Why not create a post for questions owners have for the boards?
George Earl had a question regarding cost of weekly unit cleaning.
The question was placed under the subject of costs at "Coconut Bar"
our poolside refreshment counter with a seating area.
I do not wish to make this a center for complaints of smalltalk for
individual one time mishaps, nothing personal at all to reach the board
in one easy step.
I appreciate George's question as a valid, not way out, question to ask
the board. Our annual budget no longer has the visibility it had in our earlier years, specially with our new partners participation in the running of our Resort.
It is very expensive to have someone else do the work we did by our own associations personnel internally in the old days. The only Hilton (Our Management Contractor)representative is Cris Caine. I am sure all maintenance, repairs, cleaning and front office work is contracted out on a percentage pay base higher, and more costly than in house management could do by itself.
This is not a complaint, I am sure the job is in good hands with our sub contractors, "the Partners" that Mariner sold out to at the owners expense, with a large loss of equity in the previous ownership as started by Mariner.

I have raised the question about another hidden cost for the owners.
Mariner should never have sold our pool to a restaurant, the unit owners
should have kept the pool in order to maintain the object for buying a unit.
How can we operate our units without offering ownership in the pool.
Restaurant guests are not normally dining out with a swim in the pool?

The cost of operating our pool was always a big issue on previous boards
that included necessary "caps" on cost increases, and that was even an internal controllable expense including heating, cleaning, ph control, and maintenance. Do we now have any say at all in the timing of closing for repairs, cost control of improvements, control of the use of the pool and so on. Does this fall on Cris to control on behalf of our association owners of two bedroom units, and what is paid by the one bedroom units? How much is Thistle Lodge involved on an annual base?

Do we have a cost pr unit week for using the pool, and how much is it?
All I recall is it was higher than the weekly cost of unit cleaning.