Category: Announcements

NOTICE OF MEETING OF SKYTRACK CONDOMINIUM OWNERS ASSOCIATION

Dear Unit Owner:

 

Pursuant to Article 111, Sections 1 and 4 of the By-Laws of Skytrack Condominium, the board of managers is providing notice of the annual meeting of Skytrack Condominium Association.  Business will include an election to the board of managers, a report on financial status, and other important business concerning the future of the condominium.

 

This meeting is to be held on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 8 p.m. at the Montessori School located at 7-9 Bergen Street, immediately adjacent to 15 Bergen Street.  Please arrive and sign in between 7:45 and 8 pm so that the meeting can start on time.

 

There are two Board terms expiring this year.  Anyone who wants to run should drop a note to that effect in any of the lobby boxes for the Board of Managers.

 

If you are unable to attend in person, please delegate a representative to vote in your place by proxy.  A quorum of 50% of the ownership in person or by proxy is necessary for transaction of business. A form of proxy is being distributed to each unit for this purpose .

Sincerely,

 

 

Levi McConnell, Secretary

Skytrack Condominium Association

 

 

Board Meeting Minutes, March 23rd, 2011

Attending:  Peter Levy, Pres., Katharine Flanders Mukherji, V.P., Sec. Levi McConnell, Rose Firestein,

Terra Chalberg, Jose Perez (to present Super’s report), and Elia Malara (Managing Agent).

 

I.   Maintenance

§   Jose’s new shower body works properly, and he is very satisfied with it.

 

§   The coping on the roof at 120 Boerum has been repaired, and now Leon will be repairing a few leftover issues in the affected apartment.

 

§   The cornice on the roof at 120 Boerum Place is to be repaired in April.

 

§   When 17 Bergen was reconstructed, part of the adjoining wall between the new building and 15 Bergen was removed, and now some water/moisture issues are affecting a unit within 15 Bergen, as well as 17 Bergen.  We are encouraging the owners of 17 Bergen to have the problem rectified and the gap between the walls sealed against further moisture issues.  We will have the newly exposed portion of our wall pointed and sealed.

 

§   Stairwells at 120 Boerum are being worked on this April, including new floor coverings in the hallways near the recycling cans, as well as the stairs and landings.

 

§   Several failing door springs have been replaced, and the front door at 120 Boerum has been upgraded with a new egress handle.

 

§   More pigeon spikes are to come to the roof coping at 120 Boerum, over the front-most courtyard.  The spikes in the middle courtyard seem to have worked well enough to reduce the problems we were experiencing.

 

§   Several roofs are slated to be re-sealed over the next few months.

 

§   The ashtray cans in the stairwell at 120 Boerum will be removed, as smoking is not permitted in any indoor common area of the Skytrack buildings.

 

NOTE: Please be mindful and considerate of those living in Skytrack condo units when you or your guests are in the hallways. Excessive noise from cell-phone conversations, loud talking, children running, etc. can be quite loud inside the actual apartments, and should be kept to a minimum.

 

As always, it is against Skytrack Condo rules to smoke in any common area.

II.   Financials

The financial situation of Skytrack Condo was reviewed and continues to be in order. The board is pleased to report that there will be no increase in Common Charges for the remainder of 2011.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30pm.

The next Skytrack Condo Board Meeting is scheduled for 7:30 pm, April 27th.

All residents are encouraged to register on the Skytrack website: www.skytrackcondo.com

 

Policy – Skytrack Condominium

A majority of the Board of Managers of Skytrack Condominium adopts the following policy as of October 15, 2010:

WHEREAS Skytrack Condominium (“Condominium”) has an existing policy that it is financially responsible for the extermination of vermin (rodents, insects and similar animal pests) in the common areas of the Condominium’s buildings and that individual unit owners are financially responsible for extermination of vermin in individual units; and

WHEREAS the City of New York is experiencing an apparently unprecedented bedbug infestation; and

WHEREAS bedbug infestations are both easily spread from apartment to apartment within a building and difficult to eradicate; and

WHEREAS the Board of Managers seeks to encourage the owners of units in the Skytrack Condominium to address possible bedbug infestations quickly, thereby effectively eliminating the insect’s spread within a building, it is now

ESTABLISHED by the affirmative votes of a majority of the Board of Managers of the Skytrack Condominium that hereafter, and until modified or rescinded by said Board of Managers, the policy of the Skytrack Condominium is as follows:

1.  Except as provided by numbered paragraphs two and three set out below, the policy of the Skytrack Condominium continues to be that it is financially responsible for the extermination of vermin in the common areas of the Condominium’s buildings and that individual unit owners are financially responsible for extermination of vermin in individual units; and

2.  Upon notification of the Superintendent of the Skytrack Condominium that bedbugs may be present in any building or portion of a building of the Skytrack Condominium, including an individual unit, by the owner of any unit within such building or such owner’s tenant or the Condominium staff, the Skytrack Condominium shall arrange and be financially responsible for having the possible bedbug infestation investigated to determine whether it exists, which investigation shall be made by professional exterminators or others the Board of Managers considers as having the necessary expertise to ascertain the presence of bedbugs at a location.  A unit owner may arrange for such an investigation of his/her own unit, and the Skytrack Condominium will be financially responsible for such individually arranged investigation only if the Condominium’s Superintendent approves the company or person who will undertake such investigation and such approval is obtained before the unit owner orders or contracts for such investigation.  Skytrack Condominium’s financial responsibility for an approved, owner-arranged investigation shall not exceed the cost of such investigation had the Condominium arranged for the investigation with the vendor it routinely engages for such investigations; and

3.  Skytrack Condominium will be financially responsible for the eradication of bedbugs, as with all other vermin, in the common areas of the Condominium’s buildings when bedbugs are detected in such areas, but it shall not be financially responsible for any aspect of the eradication of bedbugs, or any other vermin, in any individual unit or groups of units in the Condominium; and

4.  This policy supplants and replaces any previous policy, whether written, unwritten, formal or informal based on precedent, that pertains to the subject matter of this policy adopted by the Board of Managers on September 22, 2010.

Dated:  Brooklyn, New York

October 15, 2010

Board of Managers of Skytrack Condominium

By: Peter J. Levy, as President of the Board of

Managers of Skytrack Condominium

SPECIAL NOTICE FROM THE BOARD OF MANAGERS

Recently, a group of teenagers was discovered drinking alcohol on the Skytrack on the roof of 120 Boerum.  The teens unintentionally revealed their presence when one of them leaned over the railing and vomited, hitting a unit’s air conditioner.  This conduct was not only illegal, but potentially dangerous.  The roof, and particularly the track, are no place for inebriated people, especially youngsters who do not always display sensible behavior when they are sober.

The Board cannot emphasize enough the need for parents to ensure that their children, and their children’s friends, do not engage in risky conduct on the decks and roofs of the condominium’s buildings, including the track.  Irrespective of any possible liability issues arising from parents’ failure to oversee young people’s use of these common areas, the greatest concern is the potential for a completely unnecessary tragedy – a child falling from the deck or roof or otherwise being injured.

The Board requests that owners and tenants take steps to prevent their children and guests from engaging in inappropriate, illegal and dangerous conduct on the condominium’s decks, track and roofs.  And as the saying goes, if you see something, say something.

Thank you for your cooperation; we all have a stake in this.

Notice

If somebody you don’t know rings your outside bell and you want to interact with them, go to the outside door and talk with them outside the building, sign their petition, or whatever, but don’t let them into the building to talk to you because once they are in they can bother everyone else.

Happy Holidays

The Board extends holiday greetings for a happy and healthy holiday and New Year to one and all.

We would like to remind everyone that this is a good time to thank José and Patrick for their hard work and dedication to the building.

Trees: Please make sure all holiday trees are bagged while bringing them into and removing them from the buildings.  José will have oversize plastic bags available for tree transportation.  This will ensure that the super and the porter do not spend time removing pine needles from the hallways.  Please be responsible and respectful.  A fifty-dollar ($50) fine may be imposed upon offending units.