Moon Shadows Home Owners' Association

Monroe Rubbish Removal 2011 Holiday Schedule.

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Instructions & Guidelines

  • There are only 6 major holidays that we observe each year.
  • In order for pick-up to be delayed, the actual holiday must fall on a weekday (Mon-Fri).
  • If the holiday falls on the weekend (Sat-Sun), there will be NO delay in your pick-up.
  • Please review the detailed pick-up schedule to see if your service will be delayed during the holidays.

2011 SCHEDULE: Trash, Recycle, & Yard Waste

New Years Day Saturday, 1/1/11 No Delay in Pick-up for all Customers.
Memorial Day Monday, 5/30/11 ALL customers will run 1 day late
Independence Day Monday, 7/4/11 ALL customers will run 1 day late
Labor Day Monday, 9/5/11 ALL Customers will run 1 day late
Thanksgiving Day Thursday, 11/24/11 Thursday & Friday customers ONLY will run 1 day late
Christmas Day Sunday, 12/25/11 NO delay in pickup for all customers

Please contact Monroes Office at 734-213-6755 if you have further questions about the holiday pick-up schedule.

Goose Round Up Permit. Help Needed

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Greetings:
We need some help in preparation for the 2011 Goose Round-Up.
You are receiving this because: you have either helped out with this in the past; or have expressed interest in effects of an uncontrolled goose population; or you use the beach during summer and particularly benefit from the Goose Round Up; OR merely b/c you are on the Moon Shadows email list.

The Permit we obtained 4 years ago for this extremely successful project will not be valid in 2011. Some rules and requirements have changed (ie. Nest removal and egg destruction is mandatory now). We need to obtain signatures from 70% of Rush Lake lakefront property owners, as we did 4 years ago. It is extremely important that we get this done or there will be no Goose Round Up in 2011. We need help.

Download and view the Canada Goose Permit (.pdf download 1.18mb)

A crew of us went door to door last week (Thanks to Mike Getsoian, Rick Conlin, Ken Powers, Jack Powers, Courtney Clark and the other usual suspects). We obtained about 40-50 signatures so far.

We still need:

  1. Approximately 50 more door-to-door attempts;
  2. Approximately 50 letters (and envelopes stuffed) to be mailed to summer cottage owners at their winter mailing address; and some phone calls to be made in follow-up to “1″ and “2″ above.
  3. Number “1″ above needs to be done now. Numbers “2″ & “3″ above need to be done over the next month, and can be done with flexibility from your home. We have all the materials and forms you will need, and will provide you with all the necessary information. It is easy, but just a little bit of time consuming.

IF you can HELP, please reply.
Thanks!!
-Moon Shadows Board of Directors

PS: Please feel free to forward this to any of your neighbors, or to recruit any of your children (over 18 years).

Rory Clark

CAUTION: Weed Suppressant Devices Installed at Beach

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In our continued efforts to battle the weed encroachment coming in from the north & south shorelines at our beach, we installed “Lake Bottom Blankets” in the lake on the north side wading area at our beach this past weekend. These are enviro-friendly weed barriers that cover weeds on the lake floor bottom, blocking sunlight and thereby eliminating the weeds. The ‘blankets’ will stay in place for about a month and then be moved to the south side of wading area where they will stay for thirty days. They will then be removed.
Please prevent children from playing with them, pulling on them, pulling the ropes attached to them, or disturbing them, etc. It is okay to swim over them, but they hover just above the lake bottom and contain iron rods, so please use caution.

The system is designed to deprive undesirable weeds of sunlight for thirty days, after which the weeds will die and be gone for the season. After repeated use for several years, the weeds may cease growing each spring entirely. For more information, visit www.lakebottomblanket.com. We will install them sooner in the season next year (May) in order to have them fully removed by July.
Rory Clark – [email protected]

Horseshoes at the Beach

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Join your neighbors down at the beach for some friendly horseshoes

  • Starting: Tuesday June 3rd
  • Time: 6:30pm
  • Location: The Beach

Come join your neighbors down at the beach for some friendly horseshoes. No need to reserve a spot, just come down and have some fun. Horseshoes are played every Tuesday at 6:30 through summer and into the fall.

Proposed “Road Fund” Bylaw amendment

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A Bylaw, to be included in the Moon Shadows On Rush Lake Condominium Association Bylaws for the purpose of accruing and securing a fund to be applied to the eventual necessary replacement of the Association roads, without which could only be paid for through an exceptionally large special assessment, entitled:

“ROAD FUND” at Article II, section 13:

a, The Association shall maintain a “Road Fund.”  The Road Fund shall be deposited and invested with a financial institution pursuant to Bylaw Art. XIV, section 3.  The amount earmarked for and deposited into the Road Fund shall be a percentage of dues collected annually, determined by the Board of Directors each year, but shall be a minimum of 13% of the overall dues collected each year.

b. The monies designated and deposited into the Road Fund, and interest accrued thereon, may only be withdrawn, applied to and/or used as necessary for the safety, aesthetics, functionality and general welfare of the roads of the Association for the following purposes:

i. replacing roads and/or large (over 150’ road sections x width of road) road sections;

ii. repairing roads only when the Board determines insufficient funds exist in the general funds to cover the cost of such necessary repairs.  However, because it the purpose of the Road Fund to be available for the eventual replacement (not merely “repairs”) of all association roads when inevitably necessary, the Board must first apply existing general funds for repairs. If such an expenditure of Road Fund money necessarily occurs, the Board must then recoup such expended funds from the Association members, by assessment or otherwise, to return such funds to the Road Fund;

iii. emergency road repairs necessary to prevent imminent danger to life or property.  In the event of such withdrawal of funds through this subsection, the Board shall collect and return such funds to the Road Fund as soon as practical from general funds or special assessment.

 c. The monies from the Road Fund shall not be utilized for “road maintenance.” “Road maintenance” used herein means the regularly anticipated annual needs of the roads, such as plowing, cleaning, tarring/patching, repairs to signs, curbs, cracks, drains, etc, which the Board shall include in its annual budget funded by Association dues. The repair of small road sections (less than 150’ in length x the width of road) is considered road maintenance.

d. In the event the Road Fund balance exceeds the estimated cost to replace Association roads, the excess will be reverted back to the Association general funds and, if necessary, annual dues adjusted accordingly.

Download the Road Fund Bylaw draft#11D927

Download the Road Fund Bylaw Absentee Ballot

Contact Information

Moon Shadows on Rush Lake, Home Owners' Association.
P.O. Box 251 Pinckney, MI 48169
Ph: (734) 681-3049
[email protected]

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