Greetings, Neighbors!
We are rapidly approaching the end of the 2024 Palo Del Amo Woods Homeowners Association membership period. The graphic below is our most recent membership report. With only a couple of months remaining in the current year (and based on historical data), we anticipate there will be little if any change to the published results. October marked the kickoff of our 2025 membership drive as well as the 60th anniversary of the Palo Del Amo Woods Community! To commemorate this amazing milestone, we’ve set an ambitious membership goal of 60 percent or better. This means—more than ever—we need each resident to show your community spirit and your willingness to get involved by becoming a paid PDAW member. Your funds are plowed back directly into the community to enrich our surroundings and our lives, as well as the lives of many others that the Palo Del Amo community connects with. Please, won’t you join us today?
What Has the Board Done for You Lately?
Your PDAW Board of Directors is busy taking action on behalf of the PDAW community, working to con-tinuously improve our collective quality of life in the neighborhood we love. We look both within and around Palo Del Amo Woods to make an already-great community that much better! Here’s a list of just some of our activities:
- Conducted regular community meetings
- Restored in-person meetings
- Extended invitations and coordinated government officials’ visits to our community meetings
- Painted community perimeter wall
- Pruned trees around inner perimeter
- Installed new stop sign
- Hired a gardener to maintain outer perimeter
- Created and filed with the proper authorities ongoing reports of open gates leading to areas behind our homes (and enabling unauthorized access to these areas)
- Created and filed with the proper authorities ongoing reports of speeding on major streets adjacent to our community
- Created and filed with the proper authorities ongoing reports of homeless encampment activities adjacent to our community
- Created and filed with the proper authorities ongoing reports regarding overgrown shrubbery in areas adjacent to railroad tracks
- Established charitable events in the community, such as the annual Adopt-a-Family program
- Overseeing ongoing graffiti removal
- Continuing work with our state representative to achieve graffiti removal on the 110 freeway
- Continuing work with public agencies to address graffiti and other issues on the pedestrian bridge at 243th and Normandie Avenue
- Continuing work with the Sheriff’s Department to address the parking issues arising from shorter-than standard driveways that have resulted in ticketing
- Continuing work with our waste collector, UWS, to address community concerns and subpar performance (to that end, please let us know—leave us a message at (310) 257-4962)
- Was your green trash bin steam-cleaned? Did you receive a notification when this action would be done? Were you advised of the company that would perform this service?
- Continuing to host annual/biannual community events such as Holiday-a-Rama, the Annual Picnic and Block Party, and community yard sale
- Researching the history of PDAW’s HOA status
- And so much more!
Your PDAW Board of Directors not only plans activities and events to beautify our community, enhance our safety, and bring us together, we also strive to tackle all kinds of issues as they arise and bring you news you can use.
Case in point: The large, car-tire-eating potholes behind New Creations Church on Vermont next to Bank of America. After making numerous inquiries, we have learned that the property belongs to the church. Although the church has acknowledged it is the legal owner, church representatives say they have no plans whatsoever to repair the potholes. At some point, the church plans to close entry to that property in order to expand the church. However, no closure date is known at this time.
Vande Garner
PDAW HOA President
