Lynn Gonzalez

WCA Board Chair Michiel Oostenbrink opened the March Voting Members meeting with a brief update on association business. The removal of the nonfunctional Frontier pedestals will be complete once Stonebridge has been finished, he reported. He thanked the Government Affairs Committee for spearheading the multiyear effort and advised anyone whose pedestal had been missed to

WCA Treasurer Terry Boyd did not attend the February board meeting, so there was no treasurer’s report. President Michiel Oostenbrink asked GAC Chair Rick Goldstein to present his monthly report. Goldstein began by moving to nominate Mark Zais to serve on the committee as CDD liaison. His motion passed unanimously. Goldstein shared that he had

Government Affairs Committee Chair and Woodbridge VM Rick Goldstein introduced Dave Eggers, Vice Chair of the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners, at February’s Voting Members meeting. Eggers was there to speak about growth and development in the area, as well as efforts that Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas counties were making to work together to

Government Affairs Committee Chair and Woodbridge VM Rick Goldstein introduced Hillsborough County Neighborhood Liaison Mary-Elizabeth Fuentes, who spoke about the mini-grants that are available to HOAs. Thirteen communities within Westchase have HOAs and are therefore eligible to apply for the grants, which max out at $5,000, shared Fuentes. She encouraged the HOAs to start thinking

Reggie Gillis, who serves as a supervisor on the CDD board, came to the January WCA Board meeting to voice his opinion as a Westchase resident. The CDD is moving forward with plans to pursue purchasing the Westchase Golf Club, said Gillis, and the negative interactions between local golfers and residents near the golf club

A Westchase resident took the floor at the regularly scheduled November WCA meeting to request that the board agree to convert Countryway tennis courts #1 and #2 into dual-use tennis/pickleball courts. He stated that while there are eight tennis courts and six pickleball courts, demand for pickleball far outweighs that for tennis, especially during peak

The Nov. 7 meeting was called to discuss the reserve item list prior to finalizing the coming year’s budget. President Michiel Oostenbrink began by explaining that the previous board had prioritized each of the 147 items on the reserve list on a scale from 0 to 5, with 0 assigned to projects that had recently