Coral Tree Plaza Weekly Update

Happy Friday Coral Tree Plaza

COVID-19 Update:

This week the Board of Directors met in executive session to discuss the urgent needs of the community and how to best support the residents during this time of need. You may have noticed that new posters are located in every garage elevator lobby, further info about preventing the spread is in each bulletin board case in the mailroom lobbies. Also please see the updated shopping list on the homeowner bulletin boards. 

Some residents have been asking about the spread of cases and how that relates to Coral Tree Plaza. San Diego County actively tracks each confirmed case. If someone tests positive for COVID-19 at Coral Tree Plaza, the county will contact management directly to inform them of the confirmed case. 

As of 12:00 pm March 27th, 2020 I have not been contacted by the county. 

If you have seen a doctor, tested positive for COVID-19 and you wish to disclose this information to help protect your neighbors, you may contact me directly at Tboelts@actionlife.com or (619) 297-6004. Any information reported to me will be strictly confidential. Reporting your case to management will allow us to concentrate extra cleaning on areas of the property if needed alongside our current rigorous cleaning schedule.

Friendly Neighbor Reminder: Visitor Restrictions

If you have not had the opportunity to review the email that went out earlier today regarding the emergency rule change, please take a moment to do so. 

The association has decided that it is in the best interest of the community to limit all non-essential work onsite. If the community can limit visitors to the property, the chances of virus transmission are significantly reduced. Please consider your neighbors before inviting guests over to the association. There are a high number of at-risk residents in both buildings. The transmission of COVID-19 may not intimidate some folks, but it does for others. We must all care for one another during this time. 

Water Temperature Fluctuation Update:

Even with all of the ongoing changes in schedules due to COVID-19, we are still moving forward with diagnosing the water temperature fluctuation in the building. Three weeks ago, Ivey Engineering installed monitoring equipment on the PRV stations to find out if / when the pressure of the hot and cold water fluctuated. Ivey collected this equipment last week and sent their conclusions to me. Ivey Engineering has concluded that the West building has a cross-connection issue. Both Pipe Trades and Ivey Engineering have come forward with their proposed solutions. I will be working with a third party not directly involved in the plumbing project to review these conclusions from Ivey and to decide how to fix the cross-connection issue in the building. I have reached out to the third parties and we are reviewing the proposed solutions this week and next. 

Maintenance Update:

This week Justin worked with a few different ProTec engineers to install a new motor in the mechanical room, repair a motor on the top of the East building, drain down the chiller and refill, and replace emergency lights in the stairs. Additionally, Justin walked the full garage to identify any cast iron leaking and where repairs are needed. 

Today I would like to leave you with a fragment from Hermann Hesse in Wandering: Notes and Sketches. 

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more, I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.

 Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

 A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.

 A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

 When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

 A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one’s suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

 So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness”

Stay safe. 

Tyler Boelts

General Manager – Coral Tree Plaza

Action Property Management (800) 400-2284