Southwood Neighborhood Association

2025 Financial Report

Karissa Brown — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:51:00 GMT

Deposits $41,436.95

Supplies/events include Easter Egg Hunt, End of the Summer Bash, and Cookies with Santa. Supplies include everything for clubhouse rentals- garbage bags, mop solutions, clorox etc. These supplies also include envelopes, stamps, and paper for dues for the first round of dues and the 90 days past due letters (the cost of stamps is majority of this)

2025 November Board Meeting

Karissa Brown — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:45:00 GMT

Board Meeting November 6, 2025

Meeting start time: 7:05

Attendance: Curtis, Karissa, Molly, Tara, Katie, Kaci, Teri, and Luke

Vote Current and new members on to board‌
‌Curtis- President‌
‌Molly- Vice President‌
‌Karissa- Treasurer‌
‌Tara- Secretary‌
‌Katie- Clubhouse Manager‌
‌Teri- Member‌
‌Kaci- Member‌
‌Luke- Member

2025 financial wrap up- continue to have dues as $100 with no increase. We will add an option of a $20 payment towards the playground donations. Financial report will be available before January 31^st2026.

Liens- checking in with Lawyer to see if he can assist with the process of putting liens on non-payment houses.

Southwood Wall- After the survey in 2025 was complete it shows that the wall is on the homeowners property line. The board voted to keep paying for insurance for the wall for major incidents (i.e accidents) but cosmetic maintenance will be on the homeowners. This decision was made because most of the damage is due to homeowners not removing trees that are against the wall. The other option would be to raise dues for everyone to maintain wall or to raise dues for just those along the wall to a higher price.

Events:

Cookies with Santa- Curtis will be Santa and Luke will be the elf

Easter Egg Hunt/Movie night- April 3^rd

Garage Sales- May 29^th- May 30^th Karissa will contact goodwill to see if we can get them to come.

Clubhouse:

Board agreed to get rid of several couches that are falling apart in the clubhouse. Flooring update was discussed with Curtis getting quotes for us. Luke will be redoing the bathroom with new tile.

2026 Goals:

1. Playground

2. New bathroom in clubhouse

3. Potential new flooring in main room and side room

4. Continue with social events such as food trucks and events

Meeting end time: 8:30

2024 Financial Report

Karissa Brown — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:52:00 GMT

Outstanding dues as of 12/01/24

3- $75 Total $225
27- $84 = $2,268
7- $146= $1,022
7 $208- =$1,456
11- $270 =$2,970
12- various amounts- 12= $1,756 (partial payments)
36- $332 =$11,260
Late fees not paid= $178

103 not paid 21%

Total outstanding $20,957.00

Below is the income from clubhouse rentals

Clubhouse:

January $700
February $900
March $1000
April $700
May $1400
June $600
July $400
August $500
September $400
October $200.00
November $900
December $1200 expected

Total: $8700.00

Community Notice

Karissa Brown — Mon, 13 May 2024 20:59:00 GMT

Community Notice

Meeting Minutes 02/08/24

Karissa Brown — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:28:00 GMT

Meeting Minutes for Southwood Association February 2024 Meeting

MEETING DETAILS:

Location: Southwood Clubhouse

Meeting Facilitator: Josh Donner, Karissa Brown

Secretary: Shari Boshart

Date: February 8, 2024 Time: 7:00pm

ATTENDEES:

Josh Donner, Curtis Adkins, Karissa Brown, Terri James & Shari Boshart, Katie Jones, Molly Vanatta, Kaci Behm, Paige Zamora and Jan Simodynes

PREVIOUS MEETINGS MINUTES:

The minutes from the previous meeting were reviewed and approved

APPROVAL OF AGENDA:

The agenda for the meeting was distributed and approved

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

Item #1:Tennis Court/Basketball Court

Details: 2 Basketball steel backboards and hoops have been installed along with tennis court water drainage issues resolved. Total cost of project $15,808.18. There are continuing plans to finish the project with power washing and painting the Tennis/Basketball court and installing solar lights.

Item # 2 Financial Report and Dues update

Details: Southwood financial report was reviewed By Karissa Brown (Treasurer). 2024 dues have increased from $50-$75/year. This increased income will continue to support increasing inflation costs along with neighborhood improvements. Dues were sent out the first week of February. Total outstanding dues for 2024 is $50,245.00 (including past dues and late fees). The Financial report is posted on the Southwood website and facebook.

Item # 3 Newsletters

Details:. All meeting newsletters will continue to be available on the Southwood Neighborhood Association website.

Item # 4 Southwood Marketplace

Details: Southwood Marketplace is up and running on the Southwood website and several neighbors have taken advantage of the site.

Item # 5 Southwood Serpentine Wall

Details: Discussion on the condition of the serpentine brick wall surrounding the Southwood neighborhood. There are areas of crumbing wall within the neighborhood. In some cases trees maybe contributing to the crumbling. To further define property lines and identify responsible, all members agreed to get 1 property surveyed to identify property lines.-this process is ongoing

Item # 6 Clubhouse keyless door lock

Details: Clubhouse keyless door lock has been installed for the security and convenience of obtaining entry and locking after each rental.

Item # 7 Clubhouse rental agreements

Details: Katie Jones gave an update on Southwood Clubhouse rentals with no issues with the new online services.

Item # 8 Tree Removal. Several trees in the Southwood commons areas have been removed or trimmed by No Limits Tree Service.

Item # 9 Lawn Care and Snow Removal

Details: Keeping Southwood common areas looking beautiful with mowing, fertilizing and snow removal comes with a cost increase from $8,240.00(2022) to $20,733.75 (2023). We will continue with the same lawn & snow services since they continue to be the lowest bid. All members were in agreement.

Item #10 Southwood cell phone. Discussion regarding purchasing a Southwood cell phone for clubhouse rentals & Venmo account. Our Venmo account needs to be associated with a phone #, so instead of the account being linked to an individual members phone number, it will be linked to the association #. All members were in agreement to purchasing a cell phone-ongoing process

Item # 11 Clubhouse basement. Discussion on having the clubhouse basement evaluated for potential rental and additional Southwood income. Also getting an estimate for installing an outside water source for future landscaping. All members were in agreement with the above-ongoing process.

Item # 12 Clubhouse and Southwood entry landscaping. Discussion on using a local garden group for clubhouse landscaping in exchange for providing the clubhouse for meetings at no cost. Limits on entry landscaping were cost (approx $2400/entry) along with no outside water source at the clubhouse or entries. We will continue to explore options for landscaping-ongoing process

Item # 13 Playground Discussion on applying for grants, fundraising and obtaining donations for renovating the existing playground with new equipment and playground surface. All members were in agreement with 2024 being a fund building year with proposed renovation late 2024-2025.

Item # 14 Upcoming Events

Details: Upcoming Southwood events are posted on the Southwood website under “”Events”. This continues to be a great success and a great way to meet your Southwood neighbors.

Next Event: Saturday March 16th-Easter event with Waffleman and Harbor Coffehouse trailers, Easter Bunny, balloon animal artist and more to kick off Spring! $500 budget was agreed by all members.

NEW BUSINESS

Item # 1 Southwood Businesses: discussion on supporting businesses within the Southwood neighborhood by listing services on the Southwood website-all members were in agreement.

Item #2 Clubhouse Flooring: discussion on new flooring for the Clubhouse. All members were in agreement to getting estimates for new flooring.

Item # 3 Southwood Spring Clean Up: discussion on setting a date for Southwood common’s area clean up. All members were in agreement to looking for a date in the Spring.

ADJOURNMENT

The meeting ended at 8:00pm

Next Meeting: Wednesday, May 8th-reminders will be posted on the Southwood Facebook page.

Minutes submitted by Shari Boshart

Approved by Karissa Brown

2023 Year End Financial Report

Karissa Brown — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:52:00 GMT

We love to see the change.... the bank account not so much. Below is the end of the year financial report for 2023. Please remember that a lot of the Southwood Maintenance was due to repairing the wall from the car crashes. (Insurance covered 3/4). This will also give you a good idea of why dues increased. Last year we spent $8,240.00 on yard/snow maintenance and this year, due to complaints, we spent $20,733.75.

We just sent out 2024 dues and this is how we are looking as of February 1st. We have 479 home in our little neighborhood!

The "Other" section includes people who have made payments already but didn't include the raise in dues. Members who had late charges but chose not to pay them. Those do not go away :) Members who have had credits from previous years but now have a balance.

November 2023 Board Meeting

Karissa Brown — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 16:45:00 GMT

Meeting Minutes for Southwood Association November Meeting

MEETING DETAILS:

Location: Southwood Clubhouse

Meeting Facilitator: Josh Donner

Secretary: Shari Boshart

Date: November 9, 2023 Time: 7:00pm

ATTENDEES:

Josh Donner, Curtis Adkins, Karissa Brown, Terri James, Paige Zamora, Shari Boshart, Katie Jones, Nila K, Maria B.

ABSENT: Kaci Behm

PREVIOUS MEETINGS MINUTES:

The minutes from the previous meeting were reviewed and approved

APPROVAL OF AGENDA:

The agenda for the meeting was distributed and approved

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

Item #1:Tennis Court/Basketball Court

Details: 2 Basketball steel backboards and hoops have been purchased with plans to install before power washing and painting the Tennis/Basketball court.

Item # 2 Financial Report and Dues update

Details: Southwood financial report was reviewed. Dues update was presented by Karissa Brown (Treasurer). Outstanding payments were down to 26%. We will have another financial report done after the holidays.

Item # 3 Newsletters

Details: Paper newsletters will be mailed on a biannual basis, March & September. September 2024 Newsletter has been distributed. All meeting newsletters will continue to be available on the Southwood Neighborhood Association website.

Item # 4 Southwood Marketplace

Details: Southwood Marketplace is up and running on the Southwood website and several neighbors have taken advantage of the site.

Item # 5 Southwood Serpentine Wall

Item # 6 Clubhouse keyless door lock

Details: Clubhouse keyless door lock has been purchased and will be installed next week for the security and convenience of obtaining entry and locking after each rental.

Item # 7 Clubhouse rental agreements

Details: Clubhouse rental agreements will be going paperless with emailed contracts and electronic payment options. Southwood’s lawyer wrote of a new contract for us allowing us to be able to charge a credit if there is damage to the property.

Item # 8 Dues

Details: Karissa discussed adding credit card payment options for dues. The links will be added to the website. .

Item # 9 Upcoming Events

Details: Upcoming Southwood events are posted on the Southwood website under “”Events”. This continues to be a great success and per Facebook polling will be continued.

Saturday 12/9 Cookies with Santa @ 3pm with scratch art, ornaments, letters to Santa, Santa and elf with balloon arch for pictures.

NEW BUSINESS

Item # 1 Southwood Board Members. The following members were voted in for 2024

Josh Donner: President
Curtis Adkins: Vice President
Karissa Brown: Treasurer
Shari Boshart: Secretary
Kaci Behm: voting member
Terri James: voting member
Paige Zamora: voting member
Katie Jones: voting member
Molly Vanatta: voting member

Item #2 Southwood cell phone. Discussion regarding purchasing a Southwood cell phone for clubhouse rentals & Venmo account. Our Venmo account needs to be associated with a phone #, so instead of the account being linked to an individual members phone number, it will be linked to the association #. All members were in agreement to purchasing a cell phone.

Item # 3 Clubhouse basement. Discussion on having the clubhouse basement evaluated for potential rental and additional Southwood income. Also getting an estimate for installing an outside water source for future landscaping. All members were in agreement with the above.

Item # 4 Snow removal. Discussion on obtaining estimates for snow removal of the Southwood clubhouse parking lot and common area sidewalks. All members were in agreement with the above.

Item # 5 Dues Discussion on raising 2024 dues from $50-$75/year. The increased income will continue to support increasing inflation costs along with neighborhood improvements. The 2023 Financial update is available on the website. All members were in agreement with the above.

Item # 6 Clubhouse Katie will be taking over the clubhouse reservations and upkeep. She will be receiving $300 monthly for her services.

Item # 7 Tree Removal. There are several trees in the Southwood commons area that are in need of removal or trimming. No Limits Tree Service has provided an estimate for the above service and all members were in agreement for removal and trimming. Terri James has agreed to research options for replacing removed trees in the Spring. No Limits Day Rate is $2,400 + removing the ash tree and stump is $600 giving us a total of $3,000.

Item # 8 Clubhouse and Southwood entry landscaping. Discussion on using a local garden group for clubhouse landscaping in exchange for providing the clubhouse for meetings at no cost. Limits on entry landscaping were cost (approx $2400/entry) along with no outside water source at the clubhouse or entries. We will continue to explore options for landscaping. We did discuss holiday decorations for the entries and all members were in agreement for a $200 budget for Christmas decorations.

Item # 9 Ruth Hill Thanksgiving backpack program. Discussion on donating $300 for the Thanksgiving backpack program at Ruth Hill. This will provide thanksgiving meal items for those in need. All members were in agreement for this much worthy cause.

Item # 10 Playground Discussion on applying for grants, fundraising and obtaining donations for renovating the existing playground with new equipment and playground surface. All members were in agreement to research options for the proposed 2024 renovation.

ADJOURNMENT

The meeting ended at 8:00pm

Next Meeting: Thursday, March 18th-reminders will be posted on the Southwood Facebook page.

Minutes submitted by Shari Boshart

Approved by Karissa Brown

September 14,2023 Board Meeting Notes

Shari Boshart — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:54:00 GMT

Meeting Minutes for Southwood Association September Meeting

MEETING DETAILS:

Location: Southwood Clubhouse

Meeting Facilitator: Josh Donner

Secretary: Shari Boshart

Date: September 14, 2023 Time: 6:30pm

ATTENDEES:

Josh Donner, Curtis Adkins, Karissa Brown, Chris Luber, Kaci Behm, Terri James & Shari Boshart

ABSENT:

None

PREVIOUS MEETINGS MINUTES:

The minutes from the previous meeting were reviewed and approved

APPROVAL OF AGENDA:

The agenda for the meeting was distributed and approved

REPORTS:

Report #1 Financial Reports

Details: Southwood financial balances were distributed and reviewed by members

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

Item #1:Tennis Court/Basketball Court

Details: Options for cleaning, painting, adding solar lights and installing Basketball backboards and hoops were discussed. All members were in favor of purchasing 2 Basketball steel backboards and hoops through Bison, Inc and getting an estimate for powerwashing and painting the Tennis/Basketball court. All members approved the above.

Item # 2 Financial Report and Dues update

Details: Southwood financial report was reviewed. Dues update was presented by Karissa Brown (Treasurer). Homeowners with outstanding dues received late charges. $21,350 total outstanding payments with $2,562 in late charges. Outstanding payments were down to 134/446 (30%).

Item #3 Attorney Consult

Details: Southwood Association has consulted an attorney to assist in reviewing and revising Clubhouse rental agreements,Covenants and implementing late HOA fees per state law. All were in favor of continuing attorney consultation on an as needed basis.

NEW BUSINESS

Items #1 Garbage Company

Details: Member discussion on changing our current garbage service (Roggenkamp) to D&D with company agreeing to get garbage cans from the north side of the clubhouse and returning them to the same location (current status requires that an association member bring the cans to the end of the street and returns them to the north side of the clubhouse). All members approved of change in garbage service effective 10/1/23.

Item #2 Newsletters

Details: Member discussion on sending out paper newsletters on a biannual basis. March when dues notifications go out and September. All meeting newsletters will continue to be available on the Southwood Neighborhood Association website. All members approved the above.

Item #3 Southwood Marketplace

Details: Discussion on creating a southwood marketplace available on the Southwood website. This would create a convenient place for Southwood neighbors to discover, buy and sell items within our neighborhood. The clubhouse parking lot could provide a neutral place for exchange. All members were in agreement in creating a marketplace on the website.

Item #4 Southwood Serpentine Wall

Item #5 Clubhouse keyless door lock

Details: Discussion on purchasing a keyless door lock for the Southwood Clubhouse.($300) for the convenience and security of obtaining entry and locking the clubhouse after rental. Southwood Association members would have access to changing the code after each rental. All members approved purchasing a keyless door lock.

Item #6 Clubhouse rental agreements

Details: Discussion on updating clubhouse agreements to allow only credit card payments. Karissa discussed the option of creating a link to Quickbooks (current southwood financial software) that would accept credit card payments and provide security of personal information. All members were in agreement with the above.

Item #7 Dues

Details: Karissa discussed the creation of a QR code on the dues invoice that will allow credit card payments. This would not be implemented until the next dues billing cycle March 2024. All members were in agreement.

Item #8 Upcoming Events

Details: Upcoming Southwood events were presented and are available for review on the Southwood website under “”Events”.

Friday 9/29: Waffleman 5-8pm Sweets on the Streets 6-9pm

Saturday 9/30 Wafflement 9-1pm Harbor Coffeehouse 9-1pm

Saturday 10/28: Trunk or Treat 4-6pm Flydogz 4-7pm Sweets on the Streets 4-7pm

Saturday 12/9 Cookies with Santa 3pm

A big shout out to Karissa for setting up all of these events to “get to know your southwood neighbors”

ADJOURNMENT

The meeting ended at 7:20pm

Next Meeting: Thursday November 9th 7pm Voting of 2024 Board Members

Minutes submitted by Shari Boshart

Approved by Josh Donner

2023 Financial Update

Karissa Brown — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:05:00 GMT

Listed below are current charts showing comparisons over the last 3 years of expenses vs credits for Southwood. There are a couple of things to take into consideration.
1. Insurance checks for the wall have made some of the credits look higher than others but collections from dues are a huge part
2. Due to the number of complaints we received last summer, we had to switch lawn services and now pay more than double what we have been the last two years. We got several quotes and went with the option that was cheapest for both mowing and fertilizer.
3. You may look at the dues chart and think that 39% is still a lot of outstanding dues and we agree! In the last 3 months the $200 section has been cut in half. We are currently getting ready to send out second notices to those who still owe. The Title Company will always email us at the sale of someone’s home to see if they are caught up on dues. If they are not, they will collect them on our behalf at no cost to us.
4. Why did we repaint the clubhouse? The clubhouse is one of the biggest incomes for Southwood and repainting it and getting it fixed up will allow us to discuss raising the rent price to those OUTSIDE of the HOA. Don't worry we have no plans on raising the rent to members in the HOA again.
5. Why is our insurance so much? Why has our insurance gone up? Check out that beautiful brick wall that surrounds Southwood :)
6. The amount for the basketball court is currently the deposit to start the process. The total will change once the project is finished. The remaining balance (pending no issues) is $7,779.20 giving us a grand total of $9,724.00.

Santa is Sunday, board meeting minutes are posted!

Josh Donner — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:18:00 GMT

Make sure you RSVP to the Southwood email address (snalincoln@gmail.com) before Friday so we know how many people to anticipate!

March 2022 Meeting Minutes

Josh Donner — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 13:00:00 GMT

March 2022

November 2021 Meeting Minutes

Josh Donner — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:59:00 GMT

https://southwoodlincoln.com/static/2021/November2021.pdf

Update on Clubhouse Rental Rules

Josh Donner — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 15:42:00 GMT

Due to repeated abuse of clubhouse rental times the board voted this weekend to limit rentals to midnight, as in the clubhouse needs to be cleaned and locked up by midnight. There was an incident at the clubhouse this weekend that involve the police and it isn't the first time even this year that it's happened so we are implementing this rule.

We are also going to be getting a second security camera (we have one pointing at the playground right now) to monitor the parking lot, so spread the word (we will also be putting up signs saying the property is under video surveilance).

My sincere apologies to the residents who live near the clubhouse and had to deal with the idiocy this weekend, we will take what steps are needed to ensure this doesn't happen again.

Parked car thefts are rising

Josh Donner — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:49:00 GMT

The board meeting was last night and several people brought up the fact that there is a definite up-tick in car thefts. Make sure you lock your car doors when you park for the night and be vigiliant, people were observed checking for locked cars and getting into unlocked cars along Tipperary a few nights ago around 3am.

About the lost dues

Josh Donner — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 19:41:00 GMT

I've decided to elaborate about the lost dues since there were statements made on Facebook and now I've received an email question about it. There is no secret but I hope to clarify what happened so there is no confusion about what is going on.

One of the previous boards decided to use HOA money to buy a laptop and Quickbooks Desktop maybe 10 years ago (I’d have to find the meeting minutes to be sure). That seemed to work well for them at the time anyway, but it has been mentioned before that there were no practices put in place to ensure the information wouldn’t be lost. The board has changed a few times since that happened, including in February 2021 when myself and most of the rest of the board positions were elected.

When we got to work in February we quickly discovered that the laptop in question would no longer power on and in fact was broken. I managed to pull the hard disk from it and recover the Quickbooks database for the HOA dues, and I also happen to have a Windows Server that runs that version of Quickbooks so I attempted to load the database. Unfortunately I was not told the password to unlock the database. I contacted every treasurer back to the one who originally set up Quickbooks and nobody knows what the password is. I then attempted to gain control of the email account used to sign up for Quickbooks so that I could have Intuit email me the password but nobody has control of that email account anymore and indeed nobody knows who owns it now (I have contacted the known previous owner but they stated they do not control that email account and never did). The last step was to look for software to unlock the database but the best I could find relies on a brute force method of decryption that could take weeks or even months of running continuously before it would find the password used, and the software is not cheap nor is it guaranteed to work.

It was decided in the board meeting that we would have to write off past dues as lost and are starting over. We know not everyone got invoiced for 2020 and so that is where we started. Obviously if you weren't a resident in 2020 you wouldn't owe dues for that year (thank you to those who have moved here recently and contacted me about it!).

To prevent this from happening in the future we are taking multiple steps that include using Quickbooks Online (to eliminate the need for physical hardware to be maintained) and using a HOA owned email account that at least 2 people will have access to at any time (to ensure that at least one person can get back in in case someone quits and doesn’t want to play nice with the information). We hope these steps will prevent this from happening again.

A gentle reminder...

Josh Donner — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 12:54:00 GMT

The Southwood Neighborhood Association board is made up of unpaid volunteers who donate their time and energy into trying to improve the neighborhood within what power we have to do so. Writing disparaging or mean things on your dues statement you return to us is rude and unhelpful.

The board meetings are open to all residents, occur on a regular schedule, and are the place to voice your opinions. We also have an email address for concerns and I also have fielded many calls from folks with concerns and we've dealt with them the best we can.

September Newsletter and Dues

Josh Donner — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:41:00 GMT

The computer that held the HOA dues information crashed and burned. While I was able to recover the QuickBooks database from the hard drive, I could not decrpyt it as nobody I have contacted (and I went back several treasurers) could remember the password. The recovery email for the Quickbooks account is long since deactivated and I have no way of getting it back. So the board decided we would start fresh with 2020. Please be patient with us as we are setting things up from scratch in such a way that this will not happen again (we are using an online service with an HOA owned email account that at least 2 people will always have access to).

I know some of you have paid your 2020 dues, and there is a spot on the invoice sheet for you to indicate that and write an explanation for us. Fill that out and return it with your payment to the clubhouse drop box at your convenience. We are investigating taking electronic payments through Venmo and Paypal but it will require a board meeting to approve (It's November 11th at 7pm, please come!). Our hope is to have dues invoices out faster and with enhanced options for payments in the first quarter of 2022!

Finally, if you are a renter and somehow found this page, please pass the letter and invoice you got on to the property owner, thanks!

The newsletter is on the newsletter page here: https://southwoodlincoln.com/newsletters/

Speeding in Southwood

Josh Donner — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 21:49:00 GMT

I have been contacted more and more the past few months about speeding along both Canterbury / South Canterbury as well as Tipperary Tail. The board is looking into measures we can take to help curb this but this afternoon a 9 year old boy was hit on Tipperary near the clubhouse. It sounds like he is going to be ok but this incident is going to ratchet up the board's response. In the short term we are going to contact the Lincoln Police Department to request increased patrols in the neighborhood and begin the next steps to find out if speed bumps can be installed. Speed bumps are going to be a hassle as they have to be removed and reinstalled yearly for snow plows but if we can't get folks to slow down I don't see what else we can do. Any other suggestions are welcome!

Clubhouse Decorations

Josh Donner — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:00:00 GMT

Melissa McCaw with Rustic Event Planning has shared some photos she's taking of events she's held at the clubhouse. If you were on the fence about reserving our club house for events, just take a look at what it can be turned into!

Gallery 1

Gallery 2

Graduation

More Clubhouse Pictures!

Josh Donner — Tue, 14 May 2019 21:23:00 GMT

I have been getting lots of questions about the Clubhouse, many of those are folks wanting to know what it looks like inside. Wonder no more!

Inside the Clubhouse

Neighborhood Association Dues, why do we have them?

Josh Donner — Mon, 13 May 2019 14:40:00 GMT

There have been questions about why there are dues for the Southwood Neighborhood Association and what the SNA is for. This page and linked document attempt to clarify those questions. In addition, the treasurer is working on a document that will break down what the costs are for the association so you can have a better idea of how your dues are used.

Why does Southwood have a Neighborhood Association?

One of the features of Southwood living is the enjoyment of the neighborhood common properties. These include the common green where children can play, the ornamental brick wall and entrances which define the area, and the Clubhouse property including tennis court and play equipment at 5000 Tipperary Trail. The Association provides the vehicle for common ownership and management of these properties.

What additional benefits does the Association provide?

In other cities and over considerable periods of time, Neighborhood Associations have proved quite valuable as a protection of the homeowner's investment. Working together, the Association serves as a vehicle to solve common neighborhood problems and helps keep the neighborhood from deteriorating in years to come. Children have a safe place to play. The availability of these designated play areas becomes more important as traffic around us increases.

What are the obligations of membership?

Every Southwood lot owner is automatically a member of Southwood Neighborhood Association. The Association is a democratic organization with one vote allowed per lot to help the Association make Southwood a better place to live. It is hoped that members will consider participation in the Association affars as an obligation of membership. The Association maintains and controls the common properties. It levies an annual assessment on each lot to care for and manage these properties, as well as help operate the Association.

What are the annual dues for?

The dues or annual assessment are to maintain the common properties: the greens, the Clubhouse, and the ornamental wall and entrances...all common properties owned by the Association. Dues also help the Association sponsor activities, publish the newsletter, and purchase equipment when it is needed.

Who determines the Association policies?

You do!...through your voting privilege. The Association articles provied for a nine member Board of Directors. These members are elected annually, the board elects the Association officers from its membership. These elections occur in November as provided in the by-laws. The Board of Directors determines Association policy, how funds are spent, and sets rates for rental of the Clubhouse and annual assessments. The Board governs the activities of the Association, holding regular meetings the second Tuesday of each quarter, open to every member in good standing. The books and records are also open to every member's examination during reasonable hours. All members are notified of Association and Board meeting activities through the Southwood Messenger newsletter.

Why is every lot owner a member?

Southwood Neighborhood Association is an example of American democracy in action at the grass roots level. Every homeowner must be a member to give fair representation to all, equal rights to all, and help you make Southwood the kind of place you want to live in.

Why is Southwood surrounded by a brick wall on the East and the South?

Southwood's modern land plan eliminates lots which face on the arterial streets surrounding it. This provides additional safety for everyone in their yards as well for families backing from their driveway in their automobile. The serpentine wall also shuts out much traffic noise and gives a pleasing sense of privacy and "place" to the area. Having the wall constructed by the developer means that a possible clutter of various individual fences can be avoided. The use of masonry materials provide a long life with minimum maintenance for continued good appearance.

What does the Clubhouse do for you?

The clubhouse was a gift to the Association from the developers of Southwood. You and your family have use of the Clubhouse on an individual basis for special parties, receptions, or family reunions at a very nominal cost, as long as your dues are currently paid. The Clubhouse includes a fireplace meeting room, a kitchen, and a carpeted card room - all now accessible by the handicapped. The tennis court also doubles as an all-purpose basketball court and other games.

Are dues considered a contribution for income tax purposes?

Who determines the Clubhouse activities?

The Clubhouse is open to each and every lot owner on an individual basis. While we have worked very hard to keep this facility nice yet making it affordable to Southwood residents, we also rent it to other people at a higher rental rate. This helps defray the costs we all share in. You can help determine the Clubhouse activity by working actively in the Association.

Questions?

Please feel free to contact any of the board members on our Contact page or you can also send us a message on Facebook. In the near future we will also have a contact form up on this site, you may also email us at snalincoln@gmail.com.

What makes Southwood unique?

Josh Donner — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:52:00 GMT

My wife and I were walking through the neighborhood and I had brought my camera to take photos for the site, and I was wondering what areas of Southwood are unique in the minds of residents here. Any suggestions of places I should go to get a nice picture to add to the site?

Pardon our dust...

Josh Donner — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:22:00 GMT

Hi, I'm Josh Donner. I'm currently working on bringing our website up to date with the latest web technologies, and as so things will be looking a bit rough for a while. Please bear with me, thank you!

So far I have most things available except for the calendar and the old newsletters. I will be working with the Reservation Secretary to get the calender stuff moved over and the Secretary to get copies of the old newsletters.

There is also some work that needs to be done still to make the website more mobile friendly, mostly around the Clubhouse page and the menu navigation but I think it still looks pretty good!