David Malone

Hello Parkers Run Community, I am interested in running for the Parker Run HOA Board. I am a retired Chief Petty Officer. My job was serving as a Chief Machinery Technician. I retired in October of 2010; after 30 years of Active-Duty service with the United States Coast Guard. For the past 11 years, I have worked as a civilian for the U.S Coast Guard as an Equipment Specialist for preventive maintenance; and corrective maintenance for all their ships and boats.  I have actively resided in Parkers Run development since September 2007, and have attended all HOA board meetings. I was voted on the Parkers Run HOA board on January 2020, and have served until this present day.
As a member of the HOA board, these are the many community accomplishments that were completed by our current board members: 
Note: All the projects accomplish below was within the last 11 months of 2022. Except for 1/4 of the streets which was paved back in the summer of 2020 during the Covid pandemic outbreak.
1.	Paving the remaining streets in the development that were left unpaved by the Developer. I drafted, printed, and delivered notices to inform the resident on the day the work would start. I was the Person of Contact (POC)/Project Manager (PM) for the paving contractors. There were several issues of vehicles parked on the street the day of paving, which took me hours to contact the owners to have them moved.    
2.	Repairing and bringing the playground up to code.  I was the POC/PM for the playground contractors. On two occasions I traveled to PlayMark Manufacture Company; located in Ijamsville, MD. I had to travel there due to them not returning my calls or emails for a several months. I was trying to get the cost of repairs for our playground equipment.  The HOA board members saved the HOA homeowners over $2000.00 dollars; by members volunteering to remove broken equipment, ordering and spreading 40 yards of mulch on the playground.
3.	Brought all 3 ponds up to code. I was the POC/PM for the Atlantic Stormwater Contractors. 
4.	The HOA board members went to every home in the development to get home owners signatures for Kent County Conservation to take over the maintenance for our 3 ponds. 
5.	I personally replaced myself 24 faded street signs which, this action saved the HOA over $700.00 dollars.
6.	I reinstalled 2 (two) “Children at Play'' signs that were laying on the ground. Which indicated that they were incorrectly installed.
7.	I was the POC/PM for the Strobert tree removal company that removed several trees in the common area that were dying or were a possible hazard to damaging resident homes.
8.	Another board member and myself cut down, and removed a tree that fell over in the common area.
9.	We are currently working on repairing the light at the front entrance of the development. We hope to have the aforementioned job completed before the end of the month.
10.	 To increase transparency, we established a Parkers Run website (PARKERSRUNCHESWOLD.COM) this website allows homeowner to view the By-Laws, previous HOA minutes, and pay their HOA dues. 
11.	 Posted all current repairs/maintenance projects on our Facebook page (Parkers Run in Cheswold Delaware) to answer resident questions.
12.	 Installed an information sign to inform residents of upcoming news in the community. This sign is located at the front of the development.
13.	 Contacted Kent County and had them spray our development for mosquitoes 2 (two) times this summer at no cost to the HOA. 

As a board member I will not be involved with a community gossip facebook page which post inaccurate information from unreliable sources. I will continue with supporting the HOA board and to make improvements to the community. I desire to continue serving on the HOA board; however, I may not run if the community elects’ homeowners who may be an obstacle for progress in improving the community. We have had some challenges at the end of 2021, and the middle of 2022. There were resignations from the following positions on the board: The President, 2 (two) treasurers, and the secretary, but we were still able to complete the aforementioned accomplishments. 

Goals that I want to try and accomplish if I’m elected to the HOA Board:
•	Forming committees for, Architectural, Communities, and to update Covenants/By-laws. The update of the Covenants/By-laws is way past due. These critical Covenants/By-laws should have been worked on, and updated once the Parkers Run HOA was established; and the Developers had departed sometime in 2017. 
•	Continue to research to add or not add speed bumps/humps.
•	Researching the cost for repairs, maintenance, and the cost to run the sprinkler system at the front of the development.

David Malone