Wednesday, August 26, 2009

August 22, 2009 Coffee with the Directors

Pledge of Allegiance (Dir. Pelletier hosting the meeting for VP Halbach)

From the Suggestion Box
Lot 340 feels lot 335 has a fire hazard. It will be looked into by the Board.
Lot “everybody” asked if the Park still had a lawn crew working. Dir. Pelletier said he will give this to Armando.
Lot 289 said they found the tennis court was trashed and the net was knocked down. Owner asked that the Park go back to its original setup.
Lot 281 had a similar problem regarding the tennis court with the addition in finding beer bottles, broken glass, and scuff marks made from street shoes.
Lot ”?” Asked for the Park to get another ping pong table.
Lot 828 said the rental office does not checked to see how many passes are given to each lot or how many people are staying at each rental unit. Owner would like to see the 2 pass max and 8 persons per unit rule enforced.
Dir. Pelletier said many people don’t obtain a pass; instead they park overnight in the Welcome center parking lot and walk in or are brought in by the renter.
Owner has issues with the upkeep of units in the park and wants those unit owners to be notified when the property is not kept up?
In addition the owner wants is to put all the owners names with unpaid fines and condo fees in our newsletter.
Owner believes we should have a scissor lift used instead of ladders to cut the common ground palm trees.
Owner feels the uncared properties affect the values of the neighboring properties. Owner wanted to know why our by-laws are not enforced. P. Burke said she had talked to our Village Attorney on that particular reference and felt it was considered a vague term.
Owner said there's items left unsecured at these units that don't meet the hurricane policy and the Board said they are going to start their tie down notifications earlier this next year. Owner said numerous other lots that have been in violation for quite some time.
Lot 288 gave the Board a two page report along with three pictorial pages attached. It describes the lack of attention to detail of those in charge along with the absence of insisting that violators adhere to the rules and regulations. Owner said this has brought the Park’s appearance status down tremendously.
This report under “Hurricane Dolly Clean Up” has lots 82 (siding missing), 411 (skirting missing and other damage), 267 (cleanup / repair). Under rules violation, lots 642 (broken down equipment laying around, scattered debris, skirting missing). Lots 473-543-847 have recreational vehicles used as permanent structures with no tie downs or skirting. Golf course pump station building’s door been broken off providing full access to anyone, was filed under “attention to detail”. Owner said this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Lot 689 wished to thank Armando for his help in restoring the butterfly garden by the Park’s security gate. Also thanked Judy Voss for keeping the Marquee flower area looking so nice.

From the Directors
P. Burke said she had a long meeting with Steve from the Berry Pools, which included the audience of Dir. Steffensen, Armando, and the new GM Rick. P. Burke said there was a sensor that went bad and Berry Pools didn’t have a replacement on hand. She said the replacement went bad and Berry Pools changed distributors etc. P. Burke went on to say the amount of chemicals being used has increased but the price has gone down. P. Burke said she just wanted to let everyone know that.
Dir. White wanted to remind everyone about 10 o’clock Karaoke. She mentioned the handicap rails and asked for some additional signs.
Director Guerra asked about signs at the Welcome Center and broken glass. (didn’t use the mike so it was hard to hear.)

From the Audience
Lot 828 talked about the raccoons and possums he caught in our Village. Also mentioned there was a caged dog the renters had left in the elements all day.
Several people stood up and talked that didn’t give their names of lot numbers
Lot I said the handicap rail won’t work because the pool steps are too high.
The Director’s discussed shortly between themselves about towing unauthorized parked vehicles.
Lot 759 wanted more clarification on the owner use vs. owner sponsor on renting the Recreation Hall. P. Burke took over and said the only waiver of fees are for owner’s birthday and anniversary, owners $500 fee is for weddings, quinceaƱera, birthdays, anniversary, memorials, and funerals. Owner sponsor parties are $1200. There was still confusion as to what is to be charge to this owner for having their daughter’s wedding reception here. The Board is to review the rules and owner definitions as it applies to the charge.
Lot 349 said that when the one hour parking signs were posted around the Welcome Center, everyone started to park in the middle. It was mentioned by this owner to put a 15-30 minute check-in parking area.

Mr. Salazar of Securitas was introduced as the new person in charge of the Securitas operation. He went through a brief background of himself and pledged his future efforts to LIV.

Steve from Berry pools was introduced and started by saying how he felt like he was part of the LIV family and will continue to do everything he can to keep the pool facility water clean and safe. He went on to explain about all his new customers his company is now doing business with. He explained how everyone is certified in his company and that there is a need now for pool safety since our Government passed a new Federal law and if facilities are not in compliance, they can be fined 1.825 million dollars. He said safety is priority one. He said the incident with the outdoor pool was a little one. He said he never had a problem like this. He said we had an electronic relay part failure, but that was not a big problem. All they had to do was just put some chlorine tabs in the skimmer until it was fixed. He said when our employee accidently backwashed the water out of our pool for forty five minutes, it took the entire stabilizer out of the pool, and that’s what caused the problem. He said he will now keep parts in stock for our system. He said he appreciated you all for trusting him. He said also this problem went on for three days without him being informed.

Workshop
P. Burke started off the workshop saying the date that was scheduled for an owner's hearing is being cancelled and all communication will now be through the Village attorney. She would not elaborate on the party, but it was apparent who the owner was when he asked for a point in question and P. Burke said no. The owner had questions about an e-mail received and P. Burke told the owner that you brought it to this level. Owner responded with, only after you started all of it.
Dir. White – asked if there is a need for a board approval to hold small lunch fund raiser on Sept 5th at the pool. She had questions about the maintenance of the tennis courts along with if there was something in the works with training the pool people. Armando said the district manager was looking into the training. Director White mentioned something about a weather proof display case.
Dir. Guerra asked to have the chief Cameron County appraiser come and visit with the owners sometime in January so owners can understand why our Village property is appraised the way it is.
Dir. Pelletier wants on the agenda to discuss lot 88.
Dir. Gagan gave an apology for something and wishes to discuss the cost to move the Marquee closer to the road. Armando said it was around $2800. P. Burke said it needs to be put on 2010 budget.
Sect. Steffensen first agenda item was to discuss the fixing of four sinkholes that will have to be budgeted this year for around $5000 each. She wanted to review the late charge policy and auditor info with the Finance Committee. She said there is a problem with the Park not getting the owner’s permission on the rental form for renters to rent in LIV, leaving open whose responsible for the renter. She said it also adds to the Park’s liability, which our Park can ill afford new litigation. The previous lawsuits had cause the old insurance company to drop coverage and our Park had to go with a high risk company that raised the deductible to a whopping $50,000. After an eight minute orientation from P. Burke on the different ways of renting, she made the suggestion to have a notarized letter from the owner and quickly formed a committee to handle that.
P. Burke said she had an owner e-mail from lot 92 explaining the depth problems in the canals. P. Burke told everyone about the problems of dredging on the property that LIV doesn’t own and wants on the agenda to talk about building contractors signing owner permits. P. Burke wants to have a review of the Rec. Hall policy. She went on at length as to what the Rec. Hall policy currently contains. There were ownership definition questions that P. Burke said needs to be address. As an example she emphasized ownership along with her five siblings in her Mother’s life estate that could be different than Dir. Montalva’s trust that his property is under. So she is going review ownership definitions as they apply for use of our Rec. Hall.
P. Burke said there were youngsters caught breaking into a Park residence and how security handled the situation.
The ex GM told the owners his stories of problem experiences with children.




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Saturday, August 08, 2009

OUR CEMENT POND


Well guess what was green again? Last Wednesday I walked the golf course paths on my way to the billiard Room to shoot pool and happened to notice the Indoor pool was cloudy with that greenish goo look.
Thursday morning I took these pictures. I never saw a pool close sign.
This seems to have gotten to the point of being reckless. It does not take a missile scientist to keep the pool’s water chemistry adequate. It just takes someone with a little experience who pays attention and cares. That’s it. You can have all the mechanical breakdowns in the world, but if someone pays attention, they will notice the starting affects of water change or the failure itself and fix it before becomes a major problem. Management should have at least closed the pool so no one has the possibility of becomes ill.
I thought Aramark’s first item of order is “safety First”, or are LIV owners not as important as the Aramark employees they pay for?
Make no mistake; no one other than LIV is responsible for its pool’s safety. Berry Pools apparently owns no legal responsibility.
It takes at least a couple of days for the water of this volume to turn this way.
When is this going to change?












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A TIDBIT

On August the fourth there was a massive puddle of water adjacent to Mr. Freeland’s property at the intersection of Garcia and our Village only exit. Our workers took quite a while to fix a water line that feeds his home. My understanding is that our Village provides Village water to him at no charge. I feel that’s very generous for a person who has had issues with our Village in the past.






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Wednesday, August 05, 2009


AUGUST 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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