HACKBERRY CREEK MIDWEEK UPDATE

May 10th, 2023

Dear Residents,

The Board Budget Workshops are complete. If you have an interest in watching the recordings please see below.

Also, the 3 Radar Cameras are now active and monitoring vehicle speeds in the community inside Gate 1 on the Summitview Bridge, the Gate 4 Bridge on Bradford Pear, and on Southern Oak at the Park. Please see statistics captured the first 5 full days of being online below!

This week's Mid-Week Update also includes information with a temporary issue (since resolved) with the online directory. More details below.

Have a great week and as always, if you have any questions, please call the Hackberry Creek office at 972-401-4946.

You can also reach the Village Manager through the Hackberry Creek HOA app, or by emailing Randy Smith at villagemanager@hackberrycreek.com

Unfortunately the food truck for tomorrow cancelled and no replacement was able to be scheduled. Stay tuned for further updates on the next food truck appearance!

The Board of Directors voted to open up their deliberations on the 2023-2024 budget to the community.

All budget workshops have now been completed. Homeowners are welcome to view the workshop recordings on the community website.

A new website forum category has been created to allow homeowners to post questions, comments or suggestions concerning the budget during the budget process. Board members will review comments and take into conideration during their work on the budget. The budget forum category will remain open until the final budget is formally approved.

The link to the recordings for all 3 Budget workshop can be found below, as well as a link to the the budget forum page. You must be a registered member of the website in order to view or post a comment.

As noted above, at the request of the neighborhood to curtail speeding issue on our village streets along with the ability to monitor incidents 24/7, the Board approved the purchase of three radar cameras. These cameras have been installed, calibrated, and are up and operational. The locations are:

• Southern Oak on west side of the Park

• On the north side of bridge near Gate 1

• On the southeast side of bridge near Gate 4.

The intention of the installation of radar cameras is to change behavior regarding speeding - not to generate revenue. No fines are being issued by these three radar cameras at this time. 

Courtesy notices (no fines) will be going out approximately mid-month in order to give the community offenders an opportunity to alter their driving behavior, if needed. This grace period is also a good opportunity to educate/remind guests and visitors on our speed limits to avoid future fines.

Beginning July 1, 2023, we will issue fines in compliance with the HOA Traffic Fine Schedule for any speeding offenses captured by these three radar cameras. 

We regret to report that the HOA’s online directory was inadvertently accessible via search engines accessing the website Calameo from Wednesday, May 3, 2023 through approximately 4:06 p.m. Saturday, May 6, 2023 when the issue was reported and immediately addressed.

On Saturday, May 6, 2023, we became aware via social media posts that the Hackberry Creek Directory was made public online. The directory, which should have only been accessible via the HOA’s private website via member login, was visible on the internet via Google search and the website for Calameo. While visible, it was not printable or downloadable. Calameo has long be used by the HOA in the development and publication of the Hackberry Creek Living Magazine and was utilized in preparing the directory for online access. 

When uploading the directory last Wednesday (May 10^th), the same settings were mistakenly used for uploading the directory as had been used for uploading the Hackberry Creek Living Magazine. Consequently, while the link behind the HOA’s website member log-in and directory page was hidden from search engine indexing, it was not hidden from search engines accessing Calameo directly. This was a wholly unintentional, mistake. Upon being made aware of the issue, the directory was immediately removed from the HOA website and the Calameo website entirely.

During implementation of the nline directory and before going live, functionality of the online directory was tested on both the HOA website and the HOA app. The directory online was not printable or downloadable at any time. Since the directory’s online removal and our investigation into how the directory became accessible, steps have been taken with search engines to remove the direct link to Calameo referencing the Hackberry Creek Directory and the information contained therein. 

We have confirmed that searches for links to Hackberry Creek Directory or Hackberry Creek Resident are no longer active in the major search engines: Google, Bing, Duck Duck Go, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, AOL and Naver. Once search engines update their cache of web links it should no longer appear in any search results. Currently, if a link appears, it directs to a message that provides it is a broken link and the webpage no longer exists. If you have further concerns, please contact the HOA Village Manager, Randy Smith