March 2025, Issue 1
Introducing our new quarterly neighborhood newsletter.
Neighborhood Garage Sale
Neighborhood Garage Sale
Saturday, March 15th 8am-12pm
The Brook Highland HOA is hosting our annual neighborhood garage sale and everyone is invited to join!
We will advertise the sale to our local community by posting online in various facebook pages, the nextdoor app, etc. Interested shoppers can click on a link to view a map of participants along with a summary of what items will be for sale at each house.
To participate in the garage sale and be included in the map, please fill out this google form made by Rebecca Jones, our resident form maker.
The HOA will supply a garage sale kit put together by Jackie Neuman-Waites. The kits will contain 2 green balloons to affix to your mailbox the morning of the sale. They can be picked up at Jackie’s house at 3769 Kinross Drive from March 7th-March 14th. The kits will be placed in a small container by the front door. To help us stay organized, please mark your name and address on the list provided when your kit is collected.
At the conclusion of the neighborhood garage sale, the Lovelady Center donation truck is scheduled to come through the neighborhood beginning at 1PM. The ladies will load the items you wish to donate into the truck. More information and instructions for donation pickup will be posted at a later time. You can opt-in for this convenient service within the sign-up form.
Thank you! We look forward to another successful sale!
Brook Highland Resident Meeting
February 4, 2025
UPDATED to attach meeting minutes. https://brookhighland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/BH-Resident-Meeting-Minutes-2-4-25.docx.pdf
The Brook Highland HOA will hold an informational meeting with the Residents of Brook Highland at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 in the Community Room at The Church at Brookhills. This meeting is to review the status of the HOA, our 2024 accomplishments and to engage with residents on priorities for the future. We will review the results from the survey we recently sent out (you can still provide your input if you have not already done so). We also want to discuss the possibility of updating our covenants and what topical areas need to be addressed. Please join us if you can. We will post a meeting summary to this link within two weeks after the meeting.
The HOA has also targeted the following dates for Resident Meetings this year. These meetings are posted on our website calendar, accessed via the “Events List” on our Main Page. Note, these dates are subject to change but will be communicated on this website and via HOA email distribution.
2025 Brook Highland HOA Resident Meetings
February 4, 2025
April 17, 2025
July 15, 2025
October 28, 2025*
(* – Annual meeting to elect Board)
Resident Survey
We had some great discussion and questions in our annual meeting last October. The meeting minutes were reposted to the meeting notice on this website. Since many of you could not attend, we’d like to get your thoughts on a few of the topics discussed and ideas for the future. We’ll be discussing your feedback at the next Resident Meeting coming soon. Give us your thoughts by filling out the survey at the link below. (Note, this survey was also sent out via email by Neighborhood Management on behalf of Brook Highland.)
https://forms.gle/nJ1ZRmtDp4aLM51M6
Thank you in advance for taking the time to fill out the form.
ONE SUBMISSION PER HOME PLEASE. If you have any questions or want to be added to the HOA email list, contact Lauren Berzette lauren@nhmllc.org
Drainage Flume Clean-out
Our landscape Contractor, The Southern Landscape Firm, will be removing loose debris from the concrete drainage flumes and select ditches throughout the neighborhood this week. They do not plan to use any heavy equipment but will be accessing the drainage easements where the easements intersect select street locations.
Workers should not traverse outside the associated easements and should leave the access points clean. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Lauren Berzette at (205) 877-9480, or the HOA board at HOA@Brookhighland.com.
BWWB Meeting Notes
Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) representatives met with residents on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 to discuss their Lake Purdy Dam Stability Improvement Project. Their presentation (attached) provides an overview of this project along with background on the BWWB system and the importance of Lake Purdy. This project was approved for start in November of 2024 and is scheduled to be completed in August 2028. The first part of the project will be to widen the access road that traverses from Hwy 119 to the dam, between Lake Purdy and Brook Highland (in close proximity to Wingfield Trace). This will be the primary entrance for construction, delivery and crew traffic. Their normal work schedule will be Monday through Friday, 7:30 am to 6:00 pm.
The BWWB has offered to provide us with future updates on the progress of this project, including additional meetings if needed. They also provided us with contact information in the event we have additional concerns.
Brook Highland Luminaries
Holiday luminaries once lit up the streets of Brook Highland and it’s time to bring the tradition back! Emily Dieguez has been working diligently to get the holiday luminaries started up again. She has volunteered her lower driveway as the sand dumping ground and is working to recruit volunteers for assembly and disbursement. If you see her, be sure to thank her for all of her hard work! To do my small part to help her out, I have created a Google form to streamline and organize the ordering and volunteers. If you’re interested in ordering and/or volunteering, please fill out the Google form. If you’re feeling extra generous, consider gifting luminaries to your friends/neighbors!
Once you fill out the order form, please Venmo $10 per house to @BH-Lights to pay. If you do not have Venmo, please bring cash at pick up. Thanks so much for helping to make our neighborhood even more beautiful for the holidays! If you have any questions, you can reach out to the Luminary team from the Facebook posts on Brook Highland Neighbors, or contact Emily Dieguez at 205-317-5612.
To order: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfo-2AjoY36pQSZ7lEYl7Lhf-SuW-WPJgYs9qCdT8TAVLCjSw/viewform
To pay: https://venmo.com/u/BH-Lights
As always, thank you to our wonderful HOA (Jay, David, & Sheri) for their support in bringing this tradition back!
BWWB Plans to Upgrade Lake Purdy Dam
A meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday evening (November 19, 2024) at The Church of Brook Hills. This meeting is for those residents who feel they will be affected by the upcoming Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) project to renovate the dam on Lake Purdy. Construction traffic will utilize the existing access road from US Hwy 119 that loops between Lake Purdy and Brook Highland (near Wingfield Trace). Part of the first part of the project will include improvements on the access road.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 PM in Room C122. Please enter from the parking lot through Door #2.
NOTE: The Church of Brook Hills does have other functions previously scheduled at the church Tuesday night.
https://link.edgepilot.com/s/871b4bab/FOUBO81IrE_YRfuOrXTjgw?u=https://bhamnow.com/2024/10/15/lake-purdy-dam-upgrade-enhancing-water-safety/
Annual Meeting
UPDATED to attach meeting minutes. https://brookhighland.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-Annual-Meeting-Minutes-10242024.docx
Chief Buddy Wilks of the Cahaba Valley Fire Department will be at our meeting to give us an update on the CVFD. Our Shelby County Commissioner, Rick Shepherd, will also be present at our meeting. Hope to see you there!
The annual meeting of the Brook Highland Homeowners Association will be held Thursday, October 24th at 6:00 pm in the Community Room at The Church at Brookhills. The primary purpose of the annual meeting is to elect the Board of Directors. A letter announcing the meeting has been mailed to all residents. If you are interested in being on the Board, please return the candidate form attached to the letter to Neighborhood Management by October 11th. A subsequent letter will be sent out with instructions for voting. You will be able to either mail in your ballot, vote online, or at the meeting.
The current Board of Directors will provide an HOA update at the meeting and a copy of the draft 2025 budget.
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
Please contact Lauren Berzette at lauren@nhmllc.org or (205) 877-9480 if you have any questions.
Management Company Selection
The Board is pleased to announce the selection of Neighborhood Management, LLC, to continue serving as our property manager for Brook Highland Homeowners Association. Earlier this year the Board set out to ensure that our HOA was receiving the best services available for our community. We engaged a team of residents, solicited proposals and conducted interviews with seven management companies. Through this process we were able to compare services, processes, and cost structures. We found that we were already getting the services we needed yet found a few possible areas for improvement.
Neighborhood Management aggressively sought to retain our business. They lowered their baseline management fee by 11%, adjusted some of their ancillary fees, assigned a new property manager, and have begun improvements in their compliance process and responsiveness. The selection team picked Neighborhood Management in consideration of these factors along with the intangible benefits of retaining ties to our original development and proximity to other managed associations.
During this process, we also learned that our Association needed to establish our own written policy for collections in conjunction with our Management Agreement. The Board has approved a collections policy in accordance with our governance and consistent with our current process. This policy will be provided to you via mail in accordance with our governing documents. This policy and the new Management Agreement will go into effect January 1, 2025.
Thank you for your patience and input regarding this significant task. The Board would also like to thank our selection team for their hard work and assistance. If you have any questions, please let us know at hoa@brookhighland.org.