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NEWSLETTER

Editors: Jan Andresek and Connie Speiser May, 2016 Volume No.20

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DATES TO KEEP IN MIND May, 2016

Mother’s Day 8th HS –Board Meeting 9th HS- Coffee 12th Armed Forces Day 21st HS- Social 22nd HS-Newsletter Deadline 24th Memorial Day (Picnic) 30th

MAY BIRTHDAYS

1 Jack O’Shea #463 4 Glen Virtues #372 8 Dick Anderle #504 11 Ken Hyland #553 12 Gloria Poertner #359 17 Ruth Schellinger #513 18 Grace Salkowski #356 19 Jean Braine #211 23 Joan Miller #409 26 Joyce Griswold #603 27 Gordy Dobbe #302 28 Shirley Beatty #355 29 Tom Buschke #458

MAY ANNIVERSARIES 11~51 Gerry & Bev Vanselow #352 22~54 Marty & Phyllis Ebert #555 05~62 Fred & Carol Weber #269 08~65 Don & Nancy Ritter #368 06~00 Don & Karen Theisen #354 10~03 Jack & Susan O’Shea #463

A POTLUCK SUPPER

Sunday, May 22nd, 2016

5:00 to socialize, eat at 5:30 P.M.

Please BYOB and bring your own

place setting and a dish to share.

The dish can be an appetizer, snack, main

dish or a dessert, whatever you want.

Mark your calendar and join us.

Everyone is welcome,

COFFEE SOCIAL

Hosts: Joan Ebert &

Pat & Gordy Dobbe

Thursday, May 12th, 2016

At 9:00 am.

At the Clubhouse, join everyone for

coffee & donuts,

hard rolls and a chat with neighbors.

We need hosts for future coffees

so please sign up.

Next Month Deadline Deadline date May 24, 2016

Jan Andresek ~ unit #217 ~

262-397-8487

e-mail: jandresek33@gmail.com

Connie Speiser ~ unit #410 ~

414-510-0403

e-mail: mspacfan@ymail.com

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Bob’s Corner May 1, 2016

Here comes summer…the Super Bowl is now

history, March Madness has been completed, and the Masters

has been finalized. As the Beach Boys stated so many years

ago “Here comes summer” the season that we have all been

waiting for.

With the coming of summer, also comes the repair of

buildings and grounds that could not be completed during a

Wisconsin winter. The building guys (Jerry Beatty and Ken

Schultz) are already scheduling much of the work that is to be

done over the next few months. Generally speaking, the

association (that means your friends and neighbors) takes care

of issues related to the outside of the buildings, of course this

always includes sky lights that leak, sliding screen doors that

don’t slide, windows that don’t crank open, and all those

“fixer upper” issues that are the reason that we all purchased

condominiums in the first place. In an effort to conserve on

costs, Jerry and Ken are trying to schedule work in batches.

We don’t want to bring in someone to repair one sky light,

only to bring that repairman back next week for a different sky

light. So, if your unit is in need of a repair that the association

would address, please get a concern form completed and

turned in A.S.A.P.

Up until two years ago we had a resident of Hartford

Square, Mr. Frank Tumianiec, who functioned as a paid

contractor, attending to many of the building repairs. Frank

has chosen to retire. More recently arrangements have been

made with a local handy man to do some of these smaller jobs.

Knowing that there has been a somewhat significant change

over of owners within Hartford Square, I am thinking that

there must be someone that likes “puttering around the house”

that would be willing and able to work with Jerry and Ken to

complete much of the necessary repair work. This would

clearly be a paid position, allowing lots of freedom with

regard to scheduling, and may even lead to requests by

neighbors for some direct repair. Please step forward as we

would rather keep this work “in house”.

Within a recent board meeting we came to realize

that some neighbors would prefer a permanent white wooden

wall between their patio, and the neighbor’s patio instead of

the arborvitae trees that presently fill those spaces. The boards

thinking at this point, is that we would not pull out healthy

growing trees prematurely just to be replaced by a wall, we

would however, subject to the approval of the neighbors on

both sides of the divider, replace dead or dying trees with such

a wall. The board would like to hear from residents; just to

get a feel for what might be implemented going forward.

Along the issue of patios, and for the benefit of newer

residents, the area directly behind each unit and for a distance

of twelve feet out from the building is defined within Article

V of the declaration as “limited common area”. As such, a

resident may do pretty much whatever they want (within

reason) with that space, however Article VI section 6.04 does

require the resident to obtain written consent of the Board of

Directors for any alterations. This consent has never been

unreasonably withheld, and can be requested by completing a

“Modification Request” form available from the shelf outside

the club house office.

A question also arose related to the published

directory of owners / residents. A little research disclosed that

state law requires a condominium association to maintain a

record of the actual owner and mailing address of the actual

owner of each unit. There is nothing that requires such

information to be published in any form. We will therefor

change the heading on the published directory of Hartford

Square Condominium Owners Association, Inc. to clearly

indicate that to be a directory of “residents”. We will also

however, endeavor to develop a record of actual owners. It is

realized that in several cases, for tax and estate planning

purposes, a condominium is occupied by mom and/or dad but

is owned by the kids. Additionally a few units might be owned

by a trust document, also for tax purposes. Seems there’s

always something that, while overlooked forever, suddenly

comes to light and must be dealt with.

You may have noticed that several of the replacement

mail boxes installed over the past few years are not holding

up, especially the plastic ones. Some years ago John Quesnell

and Myron Pehlke upgraded all of our mail boxes with plastic

covered numbers and stabilized support posts. In doing so they

obtained the official specifications from the post office to

make sure that we were in compliance. Over the subsequent

years I am thinking that weather, quality of the box and other

issues have visited the mail boxes and they now need

attention. Myron has again agreed to take on this project, and

will replace bad boxes as needed and replace whatever lumber

is required to bring these things back into compliance. While

he didn’t say so in accepting this project, I am sure that Myron

would welcome any help that becomes available.

Also, the years have not been kind to the six lamp

post street lights of Hartford Square. We have spent countless

hours and many dollars repairing these posts and fixtures, and

must come to the realization that they are just getting old and

should be retired. Toward that end Rod Burger working with

our outside electrician, has agreed to investigate alternatives

that would be suitable for our situation. Upon gathering

whatever information Rod can provide there is a good chance

that we will have new lights within a few months.

Over the last few months Claudia has been soliciting

for a storage cabinet to be placed in the club house office for

the purpose of securely storing the excess Charter cable

television equipment. While no actual cabinet has come forth,

Sherry Bain (unit 517) has offered to purchase such suitable

cabinet and donate it to the association. We thank Sherry very

much for this most generous gift.

One more note, more of a reminder. If you are

considering bringing the grandchildren, (or any children) to

the pool, and in an effort to “keep peace in the family” please

re-read the rules related to the allowable hours for the kids to

enjoy the pool. The allowable hours have not changed,

however we may have forgotten just what those hours are.

Best regards for a safe and enjoyable summer.

Bob Robert C. Burgardt

President

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MEMORIAL DAY PATIO PICNIC

Monday May 30

th, from around 3:30-on. Snacks &

drinks on the patio (weather permitting) and dinner

inside. Remember to bring your drinks, place

settings, anything you care to grill and a dish to

pass.

Library Notes

Ken and Ellie Hyland---Librarians

New Arrivals

Title Author

Fiction Tiger Prince Sandra Brown

A Summer in Sonoma Robyn Carr

Love Suburban Style Wendy Markham

Roses for Mama Janette Oke

Can't Fight This Feeling Christie Ridgway

Branding the Wrangler's Heart Davalynn Spencer

Close Neighbors Dawn Stewardson

The Unexpected Honeymoon Barbara Wallace

Pale Rider Myrna Temte

Memory Man David Baldacci

Paths of Glory Jeffrey Archer Non Fiction

Race for Relevance H Coerver & M Byers

The Millionaire Mind Thomas J. Stanley

Book of the Month

Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game

Lexi Templeton is a ruthless competitor with the

brains and beauty to match. Raised by her

psychiatrist father, Lexi burns to follow in her great-

grandmother's footsteps and become her own

Mistress of the game.

Note Thursday May 12 there will be a

Book Walk

These are books we have two or more of. They will

be laid out on the tables at the far end of the hall.

Take whatever you'd like. They will be out thru the

week-end.

Hartford Square Book Club

will meet at 2:00 pm

on Thursday, May 19th, 2016 at Culver’s

1570 E. Sumner St., Hartford

We’ll be discussing

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

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Our June 16th book will be

Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker

by Jennifer Chiaverini.

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Our July 21st book will be

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.

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Everyone is Welcome.

Susan 566

SUNSHINE REPORT

By Pat Dopki

Memorial was sent to

the family of Joe Konen #313

If anyone knows of a resident that is hospitalized, not

feeling well, or a death of a resident or “immediate” family of a resident please contact Pat Dopki at 673-0548.

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Hartford Square Condominium Owners Association, Inc.

Directors Meeting Minutes April 11, 2016

UNAPPROVED

(Revision 1 – attendance/title correction 1st paragraph)

Present were: Bob Burgardt-President, Connie Speiser-Treasurer, Claudia Kollenbroich-Secretary,

Marjorie Krueger, Rod Berger, Ken Schultz, and Jerry Beatty

Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Jim Semler, Clubhouse Directors Lee Jones and Steve Otten

were unable to attend.

Mike Malley, unit 513, was also present

President Bob Burgardt called the meeting to order at 7 p.m.

Mike was at the meeting to ask the board to approve his unit modification by owner of his patio doors.

Details were presented and the appropriate form was submitted. A motion was made by Connie to

accept Mike's request, second by Jerry. Motion carried. At this time, Rod took the opportunity to inform

Mike and the board as to where the lot line is behind building number 15 as there have been concerns

about privacy with the construction of new buildings in Hartford Square II. It is currently a wait-and-see

approach that will be determined by the end result of that construction. It can be addressed again at a

later date when construction is complete.

SECRETARY'S REPORT Claudia presented the meeting minutes for approval from the months of January,

February and March 2016. The minutes were unanimously approved as presented with revisions to

February and March.

TREASURER'S REPORT Connie presented the Treasurer's report. All financial reports are normal for the

month. Quarterly information is not reflected because the statements are not sent to us until mid April.

There was an investment of $10,000 which was a move from the Money Market. Bob also distributed a

statement of income and expenses. This will help in preparing for a new 2016 – 2017 budget. The Board

accepted the reports as presented.

CONCERN FORMS/BUILDINGS AND ROADS The concern log was discussed. Calls are being made to

arrange contractor work. There is a leak under siding that needs to be taken care of for building 29 and

there are 4 units with skylight leaks. A few concerns have already been closed. A mailbox was damaged

by a vehicle and will be replaced. LANDSCAPE REPORT Rod said that Allar will be in the square soon to

do spring cleanup. There are a few dead arbor vitae. Alternatives will be looked at as a possible

replacement for unit partitions when arborvitae may have died out.

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CLUBHOUSE During Steve and Lee's absence, Claudia gave the Clubhouse report. The fire suppression

system in the kitchen has been upgraded. However, the range hood needs to be cleaned. It has not been

cleaned since 2008 and should be done annually. Cost is approximately $200. An appointment will be

made with County Wide Extinguishers.

No one has offered to donate a cabinet for the office however one of our owners has offered to donate

the funds to purchase one. Claudia will continue to shop for the best bargain that will fit our needs.

The outside street light west of the clubhouse has been brought to the attention of Leroy Wolf for

repair. Rod mentioned that the south west light is out as well. Many repairs have been done on the 6

lights over the years. Rod will check into alternatives or upgrades during his next trip to Milwaukee.

Claudia also explained that attempts have been made to put the flag at half-staff when appropriate but

during the process, the plastic sleeves that keep the pole from folding into itself too far when lowering it

are impeding the raising and lowering. An inquiry will be made as to whether this pole can be retrofitted

to a pulley system instead.

It was mentioned that residents may have noticed some brown water coming through their faucets. The

Hartford Utility was called and a representative there stated that on the very first day of road

construction here in Hartford, a water line was struck and temporarily put some dirt into the line.

NEW BUSINESS Claudia asked what the requirements and guidelines are for our Hartford Square

resident directory. Many of our residents are using cell phones instead of landlines so we want to be

sure to accommodate those changes. It may require more space in the directory. Bob will look into the

condo law and relay that information to Claudia. Joanne Burgardt has kindly accepted the responsibility

of maintaining the directory.

PRESIDENTS REPORT It has been recently published that there is a tax lien on one of the condominium

units. Utilities are being maintained and dues are current so no further action by the board.

Motion made by Connie, second by Claudia to adjourn.

Motion carried Meeting adjourned at 8:08 p.m.

The next meeting will be May 9, 2016 at 7 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted,

Claudia Kollenbroich – Secretary

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NEW ACTITIES TO START IN JUNE

It is hopeful that both Pickle ball and Shuffle Board

will get started on the tennis court sometime in

June. Last year many people expressed an interest

in both these activities. In fall, the HS Board gave

the go ahead, but it is going to take some effort to

get these going. Sign-up sheets are on the bulletin

board in the Club House. An organization meeting

will be scheduled in early June. Watch for it in the

June newsletter. Any Questions: Regarding Pickle

Ball contact Darlene @ 262-673-4482, regarding

Shuffle Board contact Glen @ 920-309-1638

MOVIES

At the Jack Russell

Hartford Public Library

FREE OF CHARGE

Movie start times are:

Thursdays at 5:30 p.m

Fridays at 12:30 p.m

In the Community Room

Bring your own popcorn, snack and beverage.

Enjoy these movies on a large

projection screen with your friends.

May 5 & 6

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

May 19 & 20

Creed

HARTFORD SQUARE

ONGOING ACTIVITIES

We have many on-going fun activities right

here at our clubhouse.

Everyone is always welcome.

Sunday

6:30PM Sheepshead

Monday

9:00AM Water Aerobics

10:00AM Mahjong

1:00PM Bridge

6:30PM Dominoes

Tuesday

1:00PM Hand and Foot

1:00PM Pool Table Tournaments

6:30PM Hand and Foot

Wednesday

9:00AM Water Aerobics

1:00PM Dimes

6:30PM Sheepshead

Thursday

1:00PM Sheepshead

6:00PM Darts

Friday

9:00AM Water Aerobics

1:00PM Dimes

6:30PM Euchre

2nd Thursday

Each month Coffee Social

4th Sunday

Each month Sunday Social

PICTURE DIRECTORY UPDATE

We have noticed that many new pictures are

being put up on the picture boards. That is

wonderful. You can put up your own pictures or put

the pictures in the box under the billboard in the

Clubhouse hallway, and we will put them up for

you. So, any of you “Snow Birds” that don’t have

your pictures up yet, check out the picture boards

and get your picture up there.

If you need a picture taken please call Jan

Andresek 262-379-8487 or Joanne Burgardt 262-

673-4114 and we can take your picture.

R-E-L-A-X and enjoy “adult” coloring!