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At Halloween, the office provides orange 8-1/2” x 11” sheets of paper imprinted with a pumpkin. As only children of residents may go door-to-door, a resident who wishes to participate pastes the pumpkin on the door.
Following a funeral for a Jewish family, the doormen provide table with water and towels for purification.
We only permit the volunteer fire department to go door to door for their annual appeal. A letter is posted in all elevator lobbies notifying residents. No other in house solicitation is permitted, not even by a resident.
Annually, we do permit the voter registration folks to sit at a table we provide in our lobby to remind residents to register.
The postal service is permitted to collect food in its annual drive in our mailroom.
The local police do an annual Christmas toy drive and the residents leave gifts beneath our lobby trees for collection by the police department.
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We have 500 units and about 600 indoor parking spaces, and another 100 outside parking spaces.
But, in this day and age of multiple vehicles per family, there is never enough spaces. So we have waiting lists for upper garage, lower garage and outside parking. Folks, can stay on the lists, even though they have other spots. Thus, someone with an outside spot can stay on the list for the upper or lower garage. Someone, with a lower garage spot can still stay on the upper garage list.
Of importance is that the board members never (correct, never) permitted access to the lists and thus cannot influence the order of the list. As a matter of fact, board members are reminded they are not to attempt to influence the lists. The rules have been established and the building manager has total responsibility.
We have 225 storage cages (e.g.: dog kennel size) and the waiting list is similarly anonymous to board members and managed by the building manager.
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