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Thursday, July 30, 2015
DREDGING TIDBIT
It’s almost certain the canal dredging would have been
done by now if not for Mr. Freeland’s insurance requirements for the spoils.
But now this delay turns out peachy because at July’s Coffee we heard Directors
Champion and Waller say they found a new dredging company that might be able to save our Association a whopping $300,000.
Champion and Waller say they found a new dredging company that might be able to save our Association a whopping $300,000.
Their good deed of course brings up the question as to
why the Board approved the current $832,290 dredging bid in the first place.
Such curiosity had me searching the records and what I
found should raise a few eyebrows. The dredging issue began in 2009 and became
so tedious that by 2011 our Board found itself with a dredging lawsuit. The Board
received a dredging permit on May of 2013 and hired a company to orchestrate
the three dredging bids that President Chapa received on 1/15/2014.
When passing out the bids at the Regular Meeting on
1/24/2014, President Chapa said that Derrick Construction was the only company
meeting all requirements requested and was the lowest bid at $832,000. He then
instructed Directors to discuss these bids at February’s Coffee and approve one
at February’s Regular Meeting because counsel recommended a company be picked
prior to the dredging trial.
From that point forward my records show there were “NO” dredging
discussions at the 2/19/2014 Coffee/Workshop, “NO” dredging bid approved at the
2/26/2014 Regular Meeting, and “NO” dredging discussions at the following
3/19/2014 Coffee/Workshop.
At the 3/26/2014 Regular Meeting the Minutes do show that a
new assessment was approved to cover the dredging bid that was accepted by the LIV Board for
$832,290.00.
Now isn’t that interesting?
Four months later at the 7/23/2014 Regular Meeting the
Board approved the Derrick Construction bid for $832,290 immediately after being
told they had only verbally agreed to it.
An election was going on in March so one could cut a
little slack to the newly elected directors, but what’s perplexing is how could
the other six seasoned Directors fail to remember voting protocols especially
when the issue was one costing our Park $832,290?
How could all six Directors fail to recall they didn’t
vote for this $832,290 bid when they had to vote for its assessment and then
its bank loan? And why did it not cross their minds a month later when approving
the March Meeting Minutes which indicated a dredging bid was approved?
Most importantly, where and when did this verbal
agreement occur?
Other than that, Hat’s off to Directors Champion and
Waller for their efforts!
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5 comments:
Has anyone noticed how wonderfully peaceful the park has been the last few weeks? The King of the Glare/Vulgar Obscenities and the Queen of the Cackle are on hiatus. No overtly strident posts. We villagers are enjoying the vacation!!
well lets see you must not be referring to a winter Texan so we have to figure out who is missing ??
A riddle for the ages!
gheeeeez! I wish they would have waited til October so I could have enjoyed the peace and quiet !!!!!!!!!
I am elated that wilma finally did something constructive !!
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