Raising the Bar
Looking back at 2013, the Desert Ridge Community Association had another excellent year. We’re proud to have finished under budget for the 9th consecutive year and avoided raising any fees for the 18th year in a row. Our reserves are fully funded and our community has never looked better.
We reinvested funds back into our community with a number of large scale landscaping projects including:
• New entrance monuments with branding, signage and lighting
• 3,500 tons of new decomposed granite
• Repaired, replaced and repainted community walls
• Replaced over 3,400 plants
• Refurbished community historical plaques
• Removed noisy scored concrete from roadways
• Added 30 additional dog waste stations
• Installed state of the art, water conserving master irrigation controllers
• Converted and installed 207 walkway bollards with LED lighting and retrofitted bollard light covers with new tamperproof screws
• Enhanced the common area landscape throughout Desert Ridge with the removal of the Angelita Daisies
Additionally, we have effectively reduced our landscape maintenance cycle from 12 weeks to 9 weeks, allowing every area to receive attention more frequently.
Our efforts didn’t go unnoticed, as members of our Association gave us a great deal of positive feedback. We’re also proud to have received the award for best-‐ maintained community from the Arizona Landscape Contractors Association.
Looking forward to 2014, we will continue reinvesting into our community and raising the bar. Our efforts will focus on reducing crime, creating lifestyle, enforcing our CC&R’s and making Desert Ridge the very best community in Phoenix.
We appreciate your support and the opportunity to serve you. I hope to see you in the neighborhood.
Thankfully,
Doug Dickson
President
Desert Ridge Community Association
