Southern Village HOA

Honeycutt Farms will once again be selling North Carolina Christmas trees and holiday wreaths on the Southern Village green, staring Thanksgiving weekend.

A Christmas tree lighting will be held on the village green Saturday, December 1, 2007. At 3 pm, the Culbreth Choral Group and Carrboro High School Acapella Group will sing seasonal and holiday tunes. At 4 pm, The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra will bring together traditional rock instruments, as well as strings, horns and woodwinds, to perform songs from the album, A New Old Fashioned Christmas. Tree lighting around 4:30. Hot cocoa, cider and popcorn will be available.

“Light a Luminary” in Southern Village! All proceeds go to The Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill. Imagine… all of Southern Village alit with the twinkle of luminaries lining our streets! Saturday, December 15, 2007 (rain date is December 16).

This is a reminder that OWASA has announced Stage II water use restrictions due to the severe drought conditions. You can read the announcement by going to here. To comply with the new rules we all need to turn off our spray irrigation systems and refrain from washing our vehicles (hooray!) with drinking water. Let’s all be good neighbors by doing our bit to help stretch our limited water supply.

We are pleased to report that the board has completed its Request for Proposals process and has selected a new HOA management company to replace HRW. Our new manager will be Berkeley Property Management, LLC. This new company is an offshoot of a long-established Virginia company. Most notably, the three principals of Berkeley are all Southern Village residents. Our three neighbors taking on the role of HOA managers are Suzanne Kalbas, Tony Smith and Scott Wojnovich. We believe that having our community managers also be members of the association will help ensure that the organization is consistently managed for the benefit of its members. For a description of the selection process we used, and our evaluation of the competing bids we received, you can click here. The new contract will come into effect on January 1, 2008. As details of the transition plan from HRW to Berkeley are confirmed we will provide new contact information.