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VOL. 17 NO. 6
Master POA Report We welcome Susan Sherwin as our new editor-in-chief of the monthly Gazette! Summer has arrived a little early this year. Our temps are already in the 90s, the humidity is in the mid 70s and the summer rains have returned! Our pool is feeling very comfortable even without a chiller like the Club installed! Another sign of summer, fewer containers on trash day, indicates that many of our snowbirds have left for the northlands. Weather up north has been rather windy this year and I hope that none of our Grandezza neighbors have been impacted! By the time you receive this, we will be in the official Hurricane season. The SWFL season is more active in the August- October period but, as we have learned, it only takes one and it can arrive anytime. The May Master Board meeting is our last scheduled meeting until September when Mickey Wheeler, our Treasurer, and our directors will be well into the work on our 2025 budget. When the 2024 budget was approved last fall, Mickey alerted us that to keep the assessment the same as 2023, we would have to use some of our accumulated prior year retained surplus.
We felt that this would assist the neighborhood budgets in recovering from Ian expenses. He expects that the Master Association will have to increase its 2025 assessment (included in the neighborhood quarterly assessment) to cover the contractual increases in some of our large contracts for cable/ internet, landscaping and access control salaries. The Board agrees that we should continue to replenish our Restoration Reserve to cover hurricane damage expenses in case we have another storm. We are pleased that the Board has had sufficient reserves to cover the Master expenses for the last two major storms without a special assessment. The May Board meeting also appointed a new Bulk Services Committee to start planning for the negotiations for the renewal of our cable/internet contract to replace our present Comcast contract. It is our largest contractual service and matures in the next four years. When we renewed the last contract about seven years ago, it included a requirement that Comcast install fiber optic transmission wiring and equipment Master POA Report on page 3
Let’s Release Our Stress By Yvette Bernosky, B.Ms., Director of Fitness & Wellness, The Club at Grandézza At a recent convention I attended, I was intrigued to learn more about the positive effects moving meditations, breathwork and myofascial release can have on combatting stress. Stress can manifest through toxic relationships, unhealthy work environments, pressures we place on ourselves and even through an unhealthy intake of the daily news. Additionally, it can negatively impact our health through disease, mental health issues and destructive coping mechanisms. As none of us are immune to experiencing stress, below are some stress-relieving techniques that can help improve your mood and quality of life. Moving Meditations This program was created by Jani Roberts and fascinated me. Seated on the floor, we began a moving meditation to music focusing on gratitude and appreciation. We gently swayed from side to side, moving our arms and legs. We became more energetic with the choreographed movement patterns, releasing our chi energy and bringing us into a positive mental space. You couldn’t help but smile. Each song thereafter correlated to emotions we were experiencing from frustration, doubt and confidence. I experienced firsthand how good it feels to release stress and become grounded through physical movement. Box Breathing Our breath is our life force, and scientific research has proven its instantaneous calming effect on our nervous system. While there are many powerful breathing techniques, box breathing is very simple. This is a go-to to diffuse any stress right at the onset. • Breathe in through your nose for a four count. • Hold that breath for a four-count. • Exhale for a four count. • Repeat three to four times.
Myofascial Release When we experience stress, we tend to tense up. We may carry the tension in our upper back by wearing our shoulders as earrings, across our foreheads or collapsing our postures. With repetition, we tighten the fascia within our bodies. The fascia is the connective tissue surrounding our muscles, organs, and bones. Tightened fascia can cause pain and restrict movement, causing more physical and psychological stress. Releasing fascia can be done through foam rolling, using massage sticks and applying pressure to trigger points. Seeking a therapist who specializes in myofascial release is also a great option.
JUNE 2024
Your Comcast Service Bundle In February of 2017, your Grandezza Master Property Owners Association negotiated a contract with Comcast to provide each homeowner with fast internet service and a wide range of television choices. Your current service includes internet at more than 400 Mbps, well over two hundred TV channels, your Gateway modem, five TV boxes, one hundred hours of DVR recording space and all fees and taxes for $97.83 per month. Our contract with Comcast runs through February of 2028 and includes an annual escalation of 4%. Comcast released their latest schedule of pricing for all these services on May 1st. If you were to buy these same services on the retail market at full price, it would cost $267.58 per month including fees and taxes! This Comcast contract represents the largest portion of the quarterly assessment from your GMPOA - $293.49 out of the total assessment of $540 which is included in the quarterly assessment from your local HOA. The balance of this assessment covers all of the remaining expenses of the GMPOA including the gates access control and patrols, landscaping and grounds maintenance, irrigation, electricity, lakes and preserve maintenance and, importantly, reserves for replacing major capital items and a reserve for recovery from hurricane damage. Although our contract still has almost four years to run, we are beginning to gather our thoughts toward the next set of negotiations. If you have any input you would like to provide, please contact the chairman of the Bulk Cable Services Committee, Peter Dersley, at pgdersley@gmail.com. Finally, although the committee has worked very hard to ensure that Comcast is responsive to service interruptions, “stuff” happens. If you encounter a problem with your service that you cannot solve through normal means, be sure to send an email to our property manager, Cheryl McFarland at cmcfarland@vestapropertyservices. com and she will do her best to expedite resolution. GMPOA Bulk Cable Services Committee.
Note from the Editor Thank you to Susan Baker for her service to our community and expertise as the previous Editor-in-Chief of the Grandezza Gazzette! She has left big shoes for me to fill as the new Editor, and I am honored to follow in her footsteps. “Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.” - Charles Dickens Future submissions to the Grandezza Gazzette may be emailed to me: sjsherwin18@gmail.com. Susan Sherwin
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