Bermuda Bay Condominium Newsletter

Current Contact information for the Board:

President - Tori Elvir - bermudabaypresident@gmail.com

Vice- President -Roger Daisly- bermudabayvicepresident@gmail.com

Treasurer - Mike Martin - bermudabaytreasurer@gmail.com

Secretary - Chris Boyd - bermudabaysecretary@gmail.com

Director-at-Large - John King- bermudabaydirectoratlarge@gmail.com

Mr. Rafael (Ray) Ferreris Jr. Property Manager: - bermudabaymgr@condominiumassociates.com

(Starting April 1)

Administrative Assistant: Christine Dickey and Jen Sullivan - bbboffice@condominiumassociates.com

Bermuda Bay Office: 727-864-0735

Bermuda Bay Security Phone Number: 727-212-9963 (Current guards - Alex Prince and Travis Howard)

If you have an after hours emergency, please call Condominium Associates at 727-573-9300 or reach out to a board member for assistance.

Police Non-emergency: 727-893-7780

Police Emergency: 911

Bermuda Bay Clubhouse WiFi: Username: Bermudabayclubhouse (it should pop up)

Password: bbclubhouse

We do have a separate web page called https://www.bermudabaystpete.com/

The password had to be updated, as passwords are occasionally.

Username: BBB (which is the same) and the new Password is: beachcondos

This is NOT the official website of Bermuda Bay, but we try and keep this one updated for your pleasure. The workable website for work orders, payments, documents, etc. is the https://condo.cincwebaxis.com/ and is maintained by CA

A robbery at knifepoint was reported to St. Pete Police in Clam Bayou a couple of weeks ago by a female riding a bike. We also had the police patrolling our community with patrol cars and helicopters, as they were searching for someone who was running from a crime. As always, it is important to lock your condos and cars and to report anything suspicious to the guards or a Board member. Just like the bird above, that found a lofty perch...it's good to keep your eyes open!

Our new security hours are: 10:00pm - 6:00am Daily. We continue to have unwanted people on our property, so it is important to stay vigilant and LOCK YOUR CAR. Be sure that your keys or fobs, or anything of value is NOT visible from any car window. Any subspinous activity: please report to Bermuda Bay Security and the POLICE! If you get up during the night, just look out your windows. If you see someone going through cars, call the police (911) or at least the guard (727-212-9963). Or if you have a Ring or other personal security camera, check it every morning to see if there was any strange activity during the night. If so, let the property manager know. Never approach trespassers yourself at night. Always notify the security guard, or if a crime is clearly being committed, call 911 immediately.

Security Guard Phone Number - 727-212-9963

Seven days a week: 10:00pm - 6:00am

• Alex Prince - Wednesday - Sunday
• Devante Evans - Mondays and Tuesdays

Recently, Chip Wells from the SPPD walked the property with Chris Boyd (board secretary), Peg Daisley (security committee), and Alex Prince (Allied security guard for Bermuda Bay). Mr. Wells is a Crime Prevention Specialist with the PD and was here to do a property survey. (Some of you may be very impressed with all the letters after his name – FCPP, NCPS, ICPS, CPTED).

Security Cameras

As we walked around, Mr. Wells noted where security cameras were, both official BB-owned cameras, and private owner-owned. He mentioned that the SPPD has a program called "Eagle Eye," in which private homeowners can register their private security camera with the police. They won't have access to your camera, but if crime happens nearby, they will know they might call on you to share security footage if your camera captured anything of note. Here is a link: https://police.stpete.org/eagleEye/index.html#gsc.tab=0 Just click on the button that says "Register for Eagle Eye." (Ignore the Q-code)

Lighting

As we walked around, Mr. Wells also focused on the lighting situation. At the end of his property survey, he said that fixing the lighting situation at BB is a higher priority at this time than getting more cameras. So, the security committee is going to do another property survey focused only on the lighting situation. The purpose is to be able to make informed recommendations to the board.

They learned, for instance, that although all the streetlights are owned by Duke Energy, Bermuda Bay COA rents them from Duke. Apparently, if we asked Duke to install another street light, they wouldn't charge to install, but they would charge to rent.

Mr. Wells also noted that there were a lot of lights that were out and simply needed a new bulb, and others that could be easily be fixed or transitioned to better, relatively less expensive and more efficient lights. He also noted many dark areas around the property that needed lighting, or just needed the lighting to be fixed – the worst place being the woods (playground and shuffleboard area), where there are plenty of lights, but none are working because the electricity feeding the lights was cut at some point. The property manager had already been soliciting proposals to fix the electrical situation in the woods.

Right now, we do not have a maintenance staff, even someone to just to change a bulb, but we should by the time we get the lighting survey done – hopefully by March 31. In the meantime, security committee members, along with security guard Alex Prince, will be checking each building's lighting situation and lack of lighting on the property. Peg Daisley is keeping a spreadsheet to collect the information about the lighting situation for each building, and all over the property. If you have any specific comments or recommendations about your building, please send an email to Peg at: mdaisley@msn.com.

Courts & Sports March Calendar of Activities

MWF 9:30-10:30am Walking Program meets at the Clam Bayou gate.

Mondays at 6:30pm Pickleball Evening Play. Beginner's learn to play, experienced players practice skills - Equipment, instruction and encouragement provided!

Monday March 11th Tennis Court Clean Up after evening play.

Monday March 14th 10:00am Corn Hole by the Shuffleboard Courts

Pickleball Tournament! Sunday, March 24th (rain date March 25th). 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Under the Lights!

Raffle Draw for Hand-made Charcuterie Board - Tickets - $1 each

$10 entry fee to support the Bermuda Bay Courts & Sports Committee

To register, text or call: Robin Ward (573)881-5067

Remember: Play at your own risk.

John King and I are sending out weekly or bi-weekly updates for the community through email blasts. The purpose is to keep the community up to date on issues and progress that surround our construction projects. The links for each communication are below.

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https://www.smore.com/ywark

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A few people have inquired about what the cleaning service does here at Bermuda Bay. So I thought we would spell it out so you can be familiar with the schedule and duties that they have been assigned.

DAILY DUTIES:

Clubhouse - both bathrooms cleaned, swept, and mopped. The clubhouse room and kitchen are checked for trash and floors cleaned. Outside tables are cleaned daily and every trash bin checked and emptied. We remove cigarette butts from ashtrays and blow out the pool deck if needed.

The Family Pool: clean both bathrooms, tables around the deck and trash bins. We blowout the deck as needed.

Laundry-mats: clean dryers of lint, check washers and swifter the floors

Doggy stations: there are seven stations throughout the property, change the bags daily and make sure each station has two boxes of bags

We drive around the property and pick up any trash throughout the property including vegetation in piles

BUILDING SCHEDULES

Mondays: 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

Tuesdays: 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57

Wednesdays: 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63

Thursdays: 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70

Fridays: 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76

Handrails are wiped down, leaves blown out from in front of the buildings and dust off for spider webs and other insects.

ONCE A WEEK CLEANING SCHEDULE

Monday: Guard shack and bathrooms by the office

Tuesday: Blow out deck and around the pool area and then wipe down club house/ Bay pool area chairs

Wednesday: Wipe down all machines with soap and water, swifter and mop floors in both laundry-mats

Thursday: Wipe down Family pool furniture

Friday: clean all bathroom doors in and out

Sunday: Blow out racquetball area, swifter and mop laundry mats

ONCE A YEAR

They hard mop and clean the landings on the stairways with a deep clean. They use bleach and purple power.

Our new guards, Alex and Travis, have been trained in the fine art of vehicle inspection, and have

been outfitted with the appropriate attire and golf cart light for doing vehicle inspections during the

night hours. Please be sure that your permit is the right one (Owner, Tenant, Visitor), and that it is

affixed in the right place so that the guards can spot it easily.

PERMIT COLOR AND PLACEMENT

GREEN Owners Affix to inside lower left windshield, driver’s side windshield

PURPLE Tenants - Hang from rearview mirror, date facing out. If hard to see

because of tinted windows, tape to windshield under the rearview mirror

YELLOW Visitors- * Hang from rearview mirror while on property.

*Visitors include friends and family who stay with you 5 days or longer, and visitors who visit regularly, but just for a short time. If you have an infrequent visitor who is staying less than 5 days and they receive a parking citation, they can just ignore it. If you have a question about whether to get a Yellow Visitor’s Permit, just ask at the office.

RED -- No longer used for FT tenants. Use PURPLE tenant permit.

CARS WITH COVERS - Get an additional Permit from the office, laminated, with wire to attach to zipper or seam.

ALL VEHICLE OWNERS:

 You may not transfer a permit from one vehicle to another. Come to the office for a new permit,

and if you are replacing an old permit, there is no charge.

 Be sure to keep your car locked when parked on property!

WHAT DO GUARDS ISSUE CITATIONS FOR?

 Can’t see Parking Permit because it’s in the wrong place.

 No permit (includes cars with a covering but no visible permit).

 Permit out of date.

 Registration out of date.

 No license plate.

 Vehicle not operable

 Vehicle parked in a manner that impedes the maintenance of the property.

HOW TO REMEDY A CITATION?

 Go to the office! Open 10am to 4pm

 If you need a first-time permit, bring a $10 check or money order. No cash or electronic

transfers.

 If you need to replace an existing permit, there’s no charge.

 If you were cited for an out-of-date registration, no license plate, or the vehicle isn’t operable,

you will continue to get citations until you provide proof that the situation has been remedied.

 If you do not remedy the situation you will be towed after three warnings. All efforts will have

been made to locate and contact the owner before this happens.

The Security Committee 2024

Bermuda Bay is also requiring a bike registration if you park your bike in the racks. We have red stickers to go on the bikes. You share a description of the bike with the office, and a picture of your bike and cover would be beneficial as well. This is then recorded with a permit number on a spreadsheet. Bikes without registration will be purged at the end of every month. A lot of people just buy second hand bikes for the duration of their stay and then leave them in the rack to decay. By registering your bike, you get a FREE RED BIKE TAG. This will eliminate your bike from being removed. All bikes that are removed will be given away to charity. People have until the END OF FEBRUARY to register their bikes.

Courts & Sports are also starting a BIKE LOAN, for those of you that visit and miss using a bike to venture out and explore. It's in the formation stages, as they have a men's bike, but are still looking for a women's and child's bike. They will chain them all together on one of the bike racks and provide a text number for a few members of the committee who could unlock them and get the waiver signed. Ed Braham will maintain them during our winter season when they would be most utilized. You can inquire through the office.

The repairs on the West Gate started to take place on March 12, with Left Coast Construction boring a new pathway for the electrical conduit. The Electrical Connection will follow up with pulling the actual wiring to the guard shack. Fingers crossed!

The Landscaping Committee made $850 which will go towards their pool project. Many of our owners donated items for this sale, so it was quite a large one. We had volunteers that were owners, and several that are frequent snowbird renters. We need to celebrate these renters who joined right in to help. Check out everyone in their Bermuda Bay Swag!

Gail, from Landscaping, called the City of St. Petersburg Water/Utilities Department and spoke to one of their representatives. They confirmed that Bermuda Bay CAN WATER with reclaimed water on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, between 5-9am and 7-11pm.

ARC COMMITTEE - Jennie Creighton - jenniecreighton@tagpartners.org

Beach Restoration Committee - Kerry Morrison - Imzchef@comcast.net

Courts and Sports Committee - Robin Ward - Rifkasema@gmail.com

Environmental Committee - Vic Vena bigvic01@icloud.com

Kayak/Trailer and Boat Committee - Barbi Martinson boutfintime101@gmail.com

Landscaping Committee- Cindy Hansen cindyhansen.travel@gmail.com

Pool Committee - Cindy Vena cyvena@icloud.com

Preventitive Maintenance Committee - Meredith Borden mrkbdn@yahoo.com

Review Committee- Patti Brazil brazil.patty@gmail.com

Security Committee: Peg Daisley- MDaisley@msn.com

We are the Landscape Committee. Meet Cindy Hansen, temporary Chair, Barbi Martinson, Barb Barnard, Pam Burns, Carole Cole, Tracy Corbett, Gail Cunningham, Peg Daisley, Donna Dranchak, Tory Elvir, Joe Filipello, Judy Giammarco, Alan Gowen, Tim Grady, Dennis LeBlanc, Bob McNally, Virgil Minchella, Jan Rogers, Robin Ward, Cindy Welsh, Margaret Young, Janet Zierath and other wonderful people here at Bermuda Bay who also volunteer to work with us.

Right now our goal is to help and inspire owners to clean up their areas and to plant non-invasive plants as needed. We’ve been working on these smaller projects for quite a while and each little job makes Bermuda Bay a little more beautiful.

The big news…our Committee has been working on a fundraiser to raise money to update the

landscape around the pool area at the bay pool. Some of the things we’re talking about are installing a walking path along the seawall behind the pool and pool equipment area; replacing dead bushes/plantings around the pool equipment fence; configuring a paver walkway to bypass and protect the putting green; low, small bushes to keep bicycles and golf carts off the putting green; removing old bushes by pool gate, planting new bottle palms, flowering bushes and flowers to create a better and more gracious entrance to the pool. We’re anxious to start this make-over and will be putting out the call for volunteer labor on several different occasions.

As part of our fundraising, we have been selling t-shirts, wine glasses, hats, beach bags and can

koozies. We were also the beneficiary of half of the Art Marche proceeds, and full beneficiary of the

Masquerade party proceeds. We most recently held a Bermuda Bay tag sale and those funds will also be added to the pool project. We will also be setting up a Zelle account for the Landscape Committee for receiving donations to our projects. This Committee has an exciting vision and we will be doing everything we can to make Bermuda Bay look like the PARADISE it is. Please help us however and whenever you can.

The Bermuda Bay merchandise is now available for you to purchase directly from the office. Please go check out the merchandise and stand by for the Bermuda Bay front license plates due to arrive approximately the 25th of March.

So the news is that there is no formal social committee any longer. We tried to get someone to take over the leadership of this committee for several months to no avail. So in order for parties and social events to continue at Bermuda Bay we tried to come up with a solution that can work for everyone.

If you are an owner at Bermuda Bay and you want to host a party and use the Clubhouse/kitchen and upper deck for an event that will serve ALL OF BERMUDA BAY RESIDENTS, you can secure the facility with a REFUNDABLE $100.00 deposit. You will need to sign the rental agreement and then check out with the office after the party to get your money returned to you. Once you pay your deposit and sign the agreement - your event can be secured onto the calendar and email blasted out to the community. We feel with this manner, any Owner can host a party for the community and more people will have the opportunity to do so. We have some fantastic party planners in our community and we hope that they will continue to share their gifts and talents with the Association.

Nothing will change for individuals that want to host a private party. There will be a $100.00 rental fee and a refundable $300.00 deposit with a completed checkout by the office. This is a small way for Bermuda Bay to make a little money to put back into the clubhouse, keeping it fresh, workable, and stocked with items needed for the kitchen.

The numbers I am reporting are as of February 29, 2024

Bank Accounts

In total, we have bank balances of $797k.

Operating Account

The operating account balance is $196k.

With only two months of data, it is not practical to assess where we are with the budget. We do know that insurance will come in higher than planned.

Reserve Fund

The Reserve Fund currently has $273k in the bank.

The re-roofing of two buildings will start in early April. In addition, there were 15 buildings that required repair to satisfy City citations. Total cost is $89k.

Delinquencies

Delinquencies amounted to just over $30k.

Last month, I reported a delinquency total of $23k. That did not include $7k that relates to the 2022 Special assessment. The correct total for January was $30k. There was little change during February. Most of the accounts in arrears are relatively small amounts. The larger balances are with the attorney for collection.

Balcony Deposits

We have $273k in deposits from owners for extended balconies.

The collection of outstanding deposits for four units is under review with the attorney. If those owners do not respond in a timely manner, we will instruct the engineers to rework the applicable construction drawings and assess the owners for whatever costs we incur. Time is of the essence as the construction permits are starting to come in.

Here is the updated list of invasive plants not allowed at Bermuda Bay.

Here are some other educational links:

https://plantatlas.usf.edu/flip/

https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/us/florida

You are also encouraged to contact anyone on the Landscaping committee. Cindy Hansen, Gail Cunningham, Bari Martinson, and Barb Barnard. They are more than willing to assist with your questions and all your landscaping needs.

What is the Florida invasive species app?

IveGot1

IveGot1 allows for both online and offline reporting with reports saved on your phone for uploading when you have network connectivity. Images and information on Florida's worst non-native invasive animals and plants. Real-time point distribution maps centered on your current location.

The WORK ORDER system in the Condominium Associates (CA) web site is best way to report a repair that is needed (it's not for urgent or emergency matters). When you sign into your CA account, click on OWNER INFORMATION and you'll see that the last item on the drop-down menu is WORK ORDERS. The nice thing about this is you can attach photos, videos. You will be assigned a Work Order number and you can check in on it, and add further comments if necessary. Our property manager uses this work order system to become aware of maintenance issues, assign them to someone, and follow up on them. We know that it often seems like nothing is getting done, but without maintenance help, it is almost impossible to address the many work orders we have. Nevertheless, they are being prioritized and in the cue as soon as we have the staff and the money to address them.

Bermuda Bay Beach Condominium Association, Inc.

Our beautiful butterflies remind us of the miracle of new life and the process it takes to form and become a masterpiece. It made me think of all the projects here that are taking time to form...and the hope of completion at year's end. Every sunrise, every sunset, every neighborly smile, every nail going into our new construction, and even the birth of butterflies in our "Wildlife Sanctuary" reminds me of Hope! Even though progress has been slow, I pray that you see the progress made by all our volunteers, staff, owners, and board; and you can "hope" as well.

Email: bermudabaymgr@condominiumassociates.com
Website: https://condo.cincwebaxis.com/
Location: Bermuda Bay Beach and Racquet Club, 4201 38th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33711, USA
Phone: 727-864-0735
Twitter: @BermudaBayStP