Access Control, Gates and Pools
 

At the PWAC meeting on September 22nd there will is a detailed presentation on the Access Control many on here continue to discuss. It contains the planned implementation and approximate costs to implement the long range gate access and possible pool Access Control. The agenda and presentation is at the usual place online and for those that are interested the meeting is at the Savannah Center at 8:30 AM.

Wonderful. We will finally get rid of the riff rafff… I would like a way of input for snowbirds too. They can’t physically go to the meetings.

All for the low, low price of $6M, two years, ongoing maintenance, and creative counter-solutions.

Hope removal of most, if not all, gates is on the agenda.
With all the new construction in the south, there are no gate arms. Have not heard one instance of any of the doom/gloom type predictions happen. Real life experiment that shows gates are not necessary. Possibly at a small number of locations, but certainly most could go away.
Big opportunity to save a huge amount of OUR money.

Were you not around to read of the safety issue with the Meggison Rd gate near Sawgrass? The numerous close calls while that gate was missing or in "contractor mode" showed the value and the need for gates at golf cart crossings. Personal experience, both mine and others on these boards, confirms this need.

More to the point, if you read this proposal, which is available on the agenda for this meeting, you will see that the foundation of the work was to add long-range reader capability to the gates. Removing the gates was not, and is not, a consideration.

So are you proposing instead of gates have a person check every single ID?

Most snowbirds will have returned by next week. But yeah it'd be great if it could be made available with Zoom.

Zoom:shrug:....TV is still trying to figure out this 21st century thing called the internet and are nowhere close to having or understanding online meetings.

On the OP's message. Keep the gates, some form of control on who comes and goes at villages and rec center pools. Allows people to work the gates so it gives them something to do and a little pocket money.

Small trickle of snowbirds this time of year. Try getting a reasonably priced direct flight between Christmas and early January when the mass migration takes place. We still have a couple hummingbirds at our northern home, but they will be gone by next week. This is probably the nicest time of the year up north, we stay away from the Villages until mid October when the hurricane risk substantially declines.