Coral Tree Plaza Weekly Update

Happy Friday Everyone.

Hello Coral Tree Plaza Community.

Important Notice:

This week an update went out to Hillcrest that there has been another meth exposure on 7^th avenue to a dog. There have been reports of various exposures in the Hillcrest area. So if you are walking your dog anywhere in Hillcrest, please be extremely cautious and do not let your pet pick up any food, trash, or treats from the street.

Board Meeting Summary:

Thank you to all who attended the Zoom board meeting this week. The board passed several proposals for the upkeep of the community and ensuring safety. Below are the items discussed and approved by the board during the open session.

Stealth Monitoring:

As previously mentioned, the board approved the Stealth Monitoring contract back in April, this was a jump start on the installation process which has a long lead time (typically between 2-3 months). Stealth is ordering the equipment necessary for them to remotely monitor the property overnight. The equipment that will be installed in the parking garage consists of a camera recording storage device, and multiple loudspeakers through which the monitoring company can instruct trespassers to leave the property. This is a twelve-month contract with Stealth Monitoring and will not technically begin until the monitoring service begins. So part of the contract will run into 2023. Due to this split in the fiscal year with the contract year, the board is looking into all options regarding the payment of the contract. They will be providing additional updates as they make their decisions.

Promenade Resurfacing:

During the meeting on Wednesday, an update was provided about the promenade resurfacing and structural repairs in the parking garage. This work is being spearheaded by Southern Cross Property Consultants. At this time, they are working with the City of San Diego to pull permits for the work in the garage and the resurfacing of the promenade. To accurately pinpoint the scope of work that will be bid on by vendors, Southern Cross must first have the work plan signed off on by the City. If Southern Cross were to create a scope of work before City approval, all the bid designs could be rendered useless if the City rejected them. So to avoid this, Southern Cross is putting the bulk of the clerical work up front with the approval from the City. Once the scope of work is approved, Southern Cross will be moving far more quickly and there will be noticeable movement in the project.

The first phase of the project is to repair key structural points in the parking garage that have been damaged over the years from water intrusion. It’s important to note that this type of structural damage was not created overnight, this is from almost 50 years of slow water intrusion. To ensure that the association is taking every precaution necessary, they have already installed temporary shoring in the parking garage (the 4×4 beams by several parking spaces). These temporary shoring zones will be replaced with a permanent solution during the first phase of the project. It is only after the parking garage structure is secured and checked out by both the City and the structural engineers that the association will move into the next phase of the promenade resurfacing.

2021 Audit:

Per California civil code, each year homeowner associations must perform an audit or financial review of the previous fiscal year. Sonnenberg CPAs have put together the 2021 audit for the Coral Tree Plaza Owners association. This audit was reviewed thoroughly by Action, the financial oversight committee, and ultimately approved by the board during the open session this week. There were no issues identified in the report and now that it has been approved it will be sent out to all of the owners at Coral Tree Plaza for your records.

Fire Alarm System Upgrades:

During the new fire recall panel installation a few months back, A&D fire found that somewhere in the West building one of the alarm horns inside of a unit was and still is, disconnected. Typically with a new fire alarm panel, if a fire alarm is disconnected somewhere, the panel will be able to identify which horn and where it is disconnected. Because Coral Tree is an older building, the panel is not able to work with the old infrastructure of the fire alarms, and it is only able to say which stack of the building the troubled fire alarm horn is. So A&D came to the association with two proposals, the first is to replace and upgrade all of the fire alarm horns in the West building while also searching for the disconnected line. There are going to be new alarms that are inside every unit.

To fully finish the fire alarm panel installation and get the fire marshal to sign off on the installation, each unit of the West building has to be inspected and the horns independently verified. So while the technicians are inside of each unit checking out the horns, they will also be upgrading them to a new style. As a reminder, the fire alarm horns inside of your unit are daisy-chained together. This means that if one is severed or disconnected – say during a remodel – then all of the horns up above it are no longer active. Whenever anyone is working around a fire alarm horn, please be extra cautious not to disconnect the horn.

The second proposal from A&D fire is to fully upgrade the East building fire alarm recall panel and the fire alarms inside of each unit. Typically when a component of one building goes down, the mirrored component in the other tower is quick to follow. The board agreed to preventative maintenance and to upgrade the East building system. For a frame of reference, the fire alarm panel that works in the East building was manufactured in 1974. The new panel and the new in-unit alarms are far safer and much more effective at alerting the fire station and residents of an emergency. The board felt and does feel that it’s exceptionally important to maintain a safe community for everyone, hence their desire to upgrade the East building in tandem with the West building.

For any further questions regarding the 6/1 board meeting, please contact me directly at Tboelts@actionlife.com

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

-Dale Carnegie

Be Well. 

Tyler Boelts

General Manager – Coral Tree Plaza

Action Property Management (800) 400-2284

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