Owners,
The Board of Directors just had its bi-monthly meeting on September 14, 2024. Draft minutes from this meeting can be found on the website’s Owners’ page. Along with this, the Board wanted to provide an update related to the construction progress and other matters related to TSR.
Many may have noticed that progress on the pool deck has seemed to stop recently. This has been the case, unfortunately. A new gas line is required for the pool and hot tub heaters as well as the new gas grills. It took the fire marshall of Daytona Beach Shores 7 weeks to approve our permit! Our intent was to have the pool and hottub walls completed. Upon doing this, we must fill both with water so the sealant being placed on the surface does not dry and crack. Unfortunately, the pool inspector notified us that we can’t put water in either until the divider wall and fence are installed between the parking lot and pool area. Basically, the entire area must be enclosed before water can be added. As such, we have to build the divider wall and install railing (as well as a gate built to a specific height) before we can add water to the pool and hottub. On Friday, September 13, we received the permit for this work. Again, it took 7 weeks to get this permit.
During this process, our staff and Board have been working hard to keep things moving. Working with multiple governmental agencies is beyond frustration. There have been times when their requirements completely conflict with one another. We continue to make progress though. Our next steps are to build the retaining wall and install railing so we can have the pool and hottub completed. Additionally, we will have the parking lot repaired/rebuilt.
On top of all of the construction, we learned that our roof needs to be replaced. We were supposed to be provided with 4 bids; however, only one company actually submitted a bid. We continue to look for additional bids.
Recently, we received the results from our milestone inspection. You may remember that the State of Florida passed legislation requiring all condos to go through a milestone inspection. The State requires that anything identified as needing repairs must be addressed and must be fully funded in our reserves. There were some items identified, and fortunately, the list was not terribly extensive. We are getting some additional bids for certain items, but we should be fully funded for these. We have received four bids from companies to do this work, but only two of them can start work this year. The Board continues to look at this and should vote on which company we will go with some time this week.
There are additional matters that are typical for daily operations that the Board and staff continue to address as well as others that pop up and must be taken care of. We want our owners to know that we (the Board and staff) continue to work on these matters each day and will keep our owners updated. Please be patient and polite with our staff as they are doing everything they can.