FACILITIES PLANNING The Facilities Planning Committee added M ICHELLE M OORE as its new FPC secretary. Michelle will be a great asset to our committee in the upcoming years. Welcome Michelle! The Facilities Planning Committee is in the process of reviewing items and/or projects that must be funded through the association CAPITAL FUND. These are items or projects that are new to the resort (versus scheduled replacement under the RESERVE FUND) and can be improvements to our buildings, recreational facilities, equipment, and infrastructure. These items/projects will require a request for funds be approved by the board of directors. We invite the Chairs of the A&A, Activities, Communications, Golf, Health & Fitness, Landscape, Marketing, Pickleball, Safety & Security, and Tennis committees, as well as individual owners, to submit their ideas for improvements to be considered for funding. The SOONER THE BETTER - as these requests will be submitted to the board at the end of January 2017 . If funding is approved, these items will be included in the budget for 2017/2018. Now that we have clear title to the 35’ strip of easement land, the FPC will begin considering some of the highest and best uses for this land. The committee welcomes any and all ideas on how to best utilize this area. We want to take our time and put in place a well thought out plan for this space. Give your suggestions to committee members; M ARSHA N ELSON , A LICE H EUPLE , D ENNY B LOOM , M IKE M URRAY , J UDY J URACH , C HARLES S TINSON , M ICHELLE M OORE or A VA F ELT . The FPC continues to work on the El Saguaro kitchen updating and the next phase will address replacing the countertops and serving counter, and converting the prep islands to accommodate storage racks underneath. The same footprint of the islands will be preserved as recommended by the Kitchen Focus Group. Updates will take place as reserve funds are available. I would like to thank our Kitchen Volunteer team - G INI M OORE , B ARB W IRCH , L ORRAINE W IEBE , and K IMBERLY R OGERS for undertaking the KITCHEN CLEANUP PROJECT. They have given over 40 hours of their time sorting and taking inventory of our serving bowls, baskets and utensils plus reorganizing and ensuring kitchen equipment items have been properly cleaned. This will certainly make it easier for the many weekly events that take place in this high use kitchen and the best organized kitchen ever!
HEALTH & FITNESS COMMITTEE January 2017 We encourage you to come listen to D R . J OSEPH E. S CHERGER on Tuesday, January 17, from 4 PM to 5:30 PM in the La Palma Clubhouse. Dr Scherger is Vice President for Primary Care and Academic Affairs at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. We have invited him to share how he has expanded his education from a focus on medicine to include one of health and wellness. He will be discussing his new found knowledge summarized in a 97-page book he wrote called “Lean and Fit: A Doctor’s Journey to Healthy Nutrition and Greater Wellness”. Much of his book discusses the benefits of a low carbohydrate diet. We are also co-sponsoring a Health & Wellness Fair with Desert Health to be held on Saturday, February 11 from 9 AM to 12 PM in the La Palma Clubhouse. Invitations have been mailed out to the approximately 47 vendors covering a multiple of subjects: beauty, financial health, fitness, fresh cuisine, integrative health, medical, natural health, nonprofit groups, and, of course, the blood bank. Due to space constraints we will be reducing this list to approximately 30. Look for more information as we get closer to this event. Please consider joining our committee to provide advice and oversight to the ORPS Board of Directors on the operation, maintenance, and management of the Fitness Center and other health & wellness activities. P AM W ALKER Chair Our next scheduled meetings are January 5, and January 19, at 2 PM in the LP East Room. All interested owners are welcome. A VA F ELT Chair Feel free to share your input at: facilityplanning@orps.com The FPC is also undertaking creating a Master Plan for our resort facilities that will be a permanent document and will be available to future committees, boards and management. This will certainly help with continuity in overseeing our resort facilities. We can always use our owner’s expertise. If you feel you have a background or expertise in facilities, infrastructure, construction and/or kitchens and would be interested in assisting our committee, please express your interest to one of our FPC members.
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