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Thursday, August 18, 2011

A TIDBIT

At our Coffee Meeting the Board said they are having problems with getting rid of Berry Pools. Back on August of 2007 a Berry Pool agreement was approved with having a 30 day termination notice throughout. We were also told that this monitoring service alerts Berry Pools of mechanical failures so they are corrected before they cause our pools water problems. General manager Larry DeMalade also said that Berry Pools would save our Village at least 30% on chemical costs.
On April 2009 the Board approved a higher cost Berry Pools contract that contained changes. It seems our Board now can only give a termination notice 30 days before the contract ends and now we have to tell them about a problem after it gets out of hand.

Since the contract renews itself each April, our new Board must now wait until April of 2012 before they can rid our Park of Berry Pools services. It also appears our Village is spending more, not less on chemical costs.
Comments?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

We were assured by PB and LD that this contract could be terminated at any time. There continues to be mistruth after mistruth.

Anonymous said...

2007 was not a good year for PB and LD telling the truth. Certainly some of you remember LD's "licensed" security! Turns out that LD and his son-in-law were not even close to being qualified according to the regs of Texas DPS. Then there was the great sewer fiasco. Can't remember all the lies told about the repair process. Do remember LD having workers toss bags of cement into the channal to "prop up"
the broken line. Needless to say there were many stories told. Berry Pools is no exception. Refresh my memory, but didn't we have problems with chemical balance by Berry Pools almost from the start?

Here is a novel idea. Have PB and LD pay for the cost of getting out of the Berry Pool contract! I know it wouldn't work, but does give one a warm fuzzy feeling.

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, stupidity and arrogance are not grounds for a lawsuit.

Anonymous said...

Are you saying that nowhere in our contract, either the original or the revised, that there is NOT a clause which allows us to break the contract because of breach of service or failure to do the job as specified? Surely we have documented our problems and complaints with Berry Pools to Berry Pools, and by that action we should be able to break our contract because THEY are in breach of service. DUH!

Anonymous said...

To DUH: I assume that you are not here in LIV, so FYI: Action taken by the BOD on 8/24 is initiating a course of action to resolve the Barry Pools fiasco.
I would also advise you consider how you vote in March since this contract was apparently executed by the VunderKinder that were part of the movement to dump one of the best boards previously elected in LIV.
Hope this helps.

Anonymous said...

Why MUST you assume that I (DUH) am not here in LIV? Maybe I am here and just choose NOT to go to the Board meetings. And why MUST you resort to name calling? We have had good and bad on ALL Boards.

My comment was in reaction to Joey's "tidbit" which says nothing about "initiating a course of action..."

And if you think your comment "helps", then I don't need that kind of help.

Anonymous said...

Dear "DUH"
The TidBit is dated 8/18, the board meeting was 8/24 so a little hard for Joey to get "A" into "B", isn't it.
VunderKinder is German for WonderKids, OUCH! Just a play on words when you may have searched for the "Wonder" part.
In closing, I hate a whizzing war, but I have no respect for owners that do NOT attend the meetings, perhaps this attitude got the Unregistered owners in a bind last March?
There are remedies for rumpled feathers.