Edited by Patrick Comiskey Public Security Inc. was replaced by Green Knight Security on November 24. This incident report spans that transition. Officers report all incidents to Management, including those that lead to rule enforcement such as noise or parking violations. For more information, please go to the Management Overview page.
Story and photos by Matthew Archer
This morning I woke up early and started my day as usual. In the kitchen I prepared coffee, carried it upstairs and sat at my desk to check email. Then, I stepped out my front door in Court 10 and joined the concrete footpath leading to West Green. It was my first walk in several weeks, and as I strode into golden sunlight filtering through the olive trees, I felt bathed in a familiar tranquility. With each return to these walking paths, I wonder why I don’t do it more often. Yet here they are when I come back to them. Photos by Zig Halloween at the Green has always brought about good times and great photos. This year was definitely no exception!
Click through to see more, then click each photo to see them in full size. Compiled by Patrick Comiskey
Thirty people attended the Board Meeting including six Board directors and Management representatives. Three Board members, Ashley Fondrevay, Haleh Shoah, and Steve Haggerty, were absent. Topics discussed include the 2024 budget and assessment increase, our new security contractor, a window-rehabilitation trial, changing "Rodeo Place" to become "Georgia & Ted's Place", and the HOA and Board meeting schedules. Compiled by Sherri Giles; edited by P.J.C. Topics include: electrical upgrade pilot building, insurance coverage changes, building painting and insulation, garage restoration/painting, laundry machine maintenance, serpentine walls, and furnace vent issues.
Also, there's a new garage lighting trial in Court 7. Residents and safety committee members are encouraged to review the lighting in action after dark. Edited by Patrick Comiskey
Public Security Inc. officers report all incidents to management, including those that lead to rule enforcement such as noise or parking violations. For more information, please go to the Management Overview page. Your help is needed for an important neighborhood health study. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is sponsoring a study to understand possible health impacts on people living near the Inglewood Oil Field. The study is being conducted by UCLA researchers, and all Village Green residents are encouraged to participate. The study consists of a confidential health questionnaire, a blood pressure reading, and a simple lung function measurement. Participants will receive a $20 gift card. Please stop by the Culver-Palms Family YMCA Saturday, October 7, 12:00pm - 2:00pm, or Saturdays, October 14, 21, or 28, 10:00am - 2:00pm. For more information, call or text (310) 957-9209. We hope you enjoyed the "online-only" story published here on the News & Articles page earlier in September about the Coqui frog that invaded the Green. If you haven't already, please check out the spread of photos by Zig of Labor Day festivities, too! If you have ideas for topics, stories, illustrations or other contributions you might want to share with your community, please reach out. Let’s collaborate! HIGHLIGHTS and this official VGOA website are all-volunteer projects of the Village Green Communications Committee. Contact us! vgcomcom@villagegreenla.net or villagegreenhighlights@gmail.com Compiled by Patrick Comiskey Thirty-five people attended the September Board meeting including eight board members and the management team.
The meeting opened with a statement from Board President Laura Civiello, who notified attendees that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s new loan requirements for condos were made official on September 18 and that she, Manager Sherri Giles, and Board Director Steve Haggerty would be attending a webinar with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac officials to hear more details. Other discussions include the 2024 VGOA Budget, linking assessment fees to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and the potential for solar panels on garages and carports. Compiled by Sherri Giles; edited by P.J.C.
Topics include: electrical upgrade project, residential and garage building maintenance, laundry machine maintenance, serpentine walls, metal window frames, our security services contract, and furnace venting issues. Edited by P.J.C.
Public Security Inc. officers report all incidents to management, including those that lead to rule enforcement such as noise or parking violations. For more information, please go to the Management Overview page By Patrick Comiskey The sound started at night, after dark, interrupting the post-twilight hours in the days after the hurricane, when the whole property, verdant and lush, had been revived by the rains. Travis Lent (Court 5) and his wife Jess were the first to hear it: a weird chirping sound, rhythmic and regular, high pitched, and very, very annoying.
Lent is no stranger to rhythmic sounds—he plays percussion for a two-person band called Mirthquake—but this, like a cross between a birdsong and a smoke alarm, was just irritating. “It sounded electronic, with perfect intervals,” he said, “like a smoke alarm with a dying battery,” adding: “That’s a sound I really hate.” However if it was a smoke alarm, it was acting strangely: the device would chirp for just fifteen minutes and then go silent. After two irritating nights he contacted Security, thinking they’d be able to help him track down which of his neighbors was too lazy to change a nine-volt battery. Photos by Zig.
Many thanks to the Cultural Affairs Committee for the wonderful summer concerts this year and always! A note from the Budget & Finance Committee... Are you curious how the HOA plans to spend your assessments next year? Come join a conversation about an early draft of the 2024 budget with the board treasurer. The board approves the final budget during their October meeting. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/592544596 Meeting ID: 592 544 596 Password: 5300Obama (two zeros, upper case O) Or dial by phone: 1-669-900-9128 Meeting ID: 592-544-596 Password: 192791 Compiled by Patrick Comiskey, photo by Zig.
Thirty-two people attended the August 22 Board Meeting including nine board members and the management team. Topics discussed include rainwater catchment plans being developed for Baldwin Hills, an art show event in the Clubhouse, custom white board purchases, and committee personnel updates. Compiled by Sherri Giles, edited by Patrick Comiskey Topics include: electrical upgrade pilot building, residential and garage building maintenance, metal window frames, serpentine walls, and security services contracts.
Edited by P.J.C. Public Security Inc. officers report all incidents to management, including those that lead to rule enforcement such as noise or parking violations. For more information, please go to the Management Overview page.
By Nat Hutton, photo by Lucy Fried Our neighbor Georgia Lumpkin died peacefully this past week, aged 101, just two years after her husband Ted passed away. Georgia and Ted moved to the Village Green in 2001; after Ted passed, Georgia was the Village Green’s oldest resident. We will miss her tremendously. If you did not know this lady, you missed an experience that you will never capture with any other human being in life. If you ever visited Georgia on her wonderful patio garden, she would give you a lesson on plants, their life and how to care for all the wonderful things she grew. She often extended that knowledge to area schools and students; very few people could match her knowledge of plants and trees—those trees, and all the greenery on the property, were part of the reason she loved living here at the Village Green. So long Georgia, you can never be replaced! |
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