Police Reports in Central Park for first five months of 2014

Map of incident reports Jan. 1 through May 31, 2014
(scroll down for map of prior year incident reports)

According to  Crimedar.com, these are all of the Shelby Township Police Department incident reports within Central Park that were filed during the period of January 1 through May 31, 2014.  Click on the links below to read the incident report summary (street number addresses are approximate).

Anderson Ct.

Blackwell

E. Central Park
April
March

Haymarket

Moore Ct.

N. Central Park
April
March
January

N. Central Park
and Lexington W.
N. Central Park
and E. Central Park

Regent
May
March

St Nicholas

S. Central Park

Tottenham

Watling

W. Central Park

W. Central Park
and Haymarket
W. Central Park
and Baker

Map of incident reports Jan. 1 through May 31, 2013

2014 Annual Membership Meeting

UPDATE:  Mike Malone and Matt Karrandja will represent the Meadows and Gardens, respectively, on the Central Park Master Association's Board of Directors during 2014 and 2015. Click here for the names and contact information of all four current Board members. 

The 2014 Annual Membership Meeting of the Central Park Master Association will be held on Friday May 2, 2014 at the Shelby Twp. Municipal Building.  Sign-in begins at 6:30 PM and the meeting will start at 7:00 PM.

The purpose of this meeting is to elect one representative each from the Gardens and Meadows Associations to the Central Park Master Association Board of Directors.  Only the homeowners in the Gardens and Meadows can nominate candidates to represent them on the CP Master Board of Directors.  However, all owners who live in the Manors, Kensington, Gardens and Meadows Associations have the right to vote to select the Gardens and Meadows representatives from among those who have been nominated.

If you are unable to attend, please fill out the General Proxy you recently received in the mail and return it to either Kramer-Triad or give it to a neighbor who will be attending so that we can use your proxy to count towards making the quorum.  Click here to download and print a blank General Proxy form.

Click here to read the unapproved minutes of the 2013 Annual Membership Meeting.

WOW infrastructure installation plan

WOW's installation contractor will be installing their underground infrastructure in four phases that correspond to the four sub-associations in Central Park.

MISSDIG is on-site today in the Manors to mark all of the existing underground utilities.  As soon as that is complete, the contractor will begin underground work within the Manors.  When the work in the Manors is nearly complete in a week or two, MISSDIG will begin marking the utilities in the Meadows and then the contractor will shift their underground work to that sub.  The same pattern will follow for the underground work in the Gardens and Kensington sub-associations.

Installation of WOW Internet, Cable & phone infrastructure

Brian Sommers of WOW Internet, Cable & Phone met with board members from Central Park this morning to walk us through their construction plans.

Here is an outline summary of the information they provided.

• Above-ground installations include (from biggest to smallest and fewest to most)
• fiber node box, with power supply [photo]
• Qty = 2,
• one near a DTE transformer behind 6919 Kingsland,
• other near a DTE transformer to the east of 7011 North Central Park
• pedestal, with amplifier
• pedestal, regular [photo]
• the WOW pedestals will be located next to the existing Comcast pedestals
• Underground work is of three types
• horizontal directional boring using a large machine [animation] [video]
• for long cable runs up to 350 ft. long between the entry and exit holes
• bore hole will be between 24 to 30 inches below the surface
• wood and rubber mats are placed beneath this machine to minimize damage to landscaping
• once the cable is pulled back through the bored hole, the cable ends are cut and left protruding up from the entry and exit points until the next phase of work begins which will connect the cables into a network; in the meantime, the horizontal boring machine moves on to make more directional bores
• underground pneumatic boring (aka "missiles") [video]
• for short cable runs
• inspection holes
• dug by hand to expose existing utilities
• required wherever a boring crosses above or below existing underground utility lines
• During construction, the contractor's equipment and materials will be stored in the Manors on the vacant lot just north of 49847 Lexington West
• During construction, the contractor will make repairs to any sprinkler system components that are inadvertently damaged; work crews carry irrigation repair supplies and components  on their trucks so that they can fix them as soon as damage is noticed; residents are advised to run their sprinkler systems as soon as the construction is finished in their area to confirm that there are no leaks or operating issues; if there is a problem, flag down any worker or call the contractor's office at 517-468-3200 or contact their Quality Control Supervisor, Joe Stubblefield, Jr., on his cell phone at 517-930-4628
• Door tags will be hung tomorrow by the contractor at all addresses within Central Park informing residents of the impending construction.
• Construction will begin next week once MISSDIG has marked all existing underground utilities
• Construction will take somewhere between two and three months to complete, depending on weather
• WOW service will be available for purchase within one to two weeks after completion of construction (sometime around the 4th of July or possibly earlier)

WOW provided Mike Grobbel with a copy of their installation drawings which he will retain for reference and make available for inspection upon request.

Snow removal along North, West, East and South Central Park Avenues

The 13 inches of snow we received over the past week and the extreme cold that followed has been a trying experience for everyone.

Even though it may not always have been apparent, the Central Park Master Association's snow removal contractor has been doing his best to keep the Central Park ring roads and entrances as clear as possible as we recover from this "snow emergency". 

During the storm, the roadways were plowed three times and then salted. However, the extreme cold that followed rendered the salt applications ineffective and the salted snow formed an ice pack that was welded to the frozen pavement.  The occasional sunshine during the daytime would warm the ice pack and turn the top layer into slush, which he would then plow away, only to reveal another layer of ice pack that would need to be salted and plowed away once it turned into slush.  After repeated cycles of salting and plowing, as of Friday afternoon January 10th he was finally able to get down to bare pavement in most stretches of the roadway.

As bad as the weather was, the Central Park snow contractor also had to contend with many cars that were parked in the streets in violation of Shelby Township's declared "snow emergency".   Also, he reports that many, many residents were observed blowing and pushing the snow from their driveways out into the street, which is illegal in the State of Michigan.  The additional snow is a safety hazard for motorists and an added burden to our contractor. 

Keeping our streets open is a top priority for the health and safety of all our residents. Emergency vehicles and school buses must be able to safely navigate our streets.

Please do your part to help our community recover as quickly as possible from severe weather conditions. Please put the snow from your driveway onto the lawn areas on either side of the driveways and during a declared "snow emergency", please park your vehicles in your driveway and/or garage.   

Please note that the Central Park parking regulations (listed here) give the Central Park Master Association the authority to have any vehicles towed away at the owner's expense if they are left parked on North, South, East and West Central Park during a declared "snow emergency".