Arbor Hills Adopt A Park Spring Workday
Saturday, May 15th, 2010 at 2 p.m.
Meet at Kilburn Park

Please bring gardening tools for tending and installing flower beds, and work gloves.

Spring is in the air, and in order to better ready the parks for enjoyment, please join us in tending the neighborhood parks.

Arbor HIlls will once again be participating in the city wide Adopt A Park Spring Kickoff this year. Please note that our event is planned for slightly later in the day than many of the other parks.

Aside from regular spring maintenance of the Kilburn Park flower beds, we will be installing a couple of tree rings around trees planted last fall. We will finally be installing a long planned flower bed in Arbor Hills Park and the picnic table in the park will be relocated to a more accessible area. We will also be looking for feedback from those involved as to future improvements for Arbor Hills Park.

If you can't attend and you are interested in future workdays, please contact the Board on the web site Contact Form. We may have work left over from the workday to split out among interested individuals to do on their own time. We are also looking for a volunteer to refill water bags on the small trees this summer on a weekly basis.

Rezoning Hearing for Kilburn Park, Arbor Hills Park, and Arbor Hills Nature Area
March 16, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Council Chambers, 2nd Floor, City Hall, 100 N. 5th Avenue

A notice for a public hearing has been sent out to those Arbor Hills homes within 300 feet of Kilburn Park, Arbor Hills Park, and Arbor Hills Nature Area for the rezoning of the land from PUD to PL. What is not clear from the notices is that the parcel marked Arbor Hills Nature Area acutally covers both Arbor Hills Park and Arbor Hills Nature Area.

The Board is inquiring as to whether the status of Arbor Hills Park is being dissolved or if this was some sort of error.

Alone, these rezoning changes might seem inconsequential, or "simply bookkeeping" as has been passed on as the City's official take. However, in conjunction with the changes to City Code that were passed last year, allowing the City to sell public lands without voter approval if they are not being used as parks, and that the mowing for Arbor Hills has been recently approved by the City Council as a financial cutback, this could potentially leave the park at greater risk in the future. On the other hand, Kilburn Park, being centrally located with a playground and a highly visible element of Arbor HIlls is at very little risk.

Prior to the City Council's budget meeting this past Monday evening, March 8, the Board sent a message to the Council asking them to consider other means achieving financial cutbacks and specifically asked them to challenge the Parks deparment to lower their mowing costs from $4,000 per acre, extremely high by comparison to the commercial rates the Association has seen.

If you have interest in the rezoning of these parcels, we encourage you attend the City Council meeting. For more information or suggestions to the City Planning Staff, please contact them at planning@gov.org

January 2010 Association Dues Assessment
Due on January 1, 2010

The initial payment of Arbor Hills' association dues are due on January 1, 2010 and must be received at the business office of Select Community Management by January 10th or a late fee of $35 will be added making the payment due $290.

Payments can also be arranged for by e-check or credit card through the Mutual of Omaha's Community Asssociation Banc, the Association's bank or by submitting form authorizing electronic payments to our management company. Directions can be found on our Dues page.