St. Clair News
Annual Meeting 2023
November 12, 2023 2:00 p.m. at Wesley Church at Frederica
Vote on budget and pay your $125 dues.
Fall update from Bill
Oct 25, 2022
Fall is here!
The third annual St. Clair Yard Sale is set for Saturday, December 3, 8 a.m. – noon. All St. Clair residents
are invited to participate on their own property. Please email your interest in participating to
[email protected]. We will advertise the sale in newspapers, neighborhood websites, and with
promotional posters. On the day of the sale, a map with participating addresses will be distributed to
shoppers as they arrive.
Our Halloween display will be inflated all day and night this year, thanks to the electrical system at the
entrance being brought up to code. Plans are to install the display on Friday or Saturday prior to
Halloween, on Monday.
Our St. Clair Homeowners Association annual member meeting will be held on Sunday, November 13 at
2 p.m. at Wesley United Methodist Church at Frederica. Directional signs will be posted.
Please note that your 2022 dues ($125) need to be current in order for you to vote at the meeting.
Proposed 2023 dues will be presented and voted on. 2023 dues are proposed to remain at $125. If the
2023 dues are approved, you may pay at the meeting. This year we are offering two St. Clair car window
stickers per household to those paying dues, to encourage membership and to raise awareness of St.
Clair on the island.
A fall Cider Drop-in get-together after the yard sale has been proposed, at a TBD location. Non-alcoholic
beverages will be provided. You may be asked to bring your favorite hors d’oevre or dessert. Please
email [email protected] to let us know if you’ll be coming and what you will bring.
WE WANT TO HAVE DUES COLLECTION COMPLETED BY THE END OF JANUARY. PLEASE HELP US MEET
THIS GOAL BY EITHER BRINGING YOUR CHECK TO THE MEETING OR SENDING IT BY THE END OF
JANUARY.
Thanks for your cooperation.
All the best,
Bill Tipton
SCHA President
Summer ’22 Update from Bill
Special update:
If you heard sirens in the neighborhood on Friday night, July 29, it was because the fire department came to put out a fire in the garage behind Glenn and Brenda Brazil’s home at 127 St. Clair Drive. While the Brazils and their house are OK, they lost the garage and its contents, including the 1934 MG that Glenn had just finished restoring. Brenda says there’s nothing anyone can do to help, although she appreciates the thought.
“In the good ol’ summertime…” and it has been a good summer in St. Clair! Among other things, we have said good-bye to some old friends, and welcome these new neighbors/property owners:
- Rebecca and Divine Ofori-Amankwah – 108 St. Clair Drive
- Glenn and Nicole Wilkins — 109 St. Clair Drive
- Mark Semmelmayer – 112 St. Clair Drive
- Linda Farmer – 116 St. Clair Drive
- Jason Barnes – 124 St. Clair Drive
- Gil & Lauren Haines 207 St. Clair Drive
- Stacey Crystal & Kim Robert Legraves – 409 Couper
- Helena P & Gilbert Valdes – 208 Hampton Avenue
- Will and Tess McClung – 5 Dunbar Creek Point
- Kristin and David Lee – 10 Dunbar Creek Point
- Bob and Nina Fortin – 17 Dunbar Creek Point
- Robert and Steven Gamble – 310 Cannon Court
- Mike and Ashley Cudd , 505 Inverness Court
- Jim and Wanda Ruger – 508 Inverness Court
Here are just a few notes and dates for you to put on your calendar:
The SCHA Board is meeting quarterly now, so our next meeting is October 16. Have you considered serving on the Board? We are always looking for interested new members, and the time commitment is not burdensome. Reach out to me if you are interested or have questions. Following recent moves by Donna and Dalton Tate as well as Steve and Amy Bradley, Mark Semmelmayer has replaced Steve on the board, and Jennifer Smith has replaced Donna.
The SCHA Annual Meeting is slated for November 13 at 3 p.m. at Wesley United Methodist Church at Frederica. More details to come!
We plan to have the Neighborhood yard sale again this December — put it on your calendar for December 3, 8 to noon. We will run it much like last year — everyone can collect their own money. More to come about that.
Reminder for the Short Term Rental Hotlline –
The message below from the Glynn County Public Information Officer has been posted on Nextdoor, regarding what to do if you have a complaint about a short term rental in St. Clair. So far, there has been one that we are aware of, in an AirB&B home. Here’s the county’s post:
If you have a complaint on a short term rental property in your neighborhood, you can call our 24-hour hotline at 912-525-5455 or fill out an online complaint form (https://glynncounty.org/str). The hotline will document the complaint and contact the Local Contact Person to help resolve the concern. If the complaint is not resolved within a few hours of being notified the short term rental may be issued a violation.
Do not let the hotline be a replacement for calling the Glynn County Police non-emergency phone number, (912) 554-3645, for complaints such as noise and other disturbances, or if immediate safety concerns are present. Please do not use the hotline as an alternative to 911 for emergencies seen or encountered.
And finally, in order to identify neighbors and to engender a feeling of community as we go about our work and activities on the island, we have created small and tasteful vehicle window decals, with two decals for each dues-paying household. These will be distributed upon receipt of 2023 dues (they remain at $125), and will be due by February 23 of next year. (If you have extra vehicles, contact me and we will satisfy those needs.)
Hope you have a wonderful rest-of-the summer. And don’t forget to start thinking about what you’d like to put into your yard sale!
Bill Tipton
Update from Bill
FALL HAPPENINGS/ NEEDS
TRICK OR TREAT NIGHT IN ST. CLAIR…Since Halloween is on Sunday this year, we will let you know what the county decides about the suggested night for neighborhood Trick or Treat activities when / if the county feels Saturday is a better/safer night than Sunday for that activity. And, “YES!..the friendly, inflatable “ghosts” will appear again this year at the front entrance to St. Clair on Friday or Saturday before Halloween.
THE ANNUAL MEETING IS SET FOR 3 PM, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, IN THE CELEBRATION HALL OF WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH at FREDERICA. The proposed budget for 2022 will be presented and voted on by the membership. There is one seat on the SCHA Board being vacated by Linda Wood who has served two two-year terms and cannot be reelected to the board until she has been off the board for one term. All other board members are serving the second year of their first two- year terms. If you would like to offer to serve on the SCHA Board of Directors, please email Bill Tipton [email protected]). Board members need to be residents of St. Clair whose annual SCHA dues ($125) are paid in full.
2ND ANNUAL ST. CLAIR NEIGHBORHOOD YARD SALE SET FOR SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4,
8 am. – NOON! This activity is sponsored by the SCHA. Please call Nancy Muldowney (912/230-1243) or email her ([email protected]) if you want to participate by selling your items from your location. Plans are to have a map with participating homes listed. THE SCHA WILL ADVERTISE THE SALE and will have day-of-the sale signage. You keep your own cash box and keep all your proceeds. THERE ARE PLANS FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD GATHERING AFTER THE SALE AT A LOCATION TBD WITH A FOOD TRUCK!
The “TWO OLD GUYS” who used to cut the parkway grass have been replaced by Keith Osteen, a wonderful one-person lawn maintenance operation, who has brought the St. Clair parkway back up to snuff. Thanks to everyone who has stopped to tell him what a great job he is doing for the neighborhood. FYI…He would like to add a few more customers in St. Clair so he can spend more time when he is here to cut the parkway. Call him at 912/ 580-9669.
THE SAME “TWO OLD GUYS” ARE LOOKING FOR A SCOUT with adult supervision to take over putting up and taking down the three American flags at the entrance to St. Clair and the three flags installed at the western end of the parkway on five (5) designated times each year (Memorial Day weekend in May through Monday; Flag Day, June 14; Independence Day week, July 4th; Labor Day, the first weekend and Monday in September and Veterans Day weekend including Nov 11). Requires climbing a ladder to install the center flag on the iron entry. Email Bill Tipton ([email protected]) for details or questions.
THE SAME “TWO OLD GUYS” ARE LOOKING FOR TWO OR THREE FOLKS to begin to learn how to install the lighted HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS (EASY GROUND ONLY OPERATION….These decorations are only up for the few days before Halloween) and Christmas decorations at the entry to St. Clair provided by the SCHA (these decorations go up the weekend after Thanksgiving). Installing the Christmas decorations include climbing up a ladder and knowing how to plug plugs into the unit to get the big (central bow light ) Again, Email Bill Tipton ([email protected]) with offers to help or questions).
All the best,
Bill T.
Update from Bill
Whether you’ve lived here for decades, as many of us have, or are newcomers to St. Clair, most of your neighbors are members of the St. Clair Homeowners Association. Many of them contribute ideas, time and talent to the continued betterment of the neighborhood. If you are a resident and have not yet joined, SCHA, we invite you to do so. Voluntary annual dues of $125 go toward upkeep and improvements for the neighborhood.
Here’s a quick look at some of the recent goings-on, spearheaded by the SCHA Board with lots of input from neighbors and funded by Association dues.
Most recently, this new website was created and launched, thanks to the efforts of several SCHA Board members.
After several decades of wear, the ironwork, signage, tabby columns, electrical and irrigation systems needed refurbishing. So –
- Golden Isles Ironworks – a local firm which handles a lot of this type of work for the Port of Jacksonville – replaced missing iron pieces and metal supports of the entrance gates. The entrance features are believed to have been installed when our neighborhood was created in the late 1960s, and were designed by Sea Island Landscape Architect the late Miesse (Bummy) Baumgardner along with the Parkway.
- In addition to power washing the tabby segments, local painters and decorators D&D Decorating removed the large St. Clair sign, sanded, repaired, repainted, and rehung it for us.
- Lighting of the tabby columns was added to enhance nighttime entrance visibility.
- Steve Bradley, a St. Clair resident and owner of Black Dog Irrigation, upgraded and continues to monitor the irrigation system for the Parkway, along with improving the water supply for the system.
- Keith O’Sullivan, an individual local landscape maintenance professional, took over the general care of the Parkway. Keith’s role includes cutting, trimming, mulching, controlling weeds and insects. He’s been doing a great job!
Up next: Residents are looking forward to the second annual meeting in November, a Neighborhood Yard Sale, and a potluck dinner later this year.
If you’re a resident of St. Clair, but have not yet joined the St. Clair Homeowners Association, we invite you to do so. Voluntary annual dues of $125 go toward upkeep and improvements for the neighborhood.
All the best,
Bill Tipton
SCHA President