The Community Calendar Committee is interested in hosting events for youth in the Villages of Woodland Springs. In order to host successful and interesting events, youth event coordinators are needed. If you are a teenager residing in the Villages of Woodland Springs and would like to help coordinate and promote youth activities, please click the feedback tab to send a message to the committee chairperson.
The Community Calendar Committee is promoting street-level activities for all residents in the Villages of Woodland Springs. For the winter event, hosts are needed to coordinate holiday block parties. For each volunteer party coordinator, the Community Calendar Committee will provide a “hosting box” which includes directions and materials for hosting a block party. Coordinating this event does not obligate you to host the event at your home. This event will be a progressive event involving multiple houses. If you would like to coordinate an event for your street, please click the feedback tab to send a message to the committee chairperson.
If no one on your street volunteers, the event cannot happen!
The Community Calendar Committee has focused on developing the official web site for the Homeowners Association for the Villages of Woodland Springs. Now that the web site is functional, we will resume planning community events for the Villages of Woodland Springs. The committee will meet on December 11, 2007. If you are interested in attending or becoming a volunteer, please click the “join” tab to send a message to the committee chairperson.
In February and March 2007, the Advisory Council discussed and recommended that the Home Owners Association hire off duty Ft. Worth Police officers to patrol in the Villages of Woodland Springs on a regular basis. The HOA accepted the recommendation and police officers were hired. In coordination with SBB Management, the police officers were to conduct extra patrols on days and during times of most frequent criminal activity, in the neighborhood. Criminal activity in VOWS was (and continues to be) mostly vandalism committed by unsupervised youths. It was decided to have these patrols conducted during the months that the pools were open and during the December Holiday season, as these were the times when most of the vandalism was experienced.
In May the Advisory Council discussed and recommended that additional (non-police) security officers be hired to monitor activity at the pools, when the pools were open. The HOA accepted the recommendation and these officers were hired.
This dual pronged approach of the police officers and the security guards has been very successful and a dramatic decrease in vandalism and disruptive behavior at the pools was evident.
In July, the Safety and Security Chair had resigned, leaving a vacancy. In August, David Davidson accepted the nomination as the new chair of the Safety and Security Committee and was appointed by a vote of the full Advisory Council. Marc Valenti and Fred Weeks also volunteered to serve on this committee.
Since the budget process was already in motion and since the Safety and Security Committee were playing catch up, no new budget request was submitted. However, the Safety and Security Committee have been researching other viable security patrol options. At the present there will be no extra patrols by Ft. Worth Police Officers until the December Holidays. The Safety and Security Committee will be continuing to monitor crime statistics in the neighborhood and coordinating with the Ft. Worth Police and Code Blue volunteers to provide security for the neighborhood.