The pool is open and the water is cool. Will you see your neighbors there? You could if everyone on your street joined the VGCA. Where is your street in the race to be in the green? Liberty and Brandywine are leading the pack with Minuteman and Plymouth close behind. Let’s see if Crown Pt, VGP, and Prescott can catch up?
How is your street doing in the race to the green?
We ran into some problems so all the options for the payment plan are not available. If you need to purchase extra RPP bands, donate an extra amount, or upgrade your membership and want to use a payment plan, you will need to contact us directly for options.
For now please give it a try by going here: Join VGCA – Village Green: An Oyster Point Community
You can still pay the “old way” with credit card, PayPal, or Venmo.
If you run into problems, please let us know so we can look into (we are just volunteers and we stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night). 😉
I wanted to share with everyone the status of adding the payment plan to our payment options.
We have run into some small roadblocks but continue to work diligently to bring this payment option to you. Our original goal was to have the payment plan option available by 1 May. We have missed that goal. For that we apologize.
The good news is we are in the testing phase and should be wrapping up testing shortly.
Once we have completed testing and made the updated payment options available, we will send out notice to the community.
Bonus: we will be adding the ability to upgrade from Association Membership to Recreation Membership online.
Thank you for your patience while we work towards providing this much requested feature.
Please take about a minute to read this post. Thank you.
I posted a few polls on Facebook to get us all thinking about what it costs to run our pool.
Here are the answers for us self-managing. Self-managing is 100% volunteer run and maintained, the only personnel costs we have are for the lifeguards.
Chemicals costs = $4500
Lifeguard costs = $16,000
Maintenance, supplies, painting, repairs = average $4500/yr.
Roughly it costs us $25K a year to self-manage our pool and provide a great atmosphere for our families AND also employ 10+ teens and teach them the responsibilities associated with such an important job and often their first job.
Prior to COVID, we were paying $25K to a pool management company to handle lifeguard and chemical costs. We (volunteers) were handling maintenance, supplies, painting, and repairs when needed. C OVID was a blessing for us…the pool management company was not going to open us due to unknowns and staffing issues they were having. The VGCA Board made the decision to self-manage in the summer of 2020 and we had a safe, successful, and wonderful summer escape during the pandemic.
Last summer we had two quotes from local pool management companies and both came back at $46K for lifeguard and chemical costs. We would still be responsible for supplies, maintenance, and repairs. That simply is not something VGCA can afford, thus why volunteers are crucial to our pool.
Consider, we have had to deal with incremental increases in minimum wage from $7.50/hr in 2020 to $12.41/hr for 2025. Nearly a 66% increase. Pool chemical costs have increase by about 40% since 2020 as well (similar to everyone’s grocery bills). Yet, we have been able to maintain pool memberships with only a slight increase in costs in those 5 years (approx $50 per membership).
Volunteers are key to the Village Green Community Association and without their help and the continued support of our members, we could not afford to keep the pool open.
So, if you or your family use the pool please consider volunteering time when I ask for help. In the grand scheme of time enjoyed at the pool, I am only asking for a little bit of volunteer time from you. Thank you.
For those that are not pool members, please consider joining as it helps us keep the pool open for the this generation as well as the next! If we do not have enough volunteers or financial support, then the pool may need to be closed and ultimately be filled in similar to other neighborhood pools over the years.
Our pool is in excellent condition and that is due to key volunteers (me, Connor, Ryan G, Ryan L, Peter G, Pete F, Glenn M, and many others) performing significant maintenance and repairs on it over the past 5-7 years.
Please consider supporting the pool or even just donating to VGCA at vgnn.org/join
Thank you!
5 free one-time use pool passes will be provided to those who register for pool memberships by April 30th. Get your passes now!
The Village Green Community Association membership drive is under way – be sure to join in our summer fun this year by joining the community association and the pool! The pool has always been the heart of the neighborhood, especially for our children, and this summer will be no different. The swim team will be hitting the water in June.
Our VGCA Events Coordinator also has many events planned for our neighborhood. Help support those events and the maintenance of our park and common areas for just $100 a year (pool memberships are more).
Membership flyers were delivered in March. You may fill out the flyer and return it to the green mailbox at 721 Village Green Pkwy, or you can link to the online membership form and pay via Paypal (fees apply).
If you have membership-related questions, please email [email protected]
We’re excited to kick off 2025 with a fun and festive VGCA Membership Drive Celebration—and you’re invited!
Join us on Sunday, March 30th from 3:00–6:00 PM at VG Park for an afternoon of connection, fun, and community spirit. This is a great opportunity to meet your neighbors and learn more about what’s happening in our Village Green community.
Enjoy:
• Great Music
• Food Trucks
• Games & Raffle Prizes
• Family Fun for All Ages!
New for 2025: We’re now offering a monthly payment option for our recreational membership—making it easier than ever to enjoy everything Village Green has to offer!
Let’s start the year strong—together.
Village Green – the best place to live in Newport News!
Did you know that Village Green Community Association (VGCA) owns approximately 7.5 acres in our neighborhood? On that land we have a clubhouse, pool, basketball court, playground equipment, park benches, picnic tables, pickleball courts, grills, and split-rail fencing along the neighborhood cut throughs in the inner loops. These 7.5 acres add to the property value of all our homes and provide much needed green space in a city that is seeing that shrink. We are a volunteer run organization who perform all of the maintenance and upkeep on that property.
VGCA membership dues are very important for the neighborhood as it allows us to maintain these common areas, playground equipment, clubhouse, pickleball courts, and pool.
The VGCA membership drive continues for this year and VGCA always takes donations to pay for things such as gas and repairs for our lawn equipment. Support VGCA by joining and possibly volunteering some time.
The VGCA Membership form can be found here: https://vgnn.org/join