1105 Massachusetts Avenue Condominium Trust
Board of Trustees Meeting
May 22, 2025
The meeting of the 1105 Mass Ave Condominium Trust was held on Thursday, May 22, 2025 via Zoom.
Present for the Board of Trustees were Laura Cohen, Rick Landau, Roger O’Sullivan, Brad Settle, Peter Sullivan, and Bev Thornton. (John Giannacopoulos was unable to attend)
Also in attendance were Myra Miller and Elder Nunez.
PREVIOUS MONTHS MINUTES: The minutes of the April 24, 2025 meeting were approved as presented.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND ACCOUNT STATUS: The Board reviewed the prepaid and delinquent reports. There were no questions on the most recent financial statement.
BEUDO: No update on the requirements regarding energy reduction. Myra reported that she finally got correct data from Eversource on our energy usage and has entered the data on the portal. We now have a score of 39 (we started out with a score of 13 so we are improving) She tried uploading to connect with Cambridge but got error messages. She sent an email via the portal to let them know.)
VDA: We just received the response from VDA to our questions on the draft RFP and reviewed it at the meeting. We want lien wavers because we don’t know if the contractor has paid the sub-contractors and we do not want sub-contractors coming after us
We will ask VDA to proceed with the RFP. We will include a lien waver.
TOKETTE REFUNDS: $2725 has been refunded so far. $576 was direct deposited in May from American Laundry.
TOILET NOTICE: This notice is more education then inspection. Discussion followed about the importance of having owners do this work and how to guarantee that it is done.
MOTION: to launch an official program to upgrade all feed lines at the association expense. All in favor, motion passes
Amend the notice to include the insurance deductible
3A: This unit owner is currently in the hospital; he had fallen in the bathtub on Saturday and broke an arm. It is our opinion that he is a danger to himself and to the building. There is a mold issue in his bathroom. The Board approves bringing in the attorney to get a court order.
MOTION: to take necessary legal steps to force the repairs (and possibly make repairs) and cleaning of this unit that have affected common areas and other units, all approved. We need to include unit 3G which is back-to-back with this unit. All approved, motion passes
INSURANCE RENEWAL: The Board approved the insurance renewal with the increased deductible with the lower bid on the proposal.
MOTION: to approve renewal, all approved. Motion carries.
ASSESSSMENT IN FUTURE: We are waiting for the elevator bids to see what the costs are. We also need to review our old capital needs study and see if we can determine what might be coming up in the future. We should find a few capital needs companies to upgrade our report. We need to see what has already been completed and what has not been done yet.
OTHER MAINTENANCE ITEMS: Need to order signage before we do the locking of the doors. We can change the locking hours from midnight to 5 AM. The board will review the draft notice. Once approved we just need to contact ACP to do the scheduling on the program.
NEXT MEETING DATE: Thursday, June 26th at 4 PM via Zoom
Respectfully submitted,
Myra Finn Miller
ELN Management