Love Thy (Norchester) Neighbor
We are all in this together - vote your conscience
We are all residents of Norchester. Whether you just purchased your home or have lived here 50 years, we have a common bond – the welfare of Norchester. We are a diverse lot. Young and old. Many ethnic backgrounds. Wide economic classes. Our common desire for the continuing prosperity of Norchester, regardless of other differences, will be our pathway to success as a subdivision in which we are all proud. This pathway includes each of us acting as a responsible and civil neighbor.
The subdivision is technically run by the Norchester Maintenance Fund (NMF). The NMF is a corporate not-for-profit entity. So we must operate like a business. Our organization’s business is actually run by mostly unpaid volunteers – your neighbors. The Board of Directors and our various committees are unpaid volunteers. We do pay fees to a management company to help accomplish some of the tasks common to most business entities such as accounting, paying bills, etc., but the essence of our organization is managed by volunteers – your neighbors. Keep that in mind if you have a disagreement with someone speaking for the subdivision. Your difference may not really be with the person, but with the position of the Norchester Subdivision on the subject. If you disagree, please don’t make it personal.
When you were a kid, you were probably often told “you can’t always have your own way”. Well, as a member of the subdivision, that statement still holds. There is a current campaign underway to update our governing documents. As part of this, the Board of Directors has determined, after rigorous analysis, that the annual lot fees must be raised. The fee increase is based on the needs of the Norchester Subdivision. This is not a personal view of a resident so much as a consensus of our Board, our Committees, and many of our residents – your neighbors. If someone honestly disagrees with the necessity to raise the lot fees, that is one of our prerogatives as individuals. Please, though, do not consider the fee increase requirement as a personal opinion of just a few people. When the time comes, vote your conscience. And, if the increase is passed by the required 2/3 majority, we ask you to peacefully accept “you can’t have your own way” and join together with all residents – your neighbors – to keep Norchester successful for the future.




