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Our monthly board meeting will be Wednesday, April 2nd at 7:00 pm.  Our hosts will be Ilene and Mike Oliver at 8130 E Rawhide Trl.  Please let Ilene know if you are planning to attend: call 303-519-1047 or email Ilene.oliver@lambisoft.com. At this meeting we will be electing a Vice-President (nominee, Debby Kornmiller) and possibly a Web Content Manager, if anyone shows up to volunteer. You may also enter a challenge to for existing Board position. Come and participate in our community. To get a subject on the agenda, please contact our President, Felix Gafner, at President@HiddenValleyTucson.com or leave a voicemail …

HVHOA ELECTION and Board Meeting April 2 at Olivers’ home Read More »

To be part of FireWise USA, our FireWise Director Richard Flores must re-certify us every year. Richard has completed our re-certification and a photo of the current certificate is shown below. FireWise certification may give you a discount on homeowner’s insurance. But the work we do cleaning up our neighborhood for FireWise may save our homes in and of itself. Visit our FireWise page today and figure out what you can do!

One of our newer neighbors asked for recommendations about security firms. Many people travel much when not here and are wanting to make sure their homes are safe. Others, worried about the world, just want to be safe here. This discussion may help your neighbors find their way. So if you have had any experience with security systems or security firms, join in here and pass it on… (Comments will be moderated before being posted. Names will be removed, if requested, but must be provided,)

The attached minutes are for the Board of Directors Meeting held March 5, 2025. These minutes are NOT AS YET approved by the board.

(Member Mary Fitzsimons send this picture and wrote on March 7th 🙂 Sunglasses Found late yesterday evening on Sandstone Drive.  If they belong to you, I can be reached at both emails cc’d: vvhaywoodjr@att.net mfitzsimons7@hotmail.com Thank you, Mary

The City of Tucson provides fresh water for most of us. This is their March “Water Matters” post:

Neighbor and member Joyce Christianson posted this on our NextDoor group for HVHOA: Pro Grade Painting’s Mike Danforth has completed painting the exterior of our home and did an excellent job. He also does interior painting. He patched many stucco cracks, assisted in picking colors, communicated very well and offered a reasonable estimate, never asking for more except when additional work was requested. He is very neat, painstakingly covering all surfaces that are not to be painted and cleans up daily. I recommend him!

(One of our neighbors wrote us asking this:) I’m wondering if we could send a request to the community to kindly stop placing dog waste bags in people’s trash cans.  Just about every week I get home on Monday to find that someone has left a poop bag in our trash bin that we placed on the street that morning for pickup.  The thin bags don’t really keep the smell locked in, and they are prone to rupturing when trash is dropped on top of them.  We have to keep our bin inside our garage because of the javelinas that wander our area, …

Your Neighbor Doesn’t Want Your Dog Waste Read More »

These hearings will ensure that residents have the opportunity to review the proposed increases and provide their input. The schedule for the meetings is: Friday, March 7, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Kirk-Bear Canyon Library, 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road Wednesday, March 12, 5-6 p.m.Water Campus, 2955 Calle Agua Nueva Thursday, March 27, 8-9 a.m.Abrams Public Health Center, 3950 S. Country Club Road The Pima County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on the rate increases at its June 17, 2025, meeting.

Courtesy of realtyfelix.com, here are the current real estate numbers for our neighborhood as of March 5, 2025.

Each week, the Arizona Department of Health Services publishes the latest information about flu, COVID and RSV propagation in the state. This is the sixth week of 2025. Flu, the big item, was worse than last year, but seriously looks to have peaked. COVID is still steady and low, but higher in Pima County than the rest of the state. RSV is low and has peaked.

A Green Waste dumpster will be delivered to the park and made available only to members on March 8th in the Wes Miller Park parking lot. No contractors or landscapers permitted. No construction or household waste. No chemicals, plastics, earth, rock, metal. Green waste should be cut to lengths less than 4 foot long… nothing but weeds and branches, basically. Thanks. It will be there the few days it takes to fill it up. Please do not leave waste around the dumpster and only inside it to the rim. When the dumpster is full, do not overfill it. Concerns or …

Green Waste Dumpster Available March 8+ Read More »

Member Joyce Christianson writes: I saw this cat in my backyard at 4624 N Cheyenne Trail and, though I wasn’t able to approach it, I wanted to let the owner know its location as of this morning and that it is alive and well. I hope it returns home soon!   (Webmaster’s Note: Apologies to all! This should have gone out yesterday, but was delayed due to technical issues.)

Pima County has announced plans to work on Sunrise Dr between Barrasca and Ventana Vista, which is the area that flooded the road last year. Here is their announcement. It covers March 3 to March 31.

HVHOA 2025 Officers and Directors Elections  At the March meeting of the Hidden Valley Homeowners Association, candidates for open positions on the 2025 Association Board will be considered. Current members of the Association are encouraged to apply. Positions we need to fill are Vice President and Web Content Manager. If you would like to apply for a position, contact Kelly Relich at BylawsAndLegal@HiddenValleyTucson.com or leave a message at our HVHOA voicemail at (520) 344-4823‬.  The March meeting will be held on March 5, at 7pm, at the home of Kathy and Jack Bergen, 8415 E. Rawhide Trail. If you plan …

HVHOA Board Elections Upcoming: 2 open positions Read More »

On Wednesday, February 19th, a home on Tourmaline Place, backing up to Canyon Ranch, was burglarized. The perpetrators popped the lock on the back sliding glass door. They gained access to the back of the property through a Canyon Ranch easement road which should have only Canyon Ranch vehicles on it. The homeowner, a member, wrote to ask that we let our members know that someone is down here breaking into houses. If anyone has information that might be pertinent, please comment below, email us at Webmaster@HiddenValleyTucson.com, or leave a message for us (text or voicemail) at 520-344-4823.

One of our members asked that we post this: Thank you to the homeowner who notified the HOA of seeing someone feeding raw chicken to the coyotes. This reassures my wife and I that we are not crazy, and we would also like to express our concerns about this situation. We live along the east side of Rockcliff Road and on two recent occasions our dog has sniffed out large pieces of raw chicken covered with dirt on our property. We have lived in the neighborhood for over 25 years and there has been a visible increase in coyotes in …

Reiterating Concern Regarding Feeding the Coyotes Read More »

From one of our neighbors: For the last 4-6 weeks, my block of Tourmaline has been inundated with coyotes – I have seen up to 5 at a time, sometimes less. I have lived here for 10 years and I have never seen this many, especially all at once, just casually roaming the roads. At first, it didn’t make sense why so many of them have been here these past weeks.  Well, a couple of days ago I figured out why they are all here, and why they don’t seem to leave this block much. (and why they are all …

Someone is feeding the coyotes! Read More »

Each week, the Arizona Department of Health Services publishes the latest information about flu, COVID and RSV propagation in the state. This is the sixth week of 2025. Flu, the big item, was worse than last year, but seriously looks to have peaked. COVID is still steady, but RSV is low but still on the rise.

The attached minutes are for the Board of Directors Meeting held February 5, 2025. These minutes are now approved by the board.

Catlow Shipek of the Watershed Management Group presented at our Board Meeting on February 5th, covering what the Watershed Management Group and its River Run Project are all about, including roots years ago here in Wes Miller Park, working on the same work they did with us here this last December, just before Christmas: Creek cleanup and mitigation of invasive species, like arundo, buffel grass, and stink-net. Below is a follow up note from Catlow, afterward:

Courtesy of realtyfelix.com, here are the current real estate numbers for our neighborhood as of February 5, 2025.

Each week, the Arizona Department of Health Services publishes the latest information about flu, COVID and RSV propagation in the state. This is the fourth week of the new year. Flu, the big item, was worse than last year, but might have peaked.

The City of Tucson supplies our water. So what they say about water matters to us.

County tackling dangers related to the Wildland-Urban Interface The devastating wildfires in Southern California have raised awareness to the dangers of climate-change driven wildfire in metro areas that border less-dense, rural or open space regions called the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). The County is taking a wholistic approach to addressing the dangers through multi-department review of County policies, programs, and initiatives led by the Climate Action Executive Committee. The director of the Conservation Lands and Resources Department submitted a report that summarizes all actions taken so far and outlines next steps to reduce the likelihood of wildfire events like those occurring …

Jan.30 Issue of “Under the Dome” Read More »

We may not live in Tucson itself, but the City is our mailbox and it is the center of our county economically. These statistics give a feel for what Tucson was like in 2024.

The January 24 edition of Pima County’s “For Your Information” newsletter has interesting articles about our county. I have been reading the PACC Spanish edition for the past two months, to improve my Spanish. And the library has some recommends for 2025.

Pima County seeking public input to guide County development Pima County’s Development Services Department is seeking input on the County’s Comprehensive Plan, Pima Prospers. The plan is the 10-year comprehensive land use document that provides guidance and policies for continued development in Pima County. The current plan, approved by the Board of Supervisors in 2015, is required by Arizona state statute to be updated every 10 years. The opportunity to review and comment is open until mid-March. Read the draft at this page. READ MORE

Road Repair and Preservation on February 3 – 21 at various locations reported by Pima County. These include Snyder Rd from Valle Rd east to Hidden Valley Road and Territory Road from Kolb Rd to Grey Mountain Rd. Others may impact your local activities.

Pima County Regional Flood Control District is requesting public comments on two planning documents. Since we have a creek, and several washes, this might be of interest to you.