| December 11, 2025 | Villages | As Neighborhood Watch captain, I received the follow emails from Claudia Curran regarding pedestrian gates:
First message:
“ I know you are one of the reps for our neighborhood watch in Firenze. I am passing along an ongoing observation of the Bordeaux pedestrian gates. I walk very early every morning between 5:30 am - 7 am depending on the time of the year. 99% of the time in the last few months I am finding the Bordeaux gates unsecured, especially the Latour gate. Someone is leaving them open. Maybe you can send a copy of my email to their rep for that area. Here are photos from this morning of the two gates. The first is the Latour Avenue gate, the second two are the other gate at St Julien Street which was left wide open.
Claudia”
Second message:
“Good morning Dan,
I checked out the gates further this morning. The Latour gate doesn't shut on its own; you have to push it shut. The St. Julien gate is even worse, the hydraulics on the gate don't work at all so when someone opens it, it stays wide open. Surprisingly, our Sonoma gate doesn't shut automatically now...that's new. You have to push it to close. So, it looks like these gates are getting old and not working as they should.
Maybe an email to all to be sure to manually shut these gates for our safety, especially during the holiday season. Thanks for looking into this for our community.
Merry Christmas!
Claudia Curran”.
Please contact Claudia Curran if further details are needed.
Regards,
Daniel Hunter
| In-Progress |
| December 11, 2025 | Villages | As Neighborhood Watch captain, I received the follow emails from Claudia Curran regarding pedestrian gates:
First message:
“ I know you are one of the reps for our neighborhood watch in Firenze. I am passing along an ongoing observation of the Bordeaux pedestrian gates. I walk very early every morning between 5:30 am - 7 am depending on the time of the year. 99% of the time in the last few months I am finding the Bordeaux gates unsecured, especially the Latour gate. Someone is leaving them open. Maybe you can send a copy of my email to their rep for that area. Here are photos from this morning of the two gates. The first is the Latour Avenue gate, the second two are the other gate at St Julien Street which was left wide open.
Claudia”
Second message:
“Good morning Dan,
I checked out the gates further this morning. The Latour gate doesn't shut on its own; you have to push it shut. The St. Julien gate is even worse, the hydraulics on the gate don't work at all so when someone opens it, it stays wide open. Surprisingly, our Sonoma gate doesn't shut automatically now...that's new. You have to push it to close. So, it looks like these gates are getting old and not working as they should.
Maybe an email to all to be sure to manually shut these gates for our safety, especially during the holiday season. Thanks for looking into this for our community.
Merry Christmas!
Claudia Curran”.
Please contact Claudia Curran if further details are needed.
Regards,
Daniel Hunter
| In-Progress |
| December 11, 2025 | Villages | As Neighborhood Watch captain, I received the follow emails from Claudia Curran regarding pedestrian gates:
First message:
“ I know you are one of the reps for our neighborhood watch in Firenze. I am passing along an ongoing observation of the Bordeaux pedestrian gates. I walk very early every morning between 5:30 am - 7 am depending on the time of the year. 99% of the time in the last few months I am finding the Bordeaux gates unsecured, especially the Latour gate. Someone is leaving them open. Maybe you can send a copy of my email to their rep for that area. Here are photos from this morning of the two gates. The first is the Latour Avenue gate, the second two are the other gate at St Julien Street which was left wide open.
Claudia”
Second message:
“Good morning Dan,
I checked out the gates further this morning. The Latour gate doesn't shut on its own; you have to push it shut. The St. Julien gate is even worse, the hydraulics on the gate don't work at all so when someone opens it, it stays wide open. Surprisingly, our Sonoma gate doesn't shut automatically now...that's new. You have to push it to close. So, it looks like these gates are getting old and not working as they should.
Maybe an email to all to be sure to manually shut these gates for our safety, especially during the holiday season. Thanks for looking into this for our community.
Merry Christmas!
Claudia Curran”.
Please contact Claudia Curran if further details are needed.
Regards,
Daniel Hunter
| In-Progress |
| December 8, 2025 | Wine Barn | when we went in Wine Barn just now for the folding chairs, we deactivated the alarm and saw notice that the back-up battery was showing LOW. Also, all the lights were on. We shut lights off.
| In-Progress |
| December 5, 2025 | Club | I've noticed a number up lights under the olive trees in fountain circle are either out or on in the daytime. Also some of up lights in front entry to the club are out. These lights are a wonderful amenity and add safety to the entrance to the club. Hopefully this issue can be addressed in the near future.
| In-Progress |
| December 5, 2025 | Wine Barn | The internet and wifi connection in the Wine Barn is down. Looks like it went down at 5:55am this morning (12/5/25). Without an internet connection we can not remotely control the vineyard/orchard irrigation system. Thankfully this is not a problem right now as we have the watering in the vineyards and orchards turned off for the winter.
| In-Progress |
| December 4, 2025 | Villages | THe pedestrian gate card reader at Solera in Tuscany is not working. I tried my card on Andalucia and it works ok there so I don't think it's my card.
Thank-you.
| In-Progress |
| December 3, 2025 | Club | Can we remove the empty signs and poles that were put in during Covid to park to pick food from the club.
They put new poles and signs in for Handicap Parking which looks great. They left the old ones from Covid!
Thanks
Ken
| In-Progress |
| December 1, 2025 | Gates | The Solera Pedestrian Gate is not working correctly.
The Key FOB Receiver light turns from red to green, but the mechanical lock does not click open.
So the work-around for some residents has been to prop the gate open when they leave.
This practice defeats the purpose of even having gates, so could you please have maintenance look at it?
Robert: The vendor for the gates will be here Weds and Thursday.
| In-Progress |
| November 29, 2025 | Club | Light on step to mail room is coming out again. Maybe, they could be resisted.
| Completed |
| November 25, 2025 | Club | The Group Exercise Studio fans need to be cleaned.
Thank you,
Julia Benveniste
| In-Progress |
| November 21, 2025 | Villages | Many of the newly planted young trees along Miwok and Chianti plus lower Miwok park are not securely anchored to the stakes in an upright position and are bending over due to the wind. This seems to be an ongoing repetitive issue. These are young trees and need appropriate support to keep them growing in an upright position until they are old enough to stand straight on their own. The current method of anchoring these trees apparently is not working. Please don't let these beautiful trees become like the terribly slanted tree located on Zinfandel at the entrance to the vineyard (next door to my house).
| In-Progress |
| November 20, 2025 | Gates | Latour pedestrian gate doesn't always close, appears to be out of alignment. Also, the Sonoma pedestrian gate still doesn't always funtion correctly.
| Completed |
| November 14, 2025 | Gates | The card reader on the man gate at Solera Street is not reading the cards. The light turns green but the lock does not release. This same gate is not automatically closing.
| In-Progress |
| November 7, 2025 | Gates | The St. Julien entrance gate is remaining open.
Robert: the gate was reset.
| Completed |
| November 7, 2025 | Gates | Latour pedestrian gate is not closing. Seems to be a hinge/spring issue
Robert: The spring tension on the hinges was adjusted. Now closing.
| Completed |
| November 5, 2025 | Gates | No Trespassing sign at St Julien gate entrance has been hit and knocked over
| In-Progress |
| October 29, 2025 | Villages | Pillars at Miwok Gate. Seems to Lubricant splashed all over the Gate Pillars.
Second request!
Thanks
Ken
| In-Progress |
| October 22, 2025 | Villages | Blue Fire Hydrant Marker in the Cul-de-sac at the end of Moscato PL. This was mentioned many many months ago also. I believe the sealing puts these back on?
Thanks
Ken
| In-Progress |
| October 18, 2025 | Gates | The pedestrian gate to Sonoma doesn't work, and the one to Bourdeaux at Latour doesn't always close. And when they sealcoat Zinfandel, you can't use the gate to get in.
Robert: Gate hinges was adjusted. Now closes on it's own.
| Completed |
| October 17, 2025 | Gates | The golf cart gate leading from Lafite Court to the Rhone neighborhood is once again stuck open.
| In-Progress |
| October 16, 2025 | Gates | The pedestrian gate at the Solera entrance of Tuscany doesn’t close on its own, after you pass through it. Thanks.
| Completed |
| October 11, 2025 | Landscape | This is from July 17, 2022. Over three years ago the HOA was going to reapply bark to the common area around the upper and lower Miwok Park. That was delayed because of the PG&E project. The application of bark was placed on hold, to be completed sometime in the near future. I have a view fence that overlooks the upper park and the space between the fence and the park grass is great for growing weeds. Terra Care sprays some of those weeds, but not all, maybe once or twice a year. They do not spray the spurge which is a prolific spreader of seeds. I have been hand weeding the area behind my fence about every two weeks. New bark won't solve the problem completely, but it would help. That bark project is now Marked Completed on this site.
It has NOT been completed! I am still pulling weeds by hand to avoid the unsightly mess that would occur if it I did not pull the weeds. Terra Care's spraying of some of the weeds over the years doesn't even begin to address the issue. I hate to play this card, but i pay HOA dues the same as everyone else and I shouldn't have to look at unsightly weeds or have seeds easily blown into my backyard and have more weeds there. I still go out every two to three weeks and pull all the weeds by hand. Bark won't completely solve the problem, but it would certainly help. Please address this problem.
| In-Progress |
| October 10, 2025 | Wine Barn | WINE BARN RAT(S): Last evening the Beer Club held a potluck. In attendance was an "uninvited" RAT, who ran in and out of the barn, under the dining tables and around people's feet while we ate. Some people thought it was a mouse, but it was 4-5 inches long (minus the tail); a little big for a mouse. Perhaps it's an adolescent rat. If so there's probably more than one from a litter living around the barn. There is a Beer Club Chili Cook Off scheduled on October 20 with 150 people registered to attend. Hopefully the rodent problem at the barn will be resolved by that date.
Robert: we ahd our pest control go out and to set bait stations
| Completed |
| October 9, 2025 | Gates | Hello,
I just walked out of the Bordeaux pedestrian gate and in through the Sonoma pedestrian gate on my way to Firenze, and there is a problem with both. The pedestrian Bordeaux gate fails to latch automatically, and the pedestrian gate at Sonoma does not unlatch long enough to pull it open while it is being unlocked.
Bob McHugh
Robert: I adjusted the Bordeaux gate closing speed and latching. Tested it multiple times, now latches. The Sonoma gate needs an electronic striker. One is on order.
| Completed |