New Garage Door

In March this year, garage door #3 (the garage door leading to the 880 building) broke, and the door had to be left open all the time, while waiting for repair.

In April, the garage door was fixed by Burrell Overhead Door Ltd. The new door is a white one now, different from the other two garage doors (and the old one).

The repiar cost was about $4,700 (including tax). Since the garage door belongs to shared facilities among the three corporations (MTCC 1113, MTCC 1132, and TSCC 1446), and there are 500 units in total in the three corporations, each unit spends on the average less than $10 in this repair.

The new garage door uses a different trigger mechanism, so it appears to be less responsive than the old garage door. Drive carefully, and a little bit more patience would much appreciated.

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Names and Numbers 2009

All three condominium corporations in the Grandview Way residential complex use the one and same management office. The property management function was contracted out to DEL Property Management.

The people working in the management office are:

Property Manager:	Michael Doherty
Administrative Assistant:	Maggie Yim
Address for service:	126 Grandview Way
Phone:	416-224-2373

The phone number for the gatehouse is: 416-529-6489.

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The three corporations have had their Annual General Meetings (AGM) in June and July this year.

The Casitas at Northtown (MTCC #1113) had two incumbent candidates running for two positions on the Board of Directors. All candidates were re-elected. These are the members of the Board of Directors for MTCC #1113 for the coming year, and each director also holds an office in the corporation:

President:	Hamzeh Roumani*
Secretary:	Cathy Vendramin
Treasurer:	Alan Tam
1st Vice-President:	Amy Choi*
2nd Vice President:	Debby Nathanson
*Also serves as a representative to the Shared Facilities Committee.

Source: AGM package and "Board meeting highlights."

The 88 Grandview Way (MTCC #1132) also had two incumbent candidates running for two positions on the Board of Directors. All candidates were re-elected. These are the members of the Board of Directors for MTCC #1132 for the coming year, and each director also holds an office in the corporation:

President:	Susan Stormes*
Secretary:	Stephen Douglas
Treasurer:	Brian Ho*
1st Vice-President:	Sandra Sanguinetti
2nd Vice President:	Taraneh Foyle
*Also serves as a representative to the Shared Facilities Committee.

Source: AGM package et al.

The 880 Grandview Way (TSCC #1446) surprisingly had four candidates running for two positions on the Board of Directors.

It is very rare, possibly unheard of, that in condominium corporations there are more candidates than available positions on the Board of Directors. Most typically, condominium corporations have great difficulties in finding people to fill the vacancies on the Board. This, perhaps, may be a good sign as more people are getting more enthusiastically involved in managing the affairs of their own condo. After all, it's their homes.

Among the four candidates, only one was an incumbent: Thomas Kwong. The second candidate, David Grader, the former President, resigned in 2008 and declared his candidacy again in 2009. The third candidate, Bill Kay, was a recent new owner to the 880 building.

The candidacy of these three candidates were made known to unit owners in the AGM package which also included their resumes. However, only the resumes of Thomas Kwong and David Grader were translated into Chinese by the Management Office. Bill Kay later confirmed that he was never asked whether he would like his resume translated into Chinese. "I definitely would like my resume in Chinese," he added.

The fourth candidate, Audrey Wai, declared her candidacy at the Annual General Meeting, at which she handed out her resume in English. She was a member of the board for the 880 building since the inception of the bulidng in 2002. She resigned in 2007 to go back to school.

After election, these are the members of the Board of Directors for TSCC #1446 for the coming year, and each director also holds an office in the corporation:

President:	David Yung*
Secretary:	Simon Li*
Treasurer:	Johnny Hui
1st Vice-President:	Thomas Kwong
2nd Vice President:	Audrey Wai
*Also serves as a representative to the Shared Facilities Committee.

Source: AGM package, Annual Genreal Meeting and notice posted in the lobby.

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Visitor delayed calling

The current procedure dealing with visitors in cars are like this:

When visitors in cars come to visit residents of Grandview Way, they have to stop at the gatehouse, tell the security guard which building and unit number they are visiting. The security guard then has to call the unit to get confirmation that they are expecting the visitors. Once confirmed, the gate-arm is open to let the car pass through to visitor parking.

Sometimes no-one in the unit answers the phone. This could happen for a number of reasons. Perhaps the visitors show up a bit early, and the resident is running some errands nearby but not at home. It could also be that the resident is not expecting visitors but the visitors just show up. The visitors may ask the security guard to try some other phone number (such as a cell phone number). This delays the processing, and if more visitor cars arrive, the cars could queue up and spill onto Doris Avenue, and you probably have seen such a situation.

As you may know, Doris Avenue is currently being extended from Byng Avenue to Finch Avenue as a bypass route for Yonge Street traffic. The construction is scheduled to complete before the end of this year. Then the traffic will be expected to be heavier than now. If visitor cars queue up and spill onto Doris Avenue, traffic would be messy and even dangerous.

The Shared Facilities Committee has decided to implement a new “delayed calling” procedure on a trial basis:

During rush hours (4pm to 7pm, Mondays to Fridays, holidays excepted), visitors cars after giving the building and unit number they are visiting, will be let through to the visitor parking so as not to clog up the entrance. As soon as when it is less busy, the security guard will then call the unit to confirm that their visitors are legits.

This new “delayed calling” procedure has already been in effect since July on a trial basis until September this year when it will be reviewed. A notice is supposed to have been put up to inform residents the change of new procedure.

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