We are in the process of adding in solar powered LED lights to illuminate the parking areas on the West side of the subdivision. These lights are totally solar powered, stay on low power until they detect motion and then it switches to high power for about 30 seconds. We have one of these currently installed on West Mountain Creek Drive, on the South parking lot. We have 3 more of these lights on order and will be placing them in parking areas on the West side in the next few weeks.
The Office will be closed December 24 and 25, 2018, and New Year’s Day, January 1, 2019. Maintenance will be off during the same dates.
However, we will be picking up trash on Monday, December 24 and December 31, as usual.
We have another water leak at the City water meter located in the common area across from #40 East MC Court. Our guys are working on it now and we will have the water back on as soon as possible. This is a 2″ connection leaking at a rate of about 40 gallons per minute and we have to repair it now. The connection into the meter sheared off due to ground motion and the water meter not being situated inline with out stuff. A slight ground movement puts lateral force on a threaded PVC connector and you get this:
The HOA is fortunate to have people that can do these types of repairs and save the HOA a lot of money as opposed to hiring a plumbing company on a Sunday to repair this leak.
The December GP Pipeline newsletter is now published.
We have had issues with the recent rain causing dirt to wash down the incline onto the pool deck area. You can see a mark on the deck where the dirt usually sat. So, to alleviate this problem, we added in a retaining wall to stop the erosion and loss of soil. While we were there, we added in a sidewalk between the pool deck and the rear BBQ area. Previously, people had to walk past the Women’s restroom to get to the rear area.
We are fortunate to have acquired maintenance staff members over the years who have a wide variety of experience and can do these projects so we can reduce costs, as opposed to hiring subcontracting companies to do them. The last major sewer repair, requiring a back hoe and a lot of man-hours, would have cost the HOA over $10,000; we spent around $1500 including equipment rental and labor. This is one example; we did 5 similar repairs in the past 4 or 5 months, using our people to do them. The same is true of water line repairs and so much more.
The November 29th GP Pipeline is posted.
The Office and Maintenance will be off on Thursday, November 22, and Friday, November 23, in observance of Thanksgiving Day. There will be no trash pickup on Thursday.
We will pick up trash on Friday, starting at 7:30 AM. Notices have been put out on all properties detailing this. Please do not set out trash on Thursday.
