At the Westchase Community Association (WCA) board meeting on November 18, the directors dealt with some appeals on contract limitation fines, briefly discussed the future of pool slides, and approved a new contract extension for the pipeline. The swimming team rented the association’s swimming pool.

At the beginning of the meeting, director Keith Heinemann was absent, and Bennington residents Susan and Robert Mackey requested the appointment of a permanent Peak Stadium. Robert Mackey observed, "Utilization rate is very high."

WCA Chairman Shawn Yesner responded: "We have been talking about it," he said. "Email has been circulating everywhere."

After approving the agreed agenda consisting of the minutes of the last meeting and the Glencliff community management budget, Yesner turned to residents' violations and fines appeals. A Greendale resident learned through conversations that if his violation of parking on the front lawn does not happen again within 90 days, the outstanding $1,000 fine will be exempted. A Radcliffe resident who corrected the weed problem also saw the board waive his $1,000 fine. Expressing frustration, a homeowner in Stockbridge was cited for damage to the driveway. He said that he had sincerely worked to repair the broken part that he believed he was cited, just to learn that he was cited for uneven lanes. . The directors agreed to shelve the fine for 90 days to give homeowners more time to resolve the violations. Director Dale Sells emphasized that the purpose is not to force costly repairs and suggested that homeowners can simply wear off the added part. The three motions are unanimous.

Fords homeowners and Radcliffe homeowners have slightly different board voting results, 4-2. The former appealed the fines already imposed on the fences, and the latter appealed the fines for grass issues. Director Eric Holt recommended that the fines be waived because the homeowners have incorporated these issues into rule compliance. However, directors Joaquin Arrillaga and Dale Sells voted against Holt's motion while citing the precedent that the board retains 10% of the fines imposed (usually $100) to cover the administrative affairs of the association.

Patrick Piper, the coach of Pipeline Swimming, then appeared before the board to discuss the swimming team's lease agreement for the Westchase Swimming and Tennis Center swimming pool on Countryway Boulevard. "All I heard was good news about Pipeline," Yesner commented.

After Piper introduced the swimming fee structure in detail, the supervisor Eric Holt said that he has checked the overall cost of swimming pool maintenance and observed that the team’s current lease agreement of $900 per month has remained unchanged for more than two years, accounting for only a portion of it. a small part. "I think if we increase by 5% or 10%, it's not too much," Holt said. "We have done a lot of work to provide services for his profitable business at extremely generous prices."

However, Holt’s proposal to increase rents by 10% led director Jim Brinker to retort, “I suggest an increase of 5% instead of 10%.”

Holt's motion failed 2-4, and only Holt and Arrillaga supported it. Brinker's proposal to raise interest rates by 5% was passed with a score of 6-0, raising Pipeline's monthly rental fee to US$945.

Speaking of the proposed facility rules, the directors discussed Director Holt’s observations after discussing with the association’s lawyers that facility manager Kelly Shires should not suspend any homeowner’s facility use rights for violating swimming pool or tennis court rules. "Only covenants can do this." Holt added that Shires could simply remove the homeowner on the day. The directors also discussed the pool slide and the recent decision to hire another lifeguard for normal use. Holt observed that if the board of directors decides not to bear the additional costs, the slides need to be closed.

The discussion prompted director Michel Del Sodo to observe that in the five-minute pool discussion, the conversation was mostly negative. "I don't think we can make that swimming pool less interesting," she said. "Rather than looking for a solution to the problem, it is better to say that we are just saying that something is a problem." DelSordo added: "We have children, and they like that slide. So now we say we can't have people on the slide, so we Do you want to close it?"

However, Director Holt warned that the board has not yet made a decision.

Director Arrillaga, Chairman of the Facility Improvement Committee, said that improving the slides will be one of the recommendations of his committee. "We need to keep the slide open to make it more interesting," he said, even if it requires the board to spend an additional $10,000 in salary. "So we can take a more enthusiastic attitude towards our neighbors."

Arrillaga added that his committee will soon make recommendations to the board. He also added that he hopes to bid for the toilet decoration of the swimming and tennis center next month. "Quotation marks are everywhere," he said. "We are looking for a $150,000 range."

When Director Yesner asked whether the association should consider adding a Peak Court to the current beach volleyball area, Arrillaga said that this idea is being explored, but due to basic requirements, the cost is very high.

After the financial director Dale Sells reviewed the financial situation of the association, he said that compared with the budget, revenue increased by 22,000 US dollars and expenditure increased by 20,000 US dollars. He praised the community association manager Debbie Sainz and observed: "The biggest expenditure is legal fees. "He added that this is mainly due to the enforcement of the rules.

Director Holt, who is chairman of the Government Affairs Committee, observed that the Hillsborough County County Committee has approved a new committee representative map that separates parts of Westchase. "It sounds a bit like the county has moved into District 2." He added that Commissioner Harry Cohen (District 1) will talk to voting members on December 14. Holt added that the committee is also monitoring the impact of the return of the turkey vultures over the winter.

Dale Sells, WCA director and chairman of the revision committee, observed that the committee recently made a mistake when approving hedging. He said that the committee has been slow to realize that the homeowner must abide by the living fence rules after it has been approved by the committee and installed. He suggested that the board of directors propose a plan to the homeowners, and the association will bear the cost to remove the hedging part that violates the rules. Board members choose to discuss the matter in a private executive meeting at the end of the meeting. According to state law, they can discuss matters related to personnel and potential litigation.

Sells director and chair of the document review committee stated that the committee has held a meeting and reviewed a long list of proposed rule changes, one of which is the timing of holiday decorations, which is the week of the board meeting, a source of widespread media attention. He stated that the committee will meet on Saturday, November 20, after which they hope to begin drafting the proposed amendment, which aims to submit it to Westchase voting members who approve the amendment to the Westchase rule by the end of the first quarter of 2022.

In her report, the association’s manager Debbie Sainz stated that AB Tennis Company purchased the association’s ball machines and parts for the facility’s non-contact water bottle filling fountain shipped on November 19. She repaired the pipes of the swimming pool in West Park Village. Geothermal heaters were running there. "And the water is warm again," she said.

When Supervisor Eric Holt asked about vacant shifts in the West Park Village swimming pool, facilities manager Kelly Shires stated that the reason was a two-week delay in Quest Diagnostics' drug testing. Director Yesner advised him to explore other testing companies.

The board subsequently unanimously approved a new amendment committee application. Director Eric Holt recommends that all directors inspect the facilities of the association every year. Board members also set a schedule to assist Director Sells in reviewing and summarizing fines for violations. Holt said that he has learned a lot from this. Sells said he will distribute a timetable so that every board member can provide assistance twice a year.

At the end of the meeting, the Director of Sells asked the directors to provide the community with information about the Nathan Lafer Service Award in order to obtain a nomination for the honor.

Editor's note: The original version of this article contains two errors. After the meeting, when the editor asked what Pipeline's annual rental fee was, the management office provided a monthly fee, which was incorporated into the article as the annual fee. The above article has been corrected to reflect that $945 is a monthly fee rather than an annual fee. The article also falsely reported that the board voted 5-1 to exempt two homeowners from being fined for breaching contract restrictions. However, the board voted 4-2 and directors Sells and Arrillaga objected. The editor regrets the error.