The BOD settled on a candidate, Charles and interviewed him. Because of a conflict of interests, we could not further entertain hiring him at this time. We did not have another candidate that seemed to fit our community at this time.
In the meantime, our office is in good hands and is running as smoothly as possible with all of TaJ's daily and any on-going problems, many inherited from the past. Beth is, of course, still working in our office.
[Editor's note: I have heard many share their opinion that Beth G. is a dedicated worker who works tirelessly for the good of the community.]
Tree trimming will start again in about a week. We look forward to having the rest of the palms and other trees touching buildings trimmed before hurricane season takes hold. A cherry-picker will be rented as well as a mulcher to be used to get rid of the cuttings, helping us with clean up and giving us some needed mulch in the bargain. Our trimming of the trees, instead of hiring an outside company, is saving our Association thousands of dollars.
I would like to applaud the unit owners who picked up their brooms and rakes and helped out the last time by sweeping their driveways and even giving our staff some clean-up help. It certainly made our clean-up go faster. This is community togetherness at it's best.
Building Captains are passing out voting ballots for the staggered term for board members. It would be nice if we could have the unit owners fill them out and drop them off to the office or their building captain.
On this note, we have building captains for more than half of the buildings. And they are a great group of helpful people looking to make our community better. At a meeting held about two weeks ago, the building captains came up with many positive ideas - packaging any fliers, passing them out to their building as well as taking buildings with no captains to help our staff use their time for other necessary work, getting votes for whatever is needed, dispelling rumors and passing along information of use to other unit owners, wanting to be our "events committee" for things like organizing garage sales events, Easter and Halloween events for our community's children, maybe even a get together for adults with music provided free from Dave Muri's band ( a building captain for bldg 11), I've never been at a more positive and energizing meeting of a group as I was with this one of the building captains. They deserve our many thanks and cooperation.
We still have buildings with no captains and hope that others will join the committee. Co-captains for the buildings we have covered would help out as well. Unit owners who are interested in joining this group can sign up in the office or email
pauletttewatson@bellsouthl.net or call
954.472.2283.Paulette Watson
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Editor's note: I wish to express a special thanks to Paulette for providing the above information. All BOD members and unit owners are invited to share their information, thoughts, questions, and even complaints. Even though all are invited, only a few ever take the time to share. Thanks, Paulette!]
