Aquarius Valentines Day After Party
Second Meeting of the Finance Committee of the Aquarius Condominium
AJ Mitchel, Chair, Eugenia Volcheck, Linda Staz, Sofia Ferenburg, Ilya Gnorovsky and several owners assisting.
Topics approached:
For a printer friendly version click HERE
Page 2 
Page 3 
Page 4 of 4
You may download this document in Acrobat pdf file format click here > Cap improv expenses report 2014-breakdown
.o0o.o0o.o0o.
.o0o.o0o.o0o.
Aquarius Association Condominium Committees.o0o.o0o.o0o.
General Manager Progress ReportJanuary 2015, posted February 3, 2015
Andrew C. Surdovel, LCAM
Aquarius Lobby
The opening of the prioritized Aquarius lobby is scheduled for the month of April 2015. We now have signed a contract with Plans & Permits of Sunrise, Florida to manufacture architectural drawings which will delineate the areas to be reconstructed in the Lobby, Cascade room, Green room and the Lobby ADA bathrooms. The cost for the drawings is $3500.00.
Once these drawing are completed, in about a week or two, we then can contact at least three vendors for quotes to reconstruct the Lobby area per the drawings. These quotes will be reviewed by the Board and a vendor selected to work on the Lobby areas.
We now are in possession of architectural drawing for the soffit of the Valet area. The drawings have been distributed to three vendors for quotations to reconstruct this area. We should receive these quotations in about two weeks. The quotes will be evaluated and a vendor selected.
West Pool Deck
The pool on the West deck has been filled two times and each time a leak has occurred. The bottom of the pool has been completely reconstructed. The pool stucco on the sides of the pool has been removed since the leaks have occurred through the sides and additional concrete restoration is now in the works. Since the pool walls need more restoration the pool will be shored to assure the integrity of the walls will not move during the concrete restoration. Additional parking spaces will be occupied by the shoring posts in the garage to facilitate the shoring. The shoring will be for duration of three weeks so the new concrete can cure and strengthen. As soon as the pool is ready, Reliable Pool will start working on the finishing of the West deck pool. This will include waterproofing, tiling, and installation of the salt water pool equipment. This project should take a month to complete.
The restrooms on the West pool deck will commence to be built starting the week of February 16th. The contractor for the restrooms is RTI. The curb foundation for the restrooms has been poured by CSI to allow expedited waterproofing of the West pool deck near the pool.
During the week of February 2nd the paver contractor, Hollywood Stone will start to transport sand and pavers on the West pool deck. This contractor will be working on the West pool deck for the duration of three to four weeks.
Pool Canopy
The canopy vendor, Miami Awning has prepared drawings of the canopy placement on the West pool deck. The location will be adjacent to the restrooms on the South side of the West pool deck. CSI will locate and install the six leg foundations in the pool deck slab. This will enable the canopy to withstand 90 mph winds. Hurricane force winds will require the canopy to be removed and the legs will withstand Category 5 winds.
New Assessment in the Horizon
We need additional funds besides the existing assessment to complete the West pool project and the Valet area. To fund the above projects a forthcoming additional Special Assessment will be determined once the vendors submit their quotations for the requested work. This proposed assessment will then be sent to each Unit owner and the specified amount required to be supported by each owner. This notice will require a 14 day notice and a Board meeting to approve the assessment. Once the assessment is approved, each Unit owner will then have three months to pay for the proposed assessment.
Aquarius Maintenance Depart at your service
Our Aquarius Maintenance department can do in house maintenance on various projects that may be needed in unit owner’s apartments. These can include but not limited to installation of water saver toilets, faucets, clean and paint exterior doors, pressure washing balconies, etc. The cost for this work by Maintenance is $18.00/ half hour and if two men are required then the cost would be $36.00/ half hour. If the job is too extensive for our Maintenance department, they can recommend vendors that are trustworthy.
.o0o.
Information and Technology Committee –
The following owners have volunteered for this committee so far:
Elected chair – Samson Schmuter.
Membership of the Committee could be extended if more volunteers express desire to participate.
The priority task of the Committee is to provide to the Board recommendations and help on creation and dissemination of documents from the Board to the Association Owners. The following means shall be supported:
Among Technology issues to be addressed are:
The Committee shall work with the Board to restore periodic and systematic creation and dissemination of the following documents:
These documents, once released by the Board Secretary or the Office Manager, shall be produced in the agreed format and posted on the Announcement Board by the office Assistant(s). Also, the document(s) shall be eMailed to the Website Administrator(s) for making them available via the website.
The Aquarius Condo website supports the document access in two ways:
The website administration shall device and provide means for archiving the documents that are over one year old, in order to free the display and storage space of the Aquarius Condo website.
There are many features available on the commercial website core; their enabling and usage require customization and arrangements. Examples of such features are:
Given the limited (around 50%) owners participation in the website registration, each implementation shall be preceded by careful analysis and understanding of the benefits of such implementation. This will become subject of the Committee planning after the first priority Information Flow is fully under way.
The equipment for preparing and translation of the TV information broadcast is available. It has been arranged, used and upgraded by Arkady Chase. However, the scope of the broadcast could vary significantly by content and length –
To what degree we shall use the Ch93, requires further discussions and organizational arrangements.
The following Chart is initiated by Cecilio. Tasks shall be added when defined.
| Tasks | Board | Office Mgr | Office Staff | Info Comm/ Web Admin | Others |
| Minute Meetings | x | x | |||
| Financials | x | x | |||
| Audit Reports | Auditors | ||||
| Plans & Proj. | x | x | x | ||
| Progress Reports | x | x | x | ||
| Maintenance | x | x | |||
| Social Activities | x | Soc. Comm | |||
| Staff Contacts | x | ||||
| Tel. Email, Unit Directory | |||||
| Comments, suggestions ? | Owners | ||||
| Condo Governance details | x | x | x |
We will reconvene on Feb.02 to adopt these minutes and to proceed with action assignments between the members of the Committee.
| # | Task | Member | Dates | Remarks |
| 1 | Day-to-day administrative service of the websiteby the system administrators | ACSS | continues | The two admins appointed from the website inception |
| 2 | Work with BD on restoring the information flow of documents:- deliver & explain Committee minutes of 01/28/15- ensure understanding and agreement to provide | SS | 02/02/15 -02/06/15 | One week |
| 3 | Update the website with the past year owners info and with the new BD data | SS | 02/02/15 -02/13/15 | Two weeks |
| 4 | Proposal: Address Book as the source for Owners searches (availability and removal of restrictions) | SSAC | 02/16/15 | May need BD approval |
| 5 | Proposal and Implementation of separate Telephone Book for all Owners | AV | 02/02/15 -02/27/15 | |
| 6 | Analysis and proposal for streamlining the website functionality menu for loged-in Owners | CBAC | 02/02/15 -02/13/15 | Two weeks |
| 7 | Suggestion for providers of the six (6) business telephones and WiFi in common areas | ACCB | 02/06/15 | One week |
| 8 | Familiarization with Ch93 equipment and study of procedure | ACCBAV | 02/02/15 -02/20/15 | Three weeks |
| 9 | Proposal for extended Ch93 usage, including contentsorganizational arrangements | ACCBAV | 02/27/15 | Together with #8 is one month |
| 10 | Study and proposal for justified extensions of the website functionality | SSAC | 02/16/15 -02/27/15 | |
 | Irene Kalus on Nathan Weinstein supports the… |
 | Diane Benson on Closing aquariusuno.com I… |
 | bgupta1 on Some thoughts about Aquarius b… |
 | Leonid 1103S on Closing aquariusuno.com I… |
 | Simon 405n on Mark Zeltser – Aquarius… |
Aquarius Condominium, Hollywood Florida - Not ACA site 