DWDM | August 2023 Newsletter

Pool Advisory Committee

August 1 | 11am

Architectural Review Committee

August 1 | 1:30pm

Infrastructure/Landscape Committee

August 3 & 17 | 2pm

Communications Committee

August 18 | 12pm

Finance Committee

August 22 | 10am

Social Events Committee

August 22 | 1pm

Board of Directors Meeting

August 24 | 10am

ARC September Submittal Deadline August 25, 2023

We welcome DWDM resident submissions, such as the suggested items below, as well as other articles or photos. Please send your digital submissions by the 15th of the month prior to publication to: btruman@associatedasset.com

MARRIAGES, ANNIVERSARIES, RETIREMENTS and BIRTHDAYS: Accepted from family members with a limit of 30 words.

NEW NEIGHBORS: Accepted from new neighbors with a limit of 30 words.

NOTABLES (awards, accolades, etc.): Accepted from family members with a limit of 40 words.

DEATH NOTICES: Death notices should be less than 60 words and can include a link to where the full obituary resides (funeral home, Legacy.com, etc.)

Del Webb at Dove Mountain Board of Directors

President Mark Johnson president@ourdovemountain.net

Vice-President Roy Hill vicepresident@ourdovemountain.net

Secretary Mark Martell secretary@ourdovemountain.net

Treasurer Steve Erchul treasurer@ourdovemountain.net

Director at Large Terry Carrilio director1@ourdovemountain.net

If interested in purchasing advertising with the DWDM News, contact the Lifestyle Director for the advertising terms and current pricing at least 30 days in advance of publication. The inclusion of an advertiser in this newsletter does not constitute any endorsement by Del Webb at Dove Mountain Community Association. The Association does not verify any information contained herein.

Compliance Corner

Article submission by Andrea Broadhead, Compliance Coordinator

Got Rust?

Several mailboxes throughout the community are faded or showing rust. Please help in keeping the community beautiful by inspecting your mailbox. If it is showing signs of fading or rust, DWDMCA encourages homeowners to refreshen the paint. It has been suggested by DWDM residents to use Rust-oleum Flat Black spray paint. As a reminder, to protect the sidewalks and curbs, it is highly recommended to use protective covering while completing this maintenance project.

DWDM Yard of the Month

August 2023

Have you noticed that Andrea’s big red truck disappeared? Don’t be surprised if you see her in this vehicle. She occasionally switches vehicles. If you see this vehicle driving around like a porch pirate and looking suspicious, fear not, it’s just Andrea, the Compliance Coordinator. If you are not sure that it is her, please contact the Saguaro Center prior to contacting MPD to confirm.

Happy Hour

Wednesdays | 4 - 7pm

August 2, 16 & 30

Runner-up

Michael & Paula Torgerson

To nominate a home, or serve as a volunteer judge for one month, simply contact Andrea Broadhead via email at abroadhead@associatedasset.com

Congratulations to Mike & Willy Thomas

Website Refresh Rollout Article submission by Communications Committee

In the April 2022 Communications Survey, Residents identified a desire to improve the navigation of our Community Website (www.ourdovemountain.net). A Focus Group helped to further refine and prioritize the key elements to tackle. The “article” pictorially highlights some of the key changes to modernize our website and improve functionality. The Communications Committee hopes that these upgrades enhance your navigation/satisfaction with our website. FYI, you are able to use your current username and password.

Welcome Page – Before Login

Visitor Welcome Page Before Login

Both visitors and residents have access to content.

 A search box is prominently located at the top right of every page.

 Users can change the font size to ease readability.

 Website navigation has been updated to use buttons to take people to key areas of interest.

 Helpful contacts: includes a variety of reference information, such as ARC information, vendor information, area information

Footer with links

Resident Webpage

After Login

Only residents have access to full content.

 The modernized look, use of buttons for navigation, search box at top, etc. are continued.

 Users have quick access to information from:

• Board of Directors page (roster, contact information, agendas, minutes and meeting videos)

• Committees (roster, contact information, agendas, minutes, key documents)

 Prominent buttons for most commonly accessed content

• Lifestyle & Fitness

• Calendar

 Other buttons guide you to Helpful Contacts, Community Documents and Forms

File Reorganization

Files had been reorganized in a consistent fashion across the website. The website will now have a consistent approach for document storage, which is intended to improve your navigation experience.

Some further changes will be implemented later this year, when we implement the new activity sign-up system called eTrak. eTrak software is used by a number of parks and recreation departments. They partnered with Associated Asset Management (AAM) to work with HOA Communities, and the initial version has been rolled out to some other AAM Communities. We are 100% fine letting the other communities “work out the kinks” for us. Once an eTrak rollout date is clear, the ComCom will focus on appropriate training for our community.

Jim Santori, Elliot Wolf and Rich Nelson were the internal champions leading this project, huge thank you guys! Additionally, ComCom is very grateful to our AAM partners Barb Truman and Karen Matthews for working with the AAM IT folks to communicate our needs and implement some changes locally. Finally, thanks again to the Focus Group that helped us last summer (Debra Duff, Larkin Hohnke, Janine Klein, Richard Nelson, Mary Northrup & Grace Rael) and thank you to Chris Chamberlain for the beautiful sunset photo that is featured on the website.

Landscape Strategic Plan Committee Update

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Article submission by Kim Dwyer and Dara Sitter

The Landscape Strategic Plan (LSP) Team is pleased to update Residents on our activities in July. We understand the importance of continuously informing residents of team activities. This article follows up on the information shared in the July newsletter. In July we had one face-face meeting (7/7/2023) where we adopted our Guiding Principles and we initiated a review of initial conceptual designs for the Grandview/Lava Falls Park, Bright Angel Park, and the Saguaro Center Event Space.

Conceptual Deigns: Grandview/Lava Falls Park, Bright Angel Park, and the Saguaro Center Event Space

Wilder presented initial, rough concepts based on our feedback to the inspirational images they had presented in June. It was exciting to see how our feedback was clearly heard. The concepts start to give us options on how these spaces could look, responsibly examine the cost implications/water use/maintenance requirements and importantly how we can "stack functions" to aim to use these spaces in multiple ways. We reviewed water usage data and potential savings with proposed designs for Bright Angel, Lava Falls and the Saguaro Center common areas. Spoiler alert, our team is motivated to improve our community environment. These park areas are being re-envisioned to provide a richer experience for DWDM residents. The potential designs will accommodate multiple functions/users: nature seekers, informal meet-ups, dog walkers and add fun to our daily walks. Imagine the Saguaro Center Event Lawn transformed so that we can enjoy a variety of activities from big groups to intimate size groups, games or solitude and reflection. We want to create beautiful, useable, affordable common areas with Sonoran Desert beauty and more shade.

A lot more work is needed in future meetings to refine these concepts. Team members were assigned homework to thoughtfully provide offline feedback once they had a chance to think through the rough concepts and allow Wilder to refine the concepts for our August 4th meeting. Future meetings will focus on the 2 front entrances, and the streetscapes.

Guiding Principles: Development process & details

First, let’s tell you how the LSP’s guiding principles were defined. Since coming together as a team we discussed interests and concerns for our common areas landscape. We would like to have the landscape require less maintenance and water. We are advocating for our whole community and focused on

advocating for our whole community and focused on how people and wildlife can enjoy the common areas. We want to include native plants to support local insects, pollinators and wildlife. Of course, ideas include protecting our property values and minimizing costs. We want to promote safety as well as be leaders in 55+ communities for being responsible desert dwellers. As we review survey results and talk with fellow residents we know that our common areas could be more functional and intentional for Resident enjoyment. These ideas turned into the following main categories:

Recurring costs/maintenance

Education/representation

Environmental

Property values/community integrity

Functionality

From here, principles to help guide design decisions were developed. Guiding Principles are easy to understand, do not conflict with one another, cannot be subjective and will be adhered to when making decisions. In other words, these principles create a roadmap for how the team will partner with the Landscape Design professional to develop a strategic plan for common area transformations.

Our Guiding Principles

1. Conserve Water. Use low water use plants and incorporate water harvesting.

2. Minimize Maintenance. Select and locate plant material to keep down maintenance requirements.

3. Inform. Provide monthly community updates on LSP progress via newsletter.

4. Educate. Promote understanding of our unique environment.

5. Plant native. Utilize the DWDM enhanced native plant palette for common area landscape improvements and conversions.

6. Design for everyone. Nature and people.

7. Consider Costs. Proposed landscape conversion projects will be funded from Reserve Funds and will have an aggregate payback period of 10 years or less.

8. Stack functions. Design to accommodate multiple uses and user groups.

For each of these Guiding Principles, we thought you might like to have us expand so you can better understand how the team has agreed to operate.

Conserve Water: Most of us in the desert Southwest are aware of our limited water resource and conserving wherever we can in our households and personal property. We also want to be water resourceful in our common areas

Minimize Maintenance. Proper landscape maintenance enhances the beauty of our community and so we want to make plant choices where constant pruning is reduced, sometimes allow the leaf litter to enhance the soil, and reduce/eliminate pesticide and herbicide use.

Inform: Life-long learning keeps us young(ish). We want to have a forum where ideas and information can be sharedto enhance our knowledge and experiences in the Sonoran Desert. Also, since many of us did not grow up in this desert, there may be opportunities to educate that can broaden people’s appreciation for different landscape design options.

Plant Native. Using native plants wherever we live allows all the living things that were present before we ‘decimated’ their environment for our personal pleasure (building our personal “nests”) to re-establish their habitats in our community. Imagine a world where you were only offered foreign things to eat—yummy and probably quite adventurous at times, but many of us recognize the value of that “tried and true” food that we enjoy and can rely on it nourishing our bodies with important nutrients. Insect, birds, snakes, rabbits and coyotes need their food, shade, hides-. And, by having a defined plant palette, we can strive

holes, and nutrients too. We were attracted to the beauty of Dove Mountain when we chose to live here and hopefully can learn to continuously improve how we live together with the desert plants and animals. And, by having a defined plant palette, we can strive to ensure a consistent, cohesive landscape design across the common areas in our community.

Design for Everyone. Landscape designs can work for people and nature. This goes back to planting in the right place – creating shade, keeping plants out of our line of vision in roadways, placing thorny shrubs and pollinator-attracting-milkweeds away from walking paths.

Consider Cost. Costs are a big concern in everything we do. Reducing high water use and manual maintenance can save us money in the future. More importantly, proper landscaping will enhance our community and subsequently increase our property values which may benefit all of us. Remaining immobile is not an answer and may only compound our existing landscape problems.

Stacking functions. Think of our kitchen islands, which are certainly surfaces for food preparation, probably where meals are served, but also perhaps a place to display flowers, perhaps do art projects, etc. Similarly, if we stack functions in our common areas then our parks can enrich our lives more by providing space for us to relax, play, spend time with our pets, deepen our friendships while also providing habitat for wildlife.

Backhand Volleys Give the "Safe" Signal

A common flaw in many club players' backhand volleys is their tendency to chop down on the ball, allowing the racquet head to drop below wrist level. Usually, the result is a volley hit off-balance with so little pace and control that it catches the net.

To hit a more effective backhand volley, keep your wrist firm and, instead of chopping down on the ball, flatten out your volleying motion. Think of yourself as a baseball umpire giving a "safe" signal when you hit the ball. As you punch forward on your volley, your free arm should extend away from your body simultaneously in the opposite direction to help you maintain your balance and keep your volleying motion crisp and compact. By hitting "safe" and sure backhands volleys, you'll find yourself scoring more often at the net.

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Our DWDM Management Team

As you can imagine, it takes a team effort to manage the day-to-day operations at DWDM. Here is a brief description of our management team members’ responsibilities so you know who to contact with any questions or concerns:

Karen Matthews Community Manager

Liaison to Board of Directors, Finance, Infrastructure Landscape, Election and Communication Committees. Common area and landscaping issues, questions regarding association budget and monthly financial reporting, operational procedures, liquor license compliance, website updates and e-blast communications and employment opportunities.

karen.matthews@associatedasset.com

520-485-0200

Barb Truman Lifestyle Director

Liaison to Communications, Pool Advisory and Social Event Committees. Staffing, rental and room reservations, interest groups, lifestyle events, happy hours and notary services. Sponsor advertising, community newsletter, e-blasts, website and reservation system development. Also, fitness program, personal training and fitness facility oversight.

btruman@associatedasset.com

520-485-0202

Liaison to Infrastructure Landscape Committee, building logistics, janitorial concerns, general repair, supply inventory and maintenance of the Saguaro Center, pool, spa, sports courts and water feature. Also, assists Community Manager with bid procurement and maintenance/repair supervision.

rshaner@associatedasset.com

Liaison to Architectural Review Committee. Architectural submittals, Design Guidelines, governing document questions, CC&Rs enforcement and compliance concerns, age verification.

abroadhead@associatedasset.com

520-485-3332

Resident check-in, guest reservations, new homeowner orientation, transaction reporting, event assistance, bartending, website concerns, sales and building monitors. They also assist with questions for management.

520-485-0201

866-553-8290

Saguaro Center Hours: 6am to 7:30pm Monday – Friday | 7am to 5pm Saturday & Sunday

Randall Shaner Maintenance Technician

Andrea Broadhead Community Standards Coordinator

Cyd, Jim, Kathleen, Lloydene, Mich, Pat, Tika, Wendy Welcome Desk Staff