An Ad Hoc landscape committee led the rebidding of Arbor Grove's snow removal, mowing, and chemical services.  Multiple companies provided bids for these services.  The mowing contract was awarded to Scenic Landscaping LLC for year 2021.  Scenic will sublet the chemical applications to ALM, a company that specializes in fertilization and weed control.  The new mowing contract cost is within the approved Arbor Grove 2021 budget. 

 

The snow removal contract was awarded to Logan's Lawn Care Inc.

 

Continued Thanks to our Landscaping Committee for their work to secure these essential services for Arbor Grove. We are grateful for their work on behalf of our community. 

 

Earlier in the year, the Board decided we needed to investigate Arbor Grove's Commercial insurance policy to ensure we had correct coverage at the best price.  Sandra Frenzke led a rebidding project.

 

This project's timing was spot on as our current Traveler's insurance company changed deductibles and how claims are paid that negatively affected Arbor Grove. Traveler's significant increase in premium was also announced by making it necessary to secure bids and coverage from another insurance company.

 

Multiple companies submitted bids with presentations made to the Board by five companies.

 

The Board is pleased to announce that effective Dec. 5, 2020, the Arbor Grove commercial insurance policy will be through Country Financial, an A+  AM Best rated company for the past 75 years.  The cost of this policy is within the approved Arbor Grove 2021 budget.

 

The Country Financial policy has the standard components of a commercial policy and will include earthquake coverage.  Our Country Financial Agent, Jeff Spry, has 15+ years of experience in commercial insurance.  Jeff is a local agent with his office in Bourbonnais.

 

The Board would like to thank Sandra for her time and effort in securing an improved policy while saving money for Arbor Grove.

The Board would like to extend a big Thanks to our neighbor, Greg Rorabaugh for his beautiful work in building our official ballot box. Several members had expressed they wanted a larger ballot box. The Board heard your concerns and Greg graciously offered to build it for us. 

There has been a lot of discussion regarding the weeds in Arbor Grove this year.  Our Landscaping committee has worked diligently to remedy as much as possible and has taken steps to improve our preventative measures for next year. 

 

There are also concerns regarding the impact of the weeds that border Arbor Grove to the West have on all of Arbor Grove.   The considerations of those impacts include the issues the weeds may cause our residents, the water drainage from the west side of our property to the pond, and the benefits of tall grass barriers for some properties.

 

To address this issue, we will convene a special committee to make recommendations to reduce these issues.  Steve Husak has agreed to chair this committee.  He can be contacted at 815-592-5405.