Thursday 01/30/2025
The main thing today was the Channing House Drama Club presenting their program of six short skits. The scripts for these were by local playwrights, prepared for previous seaons of “Pear Slices”, an annual festival of short plays at the Pear Theater. The total ran about and hour and half for all six plays. The program was presented twice, at 10am and 7:30pm. The early show, as with some concerts, is for the convenience of the staff at the Lee Center, who wheel AL and memory care people over for an outing. Plus any IL residents who feel like it, and there were a few.
My role was just lights and mics, and getting a video recording. But that meant I had to be there early and pay attention through the whole thing. I was surprised that on the whole the players were better at the morning show. There were more dropped lines and awkward pauses in the evening show. It falls to me of course to edit out a single video with the best performances, morning or evening. That’ll be tomorrow or maybe next week.
In between I had time for a short chat with Joanne, and then at 4pm was the important, annual, Resident/Trustee meeting, at which we review the budget for the current fiscal year just ending and for the new fiscal year that, for us, starts in February. Key item presented is, what is the percentage increase in monthly fees. Answer this year? 5%. Which is down from 6% last year. Also CH is in good fiscal condition and there is money in the new year budget to do an upgrade of the elevators! Maybe not a full replacement, but $1.5M is set aside and that should accomplish something. The elevators date back to the 1960s, and there are often outages, and there was one time when one was out for a week while a part was made from scratch because the part was no longer stocked.
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