A message from Steve Preston, President of Lakeside Village Homeowners Association

Homeowners of Lakeside Village,

There has been much activity on the websites and all of it will be addressed very soon.  However there appears to be the notion that the water and sewer bills provided by Mountain Sewer Company are being increased by the Board or Management Company and then being sent to homeowners with the increase. This is a false notion.

The water and sewer bill is billed to Lakeside Village Condominium as a "flat rate" and our current and binding Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions state that the common expenses be allocated to individual units on a percentage of undivided interest in order to pay for such common expenses.


The previously stated notion that has been generated by some homeowners is inaccurate.

Thank you,
Steve Preston
President

CC&R Comments

From: Steve Stepanek [mailto:sstepanek@mindspring.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 8:37 PM
To: bmesserly@peak2peakmanagement.com; 'Brandi Lierd'
Subject: RE: Lakeside Village CC&R comments

Brandi, and Brandi,

I know that in your prior email about the changes to the CC&Rs you asked for comments to be made back on the blog on the website. I went to the blog and see no comments more current than May of 2012 so I felt that I should take up Brandi Messerly who said that she would get comments in front of the board, as well as putting them on the blog.

1. Regarding the CC&R changes we would like to see some acknowledgement that while the old and new CC&R specifically say that individual owners will be responsible for repairs required for any door and door systems and windows and window systems repair, replacement  and or maintenance. (This is addressed on page 17 Article 5.1.1  Project Operating and Maintenance) that there is now a precedence set by the large assessment that occurred in 2012 to spread the costs for this type of repairs over all units and that precedent will be taken into account when similar repairs are needed for the other buildings that are not showing trouble at the time of the 2012 repair cycle.

Since we were all recently billed for a significant assessment to make repairs mostly to window and door systems this feels a bit like those who had repairs on the fund got treatment than we would not  be able to expect in the future without some kind of reference in the new CC&Rs when and if we have window or door repairs.

In the past we have been told that anything that moves when the unit is turned upside down is our problem.   I do not feel it is right to keep the old language in this new draft unless we go back and bill the owners directly who had repairs, and refund that portion of the special assessment back to everyone.  That project was sold to us on the basis that we spread the cost over the whole and that we might have that benefit in the future.

2. We would like to see some requirement in the CC&Rs that requests that owners and renters alike not park their cars backing in to the buildings. This is important to keep vehicle exhaust as far away as possible from our doors and dwellings. We also suggest that a 30 second limit to idling while parked next to the buildings ( or on the property for that matter) is appropriate to reduce our exposure to this pollution. A simple reminder in renters contracts can make this explicit in each new contract. Posting this on signs in all parking areas may be an alternative way to achieve this goal. We are prepared to pay for signs for our building as we see this as a regular problem with people backing in to park and idling for extended periods.

3. We recommend that the HOA should adopt a facility policy of recycling. This would be accomplished by eliminating one of the trash bins and replacing it with a recycling bin for paper, plastic and cans. Glass may also be included if the haulers will take it. Simple signs on the trash garage could make it recycling on one side, trash on the other and use the space and facility that we have now.

Steve and Teresa Stepanek  Unit #69 Lakeside.