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!

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.

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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.

As we discussed in our May 30th Resident Meeting, the HOA Board of Directors is seeking your opinion on good characteristics for a management company. The management company manages all aspects of operations for our HOA, including board elections, annual assessments, accounting, maintenance oversight, compliance enforcement and customer service. It also interfaces with neighboring associations and municipalities on our behalf. The Board has engaged a few residents to assist us in interviewing and reviewing proposals from seven prospective bidders. Any of the seven bidders could do the job, but they vary in organization, practices, methods and costs. While the board intends to find the best balance of service and cost, we would love to hear from you about what you feel is important. If you would like to provide your input, please take a few moments to provide your input on what characteristics you would desire in a property management company by following the link below. (Hope this works. This is my first survey attempt).

BH Management Company Survey

Please welcome Lauren Berzette as our new property manager for Brook Highland, replacing Nicole Predhomme at Neighborhood Management, LLC. She can be reached at the same number, 205-877-9480 or by email at Lauren@nhmllc.org.

Attention Brook Highland Residents

In our continuing efforts to bring value to our neighborhood, the Board of Directors will be seeking proposals for management services for our Homeowners Association.   Our current provider, Neighborhood Management, LLC has been serving our neighborhood since their formation in 2006.  Neighborhood Management now supports a large number and type of associations across Alabama and the Southeast.  Now that we are a resident-led Association, we believe it is in our best interest to solicit proposals from additional providers to ensure we are receiving the best overall value and service. 

This process will take several weeks and will involve a small group of residents to assist in this task.  We will interview potential providers, sharing what we expect and reviewing what they have to offer.  We will request closed bids for our evaluation and comparison.  We plan to complete this process before the fall so that we can plan our execution prior to the first of next year barring any potential transition plan limitations.

We have contacted other area neighborhoods and Associations to identify companies in good standing that have experience with associations similar to our neighborhood.  We have identified the following companies as potential providers.

Neighborhood Management, LLC

Premier Property Management Group

Selective Management Services

Property Management, Inc.

Community Management Associates

Southern Property Group

We will keep you informed of our progress and will communicate details as appropriate.

Thank you.

It’s food drive time! The Boy Scouts of America Pack 538 will begin their annual food drive next weekend. On Saturday, February 3, paper bags and flyers will be distributed to mailboxes. The bags will be picked up the following Saturday, February 10.

As a reminder, if you choose to participate, please to not donate expired items as those items cannot be used and must be thrown out.

They are excited to be partnering with Brook Highland for this food drive so let’s show them some love!