Dear Lakeside Property Owner:

As you know, you are represented by the Lakeside Property Owner�s Association (LPOA), a community organization that helps maintain the quality of life in our neighborhood. LPOA is governed by a Board, which meets monthly on the second Tuesday of each month in the Junipero Serra Clubhouse. The LPOA membership meets in a general session once each year, and the minutes from the February general membership meeting are attached for your review.

Some of the things you may or may not know about the organization are:

• We interact with the Board of Supervisors, the Department of Public Works, and the Department of Traffic to assure services to our neighborhood. These include things like beautification of the medians along Junipero Serra Boulevard, painting the no-parking area curbs, and assuring good parking enforcement. We work with the police and fire departments to point out problems or help support their work.
• We arrange for a rotating cycle of tree pruning (this is one of the main expenses supported by your dues) in the neighborhood.
• We hold an annual picnic and fundraiser, with proceeds going to our neighborhood park.
• We have published a regular community newsletter thanks to the commitment of one of our previous Board members.
• We interact with other community groups, Stonestown Shopping Center, and San Francisco State University to help improve our neighborhood.

The keys to maintaining neighborhood quality are the contributions of the neighbors and community members. Your LPOA now needs new people who can take interest in the neighborhood through membership on the Board and especially through the production of the quarterly newsletter. We have been lucky to have neighbors like Wolfgang Liebelt to do this in the past, but we need new members who can give just a little of their time to community betterment. Property values, public safety, and livability are important to us all, and thus we ask that you get involved!

For example, thanks to the �Friends of Junipero Serra Playground, on June 2, the clubhouse renovation effort reached an important milestone.  The plans for the new park and clubhouse received a key approval from the Recreation and Parks Department, and  Project Manager Lizzy Hirsch (Lizzy.Hirsch@sfgov.org) anticipates these plans going out to bid at the end of August.  Construction is scheduled to start by year-end. It is important to note that the Merced Branch Library will also under reconstruction about this same time.

The immediate need for LPOA is for ONE new Board member; the Board meets monthly on the second Tuesday of each month at the Junipero Serra Clubhouse; we will move to a temporary site as the clubhouse is demolished and rebuilt sometime later in 2006. We share duties as projects arise, but the time commitment is quite modest (perhaps a few hours each month). As current Board members step down, we will need additional Board members next year.

The other immediate need is for a newsletter editor. This person should have good computer skills, networks within the community, and the ability to put together stories and pictures for a very modest newsletter each quarter. Help with mailing and printing is available, and the Board offers $100 per issue as an honorarium.

So�now that summer is almost over, please consider joining our Board or becoming a newsletter editor for your community organization. There is some fun to be had, and there is a need for your participation! If interested, please call the LPOA number and leave a message on the machine.

With best wishes,

Hal Harper, LPOA Board President