A PLACE TO BE

A PLACE TO BE

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Wallets will soon be lighter.

An owner strolled up at the last Coffee Meeting, turn and ask the audience who knew the Association lost the lawsuit to Maurice O. Berry. The Directors looked surprised and apparently nobody knew. VP Pelletier put Ex-President Chapa on the spot to comment and he reluctantly said the jury decided in Berry’s favor but he didn’t want to get into details because there is still some rulings yet to be made by the Judge.
Here are some details I understand to be true. Few owners knew this was a two part lawsuit. Pat Burke in her capacity as Board Member was individually sued for Defamation and ten jury members on February 10th deemed her innocent. Our Association lost on February 10th to the same jury who concluded that our Association shall pay Mr. Berry for damages to his physical property, the decrease in his property values, and the loss of enjoying his property, his distress and his mental anguish to the tune of $147,000. It may be more after these last few details wrapped up.
The Activity Center parking lot will cost somewhere near a quarter of a million dollars.
At our Annual Meeting our GM was asked what the approximant dredging assessment would be. I’m not sure why Director Steffensen started waving her arms frantically but the GM didn’t see her and said the cost should be somewhere close to $1000.00 per owner. He also made it clear the intercostal area and Canal H which feeds to the back canals will not be dredged.
Owners should appreciate that whether its good news or bad news, our GM always gives us straight answers when asked, something we lacked from his predecessor. I don’t know what else will be involved with the upcoming assessment, but just the above makes it a tidy sum.

4 comments:

Bud Sherry said...

Joey, what is the status of the dredging?

Joey said...

Still working with Freeland on the dredging sediment. It still not totally settled. The Board needs that before getting the loan and then arranging for the dredging company to start. All and all it seems months away from starting and owners getting the assessment.

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Joey said...

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