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Getting Ahead of the Game

should get ahead of the game. Is it smart to move the handball/basketball courts to another area and build a garage over there? We could capitalize on outsiders coming in to take the train and alleviate the need for more parking spaces for residents of Section 5. What do you think?

Convector Maintenance For All

meeting in the Section.

erators was the convector leak problem. Perhaps this temporary solution was mentioned after I convector.

It is very hard – if not impossible – for most seniors to remove that heavy cover and also get down on their knees to do convector maintenance! I know this information is periodically printed in this paper, but it needs to be more widely publicized (and anyone reading this should tell their elderly neighbors).

I actually think this should be done automatically for all apartments, and pans provided for each convector) on an a temporary basis, I believe it would still be much cheaper than all the repairs from the damage.

Some are saying that the convectors will be obsolete by sponse is a cop out. We need solutions now.

In-Kind Service

ing the meeting, especially the Gallery Session.

At that meeting, I took the opportunity to discuss In-kind Service to Co-op City approved organizations. As a former agement, and charged with the responsibility to recommend to proceed with renting community rooms until the matter of increased room rental rates was resolved. During this discussion, it was also stated that the In-kind Service rates for approved community organizations would increase as well. However, the In-kind Service rates were never increased and remain at Wholistic Health and Wellness Fair and the Co-op City Spellto expend monies for events that are free to the community.

be the In-kind Service amount for each event, or that the annual allocation be raised to $3,000.

Kindly share your views on this matter.

Time To Wake Up, Co-op

by law, Co-op City will have to convert from gas to elec- time away. Well, the conversion doesn’t happen overnight. The change is very expensive. It will cost over an estimated more power plant. That means we, the residents, will have to buy electric stoves. If we are unable to receive any grants, $378 per apartment, per month to meet the cost, from my estimation. If that is done, Co-op City will, according to some, no longer be affordable housing. to submit a resolution to hire a lobbyist to try and persuade not have to change to electric power. If they cannot be persuaded, then I believe we need to vote them out and replace place and didn’t take Co-op City into account. Just like the

This possible increase in carrying charges has nothing discussing right now. As of writing this, I am unaware of ing through with the law and converting everything over to electric.

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In the extensive coverage in the Co-op City Times of the formation, I’m quoted as stating our most expensive rent is up to speed. I was off by two bucks for our three-bedroom, six-room apartments’ before-the-increase averages. proximate monthly carrying charges” for our various sized Co-op City Times stein. Decision makers, please keep rotating, broadcasting, videotaping, listening, and informing. To paraphrase a wise woman at another recent meeting, “[We] may not be happy with all the answers, but [our] concerns have been addressed.”

And the term “average?” The term used in housing is “median.” The arithmetic middle cost of housing. Half pay more, half pay less. That way millionaires’ mansions or tents pitched in relatives’ backyards can’t skew an area’s average cost of housing.

Estimates are not comparable to other geographic levels due to methodology differences that may exist between different data sources.

Still, we can try to be careful, get up to speed, stay informed of issues affecting the circumstances of our homes and our surrounding area. Start on our coopcity.com website or at issuu.com/cctimes spreading misinformation and partial truths and before bellyaching in a public forum.

We can all do better, including us, cooperators. There could be more clarity and more transparency on everyone’s part but cooperators – applying more coordination, cooperation, and common sense – working together toward the common good – can keep our beloved community on the right track for decades to come.

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