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Old 04-21-2025, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe View Post
No more than a dozen. Just like your Villages ID cards, there would be a handful of major Rec Centers that would have someone that handled this task. Seems pretty do-able to me.
To be useful:
- 100+ pool gates will need to be updated. My nearest neighborhood pool has two gates so perhaps the number is closer to 200
- 100+ pickleball and tennis gates would need to be updated (this number is just a guess based on at least two gates at each rec center)
- 130,000+ devices would need to be provided to residents
- 1,000+ devices would need to be handed out EACH DAY for guests according to the numbers provided recently

This will be one more thing that needs to be carried by those that can't remember their Villages ID today and this one won't fit conveniently in a wallet.

If these are handed out for free then the cost will hit the amenity budget. If these are not handed out for free then there will be complaints about the cost and there will be demands for the ability to re-activate guest devices used previously.

With 300+ new points of failure there will be a maintenance cost that hits the amenity budget.

It's a solution; we just need to accept that it could require a one-time amenity fee increase that never goes away.
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