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Originally Posted by Altavia (Post 2445807)

More than once, a gate attendent has risk my safety in a golf cart leaving a gate up at an entrance I can't see the car coming.

I would happily trade gate attendents for additional people to verify people using recreational facilities are residents.

I have sent emails to the District (might have been Customer Service, might have been Community Watch) mentioning this when it has happened. I don’t recall receiving a reply but the practice stopped, at least for a little while.

Gate attendants are very much needed. For instances if the gate arms malfunction in which the gate arm doesn’t raise traffic backs up very quickly. If this occurs gate attendants currently address this problem immediately. The gate entrance on Morris Boulevard off 466 is one of the busy gates in The Villages. Can you imagine a gate arm malfunction at that gate. You would probably looking at a 5 to 10 minute respond time to address the gate malfunction. With that response time traffic would back up to 466 quickly. Gate attendants are critical during the high traffic times of the day to keep traffic moving though these gates safely.

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Originally Posted by BrianL99 (Post 2445287)

I attended the District's Budget Meeting last year.

The amount of money spent on Community Watch, is criminal. The guy that runs it, is a nut bag in my opinion. I had to leave after listening to his nonsense for 10 minutes ... he apparently went on for another 20 minutes after I left. He thinks he's running the NYC Police Department and had more facts and figures than any human could stomach.

Want to know how many homes Community Watch can drive by per minute? He can tell you. Want to know how long it takes to call a homeowner, to tell them their garage door is open? He's got the statistics. It was mind boggling.

I left before I heard how much they spend for those clowns operating the gates & paddles at the gates ... I can only imagine!

Cutting all those guys loose is going to be an issue. It should have been done a long time ago. I'll be curious how this one shakes out.

SO HOW MUCH DO THEY SPEND ON COMMUNITY WATCH???? I walk every morning and usually see at least one or two