Dear Palmetto Bluff Neighborhood Association Member,

Your PBNA is interested in increasing support to our PB community.  To this end, we have been working on developing a program to help fill a critical void in our community with respect to being a resource to the existing and ever-increasing number of new residents that are arriving daily.  This initiative is not meant to replace anything that anyone is doing currently to embrace and assist our new neighbors.  Instead, we hope that we can augment what others are doing.  

Please see the proposed information paper on where we would like to go with this. (Click here) In short, we would like to be able to identify new residents, pair them up with an ‘Ambassador’, and make newcomer’s transitions easier -- a true ‘neighbor to neighbor’ program.  We would also place the resources that we have developed on the PBNA website for all to use.  Recommended service providers will be sourced from PBNA members -- everything from DMV info to pet care, to where to get your hair and nails done. 

Our special thanks to PBNA Members, John Boneparth, and Rob & Shari Darling, John came forward with this idea and the others quickly rolled up their sleeves by joining him and other PBNA volunteers to flesh the idea out.  John had seen a similar program work at a previous community and being new here, believed that it was missing at PB.

We approached and attempted to collaborate with Gray Ferguson several times to ensure that PB management’s perspectives were considered.    In the end, while Gray understood the need for such an initiative and thought that program outline was ‘outstanding,’ he did not support partnering with the PBNA on this endeavor.  Regardless, we want to press on and assist as many of our neighbors as possible through this ‘neighbor to neighbor’ approach. 

We need your help.  Please review the outline and consider if you would be available to be an Ambassador for your neighborhood.  We will provide very helpful handouts and training.  The more Ambassadors that we can identify, the more coverage we can extend to our neighbors.  Given the lack of PB management support, we will also need your assistance in identifying new residents so that we can reach out as soon as possible.  Once we have a quorum of Volunteers, we will convene a training session on property.

As always, please continue to communicate with any comments or questions that you may have. We enjoy hearing from you.  

Warm regards,

PBNA Volunteers

Bob Morette, Arian Ellis, Harry Haslam, Graz Graziano, Ford Bartholow, Eric Sutherland, Richard Cedrone