OUR MESSAGE:
We oppose SB 908 that mandates an Engineered Life Safety System (ELSS) be installed in over 4,300 condo and coop buildings across the state. The state legislature in 2010 gave these owners the statutory right to vote to opt-out of retrofitting sprinklers and ELSS is just another way of bypassing that right given to association owners. Financial costs of ELSS will displace thousands of elderly and fixed-income residents in the 4,300 buildings who opted-out of sprinklers. In testimony before a House committee last week, a 93- unit building received bids of $1 - $1.7 million to install an ELSS – that’s between $10,000 to $18,000 per unit. Similar bids have been received by other associations across Florida. These are real costs – not guesses.
Those advocating for an ELSS have now admitted that the costs of ELSS will far outweigh any insurance savings over the next 10 years. We have, over the years, spent millions of dollars to upgrade and improve fire safety technology in our buildings. Even if buildings opt-out of ELSS, they will still be required to comply with Chapter 31, which provides for additional fire safety measures. Please do not place additional and unnecessary financial burdens on seniors living in high-rise buildings. Let them decide.
We urge you to VOTE NO on SB 908Click on each email address (one at a time) – which will create your email with the standard message. You can add to the standard message or use it as written. Add your name, address, phone number and building name with the number of units in the building (ABC Condo – 423 units).
To contact all these members will take you about five minutes – that five minutes could save your building millions of dollars.GOVERNOR DESANTIS: It’s important that Governor DeSantis hear from our members – as he will have the final decision once a completed bill reaches his desk. In the past, it has been a governor’s veto that has killed similar bills. So let the governor know we support the opt-out provisions of an ELSS.Ron.Desantis@eog.myflorida.com
OUR MESSAGE:
We oppose mandating an Engineered Life Safety System (ELSS) be installed in over 4,300 condo and coop buildings across the state. The state legislature in 2010 gave these associations and their owners the statutory right to vote to opt-out of retrofitting sprinklers. ELSS is just another way of bypassing that right given to association owners. Financial costs of ELSS will displace thousands of elderly and fixed-income residents in the 4,300 buildings who previously opted-out of sprinklers. In testimony before a House committee last week, a 93- unit building received bids of $1 - $1.7 million to install an ELSS – that’s between $10,000 to $18,000 per unit. Similar bids have been received by other associations across Florida. These are real costs – not guesses.
Those advocating for an ELSS have now admitted that the costs of ELSS will far outweigh any insurance savings over the next 10 years. We have, over the years, spent millions of dollars to upgrade and improve fire safety technology in our buildings. Even if buildings opt-out of ELSS, they will still be required to comply with Chapter 31, which provides for additional fire safety measures.
Please do not mandate additional and unnecessary financial burdens on seniors living in high-rise buildings. Let them decide by a vote of the owners whether or not to opt-out of installing an ELSS.
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