At the Resident’s Council meeting on Thursday Sept 25th, discussions were held regarding the newly negotiated CHAOC Bulk Charge Agreement with Time Warner. According to a flier distributed at the meeting, the new rate of $63.89 is a 1-yr contract that started August 1, 2008. This rate, which includes 350 regular channels plus HBO and DVR, requires at least 848 resident subscribers (there are 893 currently). It was not clear what the rate would be if the minimum was not met.
When asked if Verizon or other cable providers were considered, the management office (Ed Friedman) and Board representative (Charlie Brown) said “No.” They explained that they are trying to get Verizon to clean up existing phone cables and improve the quality of installation work before soliciting additional services.
In short, it sounds like we’ll have to wait until August 2009 before going through a competitive bid for cable services at CHAOC…
September 28, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Speaking of utilities, let’s talk about the electric meters and how inaccurate they are!
September 28, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I’m with you on the electric meters. I can’t believe I use so much more electricity in my co-op compared to other places I’ve lived.
September 28, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Thanks for setting up this great blog!
Some of the electric meters are running double (like ours). Others don’t work at all (like our neighbor’s, who gets a zero bill each month).
If you have doubts about your meter being correct, you should speak to Ed about getting a test meter set up. He will take forever to do it, but it will get done if you bug him (just like everything!)
September 29, 2008 at 3:47 am
Ladies- my last bill was $400. I like to run the AC, but seriously?
Kath- will I get a phat refund if the meter is broken?
September 29, 2008 at 1:19 pm
What!?? There is no way you could have used $400 worth of electricity.
October 2, 2008 at 2:19 am
Most of you do not knoow this but the mweter were put in illegally the original by- law state that maintenance shall gas and electricity no metering. we voted against metering( any change in the lease must be done by a vote of 66 2/3% by the shareholders, the sponsor who had 51% of the shares abstained the President John Dew lied and said that we vote for submetering
October 2, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I support metering as long as it is working correctly. I’m not really interested in paying for my neighbor’s electricity use.
October 2, 2008 at 5:45 pm
We are also paying for the common areas
if you do the math
take the number 12 the number months times the total units 1225 which comes to 14,700 divide into total of the electric expense of about $1,000,000.00 and the average is about $68.00 per month per unit this again in cludes common areas