Questions & Answers

Yes, it is available on the website inside of the member portal.  The reserve study can be found HERE as well.

1. CPA – 86% savings
2. Lifeguard Hours
3. Clubhouse Cleaning frequency
4. Club Management back to in-house
5. Bidding out our regular services including landscaping, cleaning, pest control, pool management, insurance, and trash service over the past 24 months to ensure best value.

Our covenants do not allow us to charge different rates for different members.  We are supposed to create a budget and allocate those costs equally amongst all members.  The only remedy our governing documents allow for is for our Voluntary members to leave.  If we wanted to continue to charge different amounts to Voluntary members, seniors, etc., we would be required to change the Covenants, which requires a 75% approval of the membership.

This includes the cost of the landscaper, janitorial service, pest control, pressure washing, as well as including repairs budgeted this year to replace gutters, downspouts, rotting fascia, and repainting.

We have heard this from a few folks and this is truly not how it was meant to come across.  Being on this board is tough and a lot of challenging decisions have had to be made for many years.  What we’ve found through this process is that prior boards did the absolute best they could, but often were handicapped by a lack of clear and accurate information.  We’ve had reports of boards in the past not having visibility to the books, being given incorrect information about the declarants and bylaws, and many other items that make decision making difficult.  At the end of it, there are some identifiable mistakes that were made, but in no way do we believe this to be due to any of the prior volunteer boards.

The additional use is from the sheer fact that the participant membership has grown by 25% as we are now at 290 members and while some do not utilize the facilities, in general, we are going through a period where the facilities are being used more than they were 10 years ago.  This is based on measurable things like number of tennis teams, frequency of reservations, swim team participation, etc.  The strains on the facilities are the same, but there is verifiably more usage measured over the past 10 years.

It is available inside the member portal on the website under the Community Docs

No.  The Capital Reserve study was a guide to give us insight into all our assets and we then brought in contractors and professionals to provide better specifics around our assets.

The Assessment only covers the items where we truly feel they are immediate needs for personal safety and property preservation.  The items such as the kitchen renovation, decking, etc. are budgeted over the next five years. 

Lights were not prioritized.  Tennis Courts were resurfaced and lights were added last fall.  We both resurfaced and replaced the lights at the same time to save costs through utilizing one contractor.  These were both urgent as the resurfacing was a year past its life span and causing some injuries to tennis players as they lost traction, and we had multiple lighting fixtures (not bulbs) burn out due to age.  It was most prudent to replace with LED lights due to their lifespan and lack of needed ongoing maintenance.

From what we can tell, it was sometime around 2013.  The pool typically needs to be replastered every 10 years and we have been paying a few thousand each year over the past three years to patch spots that crack.  The most recent crack was a nearly $6,000 fix, so replastering made more fiscal sense given its overdue need.

The pool furniture, we estimate, is around 20 years old.  The chairs were re-strapped and painted around 5 years ago, but the furniture has been painted over so many times that the tables are thick with multiple layers of paint.  It is also older metal furniture and the overall weight and function of the furniture makes it difficult to move and has caused damage to the pool deck as it is moved quite often for parties, swim events, etc.