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| OHCC LIVING | MAY 2021 | 7 By Scott Lemieux, CPS Director This month's article will focus on hazards that accompany spring and summer. As the temperatures begin to warm, the types and numbers of safety-related risks increase. With regard to the environment, the threat of heat- related illnesses increase as temperature rises. Please remember to stay hydrated regardless of your activity level or amount of exertion. Symptoms of a heat-related illness include, but are not limited to, dizziness, profuse sweating, nausea, headache, fainting, severe sunburn, muscle cramps or spasms. If you believe you're experiencing the effects of a heat-related illness please, call 9-1-1 for immediate assistance. Other potential threats within OHCC during the spring and summer season are wildlife: rattlesnakes, coyotes, gopher snakes, bobcats, black widows and brown recluse spiders. Please be aware of your surroundings and call the Front Gate or San Diego Humane Society's Project Wildlife for assistance at (619) 299-7012. On a separate note, I have received a number of inquiries regarding CPS's "Lift Assists" policy. I'd like to take this opportunity to address this important service that CPS is responsible to provide. CPS' Post Orders, one of two guiding documents CPS operates from states as follows: "Officers are allowed to assist residents if they can get up on their own power. Officers must not lift residents that are unable to get up on their own power. The resident should call emergency services to assist them in getting up and to check them for injuries. Officer should inform the resident that there are no charges for emergency services to lift a resident. If the resident has fallen and cannot get up, officers should try to make the resident as comfortable as possible and treat for any abrasions or lacerations, and call 9-1-1, from the resident's home, to request emergency services." This guidance is for the safety of both residents and the responding CPS officer in order to prevent injury. Additionally, if the resident hits their head then the procedure is to call 9-1-1 in order for EMS to properly evaluate the resident for a more serious injury. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me with specific concerns. Community Patrol Services Golf Course Renovation Report By Don Lopez As we pointed out in the April article, we started construction on March 22. By May 1 when you read this article we will have approved the designs for holes 1, 2, Putting Green, Chipping Green, 9, 6, 7, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 18. The rest will follow in groups of three and four holes. The advantage of a Design Build approach is that we can make needed adjustments as we go in order to account for unanticipated conditions we encounter during construction. So that you can have confidence in our approach, you should know each group of designs for the various holes are all examined and approved by the Golf Course Irrigation Committee, and the Golf Standing Committee in a meeting with Morgan Golf, Candyl Golf and VDLA before they go to the Board for approval. We are moving in a timely fashion, but we are being thorough and obtaining approval from our golfers as we go through the process. Our base contract price is $2,426,003 excluding the well conversion. That compares very favorably with the bid we had in 2015 from Cary Bickler, a well- known San Diego golf course architect, for $2,049,850. We are only 18 percent over that figure which is only 3 percent per year inflation. That is, incidentally, exactly the same inflation figure we use for our entire reserve system. So this differential is right in line with our other asset replacements and renovations. That is good news considering all the price increases we have had in the last five months because of the pandemic induced dislodgements of some of our suppliers. Several of them are out-of-business, and the new ones cannot honor last year's pricing. The price from Cary Bickler did not include the well either, so it is a direct comparison. The well conversion will add several hundred thousand dollars to the total. We will cover that cost and the Return On Investment (ROI) at the Town Hall Meeting in May. The final costs are coming in soon. There are several moving parts with pumps, electrical contractors and electrical services from SDG&E. SDG&E is the slowest source of costs, as you can well imagine. In the April article I mentioned that the construction would be moving faster than we can relate in this magazine. We are now adding a new tab on the menu bar of the website to include the following: Costs Spreadsheet, pictures of on-going construction, design plans, a copy of the agreement between Ocean Hills Country Club and Candyl Golf, and change orders as they occur. You can now follow the renovation progress in a more timely fashion as it occurs. As you know, we are now in the Orange Tier which means we can have residents in Abravanel Hall when we have the meeting. We don't know all the details yet from the County Health Dept., so I can't say how many residents that will be. We will notify you as soon as possible when the meeting will be held and all the pertinent details. Isn't it exciting that we can be talking about meeting together in our great hall to discuss anything? However, it is even more exciting that we can discuss this fantastic renovation of our most precious asset together.

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