I was talking to one of the supervisors at one of the rec centers, and he was complaining about a leaking roof . It took months for them to get the funding to get it patched, and he felt that it needed a totally new roof.
The sports pool at Lake Miona doesn't have lane lines in it - an oversight when the pool was originally put in. If you're a swimmer, its necessary to have the lines painted on the bottom of the pool to orient yourself. All the sports pools have the lane lines except Miona. The head of recreation said its on their bucket list, but they can't get the funding.
I've been noticing at some of the championship golf courses there are stones in the sand traps. This is generally a sign of cheap sand. It isn't widespread at all the courses, and maybe they just got a few bad deliveries, but it's something to keep an eye out for.
These are just a few instances where services have not been what we would expect.
If you're talking about activites at the rec centers, there does seem to be an increase in activites, but to be honest, those are all handled by volunteers.
We've noticed a lack of maintenance on the roadways. We live near Lake Sumter and some of the roads have grass growing up thru the cracks in the pavement, and so on. These need to be sprayed because the weeds can cause the pavement to separate. I'm not sure if The Villages is in charge of maintaining the streets or the county. There are other areas where poor quality concrete was put in, especially on the sidewalks and recreational trails, and needs repair.
Overall, everything is nice and new, and we enjoy it, but as the community ages, the maintenance issues are a concern, to us anyways. We live here fulltime, and tend to notice things like that.
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