[Goldwingnut]

Originally Posted by John_W

Some of those items sound more like maintenance. For example on my almost 8 year old CYV there is $450 added on my annual tax/bond bill for maintenance. I don't believe amenity fees covers maintenance. Flower beds and grass replacement don't sound like amenity items. Others probably have better insight.

John,
There are maintenance in the amenities budget. For example, the areas around the pools have landscaping and building maintenance associated with them that comes out of the Amenities budgets. The gatehouses are also amenities, so the flowers and landscaping around them are covered by the Amenities budget while the landscaping at the other lane divisions and center of the traffic circle are covered under the Project Wide Fund.

The maintenance assessment that is included in your annual property tax bill covers the maintenance of your CDD properties such as the villa roads, landscaping in cul-de-sac islands, and other common areas that belong to your district. A substantial portion of the CDD budget goes into the Project Wide Fund which takes care of most of the maintenance items throughout the various districts (south of CR466).

It's difficult to see when and where one begins and the other ends because of the common maintenance contracts that are written and executed. It works in all of our's favor that it is done this way; it becomes a bookkeeping issue instead of a "who's responsible for what" issue.

As a previous poster pointed out, there are some problem areas that continue to have to be addressed. Each is handled individually and the appropriate budget(s) is charged for the work.