{"id":533,"date":"2017-07-21T16:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T21:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2017-07-21T16:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T21:34:28","slug":"special-assessment-for-entrance-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Special Assessment for Entrance Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been talking about updating the entrance signs for many years.\u00a0 When the Association was turned over from the Developer to the Residents, we started with a small cash reserve.\u00a0 We have been working that up for emergency purposes and also working on capital improvements that have come along each year.\u00a0 Each of those items have been notated on the yearly budget we send with the statement in January.<\/p>\n<p>The wood entrance signs were placed originally two at the corner of VanBuren &amp; 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in Phase 1, one at the corner of 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0&amp; Ponstein in Phase 2, and one at the corner of 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0&amp; Edson in Phase 6.<\/p>\n<p>The board has approved a new sign design and it was presented at the Annual Informational Meeting.\u00a0 (Copies of the design are attached at the back of this document)\u00a0 The design has us replacing the 4 entrance signs with 3.\u00a0 One facing west at VanBuren &amp; 16<sup>th<\/sup>, one facing north at 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0&amp; Ponstein, and one facing north at 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0&amp; Edson.<\/p>\n<p>There is a special issue with the one at 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0&amp; Edson in that the existing sign and berm that is there is in the path of the sidewalk for our new residents that are just moving in and the TWP is requiring us to move the signage to our easement on that corner and off the road ROW.\u00a0 This must be done now.<\/p>\n<p>The cost for all 3 entrance signs will be approximately $50,000 (some will be $18K some will be $15K). \u00a0We are\u00a0asking residents to vote on a special assessment to fund this specific project.<\/p>\n<p>This project has been approved by the board and the board is recommending to collect a $200 per lot special assessment for this project.\u00a0 This will allow us to get the project completed in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Should we collect a $200 Special Assessment for the Entrance Signs to update them now? (that is $48,600)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/?attachment_id=534\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-534\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Van-Buren-Entrance-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Van-Buren-Entrance-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Van-Buren-Entrance-768x483.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Van-Buren-Entrance-1024x644.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Van-Buren-Entrance-624x392.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Van-Buren-Entrance.jpg 1257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/?attachment_id=535\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Georgetown-Shores-Vanburen-Entry-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Georgetown-Shores-Vanburen-Entry-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Georgetown-Shores-Vanburen-Entry-768x494.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Georgetown-Shores-Vanburen-Entry-1024x659.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Georgetown-Shores-Vanburen-Entry-624x401.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been talking about updating the entrance signs for many years.\u00a0 When the Association was turned over from the Developer to the Residents, we started with a small cash reserve.\u00a0 We have been working that up for emergency purposes and also working on capital improvements that have come along each year.\u00a0 Each of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}