File Cabinet in common area

A random file cabinet has appeared in the basement of 29 Irving. If you are the owner of the file cabinet, could you please remove it from the common area.

If anyone knows who it belongs to or has information about how it got there, please e-mail ChathamCondos@gmail.com. If no one claims it soon, it will be given away.

New Board of Trustees Chairperson

This past Tuesday was the monthly trustee meeting. At the end of the meeting, after some kind words, Gary nominated Izzy to be the new Chair of the Board. We unanimously agreed. Thank you Izzy for stepping into this role! Congratulations!

Our Park and Trees

The Trustees are currently looking for volunteers within the association who would like to be more active in the care of our community.

1. We are planning a clean up along the Irving Street side of the building towards the end of May to remove litter and old mulch around the trees and sidewalks. During the clean up we will be adding fresh wood chips and possibly some natural animal repellant around the trees. Worcester Forestry has been contacted about removing/replacing the dying tree, but we do not have confirmation on if or when they will be doing this.
   
   
2. The Board has discussed the idea of purchasing an electric lawnmower to eliminate some annual labor expenses for mowing the park. We are currently looking for volunteers within the association who would like to help mow the park. If we have enough volunteers we will move forward with the purchase of the electric lawnmower and set up a rotating volunteer schedule.

If you are interested in volunteering please send an e-mail to chathamcondos@gmail.com or leave a comment below.

Community Meeting Follow Up

Thank You Ann for providing an open forum for all owners to come out and discuss their thoughts and concerns for our community!

Some key points of the evening (in no particular order)

1. The need to elaborate in more detail the monthly minutes from the Trustee meetings. The minutes should give more details with what was discussed (problems, repairs, etc), how will the problem/repairs be resolved, and most important deadlines or dates for the resolution. It was noted that monthly minutes will be sent via e-mail & via postage to those without e-mail accounts. Financial overview of bank accounts will now be added into the minutes
2. The need to provide a semi-annual meeting where we will discuss action plans and receive feedback from other owners.
3. The ned to expand time for open discussions ( an area for people to speak and or voice concerns) at the yearly meeting and be able to provide a more detail plan of what we have done or what we see happening in the future.
4. A clear channel of communication when individual issues arise. Owners should contact Rich first via phone 508-898-993 or mail PO Box 1492, Westborough, Ma 01581.
   
   If after first calling Rich, they would like to discuss things with a trustee, they can email chathamcondos@gmail.com or contact one of us directly.

Contacting Community Police Assigned to Our Area

To help foster a more informed community I'm posting a past e-mail (from September 2009) discussing the local police presence in our neighborhood.

"...If you want to report a quality of life concern, such as vandalism, drug activity, loud/disruptive behavior, etc, we have two police officers assigned to our district who handle just these types of issues...

Use this number: 508-799-8682

If you call between 7 and 8:30am you can speak directly to one of the officers. Between 8:30am and 4pm they are out in the neighborhood, but you can still call that number to leave a message for them.

You can also send messages for them via our district's city councilor, Barbara Haller at HallerB@ci.worcester.ma.us and she will forward it to our officers."