Circle C Neighbors

I thought over yesterday that it was inaccurate to use Year 2003?’s Total Market Value of the real estate property as the cost of building the facility because the property itself has been appreciated a lot over last nine years. So, I just called Travis County Appraisal District and spoke with the department?’s Supervisor, Carolyn Copeland (512) 834-9138. The following was the information I obtained from her:

YEAR 1994

Market Value of Land was $91,840 for 9.184 acres
Market Value of the Building was $608,160
Total Market Value was $700,000


YEAR 1995

The parcel number of this property was changed and the land was changed to 3.521 acres up to this date.

Year 1994?’s Total Market Value should be the ACTUAL COST of building Circle C Child Development Center which was $700,000.

Year 2003's *FFE Value was $62,381

Total cost of building Circle C Child Development Center would be $762,381.


NOTE:
FFE stands for Furniture, Fixture & Equipment.

One Homeowner's Response


If the info I sent you said the bulding cost 1.7 million to build...how can
the value be only 700,000?

When are you going to look at the books?
What has the DA said about there only being 1 board member?

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I have already sent two requests to the Directors of the Board of the CDC for letting me to inspect the documents. So far I have not heard anything from CDC yet. I want to wait few more days to see whether I would receive any response from Gary Bradley.

Anyone who can do simple math should be able to figure out the difference of 1.7 million and $700,000. Gary Bradley is greedy to the extreme and insulting our intelligence.

I think the new Board should hire a forensic auditor to conduct an audit of CDC's books from 1994 - 2003 and demand Gary Bradley to cough up all the excess money. The money should be returned to the Association, so that we can use it to construct several pocket parks and install Asian Jasmine on the common area at Edwardson Cove.

Lisa

1.7 million CDC ???


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Circle C Ranch is one of Austin's finest master-planned communities. Just a few of Circle C's amenities include an 18-hole championship golf course, an outdoor Olympic-size heated swimming pool, a 3 mile veloway track for rollerblading and cycling, and an award-winning $1.7 million on-site child development center. Austin Independent School District's highly acclaimed Kiker Elementary School is located within the community and residents' children also attend AISD's Bowie High School nearby.

Location: Travel south on Mopac/Loop 1. Exit Slaughter lane and turn right. Turn left on Escarpment and right on LaCrosse. Turn left on Natick

For details on models available and information such as floor plans, elevations, etc. visit Circle C 70' on the Newmark Homes web site.

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http://www.isdesignet.com/Magazine/Oct'95/instal_ChildDev.html




School Orientation
Day care center is oriented to its site while orienting children inside

by Diane Wintroub Calmenson

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The Circle C Child Development Center is part of an amenities area of a large residential subdivision in Austin, TX. As the second phase of a two-phase master plan, the site for the center was already established in order to complete the strong axis set up by the adjacent swim center and to balance the small scale of the bathhouse, pumphouse and postal facility. These buildings all comprised phase one.

However, between the time that phase one was completed and work on phase two began, the subdivision grew considerably. So much so that when the team at Heather McKinney Architects in Austin began planning the child development center, they had to establish a traffic pattern to help alleviate congestion at different times of the day.

After observing the existing traffic pattern, the architects resolved the issue by locating two entries at either end of the center. According to Heather McKinney, AIA, principal, one entry is the drop-off for children enrolled in a full-day program and the other is for children enrolled part-time. Thus, two separate traffic patterns were created. Parents picking up children midday from a part-time program can stop by the postal facility then, rather than at the end of the day when traffic in the area is at a peak.

Once inside, the center is simply designed to alleviate confusion. From either entrance, the children come into an octagonal space. At the full-day entrance, a mural depicting an ocean scene is painted on the walls of the octagon, thereby strengthening the sense of place for the children. At the part-time entrance, the mural is of a country fair.


At the Circle C Child Development Center, children enter into an octagonally shaped space at either end of the building. The walls are decorated with a colorful mural to orient the children.


Four of the six classrooms at either end of the building are situated off of these octagonal spaces. The other two are off a ramp that leads to the large activity room in the center of the building. Essentially, says McKinney, the building is set up in a dumbbell scheme with symmetrical ends.

''There aren't any long corridors, which can disorient young children,'' continues McKinney. ''The rooms immediately off the octagon are for babies and younger children. Older children have the rooms off the ramp, which are a bit farther from the entrance.''

The activity room, which is used as a rainy day playground and lunch room, is drenched in sunlight that enters through glass doors, large picture windows and clerestory windows. Primary colors trim the windows and create interest on the ceiling where blue steel ceiling beams and yellow tie rods support the standing seam roof. High intensity lights suspended from the ceiling augment the natural light.