Please join me in thanking Mike Jump for his years of service to our community as chair of the Maintenance Committee. For three and a half years, Mike has done a wonderful job of keeping our facilities working properly and looking great!
With Mike’s departure, we have re-organized the Maintenance Committee into four smaller tasks: Pools, Tennis, Facilities, and Roads. Kip Longan has assumed responsibility for pools and Leon Radziemski will handle the tennis courts. Chairs of the Facilities and Roads committees are still vacant so Board members are filling in as needed. If you would like to help with any of these committees, please contact Guy Scharf or any Board member. We’d love to have you work with us.
The South Pool, which was closed for the winter, re-opened on March 4th. The pool and spa heaters, both scheduled for replacement this year, failed a few weeks later and were replaced. The pool deck was repaired and resurfaced during the winter while the pool was closed and looks very good. A safety bar was added to the shower area. Ironwork at the front and back gates will be repainted this year.
The pool deck at the North Pool was also repaired and resurfaced last fall. One of the two pool heaters failed and was replaced. Vandalism to the shower surround was repaired and we added some hooks to hang towels inside the surround.
While it may seem surprising that we’ve had to replace three heaters in the last six months, we’re actually doing quite well and these replacements were budgeted. We expect heaters to last about 8 years. The North pool heater failed a year earlier than expected; the South pool heater was expected to need replacement this year. The South spa heater lasted an amazing 26 years.
At the North entrance, an intermittent problem with the lights staying on was finally corrected by replacing wiring. This was a difficult problem to resolve. Kudos to Mike Jump for his effort in working through this problem with the electricians over a period of months.
We have several other projects ahead of us in 2016. This year we will repaint the old mail “package” boxes to match the new mailboxes so all boxes will be the same color. Additionally, our first step in the Roads project will be to contract with an engineer to identify the maintenance required in each section of our 3.2 miles of roads. After that we will obtain bids, schedule the work, communicate with affected homeowners, and monitor the work being done. We expect this work will stretch out through the remainder of the year. We are fortunate to have homeowner Bob Mix helping us on this large project; his experience will be invaluable.
Again, we will need additional volunteers helping with Facilities and Maintenance. It is an excellent way to meet other neighbors and help the community. Please contact me if you can help.
✉ by Guy Scharf, SMVE PresidentPhone: ; (cell)