June 2017 SaddleBrooke Communicator

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June 2017

Summertime = Road Work

Vivian Timian, General Manager he Replacement Reserve Schedule provides a maintenance plan for the common areas, buildings and roads. The road maintenance schedule requires a seal coat of each road in the community every five (5) years, based on the Robson transition documents. Crackfilling is required before the seal coat process in order to provide a uniform surface.

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Asphalt pavements are normally designed for traffic loading anticipated over a 20 year period.

This does not mean the pavement will last 20 years. Based on current nationwide data (even with preventative maintenance every five (5) years), pavements will deteriorate about 40% after approximately 12 years. In HOA #1, the average age of the pavements, requiring replacement or resurfacing, (based on the 24 major rehabilitation projects completed since 2004) was 21 years.

Our reserve schedule indicates that over the next twenty years we will be spending a total of $6.5 million, or an average of $325,000 annually or at a cost of $157 annually per household.

For 2017, SaddleBrooke One will be spending $153,252 on crack fill and seal coat work within the community. The areas to be seal coated during the months of June and July will be Units: 2 west, 4, 5, 7 & 21. The main roadways will also be done which include SaddleBrooke Blvd. west from the commercial market to Ridgeview Blvd. and the following sections of Ridgeview 3, 4, 5, 6 & 6A. Notifications for the seal coat work for the individual units will go out two (2) weeks prior to the start of the work. This will allow residents ample time to make adjustments to schedules, if necessary. Unit streets are typically done on Saturday and Sunday so there is no interruption to Waste Management pick-ups.

The Board of Directors has approved road work which will include milling, removing & replacing the asphalt in Units 2 east and 16, as well as SaddleBrooke Blvd east and the Activity Center parking lot.

The total cost of the paving projects for 2017 is $297,000.

Notifications for the paving work will go to the residents at least two (2) weeks prior to the start of the work. All milling and paving work will be completed during the weekdays, Monday-Friday.

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Summertime = Road Work . . . continued from Page 1 The first step of the process is to remove the asphalt in the roadway. A milling machine will be used to lift the pavement from the base and grind the asphalt for removal. Residents can drive on the dirt road (following the milling). Please watch for the cones on the water valves and manhole covers. It will take a total of three-four days to mill off the asphalt.

The next step in the process is grading the roadway—a maintainer will come in and ‘dress’ the dirt base. This is to ensure the water flows off the roadway correctly. The maintainer will be in the units immediately following the milling process. The maintainer will not block the roadways off but please drive slowly around the area watching for the workmen.

The last step in the process is to lay the asphalt down. Asphalt plants are open Monday-Friday not on the weekends. All paving will be completed Monday-Friday. The Association will notify all utility/ service companies (USPS, Orbitel, Waste Management, SW Gas and Lago Del Oro Water) of the work scheduled.

A special note of thanks to John LaBar, Chairman of the Property & Roads Committee. John has been involved in the road work specifications, bid processes and selection of vendors since 2004 at SaddleBrooke One. John spends several hours pulling the information together regarding the road work each year. We could not do this without you John—Thanks again!

Long May It Wave: Flag Day is June 14th. For the past 10 years, Jack Hacking has donated a new flag to the Association to be changed over on Flag Day to honor the country and the people that served. Thanks to Jack for his generosity and spirit on this day. If you know a veteran or first responder, please remember to thank them for their service.

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Daily Notes It's a beautiful day in SaddleBrooke!

It was quite a month . . . May 2017 1. Residents saw a young bear walking thru our property and reported it. Soon, Channel 4 News team was here to feature SaddleBrooke on their 5:00pm news show as the "lead in" segment, about six minutes in length including interviews with two residents and nice panoramas along with voice over. The bear has not been seen again.

2. Your President had two "Holes in One" in separate SMGA tournaments within two weeks. It's more likely to see a bear than that happening.

3. We welcome back, as contractors, former long time employees, Linda Irwin (former Executive Assistant), and Joe Jeric (former Facility Maintenance Technician). Linda will be preparing the Communicator and giving the ALC assistance; and Joe is our super painter who painted the fire hydrants and bollards.

4. The pipes and equipment you see around Ridgeview Blvd. is part of our phase 2 Irrigation Project on your golf courses. No assessment was applied as funds came from Reserves. This should be completed in August.

5. The rebuild of the Catalina Starter Building will be discussed at our next BOD meeting on June 22nd.

6. I have been told that "Sundance Ridge," just north of the Preserve, has been sold in its entirety to a nationally known home builder. (Not Robson) 7. Work has started again on the common areas of the SaddleBrooke Marketplace with infrastructure and curbing being placed. No word on Fry's Grocery start date.

8. The Board and Management thank everyone for the positive comments at our annual meeting. The overflow crowd was very welcome.

Until next month . . . . Jim (President Board of Directors) The Communicator • 3

"It's For the Birds" Jim Daily, Board President

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s you are walking our golf courses or playing golf, have you noticed something new? Like in about 100 new things?

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ou probably have seen what some people call "bird houses." The experts have named them "nesting boxes."

ur golf professional, Bernie Eaton, and our naturalist, Jim Cloer, have embarked on a new wonderful project to attract more birds to our HOA and give them a place to nest. Funded by the Ladies Golf Association and built and assembled by Dave Leary, there are nearly 100 nesting boxes installed to date in the desert areas on or in the confines of our three golf courses.

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hey have removable front doors secured by biodegradable golf tees which can be inserted/reinserted, as needed, to clean the nests. They are only "for the birds" not birdies.

Please help us welcome our new SaddleBrooke One residents.

NAME Thomas & Lavetta Torke Patrick & Mary Tlustos Kathryn Felber Gary & Medora Hardy Edward & Carol Schuster Michael Oaks & Maryanne Pucciarelli-Oaks Barbara Oldfield Virginia Ford Donald & Ann Symanski

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NAME Carl & Diane Rupp Robert & Deborah Batman William & Linnea Boaz Blanche Desjean-Perrotta Michael & Jane Kelly Jonathan & Katherine Atkins Robert & Joanne Gjere Mary Cannon

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SaddleBrooke One A Busy Summer Ahead

Mike Roddy, Golf Course Superintendent s the major golf events of the season reach conclusion, focus on the summer can begin. It will be another busy summer on the courses and for the Golf Maintenance Team. Below are some of the areas we will be focusing on: • Phase 2 of the Irrigation Replacement Project began in late April. This is a big project and work will extend into mid-August. Monitoring the contractor’s progress and getting the new sprinklers operational will be a daily responsibility for the Irrigation Team and supervisors.

• The cultural practice schedule that we have laid out is extensive. Core aerification of all turf areas has already begun, with fine turf areas receiving three (3) separate applications. Regular topdressing, v-cutting and spiking is also part of the summer activity. These cultural practices are essential to improving our turf growing environment and maintaining healthy turf.

• Cart path work is scheduled. This will include the replacement of selected areas of cart paths and drainage improvements to areas along some cart paths.

• Bunker sand sampling is scheduled to begin this summer, as we get closer to replacing bunker sand in the near future. Several different types of bunker sand will be installed in select bunkers.

This will give us an opportunity to observe the performance and receive feedback from golfers prior to any large scale decision making.

• Drainage work is also scheduled for several areas. Adding new subsurface pipe and/or re-grading work will be completed to help some of the smaller, poor draining areas.

• Tree planting work will also begin in late summer. New trees will be planted to replace trees that have died or been removed for safety. he entire team is looking forward to the summer and all the activities that we have scheduled for completion. We will keep you posted on our progress, as we move through the next few months. We all look forward to seeing you on the course.

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SaddleBrooke One CRASH

Ron Tuxbury, Patrol Manager SaddleBrooke Blvd. Traffic SaddleBrooke Blvd. is the busiest road in SaddleBrooke One, 10 to 12,000 vehicles per day travel on SaddleBrooke Blvd on week days and 8 to 9,000 per day on weekends.

The 100 yard section of SaddleBrooke Blvd going Eastbound from Desert Bluff to Mountain Sage has had 11 accidents in the last five years. This is by far the highest number of any similar section of road in SaddleBrooke One. There are a number of reasons why this section of SaddleBrooke Blvd is so dangerous: high traffic volume; entering and turning traffic into and out of the shopping plaza; traffic being squeezed from the wider county road that has bicycle lanes into our narrower roadway; the location of the Golder Ranch Fire Station. In order to slow traffic down as they enter SaddleBrooke One on SaddleBrooke Blvd, we have painted slow on the Eastbound roadway as you pass Desert Bluff, added a radar speed sign on the county road East of the MountainView Blvd. intersection and try to have one of our speed boards at the SaddleBrooke/Mountain Sage intersection most of the time.

Always remember to slow down and watch for entering and turning traffic when driving Eastbound on SaddleBrooke Blvd. into SaddleBrooke One. Golf Cart Speed Golf carts do not have most of the safety features that are built into autos today. They don’t have crash absorbing bodies, antilock brakes, speedometers or safety glass windshields. Some of the newer carts have seatbelts, but we seldom see them used. Up until a few years ago, most golf carts traveled at speeds of between 10 and 15 mph. Now, most golf carts are capable of speeds of 25 to 30 mph, double the speed of older carts. The increase in speed has come with very little additional safety protection. Some golf carts now have 4-wheel brakes and safety glass windshields, but no air bags or crash absorbing bodies. Because of their short wheel base and small tires, golf carts tend to tip over if they are forced to take any kind of evasive action. Carts traveling at over 20 mph are much more likely to tip over than carts traveling at speeds under 20 mph. Most of our serious golf cart accidents in SaddleBrooke One have happened when carts traveling over 20 mph have been forced to brake or take some form of evasive action, which resulted in the cart tipping over and the driver or driver and passenger being ejected from the cart.

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Safety Tip During the summer months, always remember to carry water with you wherever you go and be sure to drink at least 8 oz. (a glass) of water or some other hydrating beverage at least four times a day. If you are doing any strenuous work or exercise, you should double your normal fluid intake. Every year, some SaddleBrooke residents have to be taken to the hospital because they are dehydrated.

2016/2017 NOV STATISTICS for Violations

2017

2016

Speeding Stop Signs Handicap Parking RV Parking Other Parking

17 11 1 8 12 2 1 4 4 5 Totals 35 30 There were also 19 citations for speeding violations and 11 citations for stop sign violations issued by our Special Duty Traffic Control officers in March.

Fines Imposed

Violations Multiple or Flagrant Traffic 2nd Traffic in 12 Months Golf Course Walking/Dog Walking

$100 $50 $200

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2016

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SADDLEBROOKE ONE JUNE SCHEDULE REGULAR PICK-UP • Normal schedule - every Tuesday RECYCLE PICK-UP • Normal schedule - every Friday

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Those of you who follow James Patterson’s and Maxine Paetro’s Women’s Murder Club series will be happy to know 16th Seduction is ready for you. As I’m sure you have noticed, Patterson writes with many other authors and each is a different theme. Keep watching, as more will come.

Another author who writes a series is Jo Nesbo who has the Harry Hole stories. The detective is from Oslo as is Nesbo.

These are always chilling stories. The title of this latest book is The Thirst.

Do you remember The Girl on the Train? Scary wasn’t it?

Well, here comes author Paula Hawkins with a new story and it is called Into the Water. A woman is found at the bottom of a river. Her fifteen year old daughter is left alone and now her aunt must return to the area she left years before to look after her niece. The aunt vowed never to return to the town. What memories will this revive?

Fallout, by Sara Paretsky, takes her protagonist, V.I. Warshawski, to the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS. There are many twists and turns in this novel, but you will enjoy all of them.

The main character in Iris Johansen’s latest novel, No Easy Target, is Margaret Sullivan. If you have read Johansen’s Eve stories, you will remember her. This animal psychic is now working at the San Diego Zoo. She will become involved in trying to capture the man who once held her captive.

Dennis Lehane brings us Since We Fell. This is another psychological thriller about a woman who had an on-air mental breakdown. She now lives an ideal life with her ideal husband. Does this seem too good to be true? You are right. Nothing stays the same in stories or in real life.

If you like post-apocalyptic stories, The Boy on the Bridge

by M.R. Carey is for you. People have become infected by a fungus and our boy might be able to save the world.

If you are looking for something other than a mystery, you may want to read Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan. This is about two sisters who leave Ireland in the late 1950s for Boston. One is vivacious and the older one is dour. The younger one, Theresa, becomes pregnant and

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her older sister, Nora, agrees to raise the child as her own.

Eventually the sisters are reunited and we see what the dynamics of siblings are no matter what the generation.

There are other family relationships that can cause angst.

Try two adults who decide to live together. What could be better, except that, each has a teenage child who can only cause problems – sometimes funny, sometimes not? Read The Awkward Age by Francesca Segal and enjoy this modern novel.

Those interested in Democracy in our country and elsewhere need to read a book by this title written by Condoleezza Rice. Her background and thoughtfulness allow her a perspective look at successes and failures around the world.

Another worthwhile read is The American Spirit by David McCullough, a book of speeches by this honored historian and author. These two nonfiction books are must reads for those interested in US history and beyond.

Be sure and look for a copy of Book Pages which is a monthly publication to which all three SaddleBrooke libraries subscribe. This will be enjoyable to book club members and readers of all kinds. Look for it in the book rack on either side of the window, on the footstool with the magazines or on the hearth. Take one home and enjoy it.

Architectural & Landscaping Committee ALC Information Line: 917-3767 ALC Email: alcadmin@saddlebrooke.org ALC Secretary: Sarah Oberst All ALC forms, as well as exterior home color selections, may be accessed on the ALC webpage or in the Administration Office.

Meetings are 1st & 3rd Thursdays of the month 9:00am Bobcat Suite (Lower level of the SB One Clubhouse)

June Meetings June 1st June 15th

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SaddleBrooke One Summertime in SaddleBrooke One Dave Bishow, Food & Beverage Director/Executive Chef

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s the season draws to a close, the Food and Beverage Team begins to look forward to summer and the exciting opportunities it offers to both our year round residents for different types of dining options, as well as the opportunities for our staff to work with new and exciting spirits and cuisines.

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ur focus, behind the scenes, will be on improving our customer experience through ongoing training.

Our team will be going through specialized courses for our bar and service staffs, as well as our culinary team. For our bartenders and servers, we will be bringing in trainers to educate our team in general wine knowledge, as well as mixology. As for our culinary team, they will be going through courses on food handling and safety, minimizing waste and maximizing profit and food quality. The goal behind these courses is to be able to offer a customer service experience with high quality food and service that you can be proud of.

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lso, June brings back ½ price desserts!!!! All of your favorite desserts will be half priced . . . all summer long! We will also be looking to bring you some fun new events throughout the summer like the Italian Food Festival, spirit tastings and so much more. Please watch the Happenings, as well as the newflashes for details.

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rom the entire Food and Beverage staff, we want to thank you for your continued support and feedback. We look forward to seeing you soon.

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SaddleBrooke One Fitness Center Sheryl Nugent, Coordinator

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SaddleBrooke One

New Chandeliers & Sconces for the Clubhouse Chris Romiti, Operations Manager

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he upstairs of the Clubhouse received new chandeliers and sconces last month. All of the old chandeliers and sconces were taken down and replaced with updated pieces with the same design to keep continuity throughout the upstairs. Before these fixtures were installed, there were four different fixture styles.

The new fixtures use LED bulbs that give off 20% more light for 60% less cost. The lifespan of LED bulbs is 50,000 hours compared to 1,000 hours of our old incandescent bulbs.

The House Committee was shown fixtures from three different vendors. It was almost an immediate unanimous decision to go with the fixtures that we purchased. The fixtures were not only under budget, but their contemporary look fit into the style the Committee was looking for.

New Fixtures

Old Fixtures

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$99*

*STA RTIN G AT PER M O PER P NTH $99 ERSO N

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