October 1997
At 9:00 a.m., on October 11th, 1997, there will be an informational meeting at the club house to questions pertaining to our new. garage doors.
Homeowners discoveries have prompted your Board to conduct and test a guttering solution to limit. Association liability for siding damage in the E & D models. That solution which can be seen will be adopted and installed in all E & D models at the Association's expense. The guttering in question is factory painted, custom-molded by a special machine on site, and custom installed. Should homeowners wish to do so, the vendor has agreed to install the same quality gutters in other areas at the homeowner's direction. The cost, of course, will be born by the homeowner and he/she is responsible for upkeep. Note that the Board assumes responsibility for the upkeep of what it installs. if you have queries call Frank Toto. You may also have questions answered at the October 11th meeting devoted to garage doors.
Recurring users may note that the years have taken their toll on the spa and that the water jets have lost their power because of cracks in the aging plumbing. Also, the plaster is stained, cracked and worn. And the tiles are both cracked and stained. Not to mention the surrounding concrete, which is sagging, cracking, and lifting.
Toward restoring this valuable asset, Frank Toto interviewed numerous vendors, materials, and pool contractors, and recommended not only a plan of action but a contractor to carry the renovation forward. Your Board has approved his choices and the work will begin early in the new year. Because ,of concern for resident safety, the pool will be closed for approximately two weeks while the contractor is at work.
A man's watch was found at the pool. If you know who it may belong to, please contact the custodian of Lost & Found.
The finance committee and your Board of Directors are busy developing the 1998 budget, which will be presented to homeowners in November. One of its components is the reserve budget: maintained to cover capitol improvements and major repairs. Examples of projects that are funded by reserves include new roofs, the on-going painting of buildings, the spa and pool renovation., and the new garage doors.
If sufficient funds are not allocated each month to reserve projects, money is not available when the need arises. It then becomes necessary to impose a special assessment as was done in 1989 for the new roofs. However, I'm now happy to report that we are accruing sufficient reserve funds to address current and future projects. I urge you to come to Board meetings to be an informed homeowner, to offer your input and to share in the pride of living in a great complex.
Actual announcements taken from U.S. alienation from the church bulletins:
Unquestionably, Charles Dickens' GREAT EXPECTATIONS has been one of the best-loved novels of readers in Great Britain and the United States. And this is not surprising as its author's portrayal of a youth of talents rising from obscurity to social prominence is familiar to lovers of success literature wherever they are found. But readers often miss Dickens' point: namely, that the way up the social ladder may be the way down. For GREAT EXPECTATIONS is, at its core, a story of human weakness and individual surrender. Only in the final chapters is Pip, the novel's protagonist, caught up in a redemptive experience, in a reaffirmation of human values.
Though there have been no fewer than three film versions of the novel (1934, 1946, and 1974), the 1946 version, directed by David Lean, dwarfs the others. In fact, it has been called "one of the greatest films ever made, a vivid adaptation of Dickens' tale..." That is to say, it gives us a hero who in the pursuit of his expectations earns our contempt, forfeits our sympathies. John Mills is Pip while a young Alec Guiness is Herbert Pocket, who undertakes Pip's social education, initiates his alienation from the admirable feelings and values of his youth. Lean has a point to make and his film makes it -- documents the corrosive effects of property on the seemingly "lucky" individual.
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