Accomplishments
of
Cypress Creek Volunteers
We applaud and thank all the volunteers for their hard work. Your dedication and committment has unified and improve our neighborhood in a positive manner. If you want to make a positive contribution to our community we ask that you get in involved in any committees that interests you.
View our Community Photos to see our volunteers having fun improving our neighborhood.
Communications Committee
New Web Site with links to community agencies, important association documents, committees, neighborhood map, Alliance, Board of Directors Meeting Minutes, classified ads for homeowner businesses, community photos, and a calendar on which homeowners can post important items. And, most important, it is kept up to date. Quarterly Newsletter revitalized, delivered door to door as well as posted on the web. Go to the statistics page to see how many people visit the web site. Congratulations to communications volunteers who have given up many hours of their free time to help with this effort to keep their neighbors informed.
Neighborhood Watch
A Neighborhood Watch Committee was organized in coordination with the City of Cedar Park Police Department and concerned homeowners that wanted to make a positive contribution to the neighborhood. Neighborhood Watch Signs donated by a local restaurant and two homeowners are now posted at all six entrances. Outstanding job by the Neighborhood Watch volunteers for their contribution! The committee, in conjunction with the Board of Directors, is currently addressing, with a letter to the City of Cedar Park mayor and city council, lowering speed limits, providing signs, and/or speed bumps within the community to slow down drivers for our children’s protection.
This was a great grass roots effort that will ensure the safety and protection of our neighborhood.
National Night Out with the City of Cedar Park Police and Fire Departments and a helicopter landing in Sandra Cove. A well organized event that the children of the neighborhood had a blast attending.
Landscaping Committee
The landscaping party was a great success! Plantings and cleanup around entrance ways, fence repair and mulch was placed in the walk ways to the school access areas. Yard of the Month was initiated to recognize homeowners who do an exceptional job at beautification. (This helps ensure that our community remains esthetically pleasing.) Four large piles of rubbish removed from the Cedar Park High School greenbelt in coordination with the Leander School Superintendent of Grounds. The Greenbelt Cleanup in coordination with the Cedar Park High School Track Team and the Leander School Superintendent of Grounds on Saturday October 9, 2004, was highly successful. Debris, trash, and grapevine were cleared from the walking trail and from in back of the Cypress Creek stone sign along El Salido. These are just few of the great things this group has done since April. There has been an outstanding effort by volunteers wanting to make a positive difference in our community.
This is an outstanding example of how volunteers can make a positive contribution for the betterment of the community.
Fence Committee
The Fence Committee has worked for close to three years to bring this much needed improvement to completion. Homeowners have stepped forward to volunteer for hard work and long hours. The attention to detail and the thoroughness with which they have completed their work is very professional. Every homeowner along the fence line had a committee member assigned to them to answer questions. Every yard was surveyed for potential problems. Now, we can see the end result of these years of effort. We can never thank the committee enough for their work which was to benefit the community.
Board of Directors
The Board initiated a renewed focus on committee involvement, volunteerism and communication. They initiated Standing Rules to avoid confusion on important policies, procedures, and practices of the Board of Directors and the Association within the By-laws and Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions. They rewrote the Violation and Arrearage notification letters making them friendlier. They conducted two surveys: One in June 2004 on requesting homeowner feedback and one in August 2004 on the color of the fence. The Board coordinated with the city of Cedar Park for the painting of new boundary lines, revitalized an alternative plan for curbs and gutter improvements on El Salido, and endorsed the use of vacant land at the corner of El Salido and Cypress Creek Road for a community park as originally planned by the developer prior to ownership by the City of Cedar Park. They are planning to ask for additional volunteers to work on the newly formed committee that will be reviewing and making recommendations to the homeowners at the April 2005 General Meeting to revise our bylaws for clarification. All Board of Director and Annual Association meeting minutes on file from 2001 through the current year are on the Association Board of Directors’ web page.
Other Association Homeowner Accomplishments
Association members organized a December blood drive and two separate Christmas Holiday gift collections for the less fortunate.
