[sudo-discuss] Fwd: Lease

[Gabrielle Silverman]

Re: Landlord's objections to food in common room, I wonder about thoughts
from others in the group. Should Sudo abide, ignore, delay, negotiate...? I
am one of several people who bring large quantities of salvaged food to
Sudo. Should it stop?

Gabby
On Apr 18, 2014 12:34 AM, "Matthew Senate" <mattsenate at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I did not see this message in my inbox until now, apologies for the delay:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Laurie Cooperman Rosen <Lscoop at comcast.net>
> Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:46 PM
> Subject: Lease
> To: Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com>
> Cc: Eddan Katz <eddan at eddan.com>, George <travology at mindspring.com>
>
>
> Hi Matt-
>
> I haven’t completed the lease—originally I was just waiting for your
> address so I can print it out but after spending some time there this week
> (George hurt his arm—you might have heard about that story), we will need
> to add some additional clauses to the lease before printing it out.
>
> Often when I walk in there—and worst of all yesterday, right after George
> de-bugged the place—I was shocked to find huge trays of food (enough to
> feed probably 30 people!) just laying out there in the warm air, clearly
> stale.  This is totally inappropriate—and gross!  The common area was set
> up to be a place where people could have meetings, occasional special
> gatherings and possibly an additional receptionist desk for each of the
> businesses there.  It is clear that while it is being used in its current
> manner that there will be no possibility of us being able to attract other
> tenants into that space to share it with you, and we can’t afford to get
> only what you and the public school are paying for the space without any
> ability to rent out more.  We know that people are still sleeping
> there—often they wake up in the middle of the night and walk out the front
> door, because clearly they don’t know the rules and they violate the code
> and we are getting called (of course, these are folks who don’t belong
> there and shouldn’t have codes….they should just not have been there in the
> first place!).  We don’t even know whether the people sleeping there are
> your members or not, but the fact that there is nobody to shut up the space
> at night and kick out the stragglers still in there is clearly a big
> problem and we are losing more and more sleep because of it.  This will
> need to change.  We will either need to put a curfew on the use of the
> common area space except in the case of special events, or require that
> somebody in authority come once at the end of the evening and shut the
> place up and make sure that everybody is out of there, doors locked, and
> the elevator shut on the top floor so that others (including those in 2141
> corridor that seem to gravitate there) won’t have access to it.  Even with
> your insurance, the liability issues are getting greater all the time based
> on the problem of the space being kept open and people who shouldn’t be in
> there hanging around throughout the night..
>
> We are going to have to make clear in the lease, once and for all, that
> the common area is NOT a living room!  It is not a place to put out food
> unless a special event is going on.
>
> A point was made to George about giving 24 hour notice before spraying
> again, and I will try to have him adhere to that in the future, but the
> point is that he shouldn’t HAVE to be doing that to begin with!
>
> Matt, you have always been quite reasonable and easy to deal with, but you
> have a life and can’t be there 24 hours a day, so we’ll have to put our
> heads together and come up with some additional solutions to make things
> work for everybody up there.
>
> Please let me know how you feel about this, and what steps we can take to
> move forward.
>
> Thanks-
>
> Laurie
>
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