12 NEWSLETTER. January 2014

Security

No More Barcodes

The new SIRIT access control transponder system has been in place for a year now and has performed extremely well. The old barcode system, which we continued to run in parallel, will be turned off and removed. We ran the systems in parallel to insure the new transponder system met our standards, before removing it. On Monday, January 27, 2014 the barcode system will be shut down. Therefore, any resident’s vehicles that have not had a new transponder installed on the headlight or inside the windshield, in the last year, will no longer be able to drive through the resident gate. To have a transponder placed on your vehicle please contact Security at 622-7800 and we will come to your home and install one. Vendor Access Please inform any vendor you hire or intend to hire that they are required to get a Frenchman’s Creek ID if they will be on property for more than one (1) day. The ID / background check process is critical to securing our property. Just this month Security denied access to a vendor who was a Registered Sex Offender, a vendor who was a convicted felon for Robbery and another vendor who was listed as a “Career Criminal”. These are not people you want in your home. Please feel free to contact the POA Office should you have any questions about the Frenchman’s Creek ID policy. The ID process fees are as follows: Driver: $35 first time - $30 for renewal Non-Driver: $15 first time - $10 for renewal Domestic Staff: $15 first time - $10 for renewal ID Office open days & times Monday thru Friday from 7:30am to 9:30am Tuesday & Thursday from 2:30pm to 4pm Location ½ mile South of Donald Ross Road on Alt. A1A inside the Golf Maintenance Gate on the East side of the road.

ROAD SAFETY ENFORCEMENT One of the most prevalent complaints received by security and the POA is excessive speeding on our roadways by cars and golf carts, and failure of these vehicles to stop at community STOP signs. In an effort to improve safety within Frenchman’s Creek, by reducing the number of speeders and STOP sign violators, the Traffic Hawk Enforcement System has been acquired. The Traffic Hawk is an unmanned, self-contained video recording and radar device that takes a video of any vehicle exceeding the community’s speed limit. It also has the ability to record those vehicles and/or golf carts that fail to slow and/or stop at STOP signs. The Traffic Hawk is a mobile device that will be moved to different streets within the community to monitor speeding and STOP sign violations. It will be moved regularly and utilized at all times of the morning, afternoon and evening. Owners of vehicles exceeding posted speed limits will be cited and sent a violation notice. Frenchman’s Creek does not have sidewalks, so it is vitally important that our roadways be safe and vehicle traffic along the roadways controlled.

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