COMING SOON – COMMENTS ON THE RECENT BOARD MEETING
COMING SOON – LET’S SEE WHAT THE 9/28 BOARD MEETING WILL TELL US.
Unfortunately, the hope to have the Pool Area open during the administrative portion of the Pool Area restoration, when the Pool Area would be vacant for several months, has been dashed away. The sad part is that there was a path to navigate for an opening, but it was cancelled for specious reasoning by a majority of the ACSA Directors, particularly by the attorneys and maybe too by First Residential’s representative for Aquarina, who created an up to seven month timeline before any Pool Area renovation would occur. The reason was “liability” issues, and not particularly the remediation of the bath house which would have served the Pool Area for the vacant months before the commencement of the new construction.
A licensed building contractor, who had previously surveyed the Bath House, felt that the building could be secured for safe use. He is a long time Florida licensed Brevard builder with decades of experience, and who did a total remodel of our unit here in Aquarina. This most probable remediation path to open the pool up was negated by the reason of liability with the pavers. The several pavers that had settled at the most an inch or less along and adjacent to the pool perimeter, totally out of a pedestrian traffic path, had been deemed a liability hazard to prevent pool use. Keep in mind that these very noted pavers had been that way for longer than anyone can remember over the past years.
It’s understandable that as a result of the engineers’ speculation of settling in the Pool Area that some soil tests be completed to determine if a serious settling issue exists. It was told to us that it would happen this month. The expectation for pool advocates was to let’s get the tests done for us to move on to a road of securing the bath house to a safe condition, and open the pool to the Pool Neighborhoods. It would be hoped that the tests will reveal no serious settling, since the pavers have been in this state for a long time, and the settling is attributed to a not required repair that was not restored properly. There is documentation to show this past situation.
Bottom-line – there was an opportunity to reopen the Pool Area during the months of pool vacancy while waiting for the renovation to commence. This opportunity was decided not to be pursued because of the liability as presented by some pavers (see photos below), which existed as seen, for years. To my knowledge since 1995, I do not know of any liability matter that arose at the Pool Area. If you want to see a settling issue with pavers, look at the Aquarina entrance, where repairs have been put off for years.
Because of this total unreasonableness, the decision to stop any reasonable attempt to open the pool could lead someone to believe there is an agenda other than providing a real possibility of remediating the Pool Area now, and to have it temporarily opened for the Pool Neighborhoods.
WHAT TO DO –
If you would like to see the Pool Area temporarily opened safely, then call, email, and text the ACSA Directors, and ask them to explain why this above measured approach has been refused and blocked.
The hazardous pavers below (with years of no resulting accidents) have shut down a doable and reasonable path that could have opened the pool for its Residents during the next several months. BTW -these are the paver photos cited in the engineering report. Frightening, aren’t they?
Are these photos frightening? Are they a valid reason to lock down the pool? Something doesn’t seem right here. Communication about the pool now is silence. The Pool Neighborhoods need to speak up.