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HOA 2024 Dues Increase

HOA

February 11, 2024

Dear Greenfield Farms Homeowner:

This letter is to notify you that the 2024 annual assessment for Greenfield Farms Homeowners Association (GFF HOA) of Bedford, NH will be going up by $100.00 from last year. The assessment of $595.00 will be due on April 1, 2024, and represents a 20% increase from the prior year. The purpose of this letter is to explain why the Board of Directors increased dues by $100.00.

From 2020 – 2023, the common areas of Greenfield Farms were maintained by Outdoor Pride Landscaping. During late 2019, the Board of Directors entered into a three-year contract with Outdoor Pride and the annual contract price that was offered to our HOA was fixed at $73,426/year. As you may recall, Covid-19 hit in early 2020 and shortly thereafter, labor shortages became prevalent, fuel prices skyrocketed, and inflation rose significantly. During this time, Outdoor Pride was obligated to uphold the contract they offered to GFF HOA even though they were likely facing financial pressure during this uncertain time.

In anticipation of a significant increase in pricing for the 2024 year from our incumbent, Outdoor Pride, the Board of Directors decided to issue a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) to multiple landscaping companies in an effort to obtain the best possible pricing. As it turns out, many larger landscaping companies chose not to submit a bid to GFF HOA, preferring not to deal with Homeowner Associations. Some other companies were concerned about not having sufficient labor to handle their existing customers, let alone taking on a property as large as Greenfield Farms. That being said, we did receive a bid from Morin’s Landscaping and Outdoor Pride. Morin’s offered GFF HOA a two-year contract for $84,770 per year. Outdoor Pride’s proposal came in at slightly over $92,000 and they only offered a one-year contract.

The Board of Directors had heard good things about Morin’s Landscaping and contacted 6-8 of their references, all homeowners’ associations. We heard glowing reports that most of Morin’s employees have been with them for a long time and are well trained. As well, their references said Morin’s has wonderful attention to detail, they provide excellent service, have prompt response times, and they assign a dedicated manager/foreman to our contract for easy communication if problems occur. Given these glowing endorsements and the fact that they offered a two-year contract at more than $7,000 less than Outdoor Pride, the Board of Directors made the decision to move our landscaping contract to Morin’s effective 2024 through 2025.

The increase of $11,344 in landscaping contract costs from 2023 to 2024 ($84,770 – $73,426 = $11,344) essentially results in an increase of $51.79/homeowner/year. The Morin’s contract at $84,770 will cover spring and fall clean-up, weekly mowing, fertilization, GFP ornamental tree pruning, shrub trimming and weeding. Additional services like brush overgrowth cutback, replacement of trees and shrubbery from storm damage, removal of fallen trees etc. are not covered in the landscaping contract. These services are offered by Morin’s but on an ad-hoc basis and are priced separately. Now that the Greenfield Parkway road pavement project is complete (with the exception of the bridge repair), one project we anticipate undertaking is to improve the center medians of the Greenfield Parkway. Many of the mulch beds were removed with the repaving project and many shrubs have died. The Board has allocated an additional $11K from last year’s budget for these projects which equates to an additional $50/household from last year.

If you wish to view the 2024 budget in more detail, please go to www.greenfieldfarmsnh.com and navigate to the Welcome page. On the right-hand side, you’ll see under “Recent Posts,” the HOA 2024 Operating Budget. If you open this presentation, you’ll see on slide 7 more detail regarding 2023 actual expenses vs. budget and the 2024 budget.

The Board of Directors is working hard to maintain a beautiful neighborhood here at Greenfield Farms while always striving to keep costs as low as possible. As well, we are always looking for volunteers. If you wish to know more about what the Board of Directors does to serve Greenfield Farms, please feel free to email us at bod@greenfieldfarmsnh.com.

Respectfully,

Board of Directors,
Greenfield Farms, Bedford NH
PO Box 10344
Bedford, NH 03110

HOA 2023 Fee Due April 1

HOA

PSA GFF HOA 2023 Fee due April 1

Just a friendly reminder – HOA fees are due April 1st. Late fees will start May 1. Everyone should have received their invoice for $495 please mail your payment to:

Greenfield Farms Homeowners Association
PO Box 970065
Boston, MA 02297–0065

If you have questions on your account please call Evergreen management at 603-622-7000 ext 6800

Greenfield Parkway Repaving Project

Notifications

Greenfield Parkway Repaving Project  – from Sentry Rd. – Wallace Road (doesn’t impact entrance at Liberty Hill Rd. west to immediately past Bridge).

Greenfield Parkway Repaving Project Update: June 12, 2023

Paving will start on Monday, 6/12/23, at approximately 6:30 am, and may run as late as 6:00pm.  During that time frame, the Parkway will become a one way road.  Anyone entering Greenfield Farms will have to enter from Liberty Hill Road, and exit onto Wallace Road.  There will be detour signs in place, but all traffic should use Meadow Road as a detour.  In addition, and as much as possible, we will be detouring people around the paving using the Sentry – Tumble – Winding detour.

As always school buses will be unaffected, and signage and flaggers will be in place to assist motorists.

Greenfield Parkway Repaving Project Update: June 6, 2023 – June 9, 2023

Tuesday and Wednesday (6/6 and 6/7):
Reclaim and grading operations will occur between Sentry and the
intersection of Winding Road and Summit Road.  The contractor will start at
Sentry in the West Bound Lane.  Once the West Bound Lane is Complete (Late
Morning Early afternoon), the East Bound Lane of the same area will be
started, and then completed on Wednesday.  During this entire operation,
Winding Road to Sentry Road detour will be in place.  We would encourage
residents to use the Wallace Road end of the Development to enter and exit
the Parkway.

Wednesday – Thursday (6/7-6/8):
The Section from the intersection of Summit Road and Winding Road to Wallace
Road will be Reclaimed and graded.  There will be alternating one way
traffic in this area.  We encourage all residents of the development to use
the Liberty Hill end of the Parkway to enter and exit the development as
much as possible.

Friday 6/9:
Fine Grading operations will be taking place.  During this time there will
be multiple pieces of equipment moving at slow rates of speed throughout the
Parkway.  We would ask for the patience from drivers during this time, as
there is no effective way to detour as the equipment will be moving from end
to end.  We will do our best to assist driver around the equipment as
efficiently as possible.  If you have an appointment or some place to be
that is time sensitive, you should plan on giving yourself an additional 10
to 15 mins.

As always there will be flaggers and signage in place to help drivers
navigate the site.

Greenfield Parkway Repaving Project Update: May 30, 2023 – June 9, 2023

Tuesday 5/30: Pipe crossing East of the intersection of Winding Road and Summit Road.

Wednesday 5/31 – Thursday 6/1: The crew will be working in the intersection of Summit Road and Winding Road. Please avoid the area if possible. We would encourage all residents to use the Liberty Hill end of the Parkway, and the most Easterly ends of both Summit and Winding Roads.

Thursday 6/1- Friday 6/2: Working in the West bound lane West of the intersection with Duck Hollow headed towards Wallace Road.

Monday June 5th: Working West of the Intersection with Duck Hollow.

Tuesday 6/6 – Friday 6/9: Completing pipe crossings Between Duck Hollow and Wallace Road.

As always, signage and flaggers will be in place to assist motorists.

Greenfield Parkway Repaving Project Update: May 15, 2023 – May 19, 2023

The pipe crew will continue to work in the east bound lane of the parkway, headed towards Wallace Road.  The inspector or superintendent will be notifying the residents that live on that section of the parkway of any impact the project will have to the access of their property as the crew gets closer to their homes.

In addition, sometime between Tuesday/Wednesday and again between Thursday/Friday, the crew will be replacing crossing pipes that go to structures in the west bound lane.

As always there will be flaggers and detour signs in place to help drivers navigate the project.

Greenfield Parkway Repaving Project Update: 5/3/2023

From May 3, 2023 – May 5, 2023, the crew will begin replacing the pipe located between Marrett and Summit in the eastbound lane. They will be in this section of roadway for approximately 2 weeks. Any resident within this zone will be contacted on a case by case basis if their property will be directly impacted. These residents should be aware of any detour signage at the bottom of their respective driveways. As always, flaggers and signage will be used to assist motorists.

As a reminder, if any resident has anything installed within 8’ of the back of the curb along the parkway (irrigation system, landscape lighting, dog fence), please mark it with flags or paint. The crew will make every effort not to damage marked items. If it is not marked and crews are unaware, damage may be more damage extensive. The Town of Bedford advises that either way, reinstallation and repair will be the homeowner’s responsibility.

Greenfield Parkway Construction Update:  4/20/23

For 4/20/23-4/21/23, construction will continue to replace pipe in the east bound lane of the parkway between Cottage Walk.

Week of 4/24/23:  Construction of pipe replacement will continue in the East bound lane through 4/26/23 or 4/27/23.  Thereafter, construction crew will cross through the center island working in the West bound lane heading east toward the intersection of Winding Rd.  As always, there will be Flaggers and signage to assist motorists.

Update:

From Monday, 4/17/23 – Wednesday 4/19/23, please note that The drainage work will be continuing in the east bound side of the parkway from Marrett, East to include both intersections with Cottage Walk.  For the Residents on Cottage Walk, please be aware that on Monday afternoon, or Tuesday morning you will have to enter and exit Cottage Walk near the Soccer Field, as the crew will need to cross the intersection with pipe.

As always there will be signage and flaggers to assist motorists.

Project commences 4/10/23 and expected to run through 7/4/23 with final topcoat expected this fall.  Updates will be posted here so check back frequently.

Soccer field parking will be closed to the public starting on 4/10/23 as it will be used as a staging area for equipment, materials, town use.  Contractor, Continental Paving, will be working from 7 am – 4 pm, Monday – Friday and will start by removing the curb at Sentry Road heading west towards Wallace Road.  From 4/10/23 – 4/14/23, no detours are expected.  Flaggers will be onsite to direct traffic around the crew.

Town of Bedford and Contractor will ensure every precaution is taken and accommodations are made for buses, emergency vehicles and mail delivery.

During the entire project, residents/drivers are asked to slow down and use caution when driving through the construction zone.

Thank you!