2 quarter 2017 update
(Much of this was covered at the 5/23 meeting
that was attended by almost 80 owners. I’ll just recap
the meeting notes and add any new items since then.)
Master Association:
Bob Bonner, Priscilla Burt and Rick Herschel re-elected to board
- Center is completed and meetings are being scheduled in the new meeting room. Pool is open for the season.
- Walking Trail completed to Devonshire. The next phase to Zephyr should be completed this year. A small portion may be added from Inverness to Sullivan House to complete the 360 degree trail.
- Clickers/swipers will be a thing of the past soon. Letter from security sent out with explanations. Each home will be called to determine how many of the new “Proximity Cards” they get based on number of clickers and swipe cards they have listed now. When completed, automobile built-in openers will not work. All this is being done for better security.
- A wall and fence combination will be built soon to replace the current chain-link fence from the East gate to Inverness. Also the current fence/wall along Greenhill will be spruced up and have the shingles on top replaced.
- An update on the Sunoco pipeline project from Joe Bove, president of Quaker was sent out. You can visit the East Goshen web page for additional info, including traffic updates.
- The changeover to Verizon is moving ahead. The infrastructure plans have been in the works for a few months since the contract was awarded, and now signed. Early plans have the fiber optics coming in from the North gate so preliminary plans have Heatherton and Glenwood being the first two villages outfitted with fiber optics and Franklin Our installation should start on July 5th.
The meetings by the telecom committee spokespeople, the Kanes, have been well attended and informative. For anyone missing their village meeting the committee has scheduled 2 open meetings at the Community Center June 15th at 7pm and June 22d at 2pm.
- The June concert has been postponed until June 25 because of potential rain.
Franklin Village
- Mulch replenishment should start wk of 6-11.
- Mildew power washing scheduled for summer
- Gutter cleaning budgeted for Summer and Fall
- The fill and grass seed around the new asphalt is complete. Please water daily any areas near your unit, if you can. If not, please contact a council member so we can try to arrange for alternate watering if we get a dry spell.
- The Franklin sign on Mill will be relocated for better viewing.
- Stop signs from the 3 cul-de-sacs to the main road are on order.
- Moyer termite control will be testing each residence and the village will pay for any remediation if termites are found. From now on the inspections will be the owner’s responsibility. It is suggested for owners to schedule an inspection every year or two since the village pays for termite removal, but not any damage caused by termites.
- The garage door exterior trim program is finalized. Owners will pay just $55 to have it done and will be billed the $55 along with the next quarterly bill.
- We will be replacing all the mail boxes soon and will be removing the extra mail box for printed info as most owners now utilize e mail.
- New Architectural and Maintenance regulations were handed out at the meeting. If you didn’t get a copy contact any of your council members for
- The pool is now open and some get-togethers have been planned by Eileen Rackover and her Social Committee. The pool has been cleaned up and new furniture ordered. Thanks to Dom and Jeanette and the cleaning volunteers for a job well done.
- With our major expenses now behind us our reserves should be in good shape for the foreseeable future per Jay Harter. We are currently conducting a survey as to the shape of our 15 year old roofs (40 year warrantee) and hopefully they will be good for at least another 5-10 years or more. With the shape of our roofs, vinyl coated siding, concrete walkways, new garage doors and newly asphalted street and new mail boxes we look great and still have one of the lowest quarterly fees of all our peer villages.