Security Gate Campaign Donation and Status
as of June 7, 2024
If you would like to contribute to the Security Gate Capital Campaign, please click on the button below. It will take you to our PayPal site where you can contribute using a credit or debit card. We can also take your contribution via check, or stop by the office if you wish to contribute with cash. We really appreciate your generosity.
You will see progress happening! We engaged an engineer to develop the plan for the upper entrance, to include a turn-around area and two-way traffic (thank you Bob Oreskovic!). A contractor completed work to define traffic and drainage in preparation for the gateway. Chip-and-seal will be applied to protect the road bed, because the entrance cannot be paved until next year. The next phase will include installation of the actual gate, entrance mechanisms and security barriers. The lower entrance is ready for that phase as well.
We're seeking voluntary donations to this campaign, rather than a special assessment. Why? Because we believe there are enough generous members out there that will want to contribute -- especially now that you will see progress! If every member contributed $125 to the project, or every homeowner $500, that will get us to where we need to be.
In the mean time, the board and board member Brian Tharp, have conducted fund raising events, including: a Community Golf Scramble, a downtown Owensville rummage sale (contributions from everyone's spring cleaning) and the first Carl Kurtz Memorial Fishing Tourney.
What is this funding used for? The good news is that we've already blocked access to most of the remote parts of the complex, so the funds are being used to modify the upper and lower entrances with two-way security gates. In addition, funds will be used to enhance the entryways with signage and landscaping to improve aesthetics at both entrances.
We're seeking voluntary donations to this campaign, rather than a special assessment. Why? Because we believe there are enough generous members out there that will want to contribute -- especially now that you will see progress! If every member contributed $125 to the project, or every homeowner $500, that will get us to where we need to be.
In the mean time, the board and board member Brian Tharp, have conducted fund raising events, including: a Community Golf Scramble, a downtown Owensville rummage sale (contributions from everyone's spring cleaning) and the first Carl Kurtz Memorial Fishing Tourney.
What is this funding used for? The good news is that we've already blocked access to most of the remote parts of the complex, so the funds are being used to modify the upper and lower entrances with two-way security gates. In addition, funds will be used to enhance the entryways with signage and landscaping to improve aesthetics at both entrances.
Conceptual Image of Gate and Sign installation at lower entrance
To respond to member entrance and exit convenience concerns, we plan to issue key fobs/cards but also make access possible through an app on your phone. Through the app, you will be able to give guests and contractors one time access codes so you will not have to meet non-members at the gate. Emergency services, utilities and government services (like post office) have a standard access method.