"GOLF COURSE" DEVELOPMENTS

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Reflection Bay Project in process

The letter shown above has been sent to every unit owner in the Southampton Planned Unit Development (PUD). It is our understanding in UCO that the Developer is moving plans through all required departments in the County in preparation for presentation to the Board of County Comissioners (BCC) in the summer.

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When the project comes before the BCC, all unit owners within 500 feet of the proposed development will receive notification of the hearing and comments will be heard.

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Dave Israel

GOLF COURSE---AGAIN!

Does anyone know what the microscopic sign says on Haverhill just south of the CV gate? It was posted on March 15, 2011--and mentions Reflection Bay Development--which I think is Mr. Waldman's proposed project.

FLORIDA CONDOMINIUM DEREGULATION BILL BEING PUSHED ALONG - CAN THE WILD, WILD WEST BE FAR BEHIND

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Hi all,
The following is a Summary Analysis of proposed HB 5005, it is strongly recommended that all read this and the detailed analysis that follows it:

REF: http://www.canfl.com/Documents/Staff%20Analysis_11_01.pdf

REF: http://www.condoandhoalawblog.com/2011/03/where-does-deregulation-bill-hb-5005-go.html

REF: http://www.ccfj.net/LEGSESS11ImpPartsPCB11-01.html

Dave Israel
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SUMMARY ANALYSIS

The bill repeals the regulation of the following professions, businesses and occupations:


• Athlete Agents
• Auctioneers and Auctioneer Apprentices
• Barbers
• Sellers of Business Opportunities
• Charitable Organizations
• Community Association Managers and Firms
• Condominiums, Cooperatives, Timeshares, and Mobile Home Parks
• Cosmetology Specialists, including Hair Braiders, Hair Wrappers, Body Wrappers, Manicurists, Pedicurists, and Nail Extensions.
• Dance Studios
• Employee Leasing Companies
• Professional Geologists
• Health Studios
• Home Inspectors
• Homeowners Associations
• Interior Designers
• Intrastate Movers
• landscape Architects
• Mold Related Services
• Motor Vehicle Repair Shops
• Sellers of Travel
• Surveyors and Mappers
• Talent Agents
• Telemarketing
• Yacht and Ship Brokers


It also repeals regulations relating to:


• Transportation access to outdoor theaters
• Rooming houses
• Sales representative contracts involving commissions
• Television tube labeling
• Water vending machines


The bill also eliminates the Division of Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes as well as five professional boards.


The bill has a negative fiscal impact on state trust funds, with a corresponding reduction in expenditures. The bill has a positive fiscal impact on the private sector. See fiscal comments.


The bill has an effective date of July 1, 2011, unless otherwise noted.
This document does not reflect the intent or official position of the bill sponsor or House of Representatives. STORAGE NAME: pcb01.BCAS
OATE: 3/14/2011

UCO REPORTER CENSORSHIP

During the course of several adminstrations, censorship has been
applied due to perhaps "sensitive, inflamatory" material etc..
I believe the time has come to establish a "Criteria" once & for all
to be adhered to, regardless of whom happens to be in power....
"Profanity & Character Assignations" should in my opinion, be the
exclusions...One can effectively state their position without resorting to either of the above. Comments welcome!

KING OF BAGELS

EAT THIS

A good percentage of us Century Villagers were New Yorkers who love bagels and while we eat them here, we miss the magic that made them bagels in New York. Well, there's a company that found the secret: it's in the water! They have an office — er, restaurant in Delray Beach, and they've taken it all the way to Beverly Hills, where they signed former talker Larry King as a spokesman.

Daily Club House Activities

Is it possible to post on this blog the daily activities at the clubhouse?
Thanks

COMCAST PHISHING SCAM

Hi all,
Here is another Phishing scam, disguised as an Email from COMCAST. Do not respond to this Phish, as your real Comcast Account will be hijacked. Following is the actual Email message:

Dave Israel
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Your Comcast account has been suspended.


Dear, nsasigint@comcast.net

We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive Comcast account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection.

How can I restore my account access?
Click the link below and confirm your Comcast account information, otherwise your Comcast account access will remain restricted:

https://login.comcast.net/index.aspx


Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.

2011 Comcast All rights reserved.
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If you click on the link above, you arrive at this URL:

http://www.liberty7reserve.com/www.comcast.net/login.html

The part bolded in black is the Phish site; very clever!!!
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GMAIL PHISHING HOAX

Hi all,

If you have a Gmail account, and you receive an Email ostensibly from Gmail, asking you to Log-In to your account, do not do so, here is an example:
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Login


InboxX
Reply
Gmail to me


show details 8:11 PM (11 hours ago)


Dear Email Client,


Please log into your account to confirm your account is still active


please click on link here and follow the instructions. We are sorry for the trouble but we are trying to give you the best service. Thanks
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It is a Phishing Scam to obtain your Gmail Username and Password, and then hijack your account.

If you go to the Site, ( by clicking on the link "here" ) you will see the following URL in your Browser window:

http://disabilitybenefitstraining.info/signgm.html

This clearly in NOT a valid Gmail Site, do not sign in at this Site.

The following is a valid looking Gmail URL:

https://mail.google.com/mail/


Dave Israel

29th UCO installation Lunch

SEARCHABLE CONDOMINIUM DOCUMENTS PROJECT MOVES SLOWLY ALONG

Hi all,

If you have been watching, you know that all of Andover's Condominium Documents have been launched into the Cloud and now are accessible on the Sidebar of this BLOG.  This now contains Andover A - M inclusive, over 120 documents; both original declarations and filed amendments: soon work will begin on Bedford.

There is a long way to go to Windsor S, and we may thank Ken Davis for working this project, slowly but steadily, which we all know, like the legendary turtle; wins the race!

This project is collateral to the document scan and digitization project; both projects could use additional computer literate volunteers. If you fit the bill, and wish to engage in a project that will be of great benefit to all unit owners, please come to UCO and ask to see Dave Israel.

Part of the scan and digitization project includes digitization of all extant issues of the UCO Reporter dating back to 1982; this is  currently in train.

We are making UCO history accessible and amenable to serious research; documents of every stripe are now searchable; Minutes, Agendas, Core Documents, Contracts, Invoices, Legal Opinions, Memos, Correspondence...Etc...! jump on board the train, help make it happen!

Dave Israel

UCO OPEN MEETINGS - APRIL 2011

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UCO OPEN MEETINGS APRIL 2011

FRI…… APR. 1….. DELEGATE ASSEMBLY…..THEATER…..9:30 AM

EDITORIAL…..UCO…..1:00 …..PM

SECURITY…..UCO…..2:00….. PM

FRI…… APR. 8…..MAINTENANCE…..ROOM B…..10:00 AM

TUES…… APR. 12…..IRRIGATION…..UCO…..9:30 AM

TRANSPORTATION…..ROOM B…..9:30 AM

WED…… APR. 13…..PRESIDENTS' COUNCIL…..PARTY ROOM…..9:30 AM

TUES…… APR.19…..INSURANCE…..UCO…..10:00 AM

WED. …..APR. 20…..HOMESTEAD SIGN-UP…..ROOM C…..1:30-2:30 PM

TUES. …..APR. 26…..OPERATIONS….. UCO…..10:00 AM

THURS…… APR. 28…..OFFICERS…..UCO….. 10:00 AM

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Dave Israel

set your clocks

Don't forget to set your clocks one hour ahead tonight . It's time to spring ahead to daylight saving time.
The official change takes place at 2 a.m. on Sunday.
The change means one hour less of sleep, but will result in an extra hour of sunlight in the evening.

Alligator Sighting

This is the alligator that was recently trapped.

CODE ENFORCEMENT HEARING - ISSAC FEDER

REF:
-http://www.pbcgov.com/pzb/CodeEnforcement/ce_agendas/2011/march/agenda_032311.pdf
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CODE ENFORCEMENT

SPECIAL MAGISTRATE HEARING AGENDA

MARCH 23, 2011 10:00 am

Special Magistrate: Carolyn S Ansay

D. SCHEDULED CASES

Respondent: Feder, Issac

 CEO: ( Code Enforcement Officer )

Agenda No.: 001 Status: Active

Elpidio Garcia

11 Sasev Ct, 105, Monroe, NY 10950-5939

Situs Address: 17 Golfs Edge, Unit 2 Bldg E, West Palm Beach, FL Case No: C-2011-01100001

PCN: 00-42-43-23-08-005-0172 Zoned: RH

Violations: 1 No building or structure shall be used or occupied, and no change in the existing occupancy classification of a building or structure or portion thereof shall be made until the building official has issued a Certificate of Occupancy.

PREVIOUS NOTICE OF VIOLATION C-2010-01250015

Details:

Code: PBC Amendments to the FBC 2007 Edition - 110.1

Issued: 01/13/2011 Status: CEH ( Code Enforcement Hearing )

cc: Esther A. Zaretsky Attorney At Law

Feder, Issac
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to bus or not to bus?

I was not able to attend transportation meeting on 3/8- one of my neighbors said she heard something about eliminating a bus or 2? Does anyone have any accurate info? thanks/

COUNCIL MEETING

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once again we had a very successful meeting this morning . Rodger led the discussion and it was really good. so many questions asked about foreclosure showed us that we need more information . maybe we can get becker,et.al. to give us a seminar just about that. there are so many associations hurting due to this.

we did serve coffee and cookies as promised and we will do it again at the next meeting which will be april 13 at 9:30 in the party room.

please come. your question and or your answer could be just what another person needs to hear.

thanks again for coming and we hope to see you all next month.
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Garage Sale at Windsor Q Saturday March 12th Raindate Sunday March 13th.Lots of Vendors and Lots of Bargains 8am to 3pm

                                                       

Google has Tech Support Grandchildren

“All in their places with bright shiny faces”. http://www.teachparentstech.org/

This is a site with videos of the simplest and latest quick way to perform many computer functions. From 'cut and paste' to 'make a blog' etc. Just click on Category, then on Video.

I hope Google continues to add to this. My son will be very happy, he promised me lifetime tech support, but it can be a burden to him on top of work.

Source AARP Bulletin

The King's Speech

When will this movie come to the Clubhouse?

Sussex Patio

At Sussex L we are proud of our communal effort patio - makes everyone friendlier. We preferred a slab to pavers. If you would like to know the company that poured the concrete and where I got healthy plants for much less than Home Depot and Lowes, send me email request to elbr@comcast.net. Coffee and pick-your-own loquats this morning.

SCADA Data on CV Reclaimed Water flow

Thanks to Hassan Hadjimiri ( •Director of regulatory Compliance at Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department) , we have the SCADA system (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) readout on Reclaimed Water flow into the Century Village lakes, canals and lagoons.

Hassan has directed the local processing plant to provide Century Village 22 million gallons of Reclaimed Water per month, until furthur notice.

This equates to approximately 723,287.6 gallons per day. The cost of this commodity is approximately $28.83 per day.

Dave Israel

DELEGATE ASSEMBLY - MARCH 04, 2011 - LIVE IN CYBERSPACE

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Hi all,
Thanks again to your Channel 63 team, we bring you the Century Village Delegate Assembly video of March 04, 2011. Go to the following URL:

http://goo.gl/Inz7A

Or click on Link in Sidebar:

   DELEGATE ASSEMBLY - 03/04/2011

Dave Israel
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“One man’s junk is another man’s treasure”: STORAGE ROOM CLEANOUT IDEA

The problem for our association for a long time was how to know what was junk in our storage rooms that nobody wanted and what people still wanted saved. Some associations have brought everything out to the walkway and asked residents to return to their cubicles what they want. Then they have discarded what remained. This can be a mammoth undertaking, though. Residents have to be on hand, items to be saved (maybe heavy things) are moved twice, and the stuff remaining on the walkway has to be disposed of right away.

We think we have hit on a better way.

We have given all residents a sheet of blank decals, and there are extras in the storage room. The residents have a month to see that a decal with their unit number on it is affixed to any storage room item they want saved. They are urged, if physically able, to themselves remove anything they don’t want. At the end of the month, the more able-bodied among us will discard items that do NOT have a decal—plus, of course, any “community property” items such as the ladders, tools and boards.

Thus, the number of items having to be moved will be minimized, and we will be able to discard the throw-out items (anything without a decal) piecemeal—a few today, a few more tomorrow, more next week, etc.

EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTION RESULTS

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DOMINIC GUARNAGIA..........................121

KEN DAVIS...............................................106

DOT LOEWENSTEIN...............................105

JACKIE KARLAN.....................................101

HONEY SAGER........................................89

MYRON SILVERMAN................................89

SUZY BYRNES.........................................85

SANDY COHEN........................................85

HOWIE SILVER.........................................85

JERRY KARPF...........................................82
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Dave Israel
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ELECTION FOR EXECUTIVE BOARD

Hi all,
In another Post, a BLOGGER asks the names of the incumbent Executive Board members and implies that they have made UCO better; and thus should all be returned to office.

As UCO President I Post to advise you that the basic premise of that Post is erroneous.

Some of the incumbents and candidates for the Executive Board provide no new ideas whatever, they simply disrupt meetings, and do not research the issues. They bring noise but no signal; they bring heat but no light!

I will remind you all that you do not have to vote for ten (10) candidates, vote only for those proven candidates who have given years of service and provided new ideas consistently.

Your UCO President recommends the following Candidates for Executive Board:

Dom Guarnagia


Lanny Howe


Myron Silverman


Ken Davis

Help make UCO better - Period, end of message.

Dave Israel
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Upcoming UCO Elections

Need to know the names of all incumbents running in this Friday's UCO elections so we can vote them all "back in." First time in eons that our UCO has run so efficiently. Thank you all for a very well done job.

CODE ENFORCEMENT HEARING REGARDING ISSAC FEDER CONTINUED

Hi all,
The large hearing room at the Vista Center, 2300 Jog Road, has a rated capacity of 323 persons. Todays hearing, number 37 on the Special Master Docket, drew in excess of that number from Century Village alone. The response of our residents was marvelous, and exceeded any seen by Code Enforcement at that facility. A petition was submitted containing at least 800 Century Village Resident signatures.

Frank Cerabino, reporter for the Palm Beach Post was in  attendance, along with a Palm Beach Post staff photographer.

The essence of  Code Enforcements case is that Issac Feder is using one of his CV apartments, for other than Residential Housing.

Mr. Feder was represented at the hearing by Ms. Esther Zaretsky Esq. Attorney Zaretsky moved for a Continuance on the basis of not having received certain documents that she requested from the County Attorney, in a timely manner. 

The motion for Continuance was granted by the Special Magistrate, causing a rescheduling of the hearing to March 23, 2011 at 10:00am.

I spoke with the Building Administrator about Webcasting the hearing, which would allow us to onward transmit the hearing on channel 63; another remote possibility is that Code Enforcement will consider holding the hearing in our Clubhouse.

More news as it becomes available.

Dave Israel
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Hearing over on Vista today

I went to the meeting today. I found the facility to be very poorly prepared for us even thou they had been warned. The microphones were set on whisper so even under the quietest conditions, I could only understand about 1/3 of what was said. I was very ashamed of the audience who did not seem capable of not talking. I felt like I was surrounded by 100 swarms of bees as people whispered to their friends. The doors were open to the lobby and the people out there were just carrying on conversations in regular voices in spite of being asked to please not talk. I sincerely hope that by the time we go back for the postponed meeting people will have learned that respect in a meeting entails no conversation and listening to what is being said.

Sound Off

Sometimes we really need to let our PB Commissioners know how we feel, what we need, especially our own District 2 Paulette Burdick. Sound off to

pburdick@pbcgov.org

Quiet Workers or Noisy Talky Talkers

Its almost election time.

UCO is more businesslike everyday, saving our money, finding efficiencies – they are too busy to go around campaign talking. But outside UCO, we have our fast talking politicians who contribute nothing but misinformation gossip (I am being kind there). They are only interested in the power that allows them to PLAY with YOUR money. They do not have the skills necessary to run UCO.

You do not have to vote for a full slate, only give your valuable votes to those who are worthy workers.