The Ranch Filing #3

Lack of snow cleanup

I live at 2939 B W81st Ave and the lack of attention to this area was glaring. When I came home at quarter to three on Wednesday the 20th I had to spend 30 min's just to clear my way to my door. I then spent another hour and a half to help my neighbors. The next day the 21st I spent 8 hrs of shoveling with my neighbors Donna, Kim, Scott, and some poor soul who was visiting his girlfriend. About 4 o'clock a couple guys with shovels showed up and were looking for some snow to shovel. When asked they said they work for the landscape company and a plow would be in the area in about an hour. The plow showed up Tuesday.

We have 12 hrs to clear snow in front of our units. During the last four storms it has been myself and neighbors who have done the work. I have kept track of my hours during this period and know that the association owes me for 10 hrs of my labors. I think if the board is silly enough to pay this bill then they should be more then willing to give homeowners a free month of dues.

Dru (Ex Pesident of Board 1996-1998)

Shoveling

Their shovelers are not shoveling the sidewalks by streets and around back of units (01?’s along Allen Ditch). I often saw them riding around in trucks doing nothing... Maybe they could not break up the ice, but at least they could try. They piled a lot of snow in front of the parking places blocking the cars. I cleared out my parking space and Christie?’s and removed the snow from the sidewalk so we could get from our cars to the sidewalk. They should remove the snow too, but that would probably cost extra.

Al S. (Age 70)

By Al 01-M

Da Bill

Here is a breakdown of the hours. the $6,240 is for the 12/21/; the rest adds up to $9,372.00. Donna, let us know your snow remover lady friends info.

12/21/06- 7 men from 10 am- 8:30 pm 73.5 hours
8:30 they showed up? Don't think so

12/22/06- 4 men from 12:15 am-5:40 am 21.0 hours
Invisible? Don't think so!
-3 men from 3:30 am- 7:30 am 12.0 hours
WOW! More invisible men!
-2 men from 4:00 am- 9:15 am 10.5 hours
Boy these invisible men work hard doing nothing!
-2 men from 4:30 am- 9:00 am 9.0 hours
Cool, the snow just keeps piling up around these dolls! By the way there is no snow to move. Been there done that!
-6 men from 10:00 am- 3:00 pm 30.0 hours
Really, don't think so.

12/21-12/22/06- 2 trucks from 11:00 pm- 4:00 pm 10.0 hours
Trucks? What trucks? To move around the invisible men?

12/23-12/24/06- 2 trucks from 2:30 pm- 5:00 pm 5.0 hours
Yea now we have invisible trucks.
-4 trucks from 11:00 pm- 4:15 am 21.0 hours

WOW! More invisible trucks.
12/27/06- 2 trucks from 11:45 am- 3:15 pm 7.0 hours
Really?? maybe three hours.
1 truck from 11:00 am- 1:30 pm 2.5 hours
OK I saw these Guys drinking beer.
(500 gal mag chloride)
Magically dumped by C-DOT.

12/28/06- 2 men from 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm 6.0 hours
Doing what?

12/28/06-12/29/06- 8 men from 12/28 10:00 am- 6:00 am 12.29- 64 hours
More invisible men
8 men from 3:00 pm- 6:00 12/29 24 hours
They keep coming
2 trucks from 8:00 am- 10:30 am 12/29 5 hours
maybe 20 mins
2 trucks from 11:00 am- 1:00 pm 12/29 4 hours

don't think so

So we owe them for 5 hrs of plowing and 4 guys standing around for 2 hrs. Screw them. Just call ICE and they won't have a work force.





By Dru

Snow ''Removal''

When we hired these people we presumed that we were hiring them to remove snow not plow over piles of ice doing nothing. They were presented as experts in snow removal & should have recommended other methods instead of wasting our cars, time & money on simply making the situation worse. Most reputable companies stand behind ther work. If Green Plan is reputable {???} they should be wllling to adjust their bill for time spent shoveling snow that was already shoveled on sidewalks; they should not charge us for time they spent fruitlessly driving plows over hard ice ridge (sometimes in the middle of the night); the parking lot was virtually impassible until they came out with a bobcat which is not included in this exorbitant bill.

carol Bernardin 2923-E Secretary of CVHA Board

By Carol Bernardin