Board Members met recently with the Town of Madbury Police Department to discuss the increasing number of calls for assistance from residents. The majority of calls concerned dog control complaints (leash law violations) and noise complaints (disorderly conduct). The Police Department has been lenient in issuing citations to date, but are advising that they will begin issuing citations, especially in the case of repeat offenses, and may issue citations at first offense, depending on the severity of the violation. They will notify the Board when citations are issued. Please note that violating Condominium rules also subject the resident to fines issued by the Board. Among other things, the rules clearly require dog owners to control their animals, and residents to refrain from creating noise that disturbs other residents.<\/p>\n
The Board respectfully requests that all residents become familiar with the rules and act responsibly to reduce the need for other residents to contact the Police Department over things with which we individually can control. \u00a0Hopefully we aren\u2019t at the point yet where the Town looks at the Condominium as a \u201cproblem community\u201d. We all need to do our part to maintain a pleasant community atmosphere – it cannot be achieved by the Board alone considering the extensive workload taken on by the Board. Please assist in making the community a better place in which to live.<\/p>\n
Community involvement to date is very sparse.\u00a0 Monthly meeting attendance is averaging 4 or 5 persons, and some are from the same Condominium unit. Your suggestions and comments are heartily accepted. If anyone has time to volunteer to assist the Board with projects please contact us. We know there is a lot of talent out there and we\u2019re sure you have some very worthwhile suggestions. We would like to form committees in various areas to assist the Board, but have only a couple of volunteers besides the Board Members at this time.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Animal Control officer provided a paper to us delineating offenses and associated fines. Some of the more expensive citations are a result of dogs not under control of the owner. We have experienced dog attacks resulting in injury to dogs that were on leash from dogs that were running free and not under the control of the owner.\u00a0 In some cases, dog owners are afraid to walk their pets on certain condominium roads due to repeated attacks from unrestrained dogs. From a community standpoint, it is simply unacceptable to create the type of atmosphere where a resident doesn\u2019t feel safe walking an animal on all Condominium roads and common areas.<\/p>\n
Thanks to each of you in advance for your future efforts to abide by the rules and for your willingness to volunteer to assist the Condominium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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