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Serrano Park Community
 

News Letter

March 12, 2023

In this issue:

  • Easter Egg Hunt
  • Progressive Garden Party
  • 2023 Planned Events
  • Minimal Storm Damage
  • Website Update
    • Articles and Videos Added
    • Urban Forest Management section improved.

Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday April 1, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Come meet the neighbors and enjoy our wonderful common areas as we have an Easter Egg Hunt for children ages 0-12 by our front pool! We will have separate groups for different ages as we did in the past, so make sure you tell us the ages of your children. Remember that each child will get to retrieve 12 eggs so that everyone ends up with something. There will be golden eggs in each group for special prizes! So bring your Easter baskets and your smiles!

Refreshments will be served.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Simply fill one dozen plastic eggs with candy, stickers, etc. and place them in a plastic bag with the name of the child (first and last) and their age.
  1. Drop the eggs off at 25101 Paseo Cipres in the cooler on my porch during the week starting 3/27. Please drop off no later than Friday evening, 3/31!
  2. On the day of the event, please check in by 1:00 p.m. as we will try to start the actual hunt by 1:15 or so.
  3. If you would like to help with the event (setup, cleanup, face painting, etc.) or for further information contact the social committee email at social@serranopark.org
'HOP' TO SEE YOU THERE

Serrano Park Social Committee

Progressive Garden Party

April 22 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Hello Serrano Park!

We have a date for the next progressive garden party. Meet you neighbors, get some great ideas seeing your neighbor’s yards and/or show off your own beautiful garden!

Event will begin at 24851 Paseo Vendaval at 2:00 with a guest horticulturalist to give some gardening tips.

We then will progress to homes throughout Serrano Park who would like participate and showcase their landscaping/garden- all ideas, styles, creativity welcome!! 

Free event!  

Please respond to: Kellyholliday@cox.net 
by April 15th if you would like to be a featured garden or just walk with us to view! We especially welcome our many new Serrano Park residents!

Serrano Park Social Committee

2023 Planned Events
Greetings from the Social Committee!

 

If you have an idea for an event and would be willing to host it, please contact the Social Committee to discuss your idea,your desired timeframe, and if you will need a budget for the event.
 

The events scheduled for this year are:

  • Easter Egg Hunt (April 1, 1:00 - 3:00)
  • Progressive Garden Party (April 22, 2:00 - 5:00)
  • Family Fun day (proposed for July 8th)
  • Halloween Parade (Sunday afternoon on October 29th)
  • Breakfast with Santa (Saturday morning, December 2nd)
  • Holiday Lights Contest
FAMILY FUN DAY 2023: We need our biggest set of volunteers for Family Fun Day, as this is our main event for everyone.  If you would like to be part of the planning, please contact me at social@serranopark.org.  We could DEFINITELY use your help the day of the event as well!  Please email me at social@serranopark.org with contact information so that we can send out an email and get volunteers signed up for the day.
 
Judi Glass
Social Committee Chair

Minimal Storm Damage

The Serrano Park HOA maintains over 1600 trees and 32 acres of mostly storm flood zones.  Maintaining this tree population and erosion zones in a safe manor, requires careful maintenance practices.  We are pleased to report that thus far this winter, we have experienced very little damage to our trees and erosion to our slopes.

Our large trees are maintained by Great Scott.  These consist of about 1200 trees that we trim on a 3 year cycle.  Of these, we also have about 300 trees on a watch list where we review them each season.  These are very large trees near property lines and other risk areas.  We have a couple hundred smaller trees managed by Harvest plus about 200 street trees that we manage as over-mature trees.  Still, with all that, we only had minor branch failures and a couple of small tree issues so far.

What we see is that our efforts are working, especially with reduced tree failures.
  • Remember the days when large trees would fail or large branches would fall each time the winds came?  These are now rare occurrences. 
  • The Brazilian Pepper street trees have larger canopies, look better, and demonstrate less stress with lower failure rates.  They like the reduced stress from limited, selective pruning and we are seeing that their decline has slowed.
  • The trees along the paths have better clearances, better root protection, and we are trying to promote better staking practices.
  • We are even protecting our volunteer trees better (those naturally growing through self propagating), and see hundreds of baby trees now on our embankments.  These will ensure that we will always have mini forests on these slopes.
  • All of this is due to improved management through urban forest concepts the Landscape Committee now uses.

Landscape Committee

Website Updates

In recent months, we have updated several areas of our serranopark.org  website in an effort to make it easier to find things and to include additional interesting content.  According to our caching engine, we now have nearly 200 pages on our site.

Vendor Articles and Videos - The Landscape Committee teams with some of the best experts in the area to provide the highest quality landscape and tree care our budget will allow.  What most people don't know, is that some of our vendors provide excellent tips and information that is useful to our homeowners.  We have added some of the links to this content on our site HERE

Site Map -To make it easier to find things, we have organized all of the pages in such a way that a site map is now maintained.  This only includes webpages.  It does not include files, forms, posts, and events.  These can be accessed from their referenced pages or by searching the site.  The Site Map is available HERE.
 
Contacts - It can be confusing as to how to find information and whom to contact within our community.  We try to keep all contacts up to date HERE.

Best Practices - These documents serve as the Serrano Park Community Association reference standards for projects, area management, specifications, and procedural guides. They serve as the interpretation of industry
standards as they apply to Serrano Park Community shared property.  The documents posted are primarily created and utilized by the Landscape Committee to achieve a high level of quality and consistency in our landscape services.  We are in the process of updating many of these and have added the ability to read or download the pdf files on the site page.  The current versions are located HERE.

Articles - The Landscape Committee has researched many topics in their efforts to provide advice to the Board and oversight on projects and services.  Several articles summarizing these topics along with the supporting authority references can be found HERE.

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