12 | SUNRAYS MAY 2015
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• Click “Search”
• Scroll down the page to order
house numbers
May Schedule: Landscaped Maintained Homes
Next LMH meeting
Wednesday, May 6, 10 a.m., AC MR 3/4
APRIL Scheduled Landscaping Maintenance
Weekly Mowing • Monthly Irrigation Check
Shrub Pruning • Weeding of Bed Areas
Insect & Disease Monitoring
Questions or suggestions
Email: David Longacre -
Email: Aaron Johnson -
May is usually the last good time for
painting the exterior of your home until
fall. If you need help with determining
the current scheme of your home (which
is required when repainting the same
color), log onto the website and click on
Departments &Hours, then Community
Standards, and then choose Paint Sche-
ma. If you don’t know your Series, click
on House Models and find your model
under its Series. The Series will tell you
which schemes to choose from in order
to replicate your home’s original design.
We suggest you locate which of the avail-
able schemes feature your accent or pop-
out color and work from there. Another
option is to think about whether the
stucco is darker or lighter than the trim
and in which family of colors your house
is painted (i.e. browns, blues or greys).
Most paint color schemes for homes built
in the last two years are available on file.
COMMON AREAs
Common areas exist not only for our
visual enjoyment but also to serve as
drainage easements, preventing floods
during heavy rainstorms. Some of these
drainage easements are protected by the
state and some are federally designated.
Use of these for other purposes can lead
to fines from local and federal authorities.
Our staff is educated in how to maintain
these areas for the protection of the entire
community.
MEMORIAL DAY
Memorial Day is the last Monday in May
– this year, it falls on May 25. We always
have a wonderful presentation at the Vet-
erans Plaza to honor our fallen heroes.
For those who choose to fly the American
Flag in honor of Memorial Day, remember
to follow the procedures for flying our
flag with honor. These are listed in the
Design Guidelines on pages 58-60.
Ginny Wagner can be reached at
512-948-7462 or email
Bits of info from Ginny’s Desk
Submitted by Ginny Wagner, Community Standards Supervisor
• COPs patrols from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
and is manned by your neighbors.
• That’s 14 hours a day, 7 days a week,
365 day a year, helping to keep Sun
City safe.
• COPs patrol on all holidays.
• 40% of COPs volunteers are women.
• In February alone, COPs drove ap-
proximately 5,800 miles in Sun City
– that’s almost 500 hours of driving!
• The COPs office staff volunteered ap-
proximately 2,100 hours during 2014.
• COPs has an Emergency Response
Team (ERT), which helps in events
such as the tanker spill.
• 10% of COPs Emergency Response
Team volunteers are women.
• COPs provides traffic control volun-
teers for Memorial Day, Veterans Day,
Fourth of July Parade, Shred Day, Re-
source Guide/Directory distribution
and other events as needed.
• COPs needs more volunteers as driv-
ers, observers and office staff.
• COPs encourages husband and wife
teams.
• COPs asks a minimum of four hours
per month.
• COPs provides a FREE uniform (shirt
and hat) and FREE training!
• COPs allows you to patrol based on
your schedule.
Be a COP! Volunteer just four hours
a month in two-hour shifts. You can
drive, staff the office (from your
home) or maintain cars (gas up, take
in for service or to the car wash). Call
the office at 512-966-1362, Monday
through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Do you know about Citizens on Patrol (COPs)?
Submitted by Susanne White, COPS volunteer
Gone for the summer?
Forward your
Sun Rays
!
If you are leaving town for the summer
and want to have your
Sun Rays
for-
warded to you, please change your ad-
dress to your new, temporary location
at the CA Member Services Office. The
magazine will be sent to the new address
by first-class mail. If you have questions
about this process, please contact the
Communications Office.
The
Sun Rays
is also available online at
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