Announcements

Happy New Year to all Antigua owners.

I hope everyone had a great holiday season. We are proceeding on numerous projects for the new year in our Village and I wanted to keep everyone updated as to our progress.

Being director, you get a lot of “suggestions”. I appreciate all of them. Some I can resolve quickly, the others I make a note of. I currently have a list of some 65 items to address as we go forward. I will get to all of them, but for right now I’m trying to stay focused on getting seven of those projects started. Those are the flat roof repairs, mansards replaced, siding, stucco prep. fence prep, hiding TV cables, and painting. These constitute the majority of items simply needing to be repaired on the exterior of our units. None of these should involve legal or issues with the City of Coronado to get started on. Once we begin these, I will immediately start addressing another group.

ROOF AND DECK LEAKS: As many of you know or experienced in our last rain storms, we have 13 units disturbed by roof leaks, balcony leaks or gutter failures. By way of reference, there were only 10 other calls for the entire Coronado Cays and only 4 of those were CCHOA responsibility. Since that time, we have had two additional water intrusions from the rain storms.  The volume of problems in Antigua quickly exceeded the Cays staff’s ability to respond. We needed to call in outside contractors just to stabilize several units as well as prevent further damage.

Unfortunately, we had to get all the board members together for an emergency meeting to approve funds for what were essentially Antigua problems.  A quick estimate by CCHOA and the contractor for just Antigua’s repairs was $82,300.  These costs may grow higher as we begin to do the repair work.

While necessary, I hate spending money on these repairs instead of spending those funds on preventing them. However, any repairs we do will be permanent repairs. We are not going to patch these areas again. This last storm truly points out the need for us to immediately and professionally repair our roofs and decks. We can’t keep patching and bandaging these items. In fact, several of the major failures in the last storm had been “patched” over in just the last year or two.

To date, CCHOA records indicate that approximately 75% of the flat roofs have been “repaired” over the past years. However, the workmanship on a lot of those is questionable and in some cases wrong. We have contracted with roofing expert to review the remaining units that need attention as well as noting any work required on those roofs previously repaired. I intend to include the flat roof repairs with the Mansard roof work as we will be on the roofs anyways. The roof drains which continue to cause problems will be corrected within the scope of the flat roofs repairs.

MANSARDS AND SIDING. I have spent a lot, and I mean a lot of time on this item. We will be having a meeting very soon to present samples of the three products (metal, wood and concrete) and their cost / benefits to the owners. We are currently getting final bids from vendors for each task. Concluding this meeting we should be ready to initiate contracts to start the work.

WOOD ROT. STUCCO PREP. FENCE PREP. AND PAINTING. As part of the Mansard replacement, we will be replacing all of the dry rotted wood. That is, as you may guess, quite extensive.  We will also be repairing any stucco damage. Mostly this is rusted and rotted weep screeds at the ground level. We will be repairing any fence post, supports or slats that need it, as well as replacing hardware. Further, we will be replacing approximately 8 fences as well as properly prepping the fences for painting.

PAINTING.  Following all of the above repairs and prep work we will be painting the entire Village. We have met with paint suppliers to develop a specification for the material to be used as well as the correct application method.  Colors will not be changed appreciably.

CABLES. We will be rerouting as many of the TV, internet cables, etc. into a single chase as part of the mansard replacement. Our effort is to remove as many of these unsightly cables as possible.

DOCKS AND AECC. The CCHOA has hired a new person to review compliance standards concerning docks and AECC rules.  Ms. Summer Bettencourt joined us in early January and is sure to be a big help with questions and conflicts about the use of common areas as well as dock disputes and other AECC compliance issues. Look for Summer as she makes her rounds both on the ground and in our waterways.  Work on dock plumbing as well as electrical is still scheduled for 2017.

PLUMBING. This remains our single largest expense for outside contracting as well as disturbance to residents. These repairs in Antigua alone have exceeded the entire Cays managers’ budget for emergency repairs for the year, and we are only 1/3 of the way through the year. After starting our mansard and roofing project, this issue will certainly be next of the items to correct.

LANDSCAPE. We have completed the mulch project.  I have received a lot of compliments on the look of Antigua. Aside from looking better, the mulch will reduce the number of weeds by blocking the sunlight they need to grow. I am trying to improve the service level for every unit throughout the Village.  I have started sending a person through Antigua on Friday mornings to blow debris and leaves out in front of the City street sweeper. As we were paying to return the sweeper signs anyways, we might as well enhance the cleaning. We were able to get the Palms trimmed early, which will be a big help going through the winter in reducing the mess from the leaves and seeds. Because our palm trees for some reason have been flowering twice a year, we may need to increase our trimming to twice a year to keep ahead of the mess.

DOGS.  Still one of the biggest complaints I get. Really didn’t think that of all the big-ticket items facing our Village, dog poop was going to be on my radar, but it is. We are working with Coronado City animal control to try and get those irresponsible owners identified and cited.  Any information would help towards that end.  I hope to have the City of Coronado animal control spend much more time in Antigua.

FIRE LANES. The Board of Directors in conjunction with the Fire Department has completed striping the fire lanes between the garages. Any vehicle parked in front of a garage can and will be cited by the Coronado Police for a violation. Residents or our own monitoring service can call Coronado Police to have vehicles cited. The entire CCHOA is looking to establish a towing policy that will cover all Villages. Until that process is complete we cannot tow those vehicles in violation.