CAT MOUNTAIN VIEW
Cat Mountain
VIEW V I L L A S
OCTOBER 2015
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 10
President's Message After a summer of play, we find ourselves busy once again with focus on school, home, family and the upcoming holidays. Soon the leaves will fall and we will once again don jackets and sweaters. I can’t wait for cooler temps! As Halloween approaches, please be mindful of the kids in costume, there are many in our neighborhood but even more so along Mesa Drive. Turn off your lights if you don’t want to be bothered but otherwise please light the walkways and front porch to invite the trick-or-treaters to drop by and scare you! Over the past few months a resident has repeatedly left a bag of dog waste in or on the HOA mailbox. I personally find this beyond disrespectful, you should not own a dog if you can’t pick up after it. Leaving it for Jesse is an attack on someone who does so much for this community. I expect it will stop immediately. The board continues to work toward improving our system to manage homeowner dues. Our goal is to have owners pay direct from their bank via ACH to our account. It eliminates costs to both the payer and recipient. It also eliminates wasted paper, mailing costs, delivery, fuel expense etc. Our association currently has almost 300 members that pay electronically in one form or another. Using a credit card is expensive for the payer at a price of $9.95 per transaction. We have a great community that pays their dues on time. We want to make it as efficient and cost effective as possible. One reason that our dues continue to be low, is that we make every effort to
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control costs in our Association and one of the big annual costs has been the coupons and payment management. Please help us by arranging to pay your dues electronically if you don’t do so currently. You can setup a direct pay from your bank easily, we will let you know the details as they are confirmed for the coming year. If you are interested in going green and receiving the newsletter electronically, please check out www.peelinc.com and look for the Cat Mountain Community. In addition to the website, they have a nice iPad app, it’s free. I am going to make it my personal goal to get everyone in the neighborhood updated with an email and phone number so that we can communicate in the most efficient manner possible. Currently we have 30-35% of our members contact information. We would never sell or share this info but need it to communicate quickly in case of emergency. Please let us know if your contact info changes. Please email Jesse at
[email protected] and share this information. Jesse’s Manager’s Report touches upon the status of dogs in the neighborhood, tennis courts, road work & social networking. If you are new to the Villas, please do not hesitate to contact Jesse if you have questions. Best Regards, Bryan Harter Cat Mountain HOA | President
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90 Day Market Analysis ACTIVE
ADDRESS
#BED
#FL BTH
#HF BTH
#LIV
#GAR
YB
ACRES
SQ. FT.
LIST PRICE
6101 Twin Ledge
3
2
1
3
2
1984
.305
2,543
$475,000
6117 Mountain Villa
3
2
1
2
2
1984
.114
2,447
$527,000
5819 Mount Bonnell
5
5
0
3
2
1985
.164
4,379
$685,000
5922 Lookout Mtn
3
2
1
4
2
1999
.115
2,794
$760,000
4732 Twin Valley
4
3
1
3
2
1983
.144
3,831
$799,000
4605 Twin Valley
3
3
1
2
2
1979
.092
3,844
$799,000
5830 Westslope
4
3
1
3
2
2015
.230
3,070
$1,199,990
4703 Lookout Mtn
4
4
1
3
2
1990
.290
4,780
$1,333,500
#BED
#FL BTH
#HF BTH
#LIV
#GAR
YB
ACRES
SQ. FT.
LIST PRICE
3
2
0
1
2
1977
.126
2,544
ADDRESS
#BED
#FL BTH
#HF BTH
#LIV
#GAR
YB
ACRES
SQ. FT.
6020 Mount Bonnell
3
3
0
1
2
1984
.095
2,146
$430,000
4403 Jessamine
3
2
1
2
2
1977
.145
2,207
$495,000
4500 Autumnleaf
3
3
1
1
2
1983
.199
2,482
$565,000
6004 Mount Bonnell
3
2
1
1
2
2015
.109
2,000
$634,500
1984
.620
2,895
$700,000
PENDING ADDRESS
4407 Jessamine
$485,000
SOLD LIST PRICE
6201 Mountain Villa
3
3
1
2
2
6004 Hood
4
3
1
3
2
2003
.150
3,319
$839,000
4717 Twin Valley
4
3
1
2
2
1998
.334
4,711
$1,100,000
5828 Westslope
4
3
1
3
2
2015
.230
3,180
$1,195,000
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CAT MOUNTAIN VIEW Cat Mountain Homeowners Association Board of Directors
Photo by: Elijah Merritt, EDM Photography • Bryan Harter, President...........Term February 2014-February 2016 • Marc Dully, Vice President......Term February 2015-February 2017 • Davison Grant, Treasurer........Term February 2014-February 2016 • Ken Nirenberg, Secretary........Term February 2015-February 2017 • Richard Schley, Vice President..Term February 2014-February 2016 For questions or to contact any board member please email the HOA Manager at
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Cat Mountain Homeowners Association Manager: Jesse Chargualaf Club House Address: 6007 Mount Bonnell Road, Austin, TX 78731 Business Hours: Monday - Friday 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM Contact Information: Office 512.451.3884 Email:
[email protected] Website: www.catmountainhoa.com For Emergency after hours, during weekends & holidays, Please call 512.328.7316 (h) or 512.963.0940 (c) At no time will any source be allowed to use The Cat Mountain View Newsletter contents, or loan said contents, to others in anyway, shape or form, nor in any media, website, print, film, e-mail, electrostatic copy, fax, or etc. for the purpose of solicitation, commercial use, or any use for profit, political campaigns, or other self amplification, under penalty of law without written or expressed permission from Peel, Inc. The information in The Cat Mountain View Newsletter is exclusively for the private use of Peel, Inc. DISCLAIMER: Articles and ads in this newsletter express the opinions of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Peel, Inc. or its employees. Peel, Inc. is not responsible for the accuracy of any facts stated in articles submitted by others. The publisher also assumes no responsibility for the advertising content with this publication. All warranties and representations made in the advertising content are solely that of the advertiser and any such claims regarding its content should be taken up with the advertiser. * The publisher assumes no liability with regard to its advertisers for misprints or failure to place advertising in this publication except for the actual cost of such advertising. * Although every effort is taken to avoid mistakes and/or misprints, the publisher assumes no responsibility for any errors of information or typographical mistakes, except as limited to the cost of advertising as stated above or in the case of misinformation, a printed retraction/correction. * Under no circumstances shall the publisher be held liable for incidental or consequential damages, inconvenience, loss of business or services, or any other liabilities from failure to publish, or from failure to publish in a timely manner, except as limited to liabilities stated above. Copyright © 2015 Peel, Inc.
JESSE CHARGUALAF HOA MANAGER OFFICE HOURS: MONDAY - FRIDAY / 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM EMAIL:
[email protected] OFFICE: 512.451.3884 OCTOBER MANAGER’S REPORT
Dogs: There has been a recent increase in the amount of feces noted around the sidewalks and trails. Please pick up after your dog while walking. The City of Austin has made available their “Scoop the Poop” signs, if you would like a sign please come by the HOA Office during regular business hours.
There have been numerous complaints about dogs barking late at night after 1:00AM and around 4:00AM to 6:00AM. If you put your dog outside please monitor them, also provide plenty of water to any dogs left outside for even short periods during this heat. Tennis Courts: As the weather cools off, we have a group of players interested in getting together on Sunday mornings. Please check out the social committee news & events page for more info. Tennis court keys are available for a $10 deposit. Continued on Page 4 Cat Mountain View - October 2015
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CAT MOUNTAIN VIEW Continued from Page 3 Road Work: Some residents have expressed concern over the fact that the cul-desac they live on has cracks or the recently filled cracks don’t match the asphalt. The association has a long term plan to manage the streets we are responsible for paving. Sometimes we can justify the expense of a full new surface but more often we need to be conservative and deal with cracks or patch holes in the surface due to drainage issues that have arisen. This leads to a surface that is a mix of black and gray. Our options to seal coat the roads are limited by the incline of many of the streets. Seal coating is very slippery when wet and is not approved for roads that are steep. It is a good preventative measure in some cases where it is both aesthetically pleasing and functionally a good seal against water intrusion. As always we strive to provide a level of fiscally responsible maintenance to all our long term capital assets. If you see anything that needs attention or maintenance, please contact me. Social Network: Reminder you can find neighborhood updates on facebook under “cat mountain community” or on nextdoor.com
NOW HIRING Advertising Sales Representative
Description: The position includes marketing our community newsletters to local and area businesses. It is a flexible position that allows you to work from home and set your own hours. Roles: Stimulate new advertising accounts in our community newsletters. Maintain current accounts assigned to you by Sales Manager. Service your accounts by assisting them from ad design to final proof approval. Skills: Excellent communication through email and phone, with high level presentation and relationship-building skills. Strong prospecting and business development skills are a must. Previous sales experience preferred but not required. Benefits: Commission Based Apply by sending resume to
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OCTOBER SOCIAL COMMITTEE NEWS & EVENTS
Cat Mountain Tennis (CMT): Are you interested in Sunday morning doubles practice? We are looking to start up a tennis group to play on Sunday mornings at our own Cat Mountain courts, starting this fall. Who is CMT for? Recreational tennis players who want to practice playing doubles tennis. Most recreational tennis players are rated 3.5 (intermediate), but all recreational players (2.5-4.0) who are Cat Mountain Villas homeowners, or your guests, are welcome. What is CMT? CMT is a doubles practice session. The format is flexible so we frequently switch teams and teammates. We may play with an odd number of players by rotating players after every game. Our goal is to make sure no one sits out for more than a few seconds. Occasionally, there may be some singles play as well. CMT does not provide lessons, drills, or instruction. There are no fees or obligations, other than to bring a can of new tennis balls every other time you play. When is CMT? Proposed time is Sunday mornings from 9-11AM starting this fall, depending on availability and schedules of interested players. Where is CMT? Cat Mountain tennis courts located next to the Club House. Why? To have fun on our courts with good neighbors and friends! The goal is to get between 4 and 12 people each week to come out and play. If you are interested in playing, email me at andrewrock@ yahoo.com. Please include your rating level. If you don’t know your rating, just indicate if you consider yourself a beginner, intermediate, or advanced player. I will send an email each week on Wednesday morning to find out who plans on playing that Sunday. On Friday I will send out a confirmation email, let you know who plans to play, and reserve courts. If not enough interest on any given Sunday, we will skip CMT that week. If inclement weather, I will send an email cancellation. Hope to see you soon on our courts! Neighborhood Yoga Charles Devany, Cat Mountain resident and trained yoga instructor, has had a wonderful response from numerous residents joining him for his free yoga classes held on the patio of the clubhouse. He is currently holding his classes Saturday mornings from 1011AM and now Monday evenings (instead of Wednesdays) from 6-7 PM. If you are interested in joining or have any questions, please email Charles at
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Cat Mountain BOOK CLUB
All Cat Mountain Residents are invited to join the book club on Tuesday, October 20, 6:30 PM to discuss the book The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Book Description Below: In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes About the author (2015) Kristin Hannah is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one novels, including the blockbuster Firefly Lane and #1 bestsellers Night Road and Home Front. She is a former lawyer turned writer and is the mother of one son. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii with her husband. Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including Winter Garden, Night Road, and the blockbuster Firefly Lane which sold over 1.2 million copies. Her novels Home Front and Night Road were among the first novels to appear in the #1 spot on 5 New York Times bestseller lists simultaneously. Home Front has been optioned for film by 1492 Films (produced the Oscar-nominated The Help) with Chris Columbus attached to write, produce, and direct. Kristin's highly anticipated new release, The Nightingale, will be published on February 3, 2015 (St. Martin's Press). The novel --an epic love story and family drama set in France at the dawn of World War II--is a profound and compelling portrait of two estranged sisters, living in a city under siege and a country at war, where sometimes surviving means doing the unthinkable. WWW.KRISTINHANNAH.COM
The next quarter books and dates are as follows and all meetings will be held in the clubhouse: Tuesday, November 17, 6:30 PM Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty Tuesday, December 15, 6:30 PM If I stay, by Gayle Forman The Cat Mountain Book Club, established in 2012, invites new residents to join them at any time and new members are always welcome and encouraged. For more information contact Book Club Leader Adrienne Boer at
[email protected] or look for updates on the Cat Mountain Community Facebook Page and on NextDoor.com. Copyright © 2015 Peel, Inc.
Welco ming Co mmittee The HOA Board would like to welcome Stephen & Monica Johnson, Michael Collins, Edward Koza & Mary Quesada, Nanmin Shi & Xianzhu Chen to our neighborhood! If you have any questions, or have a business you would like to promote products that might be included in the welcome basket, please contact our welcoming committee co-chairs, Lisa Castillo at
[email protected] or Faye Van Haren at faye@austin. rr.com for more details.
SAVE THE DATE! For our next social on Saturday, December 12, 2015 hosted by Laurie Gamble & Michael Ibison. More details to come in our next issue. Wine Socials were formed by residents who share a common interest. The purpose is to bring neighbors together in a social setting. If you are interested in joining wine socials please email Charlene Casillas at
[email protected] Hope you can join us, Cheers!
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CAT MOUNTAIN VIEW CAT MOUNTAIN END OF SUMMER BASH AWARD WINNING RECIPES JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! 3RD PLACE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES BY ANITA COSTANZI
1ST PLACE WHITE CHOCOLATE CHERRY COOKIES BY ANITA COSTANZI
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
• 1 pkg. Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie (large) • 1 egg • 1 stick butter room temp. • Add 1 c. chopped pecans • ½ c. coconut • 1 cup of dried cherries or cranberries • 1 t. vanilla
Directions: Mix All, Bake for 8-10 min 2ND PLACE BROOKE’S BEST BOMBSHELL BROWNIES BY VICKI ROCHSTEIN
Description: These brownies are the bomb! I've found the perfect combination of ingredients to make the fudgiest brownies yet... Enjoy! Ingredients: • 1 cup butter, melted • 3 cups white sugar • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract • 4 eggs • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour • 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder • 1 teaspoon salt • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips Directions: • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 baking dish. • Combine the melted butter, sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each, until thoroughly blended. • Sift the flour, cocoa powder, and salt in a bowl. Gradually stir flour mixture into the egg mixture until blended. Stir in the chocolate morsels. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared baking dish. Bake in preheated oven until an inserted toothpick comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Remove, and cool pan on wire rack before cutting.
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• 1 stick Crisco Butter • 1 1/3 c. lt. brown sugar • 2/3 c. white sugar • 2 eggs • 1 T. vanilla • 2 1/4c. flour • 1 t. soda • 1 t. salt • 2 bags of Sees Chocolate or Hershey Chips
Directions: Cream Crisco, sugars and vanilla, add eggs then dry ingredients bake eight min.
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FOR ASSISTANCE WITH ANY NON-EMERGENCY ACTION BY THE CITY OF AUSTIN The City of Austin provides one number, 3-1-1, that citizens may call for things like the following: • Coyote sightings or howling – provide an exact street address, so the trapper can locate them • Reporting trees that have fallen and block roadways or sidewalks, or those that drag on power lines • Reporting dead animals for pickup; they must be placed at the curb, though; City personnel are not allowed to enter our yards to gather them • Problems with loose dogs or traffic signals not working • Reporting instances of people feeding deer • And more. Call 3-1-1 or file a request at http://austin-p1csrprodcwi. motorolasolutions.com/Home.mvc/Index. The City also has a smartphone 311 app now. See this link for more information: http://www.austintexas. gov/department/311/smart-phone-app
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The 9-1-1 emergency number gets you a response for a wide variety of issues: • Life-threatening issues – house on fire, person having a heart attack, burglary in progress, etc. • Health-related crises – someone can’t catch their breath, incapacitated person needs a lift out of the bathtub, and more. • If you’re unsure, err on the side of caution! Call 9-1-1 and you will get a quick and kind response from EMS, APD, and Austin Fire Department personnel. Copyright © 2015 Peel, Inc.
CAT MOUNTAIN VIEW EXERCISE YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS!
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We know there’s a lot of talent in our neighborhood, and we’d like to give you the opportunity to use that talent! Here are things on which we’d like help: • Occasional graphics design for events and promotions on facebook, in email, and for the website. • Gathering information and formatting the monthly email update • Take / Submit Pictures • Writing a monthly newsletter column, such as “business profile, family profile, child highlight, meet our new neighbors” etc.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS OCTOBER
Monday, October 12 - 6:30 PM HOA Monthly Board Meeting Tuesday, October 20 - 6:30 PM Book Club *Free Yoga by Charles Devany, Cat Mountain resident and trained yoga instructor, Saturday mornings from 10-11AM and now Monday evenings from 6-7 PM. NOVEMBER
Monday, November 9 - 6:30 PM HOA Monthly Board Meeting Tuesday, November 17 - 6:30 PM Book Club *Free Yoga by Charles Devany, Cat Mountain resident and trained yoga instructor, Saturday mornings from 10-11AM and now Monday evenings from 6-7 PM. DECEMBER
Sunday, December 6 - 5:00-8:00 PM Annual Holiday Party Saturday, December 12 - 7:00 PM Wine Social Monday, December 14 - 6:30 PM HOA Monthly Board Meeting
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