Are you good with numbers? Interested in helping your community?

 

The Fallsmead Board of Directors is looking for a new Treasurer. Duties include paying bills and depositing checks, using QuickBooks to keep track of income and expenses, interacting with real estate agents and settlement companies for home sales, preparing annual dues notices, working with the Board on the annual budget and coordinating with the outside auditor. There is a Finance Committee that is actively involved in all of the community's financial activities and supports the Treasurer. The Treasurer receives a monthly stipend. Candidates must be residents of Fallsmead.

 

If you are interested in, or know of a neighbor who would be an excellent fit for, the Treasurer position, please send an email to Board President Rob DeLucia at president@fallsmead.org.

The Spring Fallsmead Community Meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 27th, at 8pm at Fallsmead Elementary School (1800 Greenplace Terrace). The Community Meeting is a great place for both newer and more long-term residents to meet their neighbors and catch up on Fallsmead activities. Please join us to discuss any questions or concerns you have about your neighborhood!

Our annual Spring Community Cleanup will take place on Saturday, April 13th, from 9am to noon. Please mark your calendars and volunteer your time to keep our park and neighborhood looking beautiful. All ages are invited to volunteer. We will gather at the pool at 9am. Please bring chainsaws, shovels, rakes, and wheelbarrows. If you have suggestions for areas that need tending and/or if you have any questions, please email JoAnn McConnell at grounds@fallsmead.org. Thank you in advance for your help and support!

We hope that you enjoyed reading the Fallsmead@50 Weekly Fun Facts throughout 2018 about Fallsmead's history and important events in Fallsmead's past as much as we enjoyed writing them! Although they ended at the conclusion of our 50th anniversary year in 2018, you can continue to access all of the 2018 Fallsmead@50 Weekly Fun Facts at fallsmead.org/blog.php. They are still open for comments, so please feel free to share your thoughts and memories!

This week, Fallsmead.org was upgraded to a new version of the software that runs the website. Although most of the website still looks exactly the same, there are major changes to the Online Neighborhood Directory and in your personal "Your Profile" section:

Some of the changes that were made during the system upgrade require action on your part to make sure the transition from the old system to the new system was successful. PLEASE LOG IN TO YOUR FALLSMEAD.ORG ACCOUNT AND DO THE FOLLOWING (if you do not know your password, we will be sending everyone in the system a password reminder – this is also great for Level 2 users who have not used their new accounts yet!):

If you have attended a recent community meeting or have read the Fallsmead Forum, you know that the Architectural Control Committee (ACC) has been drafting guidelines for solar panel installations in the Fallsmead. The ACC's proposed guidelines, published in the last issue of the on-line Forum for community review and comment, were approved by the Board at its June meeting and are effective immediately. The guidelines comply with federal, state and local regulations and will be updated as those and the technology evolve. Similar guidelines have been successfully used in nearby communities.

 

A solar panel installation is an exterior addition as defined in the Covenants. Fallsmead residents should be aware that the ACC will use these guidelines in its review of any proposed solar panel installations. The guidelines should be  taken into account early in the planning of any installation. The ACC will work cooperatively with residents planning solar panel installations so that those installations are safe, minimize visibility to the extent practical without degrading performance significantly, and harmonious with Fallsmead's design and aesthetic.

 

Click here to see a copy of the guidelines. If you have any questions about the solar panel installation guidelines or their applicability, please contact the ACC at acc@fallsmead.org.

The Fallsmead Board has approved new ACC guidelines for trash can screens. The updated guidelines are noted below.

 

"Screens to hide trash and recycling containers are permitted subject to the following: 

Visit the FAQ and Resident's Info page to see more information about the proper storage of trash cans in Fallsmead.

Residents, if you are planning on selling your home, please be sure to contact our neighborhood treasurer, Eric Wexler, for the packet of official Homeowners Association Resale Documents.  His email address is treasurer@fallsmead.org. The fee for the HOA documents is $100.

 

You can submit a payment for your HOA resale documents by either 1) sending a check made payable to Fallsmead Homes Corporation to Fallsmead Homes Corporation, PO Box 1565, Rockville, MD 20849-1565, or 2) submitting a payment online via PayPal or credit card on our Online Payments page.

 

If you are a new resident and haven't received your new homeowner's welcome packet, please also be sure to contact Eric and he will get it to you.

If you registered at Fallsmead.org and never heard back from anyone, please let us know at communications@fallsmead.org! Once we manually approve people (which we usually do within a few hours of people registering), the website automatically generates an email that includes your password.  You should have gotten this email within 24 hours of registering.

We suspect that some of these registration emails may have gotten lost in spam for some people, but this is something that we can easily fix as long as you let us know that it is a problem.

For any future registrants, if you don't hear back within 24 hours of registering, please let us know. Thanks!