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| OHCC LIVING | JULY 2021 | 7 By Scott Lemieux, CPS Director Greetings OHCC residents and staff. This month's article is about the Knox Box. The Knox Box is a product that provides first responders the ability to access your home in the event of an emergency without forcibly entering. The ability to do so potentially prevents hundreds or thousands of dollars of damage in the process. The Knox Box is an emergency key access device that allows all EMS, fire and police agencies responding to an emergency to quickly and safely access a key to your home, saving valuable time in providing emergency assistance when you may need it the most. A master access key is available on each ambulance, fire truck and police patrol vehicle allowing responding agencies to open the Knox Box to retrieve your house key. Please keep in mind that Community Patrol Services DOES NOT retain nor have access to a master access key to open any Knox Box, only EMS, fire and police agencies retain a master access key. The Knox Box can be mounted directly to the exterior wall or via the door hanging model. For more information on the Knox Box and to determine if it's a product that would be a valuable to you, please visit their website at https://www.knoxbox.com/. Community Patrol Services Golf Course Renovation & Well Conversion Report By Don Lopez, Golf Course Irrigation Committee Chairman I have been working for nine years to finally write this article. Congratulations and thank you to all the voters, the Golf Irrigation Committee, Golf Course Renovation Committee, Golf Standing Committee, Keystone Pacific, VDLA, Morgan Golf, Candyl Golf, and Coast 2 Coast Consulting to bring all these moving parts together to achieve this magnificent result for OHCC. I would like to especially thank our voters who had to expend the effort to educate themselves on all the details about the storage lake, the well conversion, the irrigation replacement, and the renovation of the greens and tees. After expending that effort, you were able to cast an informed vote to approve the lake and the well conversion. Thank you and congratulations to the association, which means all of you. There were 1226 valid votes, with 1042 yes votes, for an overwhelming 85 percent approval. That is a wonderful result for our first-ever Capital Improvement Election with our new restated CC&Rs and Bylaws. This all started in 2012 when Dennis Lady, Doug Wright, Bob Barnes and myself planned a Design-Build replacement of the Lanai. We got the figures from three contractors in 2013 and realized we could never have a Capital Improvement Election with our old governing documents. I was disappointed and volunteered immediately to form the committee to completely restate our governing documents. The Master Board, with Angela Takemoto as President, fully supported the effort in order that we might be able to renovate and replace our assets when it became necessary to do so. In 2014 and 2015, we completed that restatement and the voters approved them by an 81 percent approval. The Court formally approved the remaining item, and they became effective in 2016. We could never have had a well, a lake, or a well conversion under the old governing documents. Therefore, I want to salute the wisdom of our OHCC voters on both ground-breaking elections. Well done to you one and all. We started the effort to renovate the golf course soon after that. We started by trying to identify the water source. We eventually found out that reclaimed water was too many years off. It was expensive, and therefore not practical. That is how we got to this place with our own well. Now that we have the approval to proceed, we need to establish a schedule with the HOA, VDLA, and Candyl Golf to complete the renovation. We need to arrange installation of the electrical service, the required pumps for the well, the pumps for the storage lake, the lake construction, and the needed piping to connect it all. In addition to those new items, they still need to complete the renovation of all the greens and tees on all 18 holes, complete the replacement of the irrigation lines for the fairways, rough, and landscaped areas, and the completion of the irrigation lines for the potable water for the tees & greens. All those items now need to be combined into one schedule. We will update the schedule on the website when it is developed over the next few weeks. The HOA and Candyl Golf had to wait to order all these items until the Capital Improvement Election was final. Thanks to all of you, the cloud of the unknown election result has been removed, so the planning can be more complete. We will upload pictures of the progress on the golf course renovation onto the website as they become available. We will keep you informed of the progress on this critical project.

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