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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

EMERGENCY DELEGATE ASSEMBLY MEETING

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Dave Israel
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2012 at 1:39 PM

    Oh no! where will the maids and gardeners wash their clothes?

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  2. GraceSeptember 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM

    I have laundry machines in my Association. When a machine has broken down I have used the laundry
    facilities. There are families here that don't have laundry rooms in their Associations. What are they supposed to do? No all condos have room to put in machines and what about the pipes. The infrastructure is over 40 years old and we have had pipes breaking all over the village. So what if care takers bring their own laundry to do in the facility. We make money. I heard it loses $8,000 per year. How much do the buses cost, how much are we losing on the theater tickets. In some cases we need to bite the bullet and keep services even if it costs.
    I am also told the excursion buses cost extra to take people to Sample Rd. to the flea market and are not always full. I take my car. Why am I paying for that service? We can all go on and find services that we pay for but don't use. If people don't want to pay for services they don't use then they should move to a place where there are no extra services to pay for. Why have an emergency vote now when snow birds are not here. The laundry facility money has been budgeted for in this year's budget.

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  3. GraceSeptember 20, 2012 at 9:01 AM

    I have laundry machines in my Association. When a machine has broken down I have used the laundry
    facilities. There are families here that don't have laundry rooms in their Associations. What are they supposed to do? No all condos have room to put in machines and what about the pipes. The infrastructure is over 40 years old and we have had pipes breaking all over the village. So what if care takers bring their own laundry to do in the facility. We make money. I heard it loses $8,000 per year. How much do the buses cost, how much are we losing on the theater tickets. In some cases we need to bite the bullet and keep services even if it costs.
    I am also told the excursion buses cost extra to take people to Sample Rd. to the flea market and are not always full. I take my car. Why am I paying for that service? We can all go on and find services that we pay for but don't use. If people don't want to pay for services they don't use then they should move to a place where there are no extra services to pay for. Why have an emergency vote now when snow birds are not here. The laundry facility money has been budgeted for in this year's budget.

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  4. CathySeptember 20, 2012 at 10:36 AM

    I have a washer and dryer but still think that for those who use the laundromat it's totally unfair. The snow birds are not even here to have say in this matter. There are a few permanent residents in my building that use this laundromat as well at the snow birds. A resident in my building told me when the snow birds are here it is always crowded and hard to get a machine. Please don't cut this from the budget.

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  5. concerned unit ownerSeptember 20, 2012 at 11:28 AM

    I agree with Grace and Cathy. What are people from Plymouth and Stratford going to do about their laundry? I also agree that these important items should not be voted on until the snowbirds return. Personally with so little notice I doubt if you'll even get a quorum!

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 11:48 AM

    So raise the price on the Plymouth machines to whatever the laundrymat out on Haverhill charges. That will very likely make the Plymouth laundry solvent and possibly turn it into a profit center. The residents who do not have machines in their buildings will be no worse off than if the Plymouth laundry is closed.

    I have a washer/dryer in my NY house. If I chose not to buy and maintain those appliances I would have to take my laundry to town and pay whatever those machines cost. No different in the condo, except the decision to
    buy the machines is made communally. My grandmother took her laundry to the Kent pool until the early nineties. She didn't wash her clothes in the pool-that was where the machines used to be. Then her board voted to install machines on the first floor, and then on the second floor ten years later.

    Occasionally, non-resident service people stuff our machines with dustrags or baby clothes and we have to tell them to stop. Our machines are cheaper to use and I would imagine it is convienient to get ones' personal laundry done while working for someone else. But the home healthcare workers or cleaning ladies don't pay the repair bills when the machines break from being overloaded. That's why the laundrymat on Haverhill costs more than Plymouth. So raise the prices at Plymouth, and if the associations that do not have machines do not like the new prices, they can buy their own machines and charge fifty cents a load like we do.

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  7. PlcruiseSeptember 20, 2012 at 12:57 PM

    Hi Don. I seem to recall that one man did wash himself --and his clothes-- in the Kent pool a few years ago, but he was Baker Acted shortly thereafter. But in all seriousness, you do make a good point.

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2012 at 1:12 PM

    The original machines at the pools were a good idea, actually. My grandmother used to play cards. It forced people to socialize, and if a pipe broke it wasn't the end of the world. But most CV people used to live, or still live in single family houses, so schlepping to the laundry is an unfamiliar chore for them, and communal laundries creep some people out. I used an apt. building laundry room for most of my life but my Wife could never get used to it. That's why she becomes the Laundryroom Commando in CV. God help you if you don't clean the lint trap or stuff in too much clothing or wash rubber backed area rugs that make the machine dance in spin cycle.

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  9. CathySeptember 20, 2012 at 4:20 PM

    When I lived up north, I also had a washer but no dryer. Since I worked, It was easier for me to drag the clothes to the laundromat and have everything done within 2 hours. I always cleaned the inside of the washing machines with a disinfectant before I used it. To have my own washer and dryer when I moved down was on my definite list because I am also one of the people who get grossed out putting my clothes in public washers.

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  10. concerned unit ownerSeptember 21, 2012 at 8:41 AM

    `Why don't they just raise the price? I don't know what they charge but where I live in MA we charge $1.50 for the washer and $1.50 for the dryer (still much cheaper than a commercial laundromat.

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  11. Lanny HoweSeptember 21, 2012 at 10:13 AM

    Is it true that the Plymouth and Stratford residents have no laundry facilities other than the big one on the corner we call the Plymouth Laundry? (The sign says "UCO Laundry.") What are the expenses incurred by having the building there and operational? Are we paying rent on it? Unless we're paying a big rent or there is some unusual expense involved, I don't see either why we don't have the technician change the coin collection devices to an amount that will cover overhead and make a small profit.

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  12. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2012 at 12:10 PM

    Now if they made into the UCO CHINESE LAUNDRY, then we would really have something. I would send my shirts and Dockers from NY. Ironed, folded, wrapped in brown paper- never shrunk, starch just right.

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  13. MagSeptember 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM

    not exactly PC ---can only imagine the repercussions

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  14. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2012 at 3:50 PM

    What about a UCO CHINESE RESTAURANT? I could go for an order of General Dave's Chicken.

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