The Central Park Master Association is holding the Annual Membership Meeting on Wednesday night, April 18, 2012 at the Shelby Twp. Municipal Building, beginning at 7:00 PM.
The purpose of this meeting will be to elect a representative from each of the Gardens and Meadows sub-associations to a new, two-year term on the Board of Directors. The meeting notice letter you received incorrectly stated in the second paragraph that you could nominate a fellow co-owner for either the Manors or Kensington sub-associations. It should have read that members of the Gardens and Meadows sub-associations may nominate a fellow co-owner to run for a two-year term on the Board. The enclosed nominating ballot correctly identifies the sub-associations which have the right to nominate their co-owners for this election.
At the annual meeting, members of all four sub-associations (Gardens, Meadows, Manors and Kensington) will be able to cast their vote to elect a representative from each of the Gardens and Meadows. If you will be unable to attend the meeting, please fill out the General Proxy form you received with the mailing and either mail it in per the instructions or give it to a neighbor or Board member. This will enable us to achieve a meeting quorum and also allow your designated proxy to vote on your behalf.
Please note that Sgt. Ken Cazabon of the Shelby Twp. Police Department will give a presentation on property crime prevention at the very beginning of the annual meeting. He says that he will also present some crime statistics comparing the Central Park community with other areas of the Township.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Special Assessment Election Scheduled for April 14th
At their Feb. 22, 2012 meeting, the Board of Directors of the Manors at Central Park Condominium Association voted to conduct a second attempt to gain approval for a Special Assessment to finish the asphalt paving on our roadways.
Co-owners should have by now received an envelope in the mail that includes the Special Assessment meeting notice and a blank General Proxy form.
As explained in this meeting notice letter, the Board has made some changes in response to some of the constructive criticism offered following the failure of the Special Assessment election at our annual meeting in January. One of those changes is to make it easier for all to participate in the election.
(54) of the (117) co-owners of completed units did not participate in the last Special Assessment election because they failed to attend and did not submit a completed General Proxy.
The Board expects that most, if not all, of the (117) co-owners should be able to participate in this Special Assessment meeting and election, since it will be held on-site and on a Saturday morning.
Please discuss this meeting with all of your neighbors and encourage them to either attend in person or give your their General Proxy so that you can cast their vote for them. The Board feels that it is vitally important that we get a true reading of the total membership's opinion on this matter.
For those who claimed back in January that our roadways looked fine to them, I offer this photographic evidence to the contrary.
Co-owners should have by now received an envelope in the mail that includes the Special Assessment meeting notice and a blank General Proxy form.
As explained in this meeting notice letter, the Board has made some changes in response to some of the constructive criticism offered following the failure of the Special Assessment election at our annual meeting in January. One of those changes is to make it easier for all to participate in the election.
(54) of the (117) co-owners of completed units did not participate in the last Special Assessment election because they failed to attend and did not submit a completed General Proxy.
The Board expects that most, if not all, of the (117) co-owners should be able to participate in this Special Assessment meeting and election, since it will be held on-site and on a Saturday morning.
Please discuss this meeting with all of your neighbors and encourage them to either attend in person or give your their General Proxy so that you can cast their vote for them. The Board feels that it is vitally important that we get a true reading of the total membership's opinion on this matter.
For those who claimed back in January that our roadways looked fine to them, I offer this photographic evidence to the contrary.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Brick repair work on 23 Units
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| Typical cracking in mortar and bricks (click to enlarge) |
In April 2011, the Board brought in a different contractor, Joe's Quality Home Improvements, to inspect the failing brickwork and offer their recommendations. They identified the root cause of these failures to be improperly-located flashing, which has caused weakening of the mortar bond between the adjacent courses of bricks, thus allowing stress cracks to be induced in both the mortar and the bricks themselves. The Board then asked the contractor to provide a cost estimate to repair the brickwork on those Units that they judged to be in the worst shape.
Rather than immediately perform the repairs on all 24 Units that were identified, the Board authorized them to repair one of the worst, which happened to be Unit 72. They made the recommended repairs later that month and 10 months later there has been no further cracking observed on that Unit. Therefore, at the Feb. 22, 2012 meeting of the Association's Board of Directors, the Board authorized Joe's Quality Home Improvements to make repairs to the remaining 23 Units using their recommended methods.
UPDATE: On March 1, 2012, the Board authorized the addition of three more units to this project, which are indicated below with an asterisk (*).
Co-owners of each affected Unit will receive a letter from our contractor with the next day or two, indicating whether the repairs on their Unit's brick work will take place during the week of March 5th or March 12th. Until the repairs are completed on your Unit, please have your vehicles parked on the street by 7:00 AM each morning of your assigned week.
The Board realizes that this repair work will pose a temporary inconvenience and we appreciate your cooperation while our contractor makes these necessary repairs.
Below is a list of the Units that are scheduled to be repaired over the next two weeks. They were judged by the contractor to be those in the most immediate need of repair and they tend to be those with the arched sill. Please note that when the contractor is finished with this list, we will have repaired slightly more than half of all our garages with brick walls over the garage door.
Hopefully, next year we will be able to budget enough money to make the brick repairs on the remaining units.
Lexington Ave East
50098 - Unit 71
50078 - Unit 73
50030 - Unit 76
49966 - Unit 80 *
49950 - Unit 81
49981 - Unit 84
50109 - Unit 92
50125 - Unit 93
50141 - Unit 94
Lexington Ave North
6731 - Unit 61
6749 - Unit 62
6807 - Unit 65
6829 - Unit 66
North Central Park
6755 - Unit 32
6883 - Unit 24
6947 - Unit 20
6979 - Unit 18
Regent
49979 - Unit 139 *
50043 - Unit 143
50059 - Unit 144
50107 - Unit 147
Lexington Ave South
6980 - Unit 167
6892 - Unit 163
6876 - Unit 162
6828 - Unit 159
Watling
49960 - Unit 107 *
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