The Newsletter of the Edgewater Beach Apartments December 2014 FROM THE PRESIDENT Join me in congratulating our Tiburcio Gonzalez and Gerardo Lopez on their recent What a fall it’s been for the Edgewater Beach promotions to Chief Engineer and Assistant Apartments! With almost perfect weather, Chief Engineer, respectively. Their many the garden was active with EBA residents years of service and resulting familiarity with playing, grilling, dining and socializing. A the EBA and its systems will benefit us all in highlight was the Social Committee’s the future as they lead our continuing efforts Oktoberfest party, an all-EBA-volunteer effort to improve our building. – many thanks to Dan Stanzel and the Social Committee. Thanks to all shareholders for your patience as we near completion of our final phase of In addition, our historic building and lakefront the door replacement project and speed neighborhood have garnered much media toward our LSE Final Inspection by the City attention in recent months. TimeOut of Chicago. Chicago magazine named the EBA the 10th most beautiful building in Chicago, and also The EBA Officers, General Manager named Edgewater (using a picture of the Rousseve and Board are working hard this EBA!) the most underrated neighborhood in Budget season, reviewing the new Reserve Chicago (and Logan Square as the most Study (our first in 10 years) and planning for overrated). The Reader recently featured 2015 and beyond. I’m hopeful that the Board the EBA in its “Space” column, with many will be able to find a way to begin not only photos and an online video. needed building projects (like plumbing), but also the long-awaited interior improvement Finally, our Benjamin Marshall beauty was a hallway project. Please support your Board highly popular destination on the October and encourage them to continue to improve 18th and 19th Chicago Architecture our wonderful building. Foundation’s Open House Chicago event. (See Pat Anderson’s article in this issue for Finally, please join me in thanking our the particulars.) Many thanks and kudos to dkCondo managment staff (Katharine, Pat Anderson and the enthusiastic group of Giorgio and Robin) for all of their hard work volunteers for a great event that will surely and efforts over the past year to improve our bring positive attention to the Edgewater building. They have risen to the monumental Beach Apartments! challenge presented them last November, and their combined efforts on our behalf are making progress and are greatly appreciated. And, we cannot thank our loyal and dedicated building staff enough for their permissible until further notice. good work to make the EBA our wonderful Please remove tires, carts, boxes, bicycles home. Please acknowledge them with your by cars and all other items you are storing in thanks during the Holiday Season and the garage. Bikes are only permitted in the please remember them generously when our secured storage area in the garage (except Holiday Fund box is placed in the lobby. children's bikes and toys can be placed in Have a wonderful Holiday Season! the storage shed by the playground). Please put your bikes in the designated garage Bill Johnson storage even if there is not sufficient rack space. FROM MANAGEMENT Thank you for your cooperation in removing your personal items promptly. The EBAC Board has instructed us to remove and My entire staff joins EBAC Board President dispose of anything left in the common areas Bill Johnson in congratulating Tiburcio and on December 3, 2014. Unfortunately, there Gerardo on their well-deserved promotions. will be no exceptions, and we will not be able to store belongings for later retrieval. Life Safety Evaluation (LSE) As you know we are well underway with the Plumbing reminders: final phase of the LSE project. As required Draino or other caustics are not permitted as by the City, we are undertaking work that these types of products damage EBAC enhances your safety and protects your pipes. Please call or enter a work order in investment including upgrades to the Building Link for our maintenance team and emergency enunciator system, firecaulking they are typically able to resolve clogs. openings, new fire rated doors in the However, if conditions require referring you stairwells and other locations, removal of to an outside source, staff may suggest the apartment screens and louvre doors, type of service provider you should contact. checking and repairing or replacing as Kitchen disposals are not permitted per necessary both apartment door closers and EBAC Rules and Regs. Your Proprietary smoke alarms, etc. The new doors at the Lease requires you to flush all drains end of each hall are primed but will most frequently to prevent back-ups. Please use likely be unpainted until the Aesthetics a strainer in the kitchen sink to catch food Committee is further along in its plans. debris and in the bath sinks to prevent hair and other clogs. Please inform us As required by EBAC Rules, we request your immediately if you notice any problems with immediate and full compliance with Fire any of your plumbing and/or radiators. Staff Code by removing all personal items from will assess conditions, and if able to repair EBAC common areas including items placed will do so or will recommend the type of in front and rear halls, the garage, and items service provider you should contact. not secured in locked cages in the storage rooms. Nothing should be stored in any Winter Weather Is Here common area. Please note that this is an Those of you traveling this winter for an on-going Fire Code requirement, not just part extended stay should notify Robin when you of upcoming the LSE inspection. plan to leave and return and provide contact information so that we can reach you in an Fire Code is designed for your safe emergency. You may also want to provide an emergency egress so it prohibits tripping alternate emergency contact who is able to hazards like shoes and/or rugs and other assist in an emergency. Don’t forget to make personal items in the hallways. However, provisions for mail and paper retrieval. small seasonal decorations attached to the Please remember to be cautious walking front door per EBAC Rules and Regs are 2 and/or driving as icy conditions are caused by the Corp.) including damage to approaching. Please also close and lock décor, paint, walls and floors, appliances, your windows (and doors) and leave your equipment and other furnishings and radiator(s) on a minimal setting to protect personal property. HO4, renter’s coverage, your pipes and prevent damage to other does not interface with the Corp’s policy. apartments. While your homeowners' insurance policy will provide coverage in the Lobby Decorum event of a claim, no one wants to come Several shareholders have brought to my home to damage that could have been easily and the Board's attention that the lobby is prevented. It's a good idea to be sure that increasingly being used as a place to your homeowner's insurance policy is up to socialize for extended periods. We date and provides you as Shareholder with respectfully request that residents who wish appropriate coverage. We have found that to meet and greet for extended some Shareholders need to review your conversations either proceed to the coverage with your insurance broker so that Mezzanine Level, to the Scarborough Room, you have the correct homeowner’s, not or to your individual apartments when renter’s, insurance in appropriate amounts inclement weather does not permit use of the for your specific needs. beautiful EBAC gardens. JMB, EBAC's broker, recommends that On behalf of dkCondo and my management EBAC require an HO6 policy from all team, we thank you for the opportunity to Shareholders, but please either contact JMB help guide EBAC over the past year and look to obtain homeowner’s coverage or consult forward to providing continued service. your insurance agent for coverage levels appropriate for your needs. We recommend May you and yours enjoy this holiday season you purchase HO6 Unit-Owners Policy that and every day the warmth of cherished covers the real property interest and the friendships, the deep peace rooted in loving personal property of insureds who share respect, and the satisfaction and joy of ownership interest in a cooperative building creating a better world!!! or own a unit in a condominium. HO6 also provides personal liability coverage and Katharine Rousseve dkCondo, Agent medical payments coverage. This form is similar to a single family home HO3 policy in many ways but provides less real property coverage since it is designed to coordinate coverage with a master policy purchase by NEW SHAREHOLDERS the cooperative or condominium association to insure the structure and common areas. David Clark 412 EBAC maintains coverage for the common area. Shareholders must purchase a policy Shawn King 224 that covers personal liability and compensa- tory damages to everything within your unit Martha Watterson and starting from the paint on the walls and to Ralph Hoffman Jr. 917 damage in other apartments caused by the Shareholder, non-Shareholder residents, Ronald and Susan Sub-Lessees, and pets, guests, employees Hahn Reizner 141 and agents of the Shareholder, non- Shareholder residents and Sub-Lessees. Stephen Weiss 1702 Your HO6 policy covers damage caused within your apartment, regardless of the Shareholder’s fault (except for damage 3 The following Shareholders passed away lobby with additional details. It's a grand during 2014 event and we hope to see you there. Mary Flanagan Dan Stanzel Anna Howardton ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION TOUR Adelaide Brennen (former shareholder) On October 18th and 19th you may have noticed a “few” extra people in the lobby, Catherine Cameron (former shareholder) arcade and pool terrace.