What are Common Charges?
The term common charges can be used in different ways, but the most recognized definition is that of monthly fees or charges associated with living in a condominium. Common charges are often used to provide maintenance of common areas. These fees are used by a condo association for typical expenses associated with the upkeep of community amenities as well as administrative costs. Costs can include many things from landscaping, repairing parking lots, and keeping hallways or stairwells clean and well lit, to paying for printing and mailing of condo association rules and other correspondence. Common charges may also be used to pay wages or salaries for those employed by the condo association. Property taxes, legal fees, the association’s liability insurance, and in some cases certain utilities such as water, sewer, and trash removal, may be incorporated into these fees. Security personnel or equipment may be included as well. If there is a pool, a clubhouse or other common meeting area,
Common Charges in heraldry would be the objects often found on the shield or in coats of arms. So with lions, for example, the lion passant guardant found in the Royal Arms of England are familiar to most people from their football shirts. And also geometrical shapes, these often take the shape of horizontal, vertical or diagonal stripes, and they are very, very common charges in heraldry.
To date the only paid up leaseholder is the Newtown Youth Academy. In their lease agreement with the town, it agreed to pay common charges of $31,000 per year for the first three years and in return the town would maintain the roads, “including snow removal and clean up of the shared parking…(Section 1A.3)… parking lot lighting and lawn care…Thereafter the tenant shall pay 12 percent of the actual common charges.” Who will pay the other 88 percent? To date, the veterinary hospital proposed for Woodbury Hall has made no payments to the Fairfield Hills Authority.How much money has the town already spent trying to be the developer for Fairfield Hills? The town purchased Fairfield Hills 10/30/03 for $3.9 million and agreed to assume all the costs of abatement and demolition, an obligation that all three of the professional developers refused to assume. The yearly operating budgets were: 2003-04 $495,800, 2004-05 $750,000; 2005-06 $550,000; 2006-07 $598,500; 2007-08 $498,500; 2008-09 $525,0
