December 2023 Newsletter

MESSAGE FROM YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Happy December! The Holidays are here and with 2024 just around the corner, your HSBPOA Board of Directors would like to extend best wishes for a joyful season, good health and prosperity in the year ahead to you and your family. Although times have been a bit challenging, we have much to be grateful for, particularly all of you who have expressed your support and solidarity with the Board of Directors during trying times, the volunteers who are eager to participate and make a difference in our community, the many city employees who work hard in providing us safety and security at our homes and the HSB POA office staff who daily are happy to assist our members with different functions and services.

As a manner of clarification for our members regarding the litigation filed by the Horseshoe Bay Declarant and Horseshoe Bay Resort, and the HSB POA Board’s cancellation of the landscape agreements with those entities earlier this year, your POA Board, as a group of volunteers, is merely trying to comply with the terms of the POA’s governing documents including fee limits and caps established in those documents. We want Horseshoe Bay to be as beautiful as possible, but also want the Horseshoe Bay Declarant and Horseshoe Bay Resort to honor the requirements set by the Hurds. The HSB POA Board of Directors has never engaged in any alleged financial misconduct. Furthermore, we have never neglected the HSB POA’s duties as delineated in the Declaration of Reservations, nor have we ever contended that the HSB POA does not have contractual obligations along with the Horseshoe Bay Declarant and Horseshoe Bay Resort.

As part of the lawsuit, there was an Injunction Hearing held on November 15, 2023. At this hearing, the Horseshoe Bay Declarant and Horseshoe Bay Resort were seeking injunctive relief and brought claims of breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract against the HSB POA Board of Directors and two individuals, Donald Beeman, HSB POA President, and Belinda Roberts, HSB POA Treasurer.

District Court Judge Evan Stubbs presided over the hearing and denied the injunction relief pursued by the Horseshoe Bay Declarant and Horseshoe Bay Resort. Judge Stubbs ordered both parties to engage in mediation in order to reach an agreement concerning how the parties will work together on identifying and prioritizing landscape maintenance and other community improvement projects going forward.

We look forward to obtaining a resolution to this contractual dispute and continue to foster a good relationship with the Horseshoe Bay Declarant and the Horseshoe Bay Resort. We hope to be able to attain clear parameters and procedures that will help future board members and the community as a whole.

Currently, the Board’s Parks Renovation Committee is working diligently to clear dead vegetation and clean up on Fox Park and the Horseshoe Creek Hiking Trail. We are applying to obtain different grants that will facilitate clean up and improvements in the near future. Our Capital Projects Committee is in the process of working on plans and approvals for the Big Spur entrance.

The HSB POA is excited to welcome our members and their families to this year’s Member Holiday Party titled Holiday by the Bay. As in years past, the Business Alliance will present their Citizen of the Year award. We will serve drinks, delicious food prepared by Miss Vickie’s Catering, we will feature a special dance presentation by Taylor Gray Dance as well as live music and dancing with the Natural Causes Band. Be ready to join the celebration on Monday, December 4 starting at 4:30 PM.

As 2024 approaches, we are eager to work on the different projects and activities that are scheduled. This cannot be accomplished without the help of our much-appreciated volunteers. Volunteering strengthens our ties with our beloved community, enables us to meet new people and stablish new connections, additionally it brings fun and a sense of fulfillment into our lives. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Karen Calderon-Schweitzer via email at karen@hsbpoa.org or call the POA office at (830) 598-8795. We welcome our resident volunteers!

Our December Board Meeting is scheduled earlier during December and it will take place at Quail Point on Wednesday, December 13 at 9:00 AM. The public is always welcome to our monthly meetings.

Happy Holidays and a healthy and Happy New Year!

Community Corner

Featuring incredible people in our community; if you have a story to share, please contact karen@hsbpoa.org or whit@hsbpoa.org.

Penning Stories and Building Bonds: The Literary Tapestry of hsbWriters

by Whit Holcomb

After being flooded from their Austin home in October 2013, Paloma and Elias Guerrero wanted to relocate to higher ground. Finding a lake view on Thanksgiving Mountain, Paloma felt like she had found her utopia.

Integrating into the HSB community, the Guerreros volunteered at the POA during our Independence Day celebrations. Paloma had recently written Building Lacy Oaks, a love story, when she discovered that there were other authors in Horseshoe Bay. A Nextdoor post searching for these writers garnered much attention, and the subsequent in-person meeting was enthusiastic and energetic. This meeting was the birth of hsbWriters.

hsbWriters is a non-profit group providing community, support, opportunity, and inspiration for writers, editors, and illustrators in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, and the surrounding area. Here is a link to the hsbWriters website for more information; check out the bookshelf there.

Like many of us, Paloma stays busy with work and the business of life. But taking a moment to pause and reflect on the beauty surrounding us here in Horseshoe Bay is always rewarding. Remarking on the breathtaking tapestry around us, such as Hill Country sunsets, boats on Lake LBJ, hawks flying overhead, and even star-gazing in our Dark Sky community. Paloma echoes the beauty in Horseshoe Bay, and we are thankful she is a POA member.