🏡 Upcoming Improvements to Briarwood
September 2025
✨ Preferred Vendors –
A preferred vendor is a service provider that comes to your home on a recurring basis, such as a landscaper, pool company, irrigation company, home watch, cleaning company, etc. Since Briarwood has over 600 homes, you can imagine the congestion at the front gate since it only takes 4 cars before they are backed up onto Livingston Rd. Often, we forget to call the vendors in causing delay, confusion, and people getting upset. Streamlining vendor and service provider access to the community to help traffic safety at our entrances and wear and tear on our community is an important effort to Ken and the Board.
The Solution is to use “Preferred Vendors” for our recurring services. Vendors can become a “Preferred Vendor” for a fee of $100 per year payable to BPOA, Inc., along with licensure and insurance requirements so management can vet and put such on file to help protect the association and homeowners. A preferred vendor will receive two barcodes to bypass the gate attendants and utilize the Radio Road entrance gate for convenience and offset the backup of vehicular traffic in the non-resident lane. Registered vendors also have the option for more barcodes if they have multiple service vehicles which are used to service homeowners. They will also appear on our “Preferred Vendors List” on our website and then a resource for residents for choosing service providers already working in the community. We must insist that all the recurring vendors we use become preferred vendors, or they risk losing your business. If we all stick together, the benefits will not only be less gate congestion, but less wear and tear on our roadways since we won’t have so many vendors. If you have a recurring vendor who refuses to register to be “Preferred,” you can still use them; however, you will then have to call such vendor into the gate each day of servicing you for access.
✨ Briarwood’s Governing Documents (Declaration/Bylaws/ Articles) Need Updating –
Currently, Briarwood is operating under mostly original governing language from the last developer/builder with few amendments. If you have read them, you will notice most of what exists is obsolete and shall be omitted. The plan is to clean it up by removing what is no longer needed and updating the language to reflect all current laws. Updating the documents is not an easy or cheap task but needs to be done. It takes an approving member vote to accomplish after all the hard work, so we need member participation and involvement to be on the same path. Your vote matters!
✨ Website Upgrade –
The plan is to improve our website for it to become the “go to” place for the Preferred Vendor List, listing of events, a community calendar, activity schedules, and become a valuable tool for residents to stay informed. Managing and updating content can be a challenge, so we hope to find a few volunteers who are a little computer savvy. After upgrades and updates, we will need volunteers who like to plan events so we can start putting our clubhouse to use!