Falcon Estates Information

A Note from the Chair……

Jul 27, 2009

Hello Fellow Falcon Estates Homeowners. The 2009 HOAFE Board hope you all had a great Fourth Of July Celebration and are having a marvelous summer.

The HOAFE Board continues to be committed to representing Falcon Estates and the interests of the Home Owners to the best of our ability ?– all of us want to be responsive and responsible. To do this, we need Homeowners to be active and to provide inputs and feedback to the Board Members. Call, e-mail, drop by, or stop any of us in the street when you see one of us drive or walk by your house with your ideas, concerns, and what you want your Board to do for Falcon Estates. If there are activities you would like the Board to sponsor and coordinate in 2009 or even next year, let us know what they are. We will try to be responsive.

There are three Board positions open for the election at the General Meeting in January 2010. We need volunteers to fill these Board positions and to serve on various committees. We need your help to keep the HOA viable and responsive. Please become active not only in the HOA but in the Falcon Estates Community and the Colorado Springs/El Paso County Community. Remember when you catch yourself thinking or saying ?“somebody should do something about that?”, YOU are SOMEBODY.

To date, we have completed the first part of the Coyote Control Program and will continue with the program to educate residents regarding living with coyotes (and bears and deer). The Board has worked traffic calming issues, Architectural Control Committee items (semis, construction, etc), graffiti, loiterers, and miscellaneous items brought up by residents. One meeting was held with the City to discuss the hows, whys, and whens of connecting to City Sewer. Unfortunately, we got behind the power curve regarding the web site, Spring Clean up, Neighborhood Garage/Yard Sale, Neighborhood Watch, and the Dumpster Days. We will address this at the General Meeting. The Board continued working with the City, other HOAs (Columbine, Yorkshire, Brookwood, and Cottonwood) to mitigate the negative impacts of Woodmen Widening and the Overpass to the Neighborhoods. A possible near term negative impact when the construction starts, is the expected increase in drive through traffic within the neighborhoods to avoid the construction sites and to get to the businesses along Academy. At present there is a perceived traffic calming issue which will get worse if there is an increase in traffic volume ?– speeding, running stop signs, trash thrown from cars, etc. The Board continues working with the City to implement traffic calming measures and to divert drive through traffic from the neighborhood. If you have concerns or projects you want to Board to address in 2009 and 2010, please let one of the Board Members know what it is and any details you might have.

Our goal is not to just maintain Falcon Estates as a great place to live, but to improve our quality of life and the value of our homes. We want to engender a spirit of neighborhood, to help our neighbors, and to live the good life in Falcon Estates. To do this we need your help, your inputs, your involvement, your support, and your time and talents. Contact any of your Board with concerns, ideas, and if interested in participating.

We hope to see you July 30.

Larry Bagley