Meeting called to order at 5PM. In Attendance: Jack Keeley, Jay Harter, Dom Aleardi, Jay Harter, Michael Pincus, Judy Jurgan and Janet Burgess
Reading of the September minutes was waived but there was an addendum added.
MASTER ASSOCIATION
- Addendum to September meeting notes: The Community Center renovation will include a fitness center
- No outsiders are permitted to take part in any HM activities or events due to COVID.
- They are completing the curbing work on Mill Road. They are repairing Mill Rd. and preparing to pave it.
- The study done on fixing the sewer system cost $35K and repairs to eliminate the odor will cost $40K.
- The Adelphia pipeline is on hold. They are not converting it to natural gas.
- Landscaping is done in front of Giant at the Sunoco Pipeline site. The area in front of Wellington was only planted with grass.
- The plans for the Community Center addition are moving along. No one has seen the officials drawings yet. They are meeting with E. Goshen Twp. to see if there would be any issues if the plans are approved by the MA. They are also looking at geothermal and solar for heat and air conditioning to see how that works out. They have to reconfigure the parking. They came up with some additional spots up by cutting additional parking spots out of the hill by Sullivan House to replace the ones lost by the addition.
- They are cutting through the woods in Devonshire to provide an entrance to Cornwallis for emergency vehicles. Franklin Village is still being approached regarding the walking trail. Paoli Auxiliary has become involved.
- It was suggested by a council member that if they want to put in a walking trail, it should put it on the other side of Chandler,
- It would not affect the privacy of the homes since they are on a hill. It would cost $50K more but they have been improving a lot of other areas (roadwork, elevator in the CS, extending the Community Center, so this would be another improvement.
FRANKLIN VILLAGE
Financials:
- We are still looking at a $10K surplus this year which will make up for tree removal costs. Several more trees came down but Jay advised there is $4K to $5K budgeted for snow and if there is no snow prior to 1/1/21, that money will cover the downed trees.
- Jay hasn’t been informed of the auditor’s fee for next year.
- We are scheduled for pest control next year. Janet will obtain their fee.
- No power washing will be done next year.
- Curt Varallo is doing garage repairs. The cost will be about $1500, some of which will be paid by residents if the damage was caused by them. CSK will pay the bill and send out letters to those who have to pay for their own repairs. The charge will go on their account and they can pay it when they submit their quarterly fee or separately if they wish.
- Repairs to the pebble board have not started. Curt will take care of that on days when the weather is good and he has time. There isn’t much to be done.
- Jay advised we are $4000 under budget on Maintenance for the year.
Architectural:
- Janet Burgess advised that sometimes when there is a private sale in the village CSK doesn’t always find out about it. She said that when she receives a request for docs on a sale, she will notify Dom so violations can be resolved by the seller.
- Curt has inspected the sagging of the pool deck. The supports on top of the footers are rotted. He will inspect for safety. We will have to involve the township with any deck issues.
Landscaping:
- Jack & Dom will do a drive-around after the final trimming by HLM. They will also look at grass areas damaged by the mowers during wet cutting. HML trimmed but they only did half and they need to do the Rhododendrons, which have grown above the windows. Jack emailed Mike and Cole but he hasn’t heard back from either.
- Mike sent us something on the grassy areas he would like to fix and the cost is $1500, which we aren’t going to do. We will respond that we would like them to repair the areas where their tires are tearing up the grass, especially when they mow while the grass is wet.
- HML contract increase is 1%.
- Mike Pincus advised that there is a large tree branch hanging over the circle at the bottom of his cul-de-sac which needs to be trimmed because it hits the windshields of cars driving under it.
Pool Committee:
- The new cover is in. We are putting it into a garage until next year. The old cover has been taped up where needed and is on the pool.
- 2 new pumps were installed by Dom and he will monitor chemicals in the water over the winter.
- Fencing – We may look into replacement of the fence with a wrought iron one, similar to the one in Eaton Village.
- Dom will contact the pool vendor to see if his fee is going up in 2021.
- Our contract with CSK has been renewed for 3 years.
Other Business:
- The MA is trying to come up with something to cover the Mill with regard to power outages. They are not pursuing generators due to complexity of installing them in villages that don’t have gas. The requirements for generators cannot be met in Franklin. The generators have to be placed below a window on common ground and homeowners cannot exceed 18 inches from their units.
The next council meeting is 11/9/20 on Zoom. The village budget meeting will be on Zoom on 11/18/20 7PM.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:55PM