YARD OF THE QUARTER POLICY, STANDARDS
AND PROCEDURES
Updated January 19, 2011
Policy
It is the policy of the Avondale Homeowners Association to
encourage and reward its members who, by extra effort beautify their yards,
thereby enhancing the quality of our neighborhood.The Board of Directors will award, quarterly,
a homeowner with our Yard of the Quarter sign and a gift certificate based on
the following standards and procedures.The winning homeowner will be featured in the quarterly newsletter.
Standards
In order to qualify for yard of the quarter, the
homeowner/yard should meet the following criteria:
Be
clean
Be
neat
Creative
use of land features
Have
curb appeal
Promote
the use of native vegetation
Good
use of color
Landscaping
compliments the home
Maintain
the yard consistently
Interesting
use of yard art or decorations
Holiday
decorations may also be considered for the December award
Procedures
Yard
of the quarter will be award in March, June, September and December
The
Board will appoint the yard of the quarter coordinator who may select
other volunteers.
The
yard of the quarter coordinator will tour the neighborhood and select
three yards for consideration.
The yard
of the quarter coordinator will email the addresses of the three yards, in
rank order 1 to 3, to the other
board members so they might visit the yards.
After
input from the Board members, if any, the yard of the quarter coordinator
will select the winner for that quarter.
The yard
of the quarter coordinator will retrieve the sign from the current winner
and award it to the new winner along with the gift certificate the same
week.
The yard
of the quarter coordinator will take a picture of the winner and provide
it to the newsletter coordinator that same week.
The
board will strive to encourage yard beatification by awarding yard of the
quarter to homeowners who are not previous winners.