Monday, April 27, 2015
No show
No movie today
I went to a condo board budget meeting instead.
We needed to review the cash situation for the remaining 6 months in our fiscal year. Some funds got slotted for other categories.
Our income is fixed with the owners fees paid per month.
In our case we are not spending as much as planned so we took a bunch of money and put it into drought amelioration measures. Take out some flowers here, replace some turf with gravel there.
We will get an OK for our recommendations at the next board meeting.
We are an "old" condo development which had/has a lot of landscaping in and around it.
All of this takes water which used to be abundant.
We must quickly change over what we can to be more drought resistant. In some instances, plants are OK if they are wisely pruned and limited in their water use.
The State has mandated a 35% cut in consumption. We have reached about 25% and need to go even further.
We have no control over residential usage. They all have their own water meters.
I saw a guy out with a hose watering his brown lawn which is not his. It is ours. People are a little nuts out here.
