Board approved the following items to clean up our community and fulfill requirements for maintenance of common area amenities:

• The Creekwood Boulevard Fence will be cleaned by Pro Wash Cleaning for aprox. $1,530
• The Monument Walls, both stucco and brick, will be cleaned by Pro Wash Cleaning for an amount not to exceed $500.
• The Pool area decking will be cleaned, painted and cracks repaired by Pro Clean for aprox. $2,500
• The Pool will be updated with Pool Filtration Covers as required by recent Federal, State and local rulings by G & S Pools.
  

Also as required by SWFMD, the lakes throughout Creekwood will receive their annual Inspection and Certification as our Stormwater management system.

Lighting for Creekside Monument Sign

At the April 28th Creekwood Master Board Meeting, the Board accepted the bid from Moonlighting to install solar powered lighting at the Creekside Monument Sign. For details on the light and the expected cost please click on the image to the left.

Crime Watch meeting Tuesday at Trinity United Methodist

From the Bradenton Herald.com website-

Crime Watch meetings at Trinity United Methodist
By VIN MANNIX - vmannix@bradenton.com

BRADENTON — The first of two Neighborhood Crime Watch meetings will be held Tuesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 3200 Manatee Ave. W.
The topics are residential security and how Crime Watch works.
The second meeting is May 12 and the topics are personal safety, identity theft and scams.
It is presented by the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
The target area is 20th Street West to 51st Street West, north of Manatee Avenue, but all citizens are welcome.
For details, call (941) 747-3011, ext. 2500 or 2587.
Or call Trinity at (941) 747-3704