General

The onsite office will close at noon on Friday, May 25th, and will re-open Tuesday, May 29th at 9:oo am.

We wish everyone a safe and happy Holiday weekend!

Pool Passes
Members must have a Wellington Pool pass to enter the pool (no exceptions). Guests must be accompanied by a member with a valid Wellington pool pass. Guests may not remain at the pool if their sponsoring member leaves the pool

How do I get a pool pass?
To obtain a new pass you must present a valid Virginia Driver’s license or Virginia State ID card showing your Wellington address. Children of school age must provide a copy of their most recent report card. Children over 16 will be able to show a Virginia driver’s license or State ID card. If your child has risen to another level, you will not be charged for the new badge provided the old badge is turned in. Photos may be emailed to lmulloy@wellingtonca.org in order to have a new pass printed. A simple “selfie” or “head shot” will suffice. If you have an electronic facilities pass (pool pass) issued after 2010, you do not need to do anything to obtain a new pass. The same pass will be used every year and will be valid as long as you are an owner in Wellington and are in good standing.

Guest Passes
Each household can receive one free guest pass per season. You may pick up your guest pass during office hours. There are 25 free punches on the pass. Adults may bring up to 5 guests at a time. If you need an additional guest pass, they can be purchased at the community center office, during regular business hours the cost is $20.00. Any remaining punches on the immediate prior year guest pass can be used as well.

Rental Properties
If you are a renter in the Wellington community in addition to the above, your landlord will need to release his/her rights to the use of Wellington facilities before you will be able to obtain a pool pass to use the pool. Each year your landlord will need to forward a completed release form along with the current copy of your lease to the onsite office. If you are a Tenant and you were a member of the pool last year your pool pass has been put on hold pending receipt of this year’s paperwork from your landlord.

Pool memberships remain the property of the home owner. Assignment of facilities privileges, including pool passes, is at the owner’s discretion.

Replacement passes for passes that are lost or stolen; mutilated or damaged cost $6.00 to replace.

Late Assessments
Whether you are an owner or a tenant, please remember, the governing documents require that assessments need to be paid to date (good standing) for you to be able to utilize the facilities and pool in Wellington.

Passes will not be issued to any resident or household whose assessments are not paid up to date. Access to the pool will be denied if your assessments are not paid to date.

Please contact the onsite office at 703 330 5019 with any questions.

The onsite office will close at 3:30 pm today, Friday 5-15-2018.

We hope everyone has a great weekend!

The Board of Directors is seeking volunteers from the community to spearhead a Committee to review town-home parking policy and issues. If interested, please email Lisa at lmulloy@wellingtonca.org

The Wellington HOA negotiated the $90,000+ easement payment from Columbia Gas for the substation they will install at the corner of Wellington Road/Cloverhill near the tennis courts. Columbia Gas will reseed the grass, install fast growing evergreens and a fence with a green screen around it to better blend with the trees. We did ask if the substation could be pushed further out toward the open space that we have on the other side of the circular driveway before the clubhouse and more toward Grace Church, but Columbia Gas said that it was not a viable option. We had a lengthy BoD meeting that was on Facebook Live when we first discussed this in early 2017 and meeting notes have been on the Wellington website since then.

If Wellington had not agreed to the current pipeline that is running down Wellington Road, the other option that Columbia Gas would have had to make was to run the gas pipeline alongside of where it currently runs – under several people’s houses on both the city and county side – decks, fences, patios and even a pool would have been destroyed in the process. There would have been no payment nor replacement to these homeowners for any destruction of their property during this option. The Board (at the time) voted unanimously to instead grant Columbia Gas their second option – down Wellington Road. We are certain that residents will agree this was the wiser choice so that no homeowner would have any of their property disrupted or destroyed during the installation.

Currently, our HOA President Howard Pond, has asked them to back out and rework the tape boundaries to save some trees, and Columbia Gas has agreed. All of the stumps of any trees cut will be removed. Our plan is to have Columbia Gas install evergreen shrubs above where the forsythia is on the hillside. No trees can be planted as the pipeline needs a 15’ berth on either side for safety reasons. We are sure that residents agree with this safety issue as we cannot have tree roots encroach on a gas pipeline. Columbia Gas is revisiting the restoration piece on our request for additional plantings. The area directly above the pipeline will be seeded and soil will be amended if needed. We do have some trees along Wellington Road that were dead or had fallen and would have to be removed by us anyway.

The bottom line here is that Columbia Gas has eminent domain in a situation like this. The BoD acted in good faith working with Columbia Gas negotiating a five-figure settlement for the community that included landscaping replacement. Part of the settlement was divided equally among homeowners as a credit on their individual HOA dues. The rest of the settlement was used for community upgrades in landscaping, pool amenities and the clubhouse.

Update from Columbia Gas  can be found here:

Columbia Gas Manassas System Replacement 2018

The clubhouse has gone through recent updates (photos attached). New/updated items include flooring carpeting, paint, trim work, bathrooms, kitchen and appliances. Also, Added to the clubhouse are two game/pub tables for sitting or playing checkers/chess. There will also be a couple of workstations residents can use at the clubhouse for account access, browsing, research or other online activities. The workstation/laptops will be available during staffed hours and not for rentals (for now). The laptops can also be utilized by Staff, Committee members and the Community Board during meetings instead of using paper. Other recent improvements include working with the City who upgraded lighting at the Cloverhill crosswalk and the crosswalk at the Giant shopping center. Additionally, the Board president working with the City was able to get a proper bus stop installed along wellington road across from Giant; whereas, before it was just a sign in the middle of a mulch bed it now has a paved walkway and bench making it safer and more accessible. Grounds improvements have resumed and will include refreshing some tot lot areas and restoring a picnic area at the Strawflower pond area. The tot lots are being inspected the week of this post and evaluated for potential equipment additions.