Check your porch or mailbox!

Today you are receiving a letter. The letter is an overview of the HOA process to approve the by-laws at the October 17th membership meeting. The officers group will be visiting homes who do not respond in person to ensure that every home is represented. You can avoid this personal visit (and save your officers a lot of time and energy) by responding with one of the options below before the end of September or by letting us know you plan to be at the meeting.

If you’ve been following our updates here, you know that we are in the process of updating our by-laws to keep our organization legal under Washington state laws, and to streamline the way our neighborhood officers handle business on behalf of the community. (This does not change the CCRs, which are our agreed-upon community guidelines.) We have been working with Mr. Isaac Anderson to advise us in this process.

According to the Covenant, Conditions, and Restrictions Merger dated May 1990, the adoption, amendment, or repeal of by-laws requires the consent of 2/3 of the members. (That’s you!)

At our August membership meeting, we had 23 homes represented. The members present voted unanimously to vote to approve the new by-laws at the next meeting on October 17, 2022. We answered questions and discussed the differences between the old and new by-laws.

Normally our membership meetings have just 10-15 homes represented, and we know that not everyone can or wishes to attend a meeting. We can’t adopt these new by-laws and keep our HOA functioning properly without your vote.

Fortunately, our current by-laws allow for proxy voting! A proxy vote means that you give permission to someone else to cast your vote at the meeting.

If you do not plan to attend the meeting on October 17, please voice your opinion with one of the following options:

1. Complete and return the paper form you receive in your envelope to the ballot box at 7966 Cabrini Dr SE.
2. Complete the digital form at https://bit.ly/StrawberryHillVote.

If you have any questions about this process, the new by-laws, or anything else in our neighborhood, you can also contact us at officers@strawberryhillhoa.org or through the contact form on the website. We’re here to serve the good of our community!

Thank you,

Becky Keene                Dean Fidecaro             Josh Thomsen              Mary Mingels President                     Vice President              Secretary                     Treasurer