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Mark your calendars for April 9th! The Meadowglen Spring Fling is being planned for the afternoon of April 9th  from 2 to 4pm. 

There will be snacks, crafts, sidewalk chalk, an Easter egg hunt, and hopefully the Easter Bunny will make his usual appearance. 

Plan on bringing your kids before the Easter egg hunt to color Easter bags that will be provided to collect the Easter eggs they find. 

Come on out to meet some new neighbors and catch up with ones you haven’t seen in a while!

More details to follow! Cross your fingers for good weather, but we will have the clubhouse as a backup just in case!

Annually the Architectural Review Committee analyzes the Design Guidelines to modernize and assess what is working for our community. The last major overhaul of the guidelines was done almost 3 years ago in April of 2019. With updated legislation on a few architectural items, it is again time to revise the guidelines. We would like to hear from you what items you think are worth considering for changes.

Please use the link to the form below to provide your input to the ARC and the Board. Proposed changes will be considered until February 3 so they ARC can propose suggestions to the Board at the February Meeting. Your input sooner will allow the ARC more time for consideration.

Thank you for your input and keeping Meadowglen beautiful!

2022 Updates to the Meadowglen Architectural Design Guidelines

The Winter Party is a chance to celebrate the holidays with our neighbors. This year the party will be on Saturday December 11 from 5-7pm inside the clubhouse. The clubhouse will be decorated, warm and ready for us to all have a great time. We will serve hot coco, snacks, and Santa stops by for a visit from 5:30-6:30. The kids will decorate sugar cookies as a fun activity while waiting for Santa. We would also like to invite all party goers to don an ugly sweater for fun. There will be ugly mitten metals given to the winners as well as a small prize. Since we will be having the party inside the clubhouse, we do have to follow the Jefferson County mandate. All individuals 3 and older must wear a mask indoors. Please let Linzi King know if you have any questions or would like to help set up and email her at: Linziking@meadowglen-hoa.com.

The Meadowglen Board is considering changing or removing lifeguard services at the pool. If we, as a community, choose to not have lifeguards there will be many logistical items to establish. The HOA will post signs about not having a lifeguard on duty, we will hire a cleaning company to clean the restrooms and pool area daily, and if there is unruly behavior we will need community members help to report what we don’t see. Please answer a few questions to help guide our decision as a board. These are questions only about our lifeguard service, not pool maintenance. We appreciate your feedback. 

Please Click Here to take this survey, and thank you for your input!

Who wants to beat this dog-gone heat? Well, the dogs do of course. Doggy swim is a chance for our pups to swim in the pool at the end of the season and it’s also a great way to meet other dog families. So, if your doggo likes water or not come down to the pool Sunday, September 12 from 8-12. There will be some light refreshments for humans.

Meadowglen’s Annual Garage Sale will be held Friday thru Sunday Aug. 20-22. Hours are up to individual households, but traditionally run from about 8 a.m. to 1 or 2 p.m.

The Meadowglen Board will be advertising it in the Arvada Press and on Craig’s, in addition to Facebook and Nextdoor. Additionally, beginning a few days prior to the event, we will be placing signs around the perimeter of Meadowglen advertising the dates of the garage sale.

Since the event was canceled in2020 due to covid and postponed from its traditional May timeframe this year, we are imagining our residents have a lot of good stuff ready and waiting to be sold at the annual garage sale! If you have any questions, please contact a board member.

Taking into account the feedback from the Town Hall and survey, the Board ran the proposed covenant with a minor change to location of parking by our lawyers. After a couple of back and forths, the language was finalized. The official document is posted for comment for 30 days on the Advance HOA website. When you login to your account, you will be redirected to the proposed covenant before accessing the full site. If you have any further comments on the language in the document please email the Board (bod@meadowglen-hoa.com) or fill out the feedback form.

The document will be posted for 30 days for comment. If there are no further changes it will then be mailed out with an official ballot. We will be sure to communicate all of the methods to return your ballot.

Effective today, 7/11/21, no pool reservations are necessary to attend. As previously noted, the reservation system was requested by APM to ensure that the lifeguards could safely monitor the pool. There has been a lifeguard shortage, so they have careful about staffing to ensure that during the busiest times we have enough people. That said, the reservation system hasn’t enabled them to plan based on numbers, so we are willing to drop that requirement to attend the pool. You will still need to sign in when you arrive.

As you have probably seen, the Meadowglen clubhouse basement bathrooms are closed, and the upstairs has been closed since last year. With that in mind, there have been many questions about the status and events that have occurred.

Clubhouse Basement

Back at the end of March, Board members discovered that there was a considerable plumbing leak in the basement causing considerable damage to the plumbing, walls, bathrooms, and water heater. With the clubhouse closed to rentals, nobody was routinely using the clubhouse and starting in mid-February a leak presented (possibly due to the cold snap). A whopping 4,976,000 gallons spilled and went down the drain in the pool utility room. The lip of the drain is at 4″, so the rest of clubhouse had water in contact with the drywall throughout. The water soaked the drywall causing damage throughout the basement including the bathrooms. In total we anticipate the insurance claim to be over $50,000 (water bill and restoration).

To repair the clubhouse, we have been working with Restoration Experts. They quickly got in there to repair the plumbing so the pool season could continue, but getting the rest restored has been quite a journey. In changing management companies a ball was dropped getting information to the insurance adjuster, so we’ve been in a holding pattern on getting the repairs initiated. At this point, because there will need to be demolition, we will hold off until the pool season is over so that bare feet are not hurt with debris. So, expect port-o-lets to be present through the pool season. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Clubhouse Upstairs

The clubhouse was closed through the COVID pandemic, but as everything opened up we started planning updates per our 20 year reserve plan. While an exact date for the clubhouse opening is yet to be determined, we are excited to let you know that the next time you use it, it will have a fresh, new look! Based on feedback from the community and observations regarding how the clubhouse is being used, the old heavy couches and tables will be replaced with furniture that will be easier to arrange for your particular celebration. There are also plans for new appliances.

Stay tuned for updates regarding when the clubhouse reservation system and how to access the reservation system once all systems are go!

Thanks for your patience while we work through the logistics on both the basement and upstairs at the clubhouse!

Independence Day is just a few days away, and we have some updates about times and activities.

First, our Fishing Derby check-in will begin at 7:30 am at the clubhouse for a 8:00 am tournament start. Prizes for the tournament will be given around 9:30am at the clubhouse.

Next, we have the Arvada Fire truck parade starting at 10:00 am on the intersection of W 80th Dr. and Estes St in South Meadowglen. Feel free to decorate a bike, scooter, or yourself to join in following the truck around to the pool. If you don’t want to participate you are welcome to watch us all go by. We do ask if you follow the truck to stay away from the sides. The truck can’t see and this makes for a huge safety. After the fire truck brings the parade to the pool we will be sprayed down with the fire hose.

The pool will be fully opened from 10 am-6 pm with NO reservations required. We will have 4 lifeguards posted on the corners of the pool to ensure safety. After 6 pm the pool will be swim at your own risk. We will open the side gate

We want to wish everyone a safe and happy 4th of July! If you have any questions or would like to help plan/share ideas contact Linzi King at: linziking@meadowglen-hoa.com