March 25, 2008

Board Meeting from March 18, 2008

MINUTES FOR MONTHLY MEETING OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS March 18, 2008


The meeting was called to order at 6:00pm. Those in attendance were Jimmy Baes, James Quinlan, Richard Yousoufian, Ari Dispenza, Lisa Boccard, Robert Vitrano, Alfonso Agras, Jeff Powell, and Lois de Oliveira.


1. The Minutes for the February 19th meeting were approved.

2. Administrative Report:
A. The “For Rent” and/or “For Sale” signs have not yet arrived. Miami Shores does permit a 10” X 20” sign to be placed in the window of an available apartment.
B. Signs are on order to be placed under the Grand Concourse Condo sign to let people know when we have a available apartment.

3. Committee Reports.
A. Painting Clean up
1. Darryl came back to clean up.
B. Rules and Regulations
1. Richard expressed a concern about our policy and restrictions on satellite dishes.
2. “What are the common areas” we will go over again.
3. We need to update our rules and regulations on questions about construction debris, work days, dog pickup, leaving clothes in the laundry room, bikes in the bike rack, etc. If you have any thoughts about it, let the committee know.

Ongoing Business:
A. common areas
1. Are the outside and garage doors common areas.
2. The Spring get-together is still on for the weekend of May 24th. We would like to have it catered and volunteers to bring drinks. If you have a problem with the date please let us know.

New Business:
A. We have emailed a request to Barrios for a quote to service 6 of the units.
B. The thermostat on the hot water should be set at 120 degrees. If you are not getting hot enough water in the kitchen it may be because you have a single lever faucet. The single lever may allow cold water to reach the faucet even if you have the lever all the way to the right.
C. With the hot water heater needing to be replaced in the next few years, we are considering solar hot water for the building. The solar panels would pay for themselves considering there would be no need for the bottled gas.