The perfect storm



R.I.P.
Photo by Jason Szenes

Irene, a 500 mile wide 115 m.p.h. hurricane was downgraded to a 65 m.p.h. tropical storm when it landed in N.Y. on Saturday evening. Fortunately Village View had no damage other than to some of our original residents, the trees. With all the cataclysmic prophecies by the media my plans to surf twenty foot waves on the Hudson, snorkel the ruins of Wall Street, and fish for porgies from my 11th story balcony had to be canceled. This was probably the most boring storm ever, but in the end it was perfectly alright.

Village View Party

Village View hosted a party to celebrate the opening of the upgraded playground between buildings 1 and 2. Hot dogs, ice cream, pretzels, and drinks were served and the weather was perfect.

Some children were enjoying their ice cream on the rock wall.

While some of the bigger kids pretended to be serving hot dogs.

Some waited to enjoy the slide.

While others waited to enjoy a pretzel.

All those who attended were in agreement that the park is a perfect place to bring your children, and hoped Village View would have more parties like this one. A special thanks to Board Member Rick Pamias for his work in making this possible.

Clipping the garden committee

Why did Dan vote no for the motion to allocate $5000. to the garden committee? The simple answer is they requested $3,500. and had $1,962. cash on hand. The fact is the garden committee budget is solely for materials since their labor is voluntary. The extra money means one of two things. 1) They will carry some over to next year like the $1,714. they did previously. 2) They will buy extra materials, and then have to perform the extra work associated with it like digging, planting, and fertilizing. We owe them a great deal of thanks, not extra work. That is unless you plan on volunteering and help them out.

P.S. I would have approved $3,500. as I believe they carefully evaluated their budget needs and the physical labor involved . They can also make a request at any time for more funds should the need arise.

Comment by Board Member Daisy Klein;  I agree with you-and should have voted with you. I am so impressed by the work done by the garden club that I got carried away. In the future, I believe there should be a brief discussion before we vote on something so people have a chance to voice their reservations with any issue.