JANUARY 2022
The Annual Meeting of the Farmstead Commons Association is scheduled for Saturday January 22 at 10:30 a.m. at the Monadnock Covenant Church, 90 Base Hill Road in Keene. Masks are required to attend the meeting. If you are unable to attend the meeting, please be sure to return your proxy so that the meeting will have a quorum. You can drop it at Director Judy StGelais Unit 47 or email or fax to CB Property Management 603-358-0042, cbpmdiane@aol.com.
Notice of the Annual Meeting, the Agenda, the 2022 budget, a copy of the 2020 meeting minutes and a proxy were sent/delivered to all Owners. If you need another copy, please let me know.
The striping and numbering of the parking spaces was not able to be done in 2021 so we ask that all residents park in their assigned spaces and leave visitor spaces for guests. If you have any question on where your assigned/numbered space is located, please contact CB Property Management.
Please also remember that each unit is permitted two vehicles. One car should be parked in assigned space and one in carport. If you do not have a carport, one car in assigned space and one along entrance road in overflow parking. Only resident vehicles should be parked on site. The overflow parking should never be used for storage of any vehicle.
It has been some cold weather and a bit more ice/rain than we like! If your bucket outside the front door needs more ice melt, please contact CB Property Management 603-358-0040 and we’ll get that taken care of for you.
And, while we’re on the subject of snow: if snow falls off the carport roofs, please call CBPM. White’s checks the property regularly, but snow can slide off at any time (even just after they leave) and we’d rather have four calls about fallen snow and get it removed than have the piles remain and freeze in place.
A friendly reminder after the holiday season (and all through the year) cardboard must be broken down before it is placed in the cardboard dumpster. And please do not dispose of cardboard in the trash dumpster or put any intact boxes in the container.
Don’t forget Farmstead has a website –there is a LOT of information about the Farmstead community and happenings on the page - log onto Farmstead Commons.com – if you need the Owners only password, please call the office.
When you walk your dog always have it on a leash and stay away from the lawns and landscaped area. Please pick up after him/her even if there’s snow on the ground. Otherwise when the snow melts, so does the excrement and it eventually ends up on the lawn, where it can damage the newly-emerging grass. Let’s do everything we can to assure attractive, healthy lawns next spring and summer. Picking up after your dog NOW is one way to work towards that goal.
Arbor Climb Tree will be on site at some point over this winter to remove several trees that are dying or considered a safety concern. This work was contracted to be done in winter (by doing this Farmstead gets a bit of a price break!) In the spring, Arbor Climb will return to plant replacement shrubs and trees in some of the empty areas.
It’s cold out there and chances are your windows and doors are shut tight,
but please be careful about noise that could disturb your neighbors. Loud voices (both inside and out) and TVs, stereos, etc. that are turned up can be a problem for others, so keep it down as much as possible. The rules reflect a “quiet time” from 9 pm to 8 am.
It has been (so far) a pretty light season for snowfall amounts... Please note: the end spaces in the parking areas can disappear during a storm and have since Farmstead was built. We’re told that for many years the piles weren’t moved, but stayed until Spring. White’s does their best to push snow back as far as possible but there’s only so much room. They remove snow banks as quickly as possible (and will continue to do so with approval) but this is extra work which is done at an additional charge to the Association. The clearing of the piles is not done until the days following the storm after plowing and clean up. We appreciate your patience and understanding when this happens.
We hope your New Year is going well and that you never even noticed January 6, which we’re told is the most “depressing” day of the year. That’s when year-end festivities are over, holiday bills start coming in and just about everyone has broken their New Year’s Resolutions. May your holiday bills be small and your New Year’s resolutions be working so well, they’ve become good habits!!