What is your name and your committee?
Melinda Ortiz & Sarah Reed, Co-Chairs for the Events Committee

Who are the members your committee?
Sara Ith, Jennifer Hunt, Shea Bijorn, Colleen Hopkins and our families.

What is your purpose?
To create events that unify our neighborhood.

What is currently the main obstacle or difficulty for your committee?
Advertising, getting the word out and getting enough volunteers to
organize and plan events with us.

What is the main thing residents can to help you and your committee?
Sending an RSVP for each event so we can plan appropriately. Also, residents can help us by joining our committee and helping organize events. Even helping with a small part of an event, such as set up or clean up.

Do you need any volunteers?
Yes, we are always in need of volunteers. Volunteers are what make each event a success. Volunteering can be one person or involve the entire family.

How should residents contact you?
They can contact us by email at events.vows@gmail.com for questions or to RSVP for an event.

By Catherine Honaker, Chair

The meeting was called to order on January 14th at 6:30 pm by
Catherine Honaker, Chair. Those present were Catherine Honaker,
Shirley Gansser, Jim Houston, Zach Braden, Carol Reddic-Snapp,
John Schubert (Brickman’s), Travis Baker (Brickman’s), Justin La
Hue (Premier). Michael Slaton was absent.

The LGC Action Items were reviewed.

• Homes on Hollow Valley overlooking the mitigation area should
  have iron fences, not wood. Cat drove the area on 11/17/09 and
  all homes have 6’ iron fences. Status – complete.
• City of Fort Worth tree grant program for 2010 – Jim does not
  know at this time if we will be able to get more trees in March
  but will check into it. Status – in progress.
• The builder (Lions Gate) is installing trees in the parkway
  on Twin Flower because the front yards are too small to
  hold two trees. Justin will contact the builder and give the
  builder a “pass” to only install one tree in these yards. Status
  – in progress.
• The builder (First Texas) is installing wood fences on Grape
  Leaf homes that back to “green space”. Chase has given First
  Texas approval for the wood fences in lieu of the iron because
  behind the “green space” is an area of land that is currently
  identified as “multi-family housing”. Status – complete.
• The City of Fort Worth has a park grant program that the LGC
  will look into to see if we can obtained new and/or replacement
  trash cans for our park areas. Status – in progress.
• Brickman’s provided Cat with a map of cul-de-sacs that they
  maintain for VOWS. Cat to pull TAD records to verify ownership
  of the cul-de-sacs. Status – in process.
• KISD has completed the installation of the sidewalk at
  Independence Elementary. Another meeting has been set with
  KISD the week of January 25th to continue discussions on
  other KISD issues related to VOWS. Status – in progress.
• Some of the color beds are slopping. Brickman’s was asked to
  provide a bid to repair these beds. Status – in progress.
• The trees in the park at the slide pool are too thick to allow
  enough sunlight to beam through to the grass. We requested
  a bid from Brickman’s to trim them and raise the canopies to
  allow light to pass through. Brickman’s said that their arborist
  indicated that we could only trim lightly because these are
  native post oaks and could die if we over trim them but that we
  can trim slightly and remove the suckers. The project cost for
  this is $3,385.20 plus another $2,301.47 to add prep the soil,
  add dirt and hydro seed with fescue. The expense is more than
  we had anticipated and therefore the item has been added to
  the “wish list” of future projects. Status – complete pending
  future approval from “wish list”.
• Home owner on Begonia Ct had been requesting help from
  SBB since March 2008 (almost two years) with the flooding
  issue in his yard. His lot is next to a VOWS owned lot and the
  irrigation from the VOWS lot was flooding his yard. Brickman’s
  installed a French drain to alleviate the problem but during the
  installation found that the home owner’s irrigation is also outside the home owner’s fence line which could be the problem. Premier will request a copy of the home owner’s survey to find out if the fence is in the wrong place or the irrigation is in the wrong place. Status – in progress.
• The developer has several areas he would like to turn over
  to VOWS. We are waiting on Chase to provide a listing of the
  areas. Status – in progress.
• VOWS has 5 missing color beds that were never installed by
  the builder (Lennar). The LGC requested pricing to install these
  beds and request contact information for the builder from Chase
  in November 09. Status – in progress.

This important meeting occurs on the 4th Tuesday of each month, starting at 6:30pm at the Amenity Center located at 12209 Timerland Blvd.