LANDSCAPE
ADVISORY GROUP
Happy New Year to everyone at Coronado Shores
from the L&R Landscape Advisory Group (commonly known as the LAG)!
Here we are in the New Year 2010. It's hard to believe that a decade has passed
since the turn of the 21st Century. Does anyone remember the Millennium Bug that was
supposed to cause the end of the World as the clock turned over from Midnight on December
31, 1999, to the new century and millennium on January 1, 2000? Boy, what a non-event that
was!
Anyway, 2009 was an interesting and productive year for the LAG. We undertook
and completed several projects designed to improve the landscape appearance at the Shores.
These have all been achieved at quite a reasonable cost. Oh, we had a few things that
didn't work out and certain other projects that remain touch-and-go (we are
keeping our fingers crossed), but on the whole very good progress was made.
The efforts of our group in 2010 will be guided strongly by Felicia's Law.
What? A TV drama? No, Felicia's Law is the label we have attached to a very
simple and elegant observation made by one of our very active members, Felicia Bell
(from La Sierra Tower). Felicia noted that whenever a collection of landscape plantings
within a moderately close field of vision (say up to a distance of
about 30 feet) includes more than three plant species, it will look cluttered. In
other words, it will be a hodgepodge (one of our favorite words), and hence likely to
be jarring rather than appealing. Various members of LAG have tried applying Felicia's
Law from their own perspectives and they report that it works remarkably well.
So, why don't you, the readers of the L&R Newsletter, give it a try and see what you
think?
This year we are implementing a new feature in the LAG, namely the opportunity for
you, our residents, to provide feedback to us via the Internet on anything and
everything that comes to mind (positive or negative) concerning Coronado
Shores’ landscaping and landscaping activities of the LAG. We won't promise that
we will be able to respond or react to each message received, but we guarantee
that everyone in the LAG will read your comments, and that they will be given serious
consideration in our deliberations. So, please send your comments by e-mail to: Donald L.
Smith, Chair LAG smithdonevelyn@gmail.com
WINTER CONSERVATION
SCHEDULE
NO POOL HEAT
ROEDER
DEC 7 – JAN 11
BEACH CLUB
JAN 11 – FEB 15
POOL TEMPERATURE CHANGES
CABRILLO
Now 82 Degrees, not 84
ROEDER
Now 82 Degrees, not 83
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DECEMBER
L&R ACTIONS
INCOME thru November:
BUDGET ACTUAL VARIANCE
ADMIN:
$385.00
$6,237.68
+$5,852.68
BC: $113,190.00 $124,628.32
+$11,438.32
REC: $37,576.00
$79,511.00
+$41,935.00
EXPENSES thru November:
BUDGET
ACTUAL VARIANCE
ADMIN: $357,051.00 $349,159.20 +$7,891.80
BC:
$90,745.00 $91,956.01 (-$1,211.01)
BC Cof G: $83,941,00
$91,393.80 (-$7,452.80)
LAND:
$265,826.00
$247,605.83 +$18,220.17
MAINT:
$417,940.00
$416,304.11
+$1,635.89
REC:
$82,481.00 $92,290.42 (-$9,809.42)
SEC:
$404,888.00 $396,630.99 +$8,257.01
UTILITIES:$336,457.00 $293,590.11 +$42,866.89
Thru November - $104,609.30 of $169,600.00 has been
spent on Capital Replacement Expenses year to date.
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Monthly Maintenance
Projects: 3 small trees, 6 glass table tops, the tennis court shade canopy and fence
poles, and Roeder roof tiles were damaged. The
winds blew out heater pilots. A windscreen was
installed at the tennis courts, new benches were installed along the boardwalk, the El
Camino Pool shade trellis was painted, and the Beach Club blinds were put up.
v
Monthly Security Violations:
29 vehicles were booted that had expired or no decals.
v
Additional bids are being
obtained to place solar water heating panels on the Beach Club roof to heat the Beach Club
Pool. A temporary array has been installed,
with positive feedback.
v
The Beach Club Manager, the
Beach Club Staff, and Glenn Welch were thanked for their efforts.
v
Felicia Bell will act as the
new Chair of the Recreation Advisory Group in 2010.
v
The Adopt A Bench Policy
will only allow dedications that are memorials to the deceased.
v
The Adult School’s
Senior Fitness Aerobics Class will continue 1-22-2010 to 6-11-2010.
v
A cluster of palm trees near
La Playa damaged in the storm will be removed. No
replacement tree was chosen.
v
The Induction Lighting
Project is 95% complete. Pole lights and
landscaping lights were replaced in an effort to conserve energy.
v
Emergency Planning
Sub-Committee members toured the City’s CERT supplies trailer. A storage closet will be built at Coronado Shores
to house our emergency supplies as purchased.
v A
sub-group was formed to study participation ratios and the use of the facilities for
various activities that serve residents and non-residents.
v
William Leonard was elected
Chair and Ed Sack was elected Treasurer for 2010. L&R
will meet the 3rd Thursday each month at 2:30pm.
v
The 2010 Holiday Schedule
was approved.
Next Meeting: At Roeder Pavilion
on Thursday 1-21-2010 at 2:30pm |
