Our Village

After Bud Sherry recited the Pledge of Allegiance our Board accepted Board Kelmis’ resignation and replaced him with this year’s unelected candidate Richard Ramirez. Next the Board let Carlos Galvan Jr. from the Water District give highlights about area water restrictions. This eventually evolved in a Q&A with our management and owners. Our GM gave a convincing power point presentation answering the nine questions brought up by the owner from lot 638 at last week’s Coffee Meeting.
The lot 145 owner was limited to three minutes in talking his disapproval about last week’s Workshop being closed to the public. He received no initial response from the Board. Director Gunderson did bring this up at the end of the meeting citing on the side of the owner.
The President seemed to indicate that dredging may be near.
The normal stuff was express by Management on their jobs for the month. Condo fee arrears for this month were $28,325, a $16,254 improvement from the previous month. Director Vasquez made it clear that owners who do not pay their assessment should be punished severely.
There were motions approved on the Organizational and February’s Minutes. This was the first time in over a year that the month of the Minutes was recognized.
In the Treasurer Report we heard that the pool chemicals are out for bids. $31K leftover from last year will now go into a separate bank fund towards our infrastructure needs. The first quarter update seemed to indicate our Village has not spent enough money ($32625) which later ($30500) was spent on five approved motions for three golf carts, tennis court fence repair, a new fence to hide letter lot eye sores, security gate lift masters, and a new Green Master to cut the golf course greens.
The Directors recently assigned to committees were Directors Gunderson to D and E, Steffensen to Pool, McBride to Safety, Pelletier to Building, Vasquez/Steffensen to Finances, and McBride to Golf. The Bridge Board Reported their Annual meeting will be April 6th at 9am. Two motions approved the same two people to fill the Bridge Board position vacancies.
In New Business the Board approved our GM to try to get from the Water District a lower water rate and a variance on when to water the Golf Course. They also passed a motion to spend $1999 on a treadmill. A motion was approved on a twelve month Board Meeting schedule, after which VP Pelletier questioned a one month reprieve (August). The consensus with Director Vasquez expressing most adamantly that this Board was elected to serve twelve months Director Vasquez’s sympathy card for deceased owners was tabled until a true cost could be ascertained.
On “Other” items, there was a push by Director Gunderson to replace the Village Newsletter by posting its info onto the new LIV website. Her reasoning was that the info would come sooner to the owners.
The Board went into an Executive Meeting to cover nine items. Attorney orientation, employees using amenities, Manager’s office, Security expectations, Security passes, Obama-care healthcare letter to Aramark, Manager’s job description, Manager’s evaluation/time period, and Manager’s usage of credit card.
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At the Regular Meeting there was no apology by our Board of Directors to the owners who were interested in attending the Workshop that followed the last Coffee Meeting. Why is that? They should not have had a closed session and when the owner from lot 145 brought up the argument, every Director except Director Gunderson seemed to not care. Why is that?
This now should be a strong focus at the next Coffee Meeting and I might add kudos to Director Gunderson as being the only Director who seemed to have the knowledge and guts to take the side of owner from lot 145.
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When Board President allowed newly elected Director Vasquez to tell an owner that this Coffee Meeting is yours and the Workshop Meeting is ours, I thought that this was within the Board’s jurisdiction. I even thought that they could have closed Regular Meetings if they so desired. I was wrong and so is the Board. Though it is not required by the Texas Nonprofit Corporation law, both the Texas Uniform Condominium Act (Sec. 82.108. MEETINGS) and Chapter 209 of the Texas Property Code require Texas Homeowners Associations’ meetings to open to homeowners subject to the right of the Board to meet in closed “Executive Sessions” when needed on issues of personnel, pending litigation, contract negotiations, enforcement actions, and matters involving invasion of a unit owner’s privacy or if affected parties along with the Board wish confidentiality.
I believe all on the Board who allowed the close Workshop meeting to occur should apologize to the owners at Wednesday’s upcoming Regular Meeting.
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The first “Coffee with the Directors” that touted the four newly elected Directors started innocently enough; after all, V.P. Pelletier, Treasurer Steffensen, and Director Guerra have served the owners before while Director Vasquez has not.
After the Pledge of Allegiance V.P. Pelletier read comments from the box that covered putting white rocks in the outdoor pool island, pleas to fix a treadmill, praise for cleaning a shower, complaints about piling fill rock on the basketball court and finished with having too loud of music in our pool area.
V.P. Pelletier went around the table to get the Director concerns. Only Directors Gunderson (pool furniture) and McBride (security admittance issue) spoke while the other Directors opted to voice their issues at the Workshop which follows the Coffee.
It was the owners turn to speak. Lot 638 had numerous questions about the costs in Aramark’s financial pages handed out at the Annual Meeting. After the Directors could not properly address these concerns Director Vasquez asked the owner to put these questions in writing and he would have it as an agenda item and answer them at next week’s Regular Meeting.
There were the usual complaints about security, and then the owners in the audience were told there would be a ten minute break before the Workshop.
To the twenty or so owners who stayed when the Board reconvened, they were surprised when told they would not be privy to the Workshop. When an owner asked why, Director Vasquez said the Coffee is your meeting and the Workshop is ours. Director Gunderson who appeared as surprised as anyone wanted it on the record that she was not in favor of this closed to the owner’s action. There will be a follow up to this.
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