Tuesday, July 21, 2009

OUR OTHER CEMENT POND

Today is July 21, 2009. There was no chlorine detected in the outdoor pool's test reading and the water is currently a cloudy pond scum green.
I was told the Berry Pool boys were out yesterday to correct this. That’s fine and dandy, but is not our Village paying Berry Pools thousands of dollars to monitor this pool’s water chemistry every two hours so things of this nature are not suppose to happen?

It’s understandable that equipment may break down now and then, but it was sold to us that this system is supposed to sense the effects of these failures and relay those problems immediately to Berry Pools. The water chemistry in a 1000 gallon hot tub can possibly change in a day, but a pool that originally held nearly 100,000 gallons of balanced H2O takes a considerable amount of time to change. We’re talking maybe a week of chlorine not being added, with sun, heat, and high traffic to change this from clear to a cloudy green. Our Village is paying through the nose for this system that doesn’t seem to be effective.

One should always give the benefit of a doubt, but no one should just sit back and ignore this silly spending of thousands of LIV dollars for something that takes just one qualified person usually less than an hour a day to do. There have been way too many times our hot tubs and pools have had water quality issues. For the tens of thousands of dollars spent so far, we should have had at least consistent water quality instead of the constant lame excuses.

This year Berry Pools resold everyone in our Park on a system that would alert them immediately if there was something wrong with the water chemistry so that the situation can be corrected before it becomes a problem. This whole deal seems to be a croc and should be rendered totally unacceptable. In my opinion a monkey could do a better job.

More important than the tremendous cost and never ending inconvenience, is the potential liability this erratic service poses to our Village. This Park does need another lawsuit from this “accident waiting to happen” scenario. The Board may want to take a hard look at this along with some action because there was no excuse for this last outdoor pool problem.



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Monday, July 06, 2009

JULY SUGGESTIONS

We would love your suggestion that will improve our Village. Suggestions may be viewed by those visiting. We will renew the display each month. Anonymous are welcomed. So throw one in the box.




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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

June 27, 2009 Regular Board Meeting

Pledge of Allegiance


Owners Speaking on Agenda Issues


Lot 145 had an issue of the north parking area of the Welcome Center charging owners. P. Burke explained the reasons why it was established. It was argued back and forth between these two for twenty minutes with no resolve. Will talk more about this at the end of the meeting.


SC 79 As a new owner, she feels there’s a problem in receiving hurricane procedural information. She said there was nothing in her owner’s packet of a plan procedures or where to obtain them. At the last Coffee with the Directors meeting was when she first heard the need for hurricane stickers. She questioned current procedures for transporting owners and dealing with the renters are adequate. She also questioned the reasoning why the President wanted to replaced last year’s hurricane committee and wished the board to reconsider the reinstatment of the old committee. P. Burke said everything is in the library and added that we formed a new committee this year, as we do every year, to update it. She said you need to go to the library. It was noted that the updated 2009 plan was not in the library. P. Burke said it is currently being updated with new phone numbers, etc. She said it is the same plan as last year except for the phone numbers. This owner said her main problem is not being informed initially. There was another owner P. Burke allowed to speak who said he had no problem with being uninformed and inferred that this owner was causing a problem. SC 79 owner’s response to that was cut off with P. Burke saying the magical “your two minutes are up." Dir. Pelletier said there were ten pages in the Brownsville paper pertaining to hurricane procedures. The owner looking perplexed said that doesn’t deal with our Village. P. Burke became louder and talked about never providing transportation, channel 18, the marquee, announcement of updates, giving time lines, and finalized with 211 information. Dir. Pelletier and P. Burke both explained that last year’s hurricane procedure stays in effect until the new one comes out.


Lot 704 asked if the 2009 hurricane plan could be posted on our LIV web site. Treas. Steffensen said no problem.


Pres. Remarks- P. Burke said she, Mr. Hall, and Trea. Steffensen had a meeting with Security to go over how long they will stay during a hurricane event. They said they will be the last ones to leave. P. Burke tone seemed rude towards Dir. White for supposedly interrupting her while talking. P. Burke then lectured everyone on what she does as President. She said she doesn’t run the Coffee meetings, but during the regular Board meetings, we have the Roberts Rules to go by. She reiterated that this includes Board members speaking out of turn as well, referring to Dir. White. She mentioned to sign up to 211 if you do not have transport off the island during a hurricane ahead of time.



Manager Report- Armando said he had 65 work requests, 5 building permits, 3 violation letters sent. Condo fees late 13(60) 6(90). Bath house #1 completed. Volley ball court needs sand to be completed and are getting different bids for the expansion of the walk in cooler. A new cable conduit line has been laid from the maintenance office to the Rec. Hall for an internet hard line.
P. Burke said there were still problems with Time Warner completing their installation. Cable Ventures said they thought they had finished their job until Time Warner showed them pictures of work unfinished. Action then came from Cable Ventures that very day. E-mail communication problems were caused from Time Warner personnel changes.
Armando said he has done individual lot hurricane inspections and violation letters are forthcoming. For about four weeks now he has been inspecting the Village roadways with Dir. Pelletier and made copies of areas that need to be addressed (1-5) according to importance. It seems that current funds can address 1 and 2 this year.



May 27th Approval of the Minutes - Motion made and approved. P. Burke said they will in executive meeting interview three GM candidates, review executive session minutes, and other board issues.


Treasurer’s Report / Profit and Loss - Treas. Steffensen gave the usual report. She then outlined the breakdown of where the hurricane insurance money was being applied. Administration received 2.87%. ($1,198) Pro Shop received 4.19% ($1750) Rental Dept. received 92.61% ($38,712) Laundry received .33% ($138). These monies were applied in April. P&L for April 2009 shows the rental office improved by $31,553 over last year, when in reality it lost $7159 more than last year.


Committees Reports


D&E Committee – Dir. White spoke well about last Saturday’s ice cream social and the big doings for the Fourth of July cook off.


Golf Committee – Dir. Pelletier had nothing.


Pool Committee – Treas. Steffensen said maintenance installed a yellow box to communicate with Security. Director Guerra said he tried it and had Security there in four minutes. Treas. Steffensen said last month our Park appears to have had 1113 renters/guests using our pools. She used the wrist band sales as the indicator.


Security – P. Burke talked about allowing shorts for Security and found the procedure to implement it was complex. She had a meeting on the 22nd with Security and says they have been enforcing the children under 14 rule for the spas. Discussed with Security were the visitor and guest procedures, Fourth of July additional security personnel and procedures, change in procedure with the boat ramp gate keys, to which the audience had to listen to P.Burke reliving her experience about someone calling her complaining their key doesn’t work. What a treat.


Other Welcome Center will be open until 6pm from now on.


Unfinished Business


Website Security – Treas. Steffensen said the web site was checked. It appears that this only happens with McAfee security systems. McAfee will be contacted and there will be more items checked.


Donations –Treas. Steffensen is still researching on who our Village use to donate to.


Waiver of Cook off permit – P. Burke- motion approved waiving parking permits for vehicles associated with the cook off and allowed them to park overnight in the rear tennis court parking lot


Cook off Sponsor Board – P. Burke-Motion approve for sponsor signs at the cook off.


Boat Ramp Keys –P. Burke talked about having new card keys for the boat ramp.


Welcome Center Parking Lot – P. Burke-This was talked about for fifteen minutes. Motion

approved for the Welcome Center South side parking lot having a one hour limit without a parking pass.


The meeting was stopped for a schedule 10:45 am meeting with the owners of lot 58. This pertained to an unattached free standing deck being in violation. Owner wished any information as to why his next door Lot 59 neighbor with a similar free standing deck is not in violation. It was said by P.Burke that it was grandfathered in. Owner wished proof that such a circumstance exists. Owner feels he is being treated differently rule wise. P. Burke talked about zoning law, case law, commercial applications, and more. After twenty minutes of mumble jumble, it was suggested to give owner 30 days to attach, shirt, and have required inspection done. Owner asked for 60 days because of the inspection and P. Burke viewed that as totally unacceptable. Motion past with giving them 30 days.


Building Code Changes – Pelletier motion passed that owners are responsible to add their lot numbers in the concrete when it's over poured. Motion approve for all lots having permanent living structure to be required to have 5” or larger lot numbers displayed on a street side building area. Motion approved to require rear lot numbers for residences on the water.


Pool Handicap Railing – Dir. White – motion approved to spend a max of $700 for the handicap railing to both pools.


New Business


Lot Numbering – Gagan see building code changes.


Other - There was a lengthy discussion toward the boat trailer parking at the north side of the

Welcome Center. Motion was past to rescind the original motion which charged a fee for parking. Motion was made for cars and trucks only having a maximum of 24 hour parking on the north side parking lot. Before there was a second, a motion was made to table it. For over fifteen minutes there seemed to be one director interrupting another on this topic. No director had the floor. Owner from lot 145 made a rude comment to P. Burke and objected to now not allowing boat trailers to park in that area. Treas. Steffensen questions the need for providing any area at all for boat trailers. After another twenty minutes, the 24 hr parking motion was approved.


Recess for an Executive Meeting to the interview three GM candidates, review executive session minutes, and other board issues.


Return to order at around 2:30pm no motions made.


Adjournment
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