Clubhouse Problems

The clubhouse cleanliness and mail packages have become a problem. Now don't get your hackles up... I'm going to describe what I saw and what was pointed out to me by Larry Henson this morning... How this all came about.

Yesterday at the Social Club Meeting Wayde Dudley, our president, said he had been called and told the Clubhouse was left in a mess after the recent weekend dinners. When asked what the problem was Wayde said he didn't quite understand.. Now you may ask what is Ron Thomas' nose stuck into this for? The answer is Ron or Jacky Thomas sign up to reserve the clubhouse for all Social Club events for the entire year. So when the clubhouse is not cleaned up to specifications.. We get asked why not?

Today, I asked Larry Henson what was the problem exactly and asked him to show me what was wrong. He then took me on a tour pointing out exactly what was wrong...

Here is what was shown to me... The rug leading to the kitchen and in front of the counter had a lot of crumbs and food particles on the floor. The kitchen had trash piled up and the garbage sacks that it was in had leaked spotting the floor. Larry said he had moved a garbage container onto the outside deck and wants us to put our garbage in that from now on... and that should take care of that problem.

The Kitchen floor was spotted with juice spills in front of the sink counter. and all around the island. As you face the counter, the dishwasher on the left is the one Larry takes care of during the week. He rarely checks the other one but in this case he noted it was full and should have been put away by the users.

The above problems are easily taken care of and we would ask those cleaning up to be more vigilant going forward and we think that will cure the problems.

As to the idea that every Sunday the floor is vacuumed by the management ... That is not the case these days. No help is currently available but there is an ad out for help staff. In the interim we need to clean up after ourselves.

About the mail packages.... In the past mail was put on the pool tables and residents sorted out their packages. Recently however, the pool tables have been repaired to give a better action and more enjoyable game. This cost was significant. The technician that repaired the tables attributes part of their demise to the placing of packages on them over the years. So, in order to keep them in first class shape we are asked not to place anything on them.. Then, during the weekend the tables that had been set up for the packages were put away and packages put back on the pool tables...

Larry suggested maybe the packages could be put in the adjacent card room.. I don't know what the solution to this is.

We have heard it said that the Social Club really has active members that number around 50 and that the park has around 250 residents. That 200 residents really only care about getting their mail and living their life, doing their own thing and they don't necessarily care about these things. If you are in the 50 then accept some responsibility and police up after yourselves. If you are in the 50 and don't like the packages on the pool table then think of a solution and help implement it. If you are in the 200 this probably has no interest at all for you.