Vol. 59 No. 32
Saturday, August 10, 2024
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Shareholders are invited to attend an Open Board meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 7 p.m. in Rm. 31 of the Bartow Center to witness the swearing-in ceremony of the members elected in the 2024 Riverbay Board election, and HOHFWLRQ RI WKH %RDUG¶V RI¿FHUV The Aug. 14 meeting will also be live streamed on the Riverbay Crawler, channel 12 (MATV) and channel 591 (Altice). 2Q :HGQHVGD\ -XO\ WKH (OHFWLRQ &RPPLWWHH FHUWL¿HG WKH UHVXOWV of the Riverbay Board election in which shareholders returned three incumbent directors, elected two former directors and one new shareholder to the Board. The top six voter getters will be sworn in next Wednesday and begin their work as Board members. They are Leah Graham (2,832 votes), Mary Pearson (2,761 votes), Bernard Cylich (2,521 votes), Jacqueline Smith (2,417 votes), Kyshawn White (2,304 votes) and Andrea Leslie (2,293 votes). Graham, Pearson, Cylich, (Continued on page 2)
5LYHUED\ %RDUG (OHFWLRQ Vote for the Best Decorated Building! With the 2024 Riverbay Board election behind us, it’s time to cast your votes for best decorated building. Vote for your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices using the link provided below. The three buildings with the highest number of votes will be announced at the Open Board meeting on Wednesday, August 14, 7 p.m. in Bartow, Rm. 31. VW 3ODFH ± QG 3ODFH ± UG 3ODFH ± To vote, https://forms.gle/hwDv28QzL6pXYfVV6,
or use https://bit.ly/ 3A9C487, or use your phone camera to scan the QR Code. Please contact awatson@riverbayboard.com with any questions. —2024 Election Committee
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Members of the U.S. Senate voted nearly unanimously on July 30 to approve two pieces of legislation aimed at protecting children on the internet. The two bills, the Children’s and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) and the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), passed with a vote of 91-3. COPPA 2.0 builds on the 1998 version of COPPA, which established the (Continued on page 2)
Air Conditioning Outage 2Q )ULGD\ -XO\ RQH RI WKH FKLOOHUV XVHG WR FRRO WKH ZDWHU WKDW ÀRZV WKURXJK WKH FRLOV ORFDWHG LQVLGH WKH FRQYHFWRUV WKDW VXSSO\ DLU FRQGLWLRQLQJ WR &R RS &LW\ DSDUWPHQWV KDG WR EH WDNHQ RIÀLQH temporarily for maintenance repair. Following the maintenance repair, when Power Plant personnel attempted to return the chiller to service on Saturday, July 27, it did not turn on for issues unrelated to the repair. Staff immediately began troubleshooting the unit to determine the cause. &RQFXUUHQWO\ D VHFRQG FKLOOHU ZDV ¿UHG XS EXW WKDW FKLOOHU WRR GLG QRW IXQFWLRQ DV LW VKRXOG Staff immediately took steps to troubleshoot and were eventually able to get the chiller back online by Saturday night, Aug. 3. Unfortunately, while this repair work was ongoing, shareholders experienced warmer than usual temperatures in their apartments. The system did not fully come online with optimal cooling until Monday night, Aug. 6. 3RZHU 3ODQW VWDII FRQWLQXH WR SHUIRUP UHSDLU ZRUN WR WKH FKLOOHU WKDW FDPH RIÀLQH RQ -XO\ to ensure redundancy across the community. Management thanks shareholders for their profound patience and apologizes for the inconvenience caused because of the outage. —5LYHUED\ 0DQDJHPHQW
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There are many different types of molds that can grow both outdoors and indoors. Mold spores are invisible to the QDNHG H\H DQG ÀRDW WKURXJK WKH DLU 0ROG EHJLQV JURZLQJ indoors when those spores land on moist or wet surfaces and can only be detected by visual inspection. In the event that a shareholder observes mold in an apartment, a call must be placed to the respective Cooperator SerYLFHV 2I¿FH &62 UHTXHVWLQJ D PROG DVVHVVPHQW 7KDW DVVHVVment will be conducted by the Riverbay Safety Department, which oversees the corporation’s mold program throughout Co-op City. The Co-op City Times sat down with Safety Director Anthony Barzelatto this week to discuss Riverbay’s mold program and what shareholders can do to help prevent the growth of mold in their apartments. :KDW FDXVHV PROG WR JURZ LQ DQ DSDUWPHQW HVSHFLDOO\ in the bathroom? There are three key ingredients that are needed for mold to JURZ 7KH ¿UVW LV WKDW LW QHHGV D IRRG VRXUFH $ IRRG VRXUFH could be a piece of sheetrock on the wall, a curtain, paint, wood, bedding and that’s gonna create the start of it. Second thing is you need moisture. Now, moisture could be that it’s actually wet or it could be dampness, like it’s a real humid day. And then the third thing you need is some sort of darkness. So those are the three key things that you need for mold to grow. Here at Riverbay, I will tell you that maybe 75% of our mold jobs are in the bathroom. Now why in the bathroom? Well, you do have food sources. You’ve got the walls themselves. You’ve got the ceilings. That’s really where mold is going to accumulate. For moisture, you’ve got steam from (Continued on page 4)