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I do not feel like there has been enough of an effort to resolve the pool key situation. As someone at the meeting has already suggested, provide all residents with keys to the existing lock. Install a second deadbolt, with a different key that residents do not have, that could be locked from 9:00pm to 9am. That would make the pool inaccessible to everyone from 9-9 and allow only residents with keys to enter the pool during the hours of operation. This should not effect the insurance requirements at all. If the insurance company is against this idea, I would like to see some documentation to that effect.
I think this is a good idea, if you can make it work....at the same time if WE want change we need to make change. We as residents need to be on the look out for suspicious activity AND be willing to stop it not just complain about it. IF you see trash pick it up...if you see nonresidents using our pool, call them out and make them leave or call the police...WE HAVE TO BE WILLING TO MAKE THE EFFORT TO BRING CHANGE...it is not just going to happen....I love it here and we have a lot of work to do. I AM WILLING...ARE YOU?
I agree with the double lock system - it is hard for me to understand the insurance company having a problem with it - the double lock system would insure night time security and eliminate non-member use. My son's apartment complex uses this system.
I would not have any problem asking someone that I knew did not live here to leave the pool, however, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here, I do not know all of the residents of the 120+ households of this community and what they look like. Also, I would not even attempt to start assuming that someone I saw at the pool did not "look like" they live in this community. I get what you are saying though, especially about the trash. I think though, that there have to be some physical improvements made to help us help ourselves. I think people would be much more likely to pick up a piece of trash and thow it in a can 10 feet away than to have to carry it across the street, into an alley (filled with mud!) and to the nearest dumpster. Even if there are trash cans at the park, who dumps them, and where, when they are full. We really need to have a dumpster, in a nice enclosure, at the park that the city would dump regularly.
I agree on the dumpster..Maybe we can talk about how to get the funding together. I think when we are at the pool, we just talk to people...lets get to know each other...I know we are not moving for a long time!!...so we should know our neighbors...I personally would not be offended if someone asked me if I lived here because I would then know there are other people looking out for our community....I understand what you are saying though..I know we just can not flat out ask "do you live here"...surely we can figure some thing out
A big plus for me in moving to Milwaukee Ridge was the sense of a community. I lived outside the city limits for 18 years and there is not much going on with neighbors. The park, pool and opportunities to walk around a neighborhood and meet those who live around me were all inviting. I like the idea of watching out for one another rather than watching one another. I think we have the opportunity to be an incredible community!
I too think this community can be worldclass. Helping each other and looking out for one another goes with out saying. We do have to be willing to give some effort here and make this community what we all expect it to be. It will not just happen as Haire said. We have to make it and maintain it.
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I do not feel like there has been enough of an effort to resolve the pool key situation. As someone at the meeting has already suggested, provide all residents with keys to the existing lock. Install a second deadbolt, with a different key that residents do not have, that could be locked from 9:00pm to 9am. That would make the pool inaccessible to everyone from 9-9 and allow only residents with keys to enter the pool during the hours of operation. This should not effect the insurance requirements at all. If the insurance company is against this idea, I would like to see some documentation to that effect.
I think this is a good idea, if you can make it work....at the same time if WE want change we need to make change. We as residents need to be on the look out for suspicious activity AND be willing to stop it not just complain about it. IF you see trash pick it up...if you see nonresidents using our pool, call them out and make them leave or call the police...WE HAVE TO BE WILLING TO MAKE THE EFFORT TO BRING CHANGE...it is not just going to happen....I love it here and we have a lot of work to do. I AM WILLING...ARE YOU?
I agree with the double lock system - it is hard for me to understand the insurance company having a problem with it - the double lock system would insure night time security and eliminate non-member use. My son's apartment complex uses this system.
I would not have any problem asking someone that I knew did not live here to leave the pool, however, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here, I do not know all of the residents of the 120+ households of this community and what they look like. Also, I would not even attempt to start assuming that someone I saw at the pool did not "look like" they live in this community. I get what you are saying though, especially about the trash. I think though, that there have to be some physical improvements made to help us help ourselves. I think people would be much more likely to pick up a piece of trash and thow it in a can 10 feet away than to have to carry it across the street, into an alley (filled with mud!) and to the nearest dumpster. Even if there are trash cans at the park, who dumps them, and where, when they are full. We really need to have a dumpster, in a nice enclosure, at the park that the city would dump regularly.
I agree on the dumpster..Maybe we can talk about how to get the funding together. I think when we are at the pool, we just talk to people...lets get to know each other...I know we are not moving for a long time!!...so we should know our neighbors...I personally would not be offended if someone asked me if I lived here because I would then know there are other people looking out for our community....I understand what you are saying though..I know we just can not flat out ask "do you live here"...surely we can figure some thing out
A big plus for me in moving to Milwaukee Ridge was the sense of a community. I lived outside the city limits for 18 years and there is not much going on with neighbors. The park, pool and opportunities to walk around a neighborhood and meet those who live around me were all inviting. I like the idea of watching out for one another rather than watching one another. I think we have the opportunity to be an incredible community!
I too think this community can be worldclass. Helping each other and looking out for one another goes with out saying. We do have to be willing to give some effort here and make this community what we all expect it to be. It will not just happen as Haire said. We have to make it and maintain it.
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