Subject: RE: Vanguard Lofts - Visitor Parking - Remove ALL Vehicles by Noon Today! (7/6/2007)
From: Debra Aaron (daaron7706@msn.com)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2007 - 16:11:12 CDT
Ouch! (previous boards preferring silence?... don't think you can speak of
their preference if you weren't a board member at the time).
I wasn't just referring to the parking... just noticed a pattern over the
past year (= new) of last minute notifications. As an owner, I expect
timely notifications as the norm. I have no problem with receiving email
notifications... just not last minute...on a regular basis. The email below
was sent out to "All" at 9 something a.m. on 7/6 to ask people to move a
vehicle by Noon of that same day. What was the point? I was just making a
comment that a lot is being assumed... We are in disagreement, which is
fine. I don't have time and can't check personal email at work. I wouldn't
have time to check it once let alone every three hours to see if I received
an email from the Vanguard Board. I guess that just leaves me uninformed,
that's not always a bad thing.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy to know that the board is watching everyones
movement in the building.
Deb
All,
If you have a vehicle parked in a visitor parking space, you will need to
remove the vehicle by noon today (7/6/2007) or it will be towed at the
expense of the owner. The stone for the parkway landscape project is
being delivered today and it will be dumped behind the building in the
visitor parking spaces.
As a reminder, visitor parking is for visitors and contractors. We've had
a number of residents in the building using the visitor parking spaces as
"personal parking spaces" or an additional parking space for a second
vehicle.
The Board is monitoring the parking spaces and is keeping track of repeat
offenders.
- Chris
RE: 2) If people want to know what's going on, they have the obligation
to check the forums where it occurs.
My response: I believe that First Properties and the board have the
obligation of keeping owners informed. There's this little document called
the Illinois Condominium
>From: Jim Thomas <jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu>
>Reply-To: vanguard-talk@venus.soci.niu.edu
>To: vanguard-talk@venus.soci.niu.edu
>Subject: RE: Vanguard Lofts - Visitor Parking - Remove ALL Vehicles by Noon
>Today! (7/6/2007)
>Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 00:10:55 -0500 (CDT)
>
>
> > Is this the new form of owner communication?
>
>No, it's hardly new.
>Over the past year, the current board as urged people to sign on the
>listserv. Unlike previous boards that seemed to value silence more than
>communication, we have urged people with leaflets under the doors,
>notes on the bulletin boards, and verbally, to sign on.
>
> > I think the board is assuming
> > that everyone has email, or that everyone checks their emails
>frequently, or
> > reads it on vacation.
>
>If you're referring to the no-parking issue:
>
>1) Nearly as many people today have email as telephones
>
>2) If people want to know what's going on, they have the obligation
>to check the forums where it occurs
>
>3) If people are on vacation, which are they more likely to see:
>Email or a note on the bulletin board?
>
>4) If people are on vacation, neither they nor their guests should
>be parking in the guest spaces
>
>5) The original Board passed the rule that parking in the visitors
>spaces is limited to 24 hours. Beyond that, owners must notify
>First Properties. If people haven't complied with the rule passed by
>the original Board and park for longer than 24 hours without notifying
>1P, then likely no form of communication will suffice
>
>6) The guest parking areas were blocked off with milk crates to prevent
>parking. Somebody moved the crates and parked anyway. Sometimes,
>no form of communication works.
>
>If you have a better way of communicating rapidly with residents at
>the last minute, we'd love to hear it.
>
>Jim
>
>
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