Sunday afternoon personal

This is the space they want to convert into offices. I just happened to run into one of the board members as I was taking the photos. He's acting like it's a done deal, but I said, this has to be approved by a majority of the owners - right? - and that I didn't vote for it. He said the reason there are no longer couches in the space is that homeless people were getting into the building and sleeping on them. (He said he had to run some of them out himself.) (He lives on that floor.) Which begs the question: How are homeless people getting into the building when we have security people 24 hours and cameras everywhere? Sounds like a failure of the security system and not a reason to reconfigure the space. The board member said there would be an office on one side and a conference room on the other, with glass construction. Hmmmm. We'll see about that.

Oh, and he called the area "a dead space." It's only "dead" because, as you see, they've stripped it bare.

This guy conducted the meeting yesterday morning, and he's not even the president. (The president sat there, listening.) He was talking about how we couldn't afford to revamp the gym because we're owed $95,000 in delinquent maintenance fees. But he didn't even talk about this project, much less how much it would cost to install glass walls and how we would pay for it. It's remarkable to see how he regards this project as a given, considering that a majority of the owners have to give the go-ahead for it. It would be against state law to ramrod this through without the owners' approval; otherwise the proposal would not have been put on a ballot. I'm just one vote against it and will have to live with the results, but this has to be done properly.

[Later] The more I think about things, like the story about the homeless sleeping on the couches (and thus the area on the 4th floor being emptied out), the fishier this all sounds.

Even later, I wrote an email to the president of the association, as follows:

Hi-

Today I ran into XXXXXXXX on the 4th floor.  He said the couches had been removed because homeless people were sleeping on them.  If this is true, how are homeless people getting into the building?  Sounds like a HUGE problem with our security.

(No answer back.)