[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by pokeefe45@aol.com

It's already been said a few times, but the gates are valuable for traffic 'calming', not for security. If any of you were driving around in the day or 2 after Ian, when the gates were purposely put down, you may have experienced someone blowing into a village at 40 miles an hour as a result of no gates up. Not fun.
Also-the amount of gates down right now, is NOT because of all of them being hit by cars, or because the 'new' vendor can't get to them to be repaired-but, again as it's been said before, the card readers on a lot of gates are having issues integrating with the new software being used. It's an IT issue, not a lack of attention by anyone in the Villages.
Lot of good ideas being passed around here, but I'm not so sure that we don't have the most effective system in place now, at least once the gates are all as operational as they were before.

Curious where you got that information since that was not what I understood from the PWAC meeting last week.

In any case, there is progress. The Hillsborough gate was back in place last night.

We don't have the best system in place now; the system is fine and it is effective but it is not the best. Perhaps the new software and new controller boards will provide a path to an incremental upgrade. What we don't need is to pay for a wholesale replacement of over 200 gate mechanisms or a one-shot upgrade that takes out every gate at once.