Saturday, September 10, 2022

Using Designated Reserves

 I have always understood that a designated reserve I.E. Roof Reserve, Could only be used for whatever it is designated for ONLY. 

I strongly OBJECT to the Roof Reserve of $800,000 over for WPRF Clubhouse  being taken to pay for the "shortfall" from the reserves already being taken to pay for WPRF's HVAC project. Just so you know, What we have in the Roof Reserve will not cover the over $900,000 needed to cover what IS needed to be in the Reserve. We already have a "shortfall", and they want to take from a DESIGNATED RESERVE to cover another ""SHORTFALL". 

I would think that it should go before the delegates and have it be understood that IF a hurricane should hit this or next year, that would means getting another "Special assessment" (another because we will most likely get one of $72 or more because of the Shortfall).

I would urge you to call your Sector Vice President and tell them your dissatisfaction with this. 

the number for the UCO office is 561-683-9189.

Vice Presidents are:

Dom Garnagia, Fausto Fabbro, Patricia Caputo and Stuart Richland.

WE'VE BEEN LUCKY SO FAR THIS YEAR... THINGS CAN QUICKLY CHANGE!!!

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Chicken in the village

First wild ducks, not really a problem as we doo get them out when the population becomes a little overwhelming, same for the iguanas... now we have the newest addition..."free-range chickens". apparently no one is claiming them. In a place like a CONDO, which Century Village happens to be, there are usually rules about pets and what type of pet you may own if they allow them.

I do not know of, nor ever heard of any condo allowing CHICKENS, pig, peacocks, full size horses, mules, burros or asses, although the latter is frequently overlooked.

My suggestion would be someone catching these so called "free range chickens and let's have a nice BBQ.

Come on people, a little common sense goes a long way. If you own these so called free range birds, take them and get them and find them a  nice little farm to run around in, otherwise I have room in my pot and some pretty good recipes I've been wanting to try out.

I am going on a vacation, going to see the kids/grandkids. I've asked David Israel, our President to keep me in the loop and asked that someone facetime or zoom me. I've been assured it will be done.

I look forward to these meetings via zoom or facetime

until my return, Peace be with you.

Bob

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Thank you Century Village WPB

 No matter which way the election turns out tomorrow, I want to thank the residents of CVWPB for their trust and support.

I have and will always do what I believe is best for our village, and will continue to fight for what I feel is best. We have a few battle in front of us, and I promise to continue to represent CVWPB to the best of my ability, whether or not it means I have to bump heads with my fellow officers and the management of the village.

Management, to me, is one of the big issues that needs to be dealt with and FIXED. The Millenial Contract needs to be thrown out and rewritten in order to give US, the owners and residents a lot more say in how things should be run and not have management look at us as a CASH COW any longer. I understand the system or concept of making a profit for management, but not with such greed as to make an unconscionable contract making us pay for everything that a landlord should be paying for. We should not be paying for the replacement of the Air Conditioners, it is a part of the building and thus should be replaced by Management. We should not be paying for repairs, the A/C does not belong to us. Maintenance of the a/c should be a split cost and not our total responsibility. Let me remind you, that If we all get together and fight this heinous contract and win, we could cut the budget by millions and STILL put enough into reserves to redo the roads, install proper sidewalks and be able to purchase the some of the missed opportunities of the past if we all wanted to, such as the clubhouse or the golf course or other things that may come up in the future. 

All Security contracts in the Village are paid BY US, WPRF pays for their contract with funds provided BY US, therefore there should no longer be two separate contracts with different pay scales for each. It should be ONE contract, with rotating positions and the guards should be paid the same, taking the longevity/seniority of guards in account as far as the pay scale goes. One overall Supervisor and two assistants with longevity taken into account.

The Medical Building has become quite the issue of late. UCO, the Executive Board have voted and are against the proposed zoning changes to allow a place of worship, two pools and a reduction in parking spaces at the Medical Building. I feel the Delegate Assembly will also be against it, and need to speak out by sending a resolution to the county voicing their dissatisfaction with it. Remind them that they are Elected to their positions and can easily be replaced.

Once again, I thank you for your support and pray that you heed my words. Let's make this the Best Place to Live Hand down.

Bob Rivera, USN Ret.


Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Common Courtesy is now creepy...

 What a world we live in... it seems having common courtesy is now "creepy". 

Just so you know, when a person is in a crosswalk in the State of Florida, they actually have the right of way. 

Today, coming through the gate at Haverhill, I stopped for someone on a bike to let them cross. I waved the person on to go and cross, and was greeted with a bunch of F bombs as I waved this foul mouthed person on. Apparently this person considers common courtesy as creepy. 

Poor misguided and unmannered child. (It was nowhere near a child by the way.) I guess that is what this world has to look forward to. No common courtesy, no manners, no couth at all.

Remember folks, You deserve to be treated as you treat others, so treat others with a little common courtesy and respect. 

As the great Paul Harvey used to say... Good Day...

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Thursday, January 13, 2022

unedited minutes from January 7th Delegate Assembly

Delegate Assembly January 7, 2022

0900 Meeting called to order. 142 Delegates signed in. Quorum present.

Major Matino leads Pledge of Allegiance.

Law Enforcement Report:

Traffic: 17 citations, 27 written warnings, 7 accidents, 1 Hit and Run.

Activity: 231 calls, 52 cases, Fraud 3 knew they had fraudulent calls (organized Fraud) 2 people

arrested by long term undercovers, credit report check by victim noticed fraudulent load on

account, called and taken care of, Victim defrauded by fake paypal caller, sent $20,000 then

immediately called bank to cancel transaction, victim did not have paypal account.

4 bicycle thefts, one was $2500 electric. Write down serial #’s and save receipt. 2 cases of

vandalism.

Question on Mask policy. WPRF policy is it is Voluntary. UCO requires masks for UCO Building

and Delegate Assembly.

Minutes for December 2021 accepted as presented.

President Report:

A group of Orthodox have Incorporated and purchased the Medical Building with intention of

creating a Synagogue, have filed paperwork with the county. They are having a closed meeting

for applied variances, entitlements and rights. According to Richard Handelsman’s research, the

building is 31,800 sq. ft., 16,200 Sq. ft. for Medical and Dental, 6000 Sq. ft. for Office, 3,600 for

Worship, 1000 sq. ft. Each for Adult Day Care, Personal Services and Bank.

Neils from Commissioner Weiss’s office is willing to hold a zoom meeting but asks that

questions be submitted ahead of time. There are three levels of approval, DRO, Zoning

Commission and County Commissioners.

Former Commissioner Burdick inquires about Landscaping.

Comments via e-mails buses too big, buses too noisy.

Treas.- Report: Proxy Signatures still needed, 232 is the number needed to move forward, we

have broken the 200 mark. This is VERY Important big increases are in store for the owners if

your Association has not signed it. Talk to you Association, get your President to sign and it

gives US the power to renegotiate the whole lease and eliminate the arbitration loss and also

eliminate the second arbitration for the 3 plus million-dollar cost of the HVAC at the clubhouse.

Insurance has gone up drastically, new cost gone up materially allocate different premiums for

those associations not taking care of their buildings.

Problem with allocation, one line item that has not been seen before is contribution for

Reserves (presently a little over $10 million). It was previously in General Expenses, it is nowon

it’s own line item.

YTD we are under budget. Any questions, feel free to come into UCO and speak directly with the

Treasurer.


Recording Sec.-Treasurer pretty much covered everything with proxy signatures, putting out a

call for volunteers to help out at UCO. Stated concerns over WPRF closing on Christmas. It needs to be addressed also management. Changes needed with

Security contracts. They need to be merged, UCO and WPRF. One company for the whole

village.

David Boas, VP- Correction about the band for the cancelled New Year’s Eve Party, we did have

to pay for the band as they did not have time to get another job for the date. All other

performers have been very obliging.

One of the jobs I do is look at stacks of invoices and scan them into the system. Occasionally

make suggestions for change of vendors and they are at times taken. Sent an email to Eva,

Monica and Dan, RE: Charges of relocation of Cenrec offices. Cenrec billed UCO $1973.00.

E-mail sent: (Normally I would not include in minutes)

I recently came across this invoice from DSL Express for WPRF fro a total of $1973.00 for the

relocation of Administrative and ID Office in the CV Main Clubhouse. I know relocation is

necessary due to the renovations to MCH A/C. I know strictly speaking, your interpretation of

the lease would say that we, the residents, have to pay for this. In my opinion, it takes a lot of

hard bark to ask the residents to pay for this so Cenrec can continue business as usual at no

expense to themselves. I know we are at odds on the lease issue, but fair is fair. Management

should’ve gladly paid for this and any other related to this issue. I find that $1975 isn’t s whole

lot of money, but what does it take to move from one side of the building to the other? Once again, it’s we that have to pay. Management isn’t willing or able to pick up any share. We are

paying them to charge us. To me it’s not fair.

Monica has not replied and I have not heard anything of what Cenrec’s position on this.

This is another classic example of telling everyone here that haven’t gotten on the proxies with

the millennial agreement that it’s time for us to do that…if you haven’t signed, please do so…

The President agrees.

Ken Graff states that Eva has purchased 2 iPads for $1900

Fausto Fabbro, VP- Comments on upcoming elections. Be sure to vote for people that will do

the job. Make sure officers in your building will be there to take care of issues.

Don Foster, CAM- Mentioned earlier subject brought up on landscaping and what is being done.

Mentioned importance of classes for Board Members and officers. (classes will be listed on the

blog as they become available.)Becker will most likely conduct the classes.

Discontinuation of NewsMAX on ABB discussed. NewsMAX is available for free on YouTube.

It was replaced by Paramount channel.

AirBnB was discussed. When found, association will be made aware and Call in privilages will be

suspended.

Sidewalks by Med Bldg discussed. Sidewalk on UCO property is scheduled to be replaced in near

future.


Ruth Dreiss, UCO Reporter Editor- gives report on Reporter. Made $35K on ads this past year,

expenses covered by ads.

Guests

Neils from Commissioner Weiss’ office- Discussed Covid home test kits. Suggests going online

and order on Amazon as kits may not be available from County.

Broadband may be strung on FPL light posts so children will have high speed internet access.

Sound barriers on Turnpike discussed briefly.

Pat Willhite Rep discussed district lines will know more in March. Sound Barriers can be

discussed in their office. Rep Willhite discussed Step therapy. Deals with Meds. If your doctor

prescribes a med, and your insurance won’t cover it, and an alternate is given med a, if it does

not work, they give you med b, if that doesn’t work you will get what the doctor originally

prescribed. You can look up all bills on myfloridahouse.gov

Did you know that in Florida, if a company does not to accept cash, you can be turned away?

A bill to make them accept cash is in the house.

Nat.willhite@myfloridahouse.gov to get his newsletter.

Rodney County Clerk Office. Raised pay for office employees. Clerks office is hiring. Minimum

wage is $15.

Resident aggravated that over half of the delegates don’t bother to come to DA. States $20

more a month would be a hardship.

Committee Reports.

Bobbi Levin- calls for volunteers, asked for people to run for office. Feb 4 th nominations from

the floor. After Feb 4 th DA the photographer will be in lobby for pics of people running for office.

Good and Welfare

Residents asks of Medical Building on Landscaping issue and parking.

Resident airs concern of what units are being “destroyed” pools in units, jack hammering, etc.

Reminder, each association has documents

Resident questions reserves, Millennial agreement and distrust of UCO.

Death of resident in Hastings and need for merging Security Guards discussed.

Quadrant meetings by VPs suggested by Marilyn Gordetzer.

Resident believes DOR approval may the as far as it goes for the purchasers of the medical

building,


Concerning the religious land use and institutionalized persons act. There are “outs”.

Fundamental change to the village may be an out, there are two synagogues within walking

distance, a conservative and a orthodox. It is the county’s job to

Resident wanted to put in an instant hot water heater, discussion followed. Concern about the

precedent of having a religious facility within the village. Discussion follows.

Mr. Handelsman states he has looked at the proposal for reducing the parking spaces at the

medical building is to accommodate two pools (mikvas) that they want to add.

Resident complains that there are too many renters and too many investors making it hard to

get a board.

Motion to adjourn

Respectfully Submitted,

Robert C. Rivera, USN Ret.

UCO Secretary