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A happy and healthy springtime to everyone here in the beautiful River’s Edge neighborhood. Membership dues are unchanged this year.

Membership fees are $50 for the year or $25 for seniors (both members of the household are 60 or older by May 31, 2023). To pay your dues online click here. Pay by June 1 and you’re automatically entered into two raffles (see below).

Great news! Despite what we see elsewhere in pricing, there are NO increases from any of our partnering vendors this year for member pricing – thank you to them all!

Your RECI membership supports your neighborhood and your MEMBER discounts can save you over $185: your membership actually puts money in your pocket!

** Please note the differences between RECI and Rumpke in senior discount eligibility.

This year’s early registration date for RECI membership is June 1. Pay your dues before June 1 to receive the full value of all the discounts.

Members Only Raffles: Pay by June 1 and you will also be entered in TWO raffles to win either: two weeks of FREE lawn service from The Yard Artists or “a bucketful of painting supplies” worth over $100 from Sherwin-Williams.

Signed up for Paperless, but prefer to pay by check? – please print out and fill this form, then mail it in with your check to the address shown on the form.

View the full membership letter here.

You can sign up for paperless dues notices, helping the Association reduce paper usage and cut down on mailing costs. Please consider taking advantage of this option.

Interested in helping to maintain this wonderful area in which you live? RECI (River’s Edge Commons, Inc.) could use some help in getting out the word regarding its membership benefits and tracking the annual dues that pay the taxes on the common property, the upkeep of the development signs, and more. If you can spare a few hours a year, please contact one of the 3 people below to learn more:

• Paul Doherty treasurer@recommons.org (216) 233-8024
• Diann Rucki membership@recommons.org (440) 543-9813
• Benku Thomas webadmin@recommons.org (440) 667-3602

Residents are invited to join a special township meeting to learn about the planning for the largest mixed-use development in Geauga County for the former Geauga Lake property (that adjoins the Rivers Edge community), which is taking place right now. You can attend the special meeting at 7pm Feb 16 by Zoom or in person at Bainbridge Town Hall.

Watching the Zoom meeting:

You can watch the proceedings of the meeting here. The video is posted at the Bainbridge Township meetings site; you’ll have to register to watch the video.

Read more in this article: Chagrin Valley Today Feb 12, 2021

Website registrations are active again! If you are not already a registered user of this site, please consider registering here.

Benefits of registering at the website include:

1. You’ll be notified via email of any Rivers Edge Homeowners announcements.
2. If you subscribed to Community News when you register, you’ll also get “Community News” emails periodically with the latest news on the community. 
3. Consider signing up for paperless annual association dues notices. You’ll get your dues notices via email instead of paper mail.  You can pay on-line at the site or send in a check. Find out more about Paperless Dues Notices.

If you are registered you can review your profile, including subscription to the Community News emails here (requires log in).

Sign up for Paperless Membership and Dues – it is more convenient and reduces handling mail!!  You’ll receive all your association dues notices, membership benefit documents and confirmation letters by email instead of through the mail.  You can still pay by check if your prefer instead of PayPal  – a form to pay by check will be included in your dues email.

We are encouraging Paperless sign up:

• It is more convenient, reduces handling mail and mailbox clutter
• Reduces paper waste and saves trees
• Reduce association costs which will help keep down membership dues. Currently, mailing and printing costs for dues notices costs the association around $500 annually.

Sign up for paperless membership dues here (requires login to access the page).  Signing up for paperless membership dues requires a login – please register at the website if you haven’t already.

Some residents have recently asked whether the association is considering switching the preferred trash hauler vendor, Rumpke, as they no longer provide recycling.  Waste Management still provides a rolling recycle tote with recycling service.

RECI did evaluate moving to a different preferred hauler this year in response to Rumpke’s change.  We ultimately decided not to change this year, because we are anticipating that all of the haulers will ultimately adjust their recycling offers due to changes in the global recycling market.  We are concerned about putting all of our residents through the process of switching trash hauling companies only to find that in 6 or 10 months, the new hauler changes their recycling policy.  We will review the situation again next year; our expectation is that by then, things should have settled down and we can make a better long term decision.  However, RECI wants to hear from residents that feel strongly about having a recycling option. Please use the comments section below to provide feedback (requires login).

If you’re curious about the changes that are happening in the global recycling market and how they are impacting curbside recycling, here are a couple of informative links:

Market forces put America’s recycling industry in the dumps

U.S. Recycling Woes Pile Up as China Escalates Ban