The Jupiter Bay Board of Directors has accepted the resignation of Paul St. Clair, the Association’s Treasurer.  The Board acknowledges Paul’s outstanding contributions and service as a team member and Treasurer over the last 3-4 years.

The BOD has asked Paul to assume an interim assignment of 4-6 months as Senior Manager responsible for all functions, operations and personnel at Jupiter Bay.  This is effective December 1, 2011 as we renew our search for a Property Manager.  Paul will have direct responsibility for all office administration, maintenance and security.  Paul will focus on managing and organizing daily activities, staff training, vendor/expense management, and adding resources where needed to improve staff effectiveness in supporting the community.  He will assure that Jupiter Bay has appropriate structure to meet future needs.

Spencer Bickel will assume the additional responsibility of Treasurer until the election of Directors at the next annual Association meeting.

We look forward to these assignments in upgrading our support to the community as we move forward.  Paul will report to Jupiter Bay’s President and Vice President.

During the month of September, a few Jupiter Bay East owners sent emails to the Board of Directors listing a number of their concerns with the restoration/spalling work and resulting special assessment.  The BOD responded to these inquires in detail.

However, not satisfied with our response, these owners engaged legal counsel stating that this project was ill founded based on false or inaccurate information from our contractor resources.  The BOD researched these concerns with our engineering and construction vendors and provided an in-depth reply to the attorney letter covering all of the complaints.

Again, not satisfied, the owners had their attorney file a complaint to the Town of Jupiter.  This resulted in a work stoppage for approximately 4 days.  Several Board members met with Jupiter Building Department representatives in mid October to resolve this matter.  Based on the discussion at the meeting and the inspection reports, the Town rescinded the Stop Work order.

This process cost the Association attorney fees, engineering fees, construction delays, owner misinformation, and a great deal of BOD/office staff time.

We are always open to owner suggestions and encourage them as resources for recommendations and solutions to issues.  However, there is owner accountability and responsibility when creating a situation that negatively impacts our community and costs the Association unnecessary expense.

This summer Superior Fire Protection, Inc. inspected all of the sprinkers in East buildings A, B & C.  They found significant corrosion of the sprinkler heads of the patios of most of the units.  In addition approximately 16 owners had damaged sprinkers within their units.  Letters were sent out to the impacted owners, notifying them that the heads within their units will need to be replaced by Superior Fire at the owner's expence.

The Association is funding the replacement of the patio sprinklers.  Superior Fire Protection, Inc., along with one of our staff, will enter the units to access the patios to remove old sprinklers and replace them with new ones required to meet code.  If you have any questions or concerns please call the office.  (11/06/11)

The six West buildings and four East buildings have all experienced faded/stained paint, stucco deterioration and cracked/missing caulking.  As a result the Association had obtained bids from three painting contractors and selected Coastal Painting & Waterproofing to repaint all ten buildings.  The four Plantation Villas were more recently repainted and are excluded.  Coastal had the lowest bid, $130,771 for the West and $105,291 for the East, and they're the company that painted our building the last time.  Work began on the West buildings in mid-August and was compled in October.  Painting of the East buildings is now underway.  Our goal is to complete most or all of the painting prior to peak season.  (11/06/11)

The Jupiter Bay Condominium Association's accounting and bookkeeping functions are now being performed by Accurate Bookkeeping Systems, Inc.  In addition to our bookkeeping functions, ABS is performing account reconciliations, journal entries, and monthly financial reporting.  They are interfacing with our attorney for collections and will be directly interfacing with our auditor.  The firm is located in Tequesta and has been in business for over twenty years.

Owners who have questions regarding their account should contact Accurate Bookkeeping Systems directly, from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM Monday through Friday, at:

(561) 747-2323

(4/20/10)

This Website contains many pages of valuable information accessible only to Jupiter Bay owners.  Security is provided through use of a User ID (Email Address) and Password provided to owners via email.  Consequently, if we don't already have your email address, please provide it so that we can send you the ID and password for accessing the secured sections of the site.  One way to provide this is through the "Contact Us" page of this Website.  Also, we encourage you to use the "Contact Us" page to indicate your preference to receive future Association correspondence electronically rather than through the US Mail.  (8/01/09)