HCA's President's Message

Welcome to the 21st Century and the start of Neighbors online.  We are deeply indebted to Kevin Elliott and Sasha Jain for taking on this critical project and seeing it through to fruition.

This publication gives us the ability to have instant communication within the community and to change the content whenever it is appropriate to do so.  We did not have that flexibility with the printed version of Neighbors.  We are also not tied to advertisers to pay for putting out the publication because to publish Neighbors in this format costs us nothing.  Your HCA membership put up the entire sum of money to create this product for the benefit of the community as a whole.  We hope you will not only read the publication regularly but that you will also violunteer to serve on the editorial staff.  Please contact Kevin or Sasha if you are interested and please become interested because this is your community.

I would like to take a minute to commend the Hiddenbrooke Maintenance District Advisory committee which has worked very hard on your behalf to understand the annual assessment and to take on the City on the unfairness of the allocation.  Ginger Bryant, Paul Norberg, Bob Schussel and Richard Tirrell from HCA and Joyce Estes and Chris Brittle from HPOA have spent countless hours analyzing this issue and dealing with the City.  The City has a high regard for our committee and is still working with us to refine the allocation.

We have an absolutely tireless golf committee that is putting on a fantastic charity tournament benefiting Alternate Family Services in Vallejo.  As I write this, we have over 100 players and we expect to raise a substantial amount of money for the charity.  Hats off to Chris Anthony, Barb Bacon, Gail Foltz, Pam Hargrove, Laura Kazaglis, Pat Libien and Janet Perez.  If you haven't signed up you are making a mistake.  Their will be a dinner and an auction and great prizes. Let me say that again-great prizes!

The Welcome Center, under the direction of Richard Tirrell is running very well.  Please note the new signs. Communication between the security personnel and the community has been dramatically improved.  We are still working on getting the defibrilator into the security vehicle and therefore available to all residents when needed.  Jason Hamilton has been heavily involved in this project.

Our membership is at just about 200 families which is as high as it has been since creation of the HPOA.  That is 200 families who recognize the importance of volunteer activity to the benefit of the community.  Congratulations to Nancy Berke and her committee for an outstanding job.

Our social committee chaired by Charlotte Krastof has already had two very successful functions this year.

We are working very hard on the park and school issue.

Traffic is still a problem in Hiddenbrooke.We have had a number of accidents involving injury and people still drive too fast and disobey stop signs like I have seen nowhere else.  If you are the offender-please stop it and if it is your neighbor or family member-tell them to stop it.  This is where we live and we want it to be safe!

Our relationship with the Hiddenbrooke Golf Club is the best it has ever been.  The general manager, Ollie Becker, comes to our Board meetings every month and is constantly working on ways the get the residents more involved in the golf club activities.

The finances of HCA are in great shape due primarily to the efforts of our treasurer, Jim Hayes. We are looking to keep it that way.

I like this community and all it has to offer.  Our association is working hard to make Hiddenbrooke the best it can be.

--Jim Libien President, Hiddenbrooke Community Association